InMobi’s global ad network reaches 691M monthly unique users; India third biggest country in its user list

Bangalore and San Francisco-based mobile ad network InMobi claims that its mobile ad network reaches 691 million unique users per month across 165 countries via mobile devices (covering more than 40 per cent of smartphone users globally). This means more than 16 per cent rise in the number of consu...

Sainul K Abudheen

Cross-messaging platform Plustxt raises funding from Mumbai Angels, others

Bangalore-based Plustxt Mobile Solutions Pvt Ltd, which offers a text messaging platform that enables a sender to translate text to the language of the recipient, has raised an undisclosed sum from Mumbai Angels and InMobi co-founder Amit Gupta. Plustxt founder Pratyush Prasanna told Techcircle.in, ...

Anand Rai

InMobi launches Android app store distribution platform App Publish

Bangalore and San Francisco-based mobile ad network InMobi has launched an Android app store distribution platform called App Publish. The free-to-use platform will enable Android developers to publish their apps across global app stores in just a few clicks. The launch of the platform also marks t...

Sainul K Abudheen

10 Indian tech startups that have gone global

What makes an InMobi, iYogi, PubMatic, Zoho or a Komli Media stand out among Indian tech startups? Scale? Yes, but scale coming from eyeing the big picture – the global market for their product or service and that, too, pretty early in their lifecycle. They were quick to realise that many tech co...

Sainul K Abudheen

InMobi features in MIT’s list of 50 disruptive companies, joins the likes of Google & Apple

Bangalore-based mobile advertising network InMobi has joined the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Samsung, Facebook, Amazon, etc., to secure a place in the MIT Technology Review’s list of 50 Disruptive Companies for 2013. According to an MIT statement, InMobi has been challenging Google and ...

Sonam Gulati

One97 to launch Android-driven mobile ad network Adworks

Mobile internet firm One97 Communications Ltd is all set to foray into the mobile advertisement sector with the impending launch of its mobile ad network called Adworks. Adworks, which will be launched sometime next month, is currently in the beta stage. Talking to Techcircle.in, Vijay Shekhar Sharm...

Sainul K Abudheen

iSpirt is a think tank for software product firms, not a Nasscom 2.0 wannabe

A group of 30 software product companies including some led by top new age tech entrepreneurs like InMobi’s Naveen Tewari and PubMatic’s Amar Goel besides key venture capital investors and software product firms like Tally, have come together to form Indian Software Product Industry Round Table ...

Anand Rai

InMobi acquires UK-based data analytics startup Overlay Media

Bangalore and San Francisco-based mobile ad network InMobi has acquired Overlay Media, a UK-based mobile data analytics startup for an undisclosed amount. While the financials of the deal have not been made public, as part of the deal, the Overlay Media team will now operate from InMobi’s London h...

Sainul K Abudheen

InMobi co-founder Abhay Singhal to head EMEA, global business operations

Bangalore- and San Francisco-based mobile ad network InMobi has announced that its co-founder Abhay Singhal is taking over the role of VP and MD for EMEA and global business operations, as incumbent Rob Jonas is leaving the company. Based in London, Abhay Singhal is currently the VP of global sales....

Nandana Das

Kleiner Perkins’ Mike Abbott joins InMobi board of directors

Bangalore and San Francisco-based mobile ad network InMobi has announced that Mike Abbott, general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and also an investor in InMobi, has joined the company’s board of directors. Abbott will be intimately involved with the company’s direction a...