| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.12.2020 | Grameenphone and Fortumo Launch Direct Carrier Billing in Bangladesh | Grameenphone has collaborated with Fortumo to launch direct carrier billing (DCB) in Bangladesh, said a press release. Grameenphone is making it possible for its customers to get the benefits of DCB, which is an online payment method that w... |
| 20.04.2018 | Opinion: How Go-Jek can beat Grab for the SEA ride-hailing throne | CommunityOpinionTransportation
Jun Wakabayashi · 4 May 2018 · 4 min readOpinion: How Go-Jek can beat Grab for the SEA ride-hailing throne
Photo credit: Go-Jek
When Nadiem Makarim first met Anthony Tan at Harvard Business School, he likely n... |
| 28.02.2017 | Mobile payments company Fortumo now makes it easier for merchants and carriers to bundle offers | Carrier billing company Fortumo has launched a new platform designed to make it easier for merchants and mobile carriers to form “bundling” partnerships.
With the advent of online subscription offerings like Spotify and Netflix, we’ve seen ... |
| 28.02.2017 | Mobile payments company Fortumo now makes it easier for merchants and carriers to bundle offers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Carrier billing company Fortumo has launched a new platform designed to make it easier for merchants and mobile carriers to form “bundl... |
| 16.01.2016 | Want to wake up with flat revenue in 2 years? | Digital user growth in Western markets is slowing down. With smartphone penetration in the US and UK already around 80%, few new people are coming online. Average revenue per user is high in these countries, but this has created an environm... |
| 16.01.2016 | Want to wake up with flat revenue in 2 years? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Digital user growth in Western markets is slowing... |
| 07.06.2015 | How Fintech Can Disrupt Africa’s Cash-Based Economy | Tim Carter Contributor
Tim Carter is the chief revenue officer of Fortumo.
Paying at a local coffee shop or superstore with your smartphone instead of your bank card is convenient, but not much more convenient than using a credit card. Whil... |
| 15.03.2015 | 4 steps to getting your business model ready for emerging markets | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
While the U.S. boasts one of the highest smartpho... |
| 15.03.2015 | 4 steps to getting your business model ready for emerging markets | While the U.S. boasts one of the highest smartphone penetration rates, China and India have overtaken it in total ownership numbers. Smartphone growth has come to a standstill in the U.S., while markets like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeri... |
| 12.01.2015 | Fortumo Launches Mobile Carrier Billing System In Kenya | Fortumo has announced the launch of a carrier billing system for digital content merchants; IT News for Africa reports.
The company partnered with Safaricom in a bid to take advantage of its 18 million customers located in Kenya.
In a state... |
| 31.03.2014 | Fortumo Launches Developer Program for Windows Phone and Windows 8 Apps | Mobile payments company Fortumo has launched a developer program for Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps.
Developers who integrate Fortumo in-app purchasing to their app will receive an advance of up to $25k from the company to cover their int... |
| 02.02.2014 | Why Android apps make less money — and how to change that | By the end of 2013, Android had captured an impressive 81 percent of the global smartphone market share.
But in terms of developer mindshare, Android still ranks slightly behind iOS — and for a good reason. An average Android app makes 5 ti... |
| 23.10.2013 | Mobile Payments Provider Fortumo Launches Program To Help Chinese Developers Expand Into New Markets | Mobile payments provider Fortumo has launched a program that will serve as a “one-stop shop” for Chinese developers that want to distribute their apps in other countries. Called Fortumo Expand, the program offers Android, Windows Phone and ... |
| 25.07.2013 | Mobile Payments Provider Fortumo Partners With China Unicom and China Telecom, Now Has Deals With All Three Of China’s Major Telecoms | Fortumo announced that it has inked direct carrier billing agreements with China Unicom and China Telecom. Together with a China Mobile deal signed in February, this means that the Estonia/U.S.-based mobile payments company is now the first... |
| 18.06.2013 | Emerging markets: how to conquer the unconquerable | Rain Rannu is the founder and CEO of Fortumo, the mobile payments company that powers in-app payments for Rovio, Facebook, Barnes & Noble NOOK, EA, Gameloft and more than 60,000 other developers.
The mobile gaming industry has grown up.... |
| 30.05.2013 | Corona brings Android devs a new in-app payment option via Fortumo | The cross-platform development tool Corona SDK just got a bit more interesting today with the addition of in-app purchasing options for developers in 80 countries around the world.
You can use the payments system by hooking up the new Coron... |
| 27.03.2013 | Fortumo Adds Windows Phone Support To Let Developers Offer Carrier Billing For In-App Purchases | Fortumo, the mobile payments company that puts carrier billing in the hands of developers, has announced that its brought its in-app payments solution to Windows Phone — a move that it claims makes it the only third-party payment provider t... |
| 24.02.2013 | Startup Jobs of the Day – 24/02/2013 | – TVU Networks (read here)
– SimScale (read here)
– Living Social (read here)
– Cmune (read here)
– SocioCast (read here)
– Smarkets (read here)
– Pinterest (read here)
– Fortumo (read here)
– Drawbridge (read here)
– Mindflash (read here)
... |
| 21.02.2013 | Fortumo Raises Funding | Fortumo, a Tartu, Estonia-based mobile payments company, raised a funding of undisclosed amount.
Backers included new investors Intel Capital and Greycroft Partners. Following the close of the transaction. Mobi Solutions, an Estonian mobile... |
| 21.02.2013 | Fortumo Raises ~$10M From Intel Capital, Greycroft To Take On Bango And More In Carrier Billing; Inks Deals With China Mobile And Vodafone | Fortumo — a specialist in mobile carrier billing, which lets users to pay for apps and goods in apps without coughing up credit card numbers — is today raising its game a bit against competitors like Bango (partner to Facebook, Amazon and m... |
| 01.11.2012 | Fortumo Launches In-App Payments for Windows 8 | Company also reveals that it has signed up over 70,000 mobile payments merchants to date
November 1, 2012 -- Mobile payments company Fortumo, who has so far provided an industry-leading in-app payments solution for Android and web app devel... |
| 31.10.2012 | Fortumo Brings Its Mobile Payments To Windows 8 — Carrier Billing FTW! | The Estonian/U.S. mobile payments company, Fortumo, has a pretty good track record of moving quickly. It was one of the first — if not the first — to give Android developers a way to offer in-app purchasing outside of Google’s own payments ... |
| 11.10.2011 | Startup Sauna Puts #estonianmafia to Test | Startup Sauna has nothing to do with a health spa. This is a non-profit accelerator from Finland, sponsored by Aalto University. Its goal is to kick-start tech entrepreneurship in Northern Europe and Russia.
To select startup teams for its ... |
| 15.08.2011 | Fortumo Selects Payfone to Power Mobile Payments | Payfone Powers Fortumo’s In-app Payments SDK direct carrier billing
TARTU, ESTONIA and NEW YORK, NY — August 15, 2011 — Payfone, a leading mobile payment processing service, and Fortumo, a leading provider of mobile payments, today announce... |
| 06.07.2011 | Fortumo Brings Carrier Billing to Android, Now in 61 Countries | Fresh on the heels of BOKU’s commercial launch of its 1-Tap billing solution for Android, competitor Fortumo is announcing a revamped in-app payments SDK with support for operator billing in 22 languages across 61 countries, specifically in... |
| 22.02.2011 | Fortumo offers European developers operator billing in the U.S. | European mobile payments provider Fortumo has extended its reach via a partnership with BilltoMobile which sees direct mobile operator billing available to Europe and Asia-based game developers targeting customers in the U.S.
Charging custo... |
| 13.12.2010 | Fortumo cracks open the (Angry Birds) Piggy Bank to let Android devs offer carrier billing via SMS | You remember Bad Piggy Bank, the in-game payment model for Rovio‘s Angry Birds on Android which lets users either remove the ad on the free version of the game or buy the pending Mighty Eagle update. Yes, the one that circumvents Android’s ... |
| 28.04.2010 | Mobile payment startup Fortumo targets the long tail of virtual goods | [Estonia] Fortumo, the mobile payments provider, has launched FortuMoPay, a new service designed for selling credits in “online games, web applications and social networks.”
It differs from competitors such as Zong (which recently signed a ... |
| 26.01.2009 | MobileMonday announces Peer Awards finalists | MobileMonday, the global organization for professionals in the mobile business, just announced a list of 20 finalists for its annual Mobile Peer Awards contest to be held in Barcelona on Feb. 16. The companies — including 12 early-stage sta... |
| 26.01.2009 | 20 mobile startups make it to the Barcelona beach-side awards | Mobile World Congress spins up in a couple of weeks time but like any good event, the real action takes place ‘Off Broadway” at the fringe events. And that’s not just because TechCrunch is running an event: TechCrunchTalk Mobile 2.0. One of... |
