Smaato is the New Kid on the Block The Smart PDA

A contact has forwarded me information on a new smartphone service company. Apparently, the US-based company Smaato plans to cater to the worldwide smartphone market, through their website smaato.com. Details are scarce, but some of their services look interesting. Smaato News looks like the first truly realtime RSS reader made for smartphones, while Smaato Cost aims to provide an accurate picture of a user's voice and data usage, either on the [...] Read More


Smaato Open Mobile Advertising (SOMA) Promises Effective Mobile Marketing That's Useful to Customers The Smart PDA

Looks like Smaato has grown quite a bit ever since I first featured it on The Smart PDA. The company's new service, SOMA (Smaato Open Mobile Advertising), is now in the public beta phase, attracting some big-name brands like Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft and Allianz, according to my contact. Apparently, soma promises a more effective way of advertising; by providing targeted advertisements (bundled with mobile content), perhaps the company will create a win-win situation. [...] Read More


Smaato Acquires $3.5 Million of Funding The Smart PDA

Looks like Smaato's focus on mobile advertising has literally finally paid off. According to the official press release, the company has acquired $3.5 million: San Mateo, California - January 18, 2008 - Smaato, a pioneering provider of mobile advertising platform technology announced that it has closed a $ 3.5 million financing round. Smaato was successful in attracting prominent smart angel investors from international media, advertising, mobile and the financial community. Silicon [...] Read More


Smaato raises Series A TJ's Weblog

I got to know Ragnar several years ago and like his unstoppable entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm from day one. In 2005 Ragnar and Petra decided to develop software for smart phones and use advertising as a way to 'charge' customers in lieu of charging a download fee. After two years of development and thinking they brought together many industry partners (publishers, ad networks, developers) to bring them into the Smaato [...] Read More


Idea of the Week: Art Framing Service Home Based Business Home Based Business

Basic Tips on How to Start a Home-Based Framing Service Business Believe it or not, a framing service business may not always be the first choice for people who want to go into home-based business, which is rather strange, considering the opportunities. Think about this: in an ordinary house, there are four walls. Imagine filling that house with frames. Now, imagine how many houses there are in your area and how [...] Read More