Deal Radar 2009: Cellufun

Today’s Deal Radar shifts its focus back to mobile gaming with Cellufun. Arthur Goikhman, Steve Dacek, and Cary Torkelson founded Cellufun as a single-user downloadable game business in 2006. After creating a few downloadable games, the team learned that not only were they expensive to create, but they also had a hit-or-miss success rate and

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Deal Radar 2009: Reply!com

As more small and medium-sized businesses adopt online marketing techniques for local advertising, it’s no surprise that there are an ever-increasing number of companies focusing on local advertising and Web analytics that are eager to offer their services. Over the past few months, Deal Radar has featured notable players in this space. Today’s company, Reply!com,

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Deal Radar 2009: SMS GupShup

SMS GupShup is a social messaging platform launched in 2004, at a time when SMS was only used for person-to-person (P2P) messaging and content players were selling ringtones and wallpapers to mobile subscribers.

Deal Radar 2009: NomaDesk

Today’s Deal radar focuses on NomaDesk, which is short for “nomadic software”, an on-demand service (SaaS) that allows business teams to secure, sync and share data with no limits. Headquartered in Belgium, NomaDesk was founded by Filip Tack in September 2004. At the time, the industry was on the rebound from the dot-com bust, which

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Deal Radar 2009: OrangeSoda

OrangeSoda provides small and mid-sized businesses with the technology required to carry out a successful online marketing campaign. The Utah-based company created a service platform that aims to help SMBs navigate the complexities of search engine marketing, thus making it easier for them to grow.

Deal Radar 2009: DubMeNow

DubMeNow is a mobile application for exchanging business cards and instantaneously managing contact information. Founder Manoj Ramnani came up with the idea on a flight from Washington, DC to Seattle. He had collected over 30 business cards and began entering all of them in Outlook. He was halfway into the task when his laptop’s battery died,

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Deal Radar 2009: IngBoo

IngBoois a web start-up that provides consumers with a simple, free way to organize their ‘Web activities’ in one place. These activities can range from reading news from multiple sources, finding a job on different job sites, tracking deals on Craigslist, monitoring searches on Google and YouTube or getting Twitter and Facebook updates. Users can see

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Deal Radar 2009: socialDeck

Established in January 2008, socialDeck was founded with the vision of enabling “anywhere, anyone, anytime” gaming – enabling players to consume their games wherever, whenever, and with whomever they seem fit. Founders Anish Acharya and Jeson Patel left their respective positions at Amazon.com and Microsoft to fulfill their ambition of starting a technology company.