Welcome to the Open Mobile Economy!

+ adbento:
Mobile Economy has launched adbento, the open Consumer Recommendation Network for products and services, to enable consumers to share their lifestyle through recommendations. Everybody can find recommendations from friends by using the adbento search or exploring brands, products and interests (tags). On top, adbento members may recommend their favourites, request recos, match profiles and exchange feedback.

+ Management Consulting:
Mobile Economy GmbH is the Berlin-based management consultancy for mobile innovation and mobile Internet. We have delivered client projects in the areas of MVNO/MVNE, Mobile TV, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Payment and Mobile Internet Services. We are also experienced in mobile application development, usability engineering, lead user innovation processes and business development. Please get in touch with us if you are interested in developing innovative products and services in the converging fixed and mobile economies.

+ Mobile Executive Tour (MET):

The next open MET Tokyo 7.0 will take place 5-9 April 2010. If you want to spend 1 week in the middle of the mobile future you should join MET.

Since 2004 Mobile Economy has produced 6 MET Tokyo and 1 MET Seoul. MET is a guided, 1-week mobile Japan bootcamp loaded with 15 company meetings that provide fresh ideas for product and service innovation. MET can also be customised for the specific needs of one particular company. MET participants included executives of Orange Israel, O2 Germany, Kyivstar Ukraine, Swisscom Mobile and T-Mobile Austria.

MET Tokyo Photo Show on Flickr.

+ Mobile Economy Whitepaper: Reengineering Blyk's Business Model
Mobile Economy GmbH has published the Mobile Economy Whitepaper entitled "Reengineering Blyk's Business Model - How to build a profitable ad-funded M(V)NO and maximise Ad ARPU". Mobile Economy is the Berlin-based management consultancy for mobile innovation. We are experts in mobile advertising and MVNOs and share our strategy recommendations for current and future ad-funded MVNOs and MNOs.

You can read the free Mobile Economy Whitepaper on mobiliser.org. If you want the complete whitepaper as PDF including the calculation, please send an email to jan@mobileeconomy.de.

+ OPEN - Data MVNO for Ubiquitous Digital Lifestyle:
Berlin-based Mobile Economy GmbH developed a business plan for the international Data MVNO called OPEN. OPEN is for Ubiquitous Digital Lifestyle Customers that want to enjoy All-over-IP including Mobile VoIP. OPEN will be a Mobile Data Retailer buying data capacity from Host MNOs and reselling it online to Mobile Internet Fans. OPEN now needs Host MNOs and investors. Please get in touch with us if you are interested in cooperation.

 
Bluetooth-powered mobile social network aka aki records encounters in the real world
Since a couple of days I am a user of the Berlin-based Bluetooth-powered mobile social network aka aki. I think aka aki is a very cool and super sticky application with a great future. Thumbs up to the 8 co-founders from the UDK (Berlin University of the Arts) for coming up with a mobile innovation that takes advantage of the unique mobile technology Bluetooth to enable a new form of intelligent encounters and meetings in the real world.
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Reengineering Blyk’s Business Model
Many people in our beloved mobile economy are excited about the new startup company called Blyk because it is the first ad-funded MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) in the world. Blyk launched in the UK on 24 September, 2007, and is targeted at 16 to 24 year-old customers only. Co-founder and CEO of Blyk is Pekka Ala-Pietilä, former President of Nokia Corporation (1999-2005) and Nokia Mobile Phones (1992-1998). Pekka’s supposedly strong contacts with the top management of many MNOs (Mobile Network Operator) will help Blyk close more beneficial Host MNO deals in 2008 and 2009 as Blyk plans to go pan-European
read more on mobiliser.org...