The Austin-based company, founded in 2004, was initially designed to automate notifying customers by telephone. The new strategy is to market an online tool called Kinita that’s designed to convert Web pages to most smartphone platforms.

Shifting Unwired Nation’s focus, however, took some financial and technological creativity. Four groups of investors have invested $8.2 million in the company since it was launched, and most of them wanted to cash out after a bid by a publicly traded company to acquire Unwired Nation fell through in 2008.

So CEO Eric Smith, with backing from Houston-based venture capital firm DFJ Mercury, bought it back by restructuring debt agreements with the initial investors. He’s now looking to raise $1.5 million in expansion capital from angel investors and ... Read More »]]> http://www.unwirednation.com/unwired-nation-highlights-tool-to-convert-web-pages-for-smartphones/feed/ 0 http://www.unwirednation.com/unwired-nation-continues-growth-into-new-markets-with-ethosiq-a-leading-genesys-and-avaya-solutions-provider/ http://www.unwirednation.com/unwired-nation-continues-growth-into-new-markets-with-ethosiq-a-leading-genesys-and-avaya-solutions-provider/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:41:13 +0000 admin http://www.unwirednation.com/?p=395 Mobile platform provider Unwired Nation today announced the addition of ethosIQ to its roster of certified mobile solutions providers. ethosIQ, a Houston-based software solutions provider, plans to leverage Unwired Nation’s Kinita platform and services to address huge opportunities for mobile applications in a number of enterprise verticals, including field service organizations, financial service companies and utilities. Partners like ethosIQ help accelerate the rapid growth Unwired Nation is experiencing as the Mobile-Apps-as-a-Service company continues to help a wide range of companies, including through a growing list of certified partners, take their businesses mobile.

A licensed Genesys and Avaya solutions provider, ethosIQ focuses on a wide variety of enterprise verticals, extending mobile value such as:

The startup — which sells an online tool designed to convert Web pages to most smartphone platforms — snagged an agreement with Houston-based ethosIQ as its newest certified mobile solutions provider. The company will used Unwired’s Kinita platform to garner and accelerate deals with field service organizations, financial firms and utilities.

The deal is the latest in efforts to refashion the company. Founded in 2004, last year executives wisely changed strategies from automated phone notifications to the Kinita platform. The company had raised $8.2 million from investors that wanted to cash out after an acquisition bid fell through. Clickhere to read an Austin Business Journalstory on successful efforts to reform the business.

The Austin-based company, founded in 2004, was initially set up to automate a company’s telephone calls to customers. It has since developed an online tool called Kinita that converts Web pages to most smartphone platforms.

In December, Unwired Nation received $1 million of a planned $6.5 million financing from 15 investors, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It also hired a group of veteran tech executives, such as former venture capitalist Jay Holtz as chief operating officer and former Cedar Point Communications Inc. executive Steve Hencinski as senior sales executive.

The build out is happening just as tablet devices ... Read More »]]> http://www.unwirednation.com/unwired-nation-brings-on-capital-people/feed/ 0 http://www.unwirednation.com/austins-unwired-nation-raises-6-5-million-for-expansion-in-mobile-market/ http://www.unwirednation.com/austins-unwired-nation-raises-6-5-million-for-expansion-in-mobile-market/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:37:34 +0000 admin http://www.unwirednation.com/?p=387 By Lori Hawkins

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Eighteen months after changing its business focus, Austin software maker Unwired Nation has raised $6.5 million for expansion in the mobile market.

The company, founded in 2004, originally developed software that let companies automate their telephone calls to customers. For instance, it teamed with eBay in 2006 to send auction and bidding activity by phone calls to customers in North America.

But in 2009, Unwired Nation shifted away from that model, which had been slow to take off, to focus on the surging mobile app market.

The following year, the company launched its Mobile Cloud Platform, which lets customers convert Web pages to apps for most smartphone platforms. Unwired Nation targets software companies that need to convert their Web applications to run on iPhones, Android devices and tablet computers.

“A single company can have ... Read More »]]> http://www.unwirednation.com/austins-unwired-nation-raises-6-5-million-for-expansion-in-mobile-market/feed/ 0 http://www.unwirednation.com/unwired-nation-closes-2011-with-huge-momentum-6-5-million-funding-executive-additions-office-and-employee-growth/ http://www.unwirednation.com/unwired-nation-closes-2011-with-huge-momentum-6-5-million-funding-executive-additions-office-and-employee-growth/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:35:43 +0000 admin http://www.unwirednation.com/?p=383 Austin, TX (PRWEB) January 03, 2012

As 2011 winds down, Unwired Nation, the Mobile-Apps-As-A-Service company, recaps its biggest year yet, with momentum across all business fronts: customers, partners, solutions, leadership, staff and funding. Highlighted by a $6.5 million round of funding, Unwired Nation’s milestones also include a move into new, expanded office space, four key additions to its executive team, and establishing strong relationships with customers in many different industries, standouts being pharmacy industry leaders VoiceTech and VoicePort, and financial services innovator, Q2ebanking.

“Today having a mobile presence, being able to conduct business and interact with customers via mobile devices, whether smart phones or tablets, is absolutely, 100% tablestakes,” said Eric Smith, Unwired Nation CEO and co-founder. “The Unwired Nation Platform goes beyond the ... Read More »]]> http://www.unwirednation.com/unwired-nation-closes-2011-with-huge-momentum-6-5-million-funding-executive-additions-office-and-employee-growth/feed/ 0 http://www.unwirednation.com/dear-business-people-an-ios-app-actually-takes-a-lot-of-work/ http://www.unwirednation.com/dear-business-people-an-ios-app-actually-takes-a-lot-of-work/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:52:47 +0000 irl http://www.unwirednation.com/?p=629

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