MobileMonday Singapore
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MobileMonday Singapore is a open, local community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential individuals fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets. MobileMonday is organized by a group of some 200+ dedicated volunteers from 40 cities around the world. Originating in Helsinki, Finland, in the year 2000, MobileMonday has grown into the world’s leading mobile community.
Finnish venture capital market declined in 2009
Investments in Finnish high-tech companies dropped 60 percent from 2008, reflecting a 30.6 percent decline in the overall investment activity. Fifty-eight companies tracked by Technopolis Online received funding worth 101 million euros. Investment activity last year remained higher than expected, but investors stayed away from larger investments like the WinWind and Blyk deals that contributed 160 million euros to the market in 2008.
"Finland fared well in the international comparison. And 2010 has seen a good start in the investment activity. But the lack of exit opportunities or international investors continues to be a problem. We need to keep working hard to solve these,” said Will Cardwell, director of Technopolis Development Services.
MobileMonday to launch chapters in Africa
MobileMonday has announced the opening of chapters in Kampala, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya. The Kampala chapter opens its doors on March 8, and the Nairobi chapter launches on March 11. A new South African chapter will also open in Capetown. After over a year of background work, the global organization formed a partnership with the World Bank to take the commmunity's concepts to several African countries.
"We visited selected African markets a few weeks ago with absolutely no idea how the open community values would be received, and were pleasantly greeted with much enthusiam by the business, governmental, and academic communities, and by the media as well," said Jari Tammisto, MobileMonday's CEO.
MoMo founders in MWC 2010 Barcelona
In addition to their usual prowling activities on the tradeshow floor, MobileMonday members will have the rare chance to meet many of MoMo's founders at their meeting point in Hall 2, Stand C28. The number of MoMo members, who visit the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, have continued to grow in the past two years.
"The initial interests created by the Global Peer Awards and the informal style of networking also brought lots of demand for face-to-face meetings at the tradeshow venue. The MoMo network will fill-up this need," said Jari Tammisto, CEO of MobileMonday Global.