The Next Web 2011 Conference PressRoom

May 2011

1. 02 May

   Kuvva launches at The Next Web and wins award for best B2C startup

   Kuvva styles your digital life. Kuvva version 1.0 enables its users to subscribe to a weekly selection of creative imagery and have those streamed to their Twitter profile every day of the week. The service, which last Friday won the award for best B2C startup at The Next Web Start Up Rally, was co-founded by Damian Bradfield and Nalden (WeTransfer.com / Nalden.net). Over the course of 2011 Kuvva will expand its free service and release a desktop application, a mobile app and much more.

April 2011

1. 29 Apr

   ZMAZZ Mobile Payments

   ZMAZZ revealed its mobile payment platform and its vision on the financial payment sector to the world during The Next Web Startup Rally. In a five minute pitch, ZMAZZ showed how, with simple technology, consumers can pay for anything from any mobile phone at any time, at any place to anyone.

2. 29 Apr

   Onavo’s new app crunches data so users get more from their mobile

   Launched today, Onavo is an innovative new application, totally seamless and transparent. Once installed, you can go back to using your phone as normal. In the background, data usage from all apps is compressed, allowing users to double or even triple their existing data plan. Simply put, with Onavo, smartphone users can regain control of their data usage, understanding which apps are costing them and squeezing more out of every megabyte they download.

3. 29 Apr

   Qubulus Announces Flexible Workforce Management Platform Iguana

   Iguana is Qubulus' solution for location based workforce support. It is based on the positioning platform LocLizard™, and powered by the industry-leading positioning engine QPS™ and enables a whole new set of tools to support work managers and employees in their daily work.

4. 29 Apr

   Online shopping becomes social with Squeeqly

   Squeeqly is launching a new service that allows online merchants to enter social networks through their customers. Retailers can now loyalize their clients and give them tools to transform their online purchase experience into a social one. Influencers are now identified using an advanced algorithm Klout-style.

5. 28 Apr

   Droam big hit at TNW 2011

   Droam is the official data roaming partner at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam and a big hit thanks to the failing local WiFi. The huge amount of visitors trying to connect with the WiFi can't be handled by the local networks, which shows how vulnerable an open WiFi network can be. Droam profits from failing WiFi with a lot of sales at the Droam booth. Droam also launched their new website and look and feel. Part of the website is a movie that explains how Droam works.

6. 28 Apr

   The margin of the eBook is opened

   *openmargin introduced their iPad app today on The Next Web conference. The service turns eBooks into meeting places for likeminds, by allowing readers to share their thoughts within the openmargin. Publishers are excited and make a selection of their books available for free.

7. 28 Apr

   Flockler launches a group curation tool for publishers

   Flockler launches a group curation tool for publishers, which allows audience to participate in storytelling directly on the news site. First you create a topic. Second you invite selected experts to post content they find relevant and interesting. Finally embed topic to your site. Members of a Flockler topic can post text, photos, videos and even include embed code or tweets. Content can be posted with any device including iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

8. 28 Apr

   oneDrum’s much anticipated public beta release is announced

   oneDrum is a simple peer-to-peer desktop application that enables Microsoft® software users to collaborate, co-edit and file share native Excel® and PowerPoint® documents stored on their computers wherever they are located – a different department, office, time zone or continent – whether they are working online or offline.

9. 28 Apr

   Announcing Marvia.ads - Self service advertising for print.

   Advertising in print is hard and inaccessible. There is huge audience in print, but only a small percentage of advertisers is able to reach them, mainly corporates. Publishers are leaving money on the table. By not servicing small and medium size advertisers. Our online platform enables small advertisers to easily create and place ads in all types of printed media. The world of print has to change and we are ready to take up that challenge by providing publishers with a new business model.

10. 28 Apr

    Wosju presenting at TNW 2011

    Wosju turns your data from a variety of sources into something useful. Instead of leveraging your social data on different sites, you can now utilize everything from one unified platform. Measuring the strength — and thereby the trust — of every connection, Wosju creates a meta-filter powered by your network. Because it's not about who you know, but how well you know them.

11. 26 Apr

    Cotendo Will Announce Patent-Pending Cloudlet™ Platform at TNW 2011.

    Patent-pending technology moves business logic to the cloud and closer to end users and reduces origin-server calls by up to 90% while delivering instant scalability.

12. 18 Apr

    Meet the finalists of The Next Web Startup Rally

    The 6th edition of The Next Web Conference is coming up in less than two weeks, and part of this three day event is The Next Web Startup Rally powered by BizSpark. Out of more than 200 submissions, 18 finalists were selected after a three round selection process.

13. 18 Apr

    Acht Nederlandse startups in finale van The Next Web Startup Rally

    Tijdens de 6e editie van The Next Web conference, welke eind april plaatsvindt in Amsterdam, staan er acht startups van Nederlandse bodem in de finale van de TNW Startup Rally. Uit meer dan 200 inschrijvingen zijn er na drie jury ronden 18 startups gekozen om hier nieuwe diensten te presenteren op de conferentie.