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Update: Mowser Assets Find a home at dotMobi

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:30:04 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
It’s always a good idea to kill your startup in public. Russell Beattie did that last month with Mowser, a service that converts regular Web addresses into mobile-friendly ones, because he said didn’t “believe in the ‘Mobile Web’ anymore.” Luckily for him, some people disagreed with him (and not just Mike).
Mowser’s […]

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Mowser Founder Says Mobile Web Is Dead. It’s The Opposite: The Mobile Web Was Born Only Yesterday

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:32:19 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
After turning down a $100 million buyout offer, Federated Media Publishing has opted instead to raise $50 million in a C round led by Oak Investment Partners. As was reported two weeks ago, the rumored valuation is $200 million. While the company is not confirming that number, publisher Chas Edwards quips, “We […]Source:TechCrunch
The Mobile Web is dead, says entreprenuer Russell Beattie, and it’s time for him to deadpool Mowser. Read the details in Duncan’s post from earlier today.
Now I certainly think that the day of creating specialty stripped down version of web pages for mobile devices is coming to an end (and that’s what Mowser did). Small […]

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Hungry Founder Puts Mowser In The Deadpool

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:30:03 +0000

Source:TechCrunch
Mobile internet service Mowser is to be shut down due to lack of traffic, funding, and a hungry founder.
Founded by ex-Yahoo mobile evangelist Russell Beattie in 2007, Mowser offered a web to mobile friendly page service. Users entered the address of the web page they wanted to view into Mowser, and the site returned a […]

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