Help | Glass. Danal, Inc.-BilltoMobile™-Charge your Virtual Goods to your Wireless Bill. Cardmobili and RouletteCricket: great startups, Vodafone Mobile Clicks winners. I was in Amsterdam late last week to sit on the jury for Vodafone’s Mobile Clicks startup competition, and I saw four genuinely great fledgling companies strut their stuff. In the end, plastic card-killing startup Cardmobili came out victorious – they won both the €100,000 1st place prize and the public voting award – more on them below.
Runner-up and winner of €50,000 was the UK’s RouletteCricket, a so-called ‘2nd screen gaming’ service provider that gives fans a new way to engage with cricket games. Vodafone set up the Mobile Clicks awards event (which is part of the annual PICNIC festival) in an effort to identify the best, most innovative mobile Internet start-ups based in either Spain, The Netherlands, Portugal or the UK. Of note, last year’s winner was augmented reality sensation Layar, so totally no pressure there. Here are the two winners (the other two were AKVO Phone and Mobivery’s MALCOM, btw): Cardmobili RouletteCricket RouletteCricket is an entirely different animal.
MobilePay May Be The Death Of The Wallet. Yes, For Real This Time. MobilePay USA Startup Battlefield Demo at Disrupt San Fransisco 2010 I absolutely hate carrying around both my phone and my wallet in my pocket. What if I could just carry around my phone and my driver’s license? That would be awesome. If MobilePay USA takes off, my wish will come true. The company, which was the TechCrunch Disrupt attendee pick to come out of the Startup Alley today seems fairly amazing. The app also has a location element which adds to the ease. Here’s the best part: this doesn’t require merchants to install any new equipment. Obviously, there has been no shortage of companies that try to turn your phone into your wallet over the years. And yes, you can do mobile to mobile payments too. So what happens if you lose your phone? MobilePay USA makes money by taking 1 percent of every transaction (which a vendor would pay for). Feedback and Q & A by expert judges Sean Parker, James Slavet, Greg Tseng, and Victoria Randsom (paraphrased): VR: Are people willing to do this?
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