1st TrendSlam a great success!

Congratulations to Monty and his team for organizing the 1st TrendSlam in history. A well attended event of top media experts and entrepreneurs was challenged to present in exactly 5min their ideas, trends and thoughts about the future in “new media”. Top speakers at this well attended event were i.e. Felix Petersen from Plazes, Anina and [...]

Debitel launches Mobile TV offering for €9.95 per month

According to various sources, Debitel has launched a mobile TV offering in cooperation with MFD. MFD, a young German start-up has managed to secure a nationwide DMB license earlier this year. Now, Debitel is on air with a €9.95 / month package with four channels (Pro7Sat1 Channel, MTV, N24 and ZDF) in Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, [...]

German MNO Alliance for Mobile TV

What a big bang announcement! T-Mobile, Vodafone, O2 and e-Plus have announced a cooperation to deliver 14 TV Channels and 2 Radio Channels based on the DVB-H Standard.
Takeaway: This is a big move in the overall mobile TV landscape. So far, only young and motivated start-ups (MFD, etc.) have started to set-up their own programs [...]

Jajah moves HQ to Silicon Valley

An interesting Austrian start-up called Jajah has been making a lot of traction and “noise” in the VoIP market. Some people are calling it already Skype 2.0 as the company positions itself “JAJAH introduces global VoIP telephony between normal landline and mobile phones – without software download, installation process and headsets.” and a potential successor [...]

Neomedia snaps up 12Snap – Munich based start-up

NeoMedia has purchased the mobile phone marketing agency 12Snap established in 1999 for about $22M. According to various sources, more money has flown into this venture than was delivered back to the investors.
Takeaway: Mobile marketing is a booming market. Still early stage, many companies have struggled over the last 5 years to develop a value [...]

Dialog Imaging Systems receives EUR22.25M First Round

Eur 22.5M have been invested into DIS. The company “makes camera modules for mobile phones which will aim to offer the same superior quality as stand-alone digital cameras. The company’s 41 employees located near Stuttgart, Germany, and at Clinton in the USA will be lead by Roland Pudelko, former CEO of Dialog Semiconductor” according to [...]

Google And Skype Join forces with Serial Entrepreneur to form FON Web Start-Up

What another bolt move by serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky. After establishing several leading start-ups such as Ya.com or Jazztel, he has now started his next “big thing” FON.  As he has demonstrated recently at the DLD conference here in Munich, he is a great visionary! And getting top tier investors and supporters on board deserves a lot [...]

New start-ups receive funding

Two Germany based start-ups have recently announced funding. Actionality, a provider of in-game advertising and marketing solutions for the mobile market announced the closure of a seed financing round.
Scott Cullinane, Actionality’s Chief Executive, said in a press release: “Actionality provides mobile game publishers, media agencies and consumer brands across Europe and Asia with the [...]

Mobile Entertainment Kick-Off Event – Recap

Yesterday was the kick-off event for the mobile entertainment 2006 initiative. The first part focused on mobile entertainment services such as mobile TV or mobile gaming, highlighting some early success stories from i.e. Hutchison 3G Austria.
The second part of the evening was dedicated to the VC perspective, where various venture capitalists shared their thoughts and [...]

Welcome to my Blog!

I am happy to announce the launch of my personal blog.
With this blog, I would like to adress the following four aspects:
1. Share my thoughts on interesting developments, projets and ideas in areas such as Web 2.0, digital and interactive media, new technologies and other revolutionary things.
2. Share my ideas, feedbacks and thoughts on emerging [...]