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[edit] Billing Revolution Grabs Judge's Choice Award at Mobility! - Wireless Developer Network (press release)

19 November 2008, by

[edit] Vuclip a Double Winner at Under the Radar Mobility Conference - PR Web (press release)

18 November 2008, by

[edit] Игровой потенциал iPhone неисчерпаем

17 November 2008, by Компания финансируется венчурной фирмой Kleiner Perkins, учредившей ранее в 2008 году фонд iFund, основной задачей которого является поддержка бизнес-проектов, деятельность которых связана с iPhone.

[edit] MoFuse Wins Judges' Choice Award at Under the Radar | Mobility! - MarketWatch

17 November 2008, by

[edit] John Doerr on the iPhone as a Gaming Platform - O'Reilly Radar

7 November 2008, by alisablue Web 2.0 summit re: iPhone potential and iFund.

[edit] Web 2.0 Summit: VCs Cheer iPhone Development -- IPhone -- InformationWeek

7 November 2008, by alisablue Amid talk on Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Summit about the length of the financial downturn, the convergence of IT and philanthropy, and the need for a new government-driven tech and energy policy, there was a ray of hope.

Matt Murphy, a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), backed his enthusiasm with similar metrics. For example, among the 250 million non-iPhones on the market, there are some 3 million applications downloaded each week, he said. For the 10 million or so iPhones out there, there are 14 million iPhone app downloads each week. IPhones, he said, generate five to ten times more mobile Internet usage. He predicted there could be as many as 50 million iPhones by the end of next year.

KPCB, not coincidentally is betting big on the iPhone. It launched the $100 million iFund to invest in iPhone-related startups, five of which have received funding so far.

[edit] Social networking’s sexier than Blu-ray

7 November 2008, by The price of Blu-ray players and discs seems set to fall this season, as those involved seek to take the format into the mass market - meanwhile that market’s changing, with consumers flocking to sign-up to location-based social networking services for their mobile phones, a pair of ABI Research reports claim. “Blu-ray vendors and dealers are [...]

[edit] Web 2.0 Summit: VCs Cheer iPhone Development - InformationWeek

6 November 2008, by

[edit] Did We Mention the Apple iPhone Market Opportunity Is Big? - eWeek

6 November 2008, by

[edit] IPhone users love their video games - Los Angeles Times

3 November 2008, by alisablue stories about playing games on your iPhone, includes mention of KPCB as backer of iFund.

[edit] BlackBerry Fund Plants Its First Seeds - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

3 November 2008, by alisablue ifund mentioned in story about BB fund investments.

[edit] BlackBerry Partners Fund has made three investments (Corporate Dealmaker)

3 November 2008, by alisablue KPCB's ifund mentioned in story about BB fund

[edit] reportonbusiness.com: BlackBerry fund picks top three

3 November 2008, by alisablue KP's ifund mentioned in story about blackberry fund.

[edit] News: The iFund: $100M for iPhone developers - iDevGames

30 October 2008, by Daniel Lurie iFund™ KPCB’s iFund™ is a $100M investment initiative that will fund market-changing ideas and products that extend the revolutionary new iPhone and.

[edit] Putting the App in Apple - Inc.com

30 October 2008, by

[edit] BlackBerry Developers Get Cash to Compete | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

30 October 2008, by alisablue The BlackBerry Partners Fund competes with the $100 million iPhone developers fund, aka the "iFund," managed by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

[edit] BlackBerry fund starts to parcel out cash - SmartBrief

29 October 2008, by

[edit] Blackberry Partners Fund Gives Three Apps Millions - PC Magazine

29 October 2008, by

[edit] BlackBerry Partners Fund announces first investments: buzzd, Digby, WorldMate

29 October 2008, by If you’re keeping score, this is the second mobile application investment fund to start plowing money into potentially successful developers. Android had a developer challenge, but that’s not really the same sort of beast. RIM’s announcement came after Apple’s highly publicized $100M iFund, and we now know what three companies RIM’s BlackBerry Partners Fund has invested in: buzzd Digby WorldMate, Inc. Buzzd is basically a location-based information city guide with a splash of social networ

[edit] BlackBerry Fund Plants Its First Seeds

29 October 2008, by BlackBerry Fund Plants Its First Seeds By Claire Cain Miller The BlackBerry Partners Fund — a new venture capital fund to invest in start-ups making applications for mobile phones — announced Wednesday that it has made its first three investments: Buzzd, a mobile city guide; Digby, for mobile shopping; and WorldMate, for planning and managing trips. Since Apple debuted the iPhone, quickening hearts and thumbs, iPhone owners have downloaded hundreds of millions of applications from Apple’

[edit] Mobile Startups Take the Stage at Under the Radar’s November Event - Mashable

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[edit] Investment Game 2009 starts - Baltic Business News

27 October 2008, by

[edit] [game Topple]

22 October 2008, by Mit Topple, dem Stapelspaß aus der Spieleschmiede ngmoco, rechtfertigt der Team rund um den ehemaligen EA-Mitarbeiter Neil Young erstmals, deren iFund-Finanzierung. Kevin Rose deklarierte in seinem Weblog das Geschicklichkeitsspiel als eine Mischung aus Jenga und Tetris - dieser Vergleich hinkt inhaltlich, gibt der Vorstellung aber ein gutes erstes Bild. Trotzdem fallen die Bauklätze nicht von der Decke und - entgegen dem typischen Jenga-Turm - muss dieser aufgestapelt und nicht abgebaut wer

[edit] [Klimbim 2008-10-18]

18 October 2008, by DirektRobot Nicht ganz ohne zu schmunzeln, staune ich immer wieder über die Bastel-Innovation, die manche Menschen in ein Projekt stecken, bei dem am Ende ein ‘laufender iPhone-Roboter’ entsteht. via Gizmodo ** Brightkite for the iPhone from Brightkite on Vimeo. Brightkite, einer weiteres soziales Netzwerk mit Fokus auf ‘location based’-Diensten, kündigt sich mit einem AppStore-Programm an - bislang ist der Weg zu Brightkite unter dieser Adresse am iPhone-kompatibelsten: i.brightkite.c

[edit] iFundVC » Blog Archive » Touched by iPhone?

16 October 2008, by Neil Young Neil Young is the CEO and a co-founder of iFund company ngmoco:) a developer and publisher of games for the iPhone and beyond. Prior to founding ngmoco:), Neil spent 11 years at Electronic Arts, producing and managing the company’s ...

[edit] It's time to head to the worst place in the nation...

26 September 2008, by Tomorrow Purdue heads to the land of VooDoo-Quazi-Catholocism to play the Manatee's extremely talented and under-achieving Irish. In spite of the injection of another genius in their coaching staff, the Irish defense still isn't stout...and in spite of having a talented QB (I hear this from ND fans), a blue-chip running back, a host of blue-chip o-linemen and some of the best receivers ever (ND fan again) in South Bend, their offense hasn't been formidible.Purdue, on the other hand has given up

[edit] DragonStyle: iFund Blog

22 September 2008, by Charles Teague It was great to see that the iFund now has a blog. This will hopefully help everyone get insight into a VC perspective on a the iPhone market. The first post is a good one, painting a rosy picture of the transformative power of the ...

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19 September 2008, by martynas77

[edit] How to get distrubtion advantage on the iPhone

18 September 2008, by eries So for those who are thinking of starting a new company to build iPhone apps, here's the question I would be pondering. After I've built my first successful app, and all kinds of competitors have copied me and have similar apps right next to mine in the store, how will I continue to get new customers? How will new customers know that my apps are superior?

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17 September 2008, by codyo

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17 September 2008, by awestin

[edit] The $100M iFund

17 September 2008, by I know that it’s been active for a few months, but I ran across a post that linked to the new iFund blog which lists some new and exciting companies that KPCB has funded recently. Out of this bunch, I like iControl.  The cheaper and easier that they can extend services like iControl to consumers, the more traction they will get.  It can’t be complicated and expensive like most of the existing services are.  If they can pull it off, it will also force the ADT’s of the country to take a look at

[edit] Hey you developers

17 September 2008, by Now there is a place to go to see how the big bucks are developing iPhone companies, apps and games. http://ifundvc.com/ Is the blog for iFund, brand new today. It’s the (as blogs tend to be) informal meeting place for people to come and discuss many of the important technical and commercial developments that surround the iPhone. For those who don’t know, iFund is a $100m USD capital fund by venture capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and managed by KPCB Partner Ma

[edit] Hey you developers

17 September 2008, by Paul Now there is a place to go to see how the big bucks are developing iPhone companies, apps and games.

[edit] WIRELESS

17 September 2008, by Marauder WIRELESS Crunchgear confirmed the September 23rd announcement, cemented the rumors that there will

[edit] Empresas do iFund para o iPhone

16 September 2008, by A KPCB (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) começou um blog para o iFund, que cobre tópicos sobre seu fundo de capital de $100 milhões de dólares para desenvolvedores para o iPhone. O KPCB já fundou cinco companhias com aproximadamente $30 milhões de capital de investimento. Essas empresas incluem: - Pelago - compartilhamento de aonde você está com a aplicação social Whrrl que está na App Store - iControl - automação para aparelhos em sua casa - ng:Moco - games para o iPhone lançando seus prim

[edit] Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers - China

16 September 2008, by freeurmind

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16 September 2008, by jbasdf

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16 September 2008, by sindib

[edit] The iFund's VCs start blogging

16 September 2008, by Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Odds and ends, Developer, iPhone, App StoreWhen Apple first announced the iFund a while back, the idea seemed pretty opaque by its very nature -- the plan was to invest $100 million in people and companies who were interested in developing innovating apps for the iPhone. But that could be anybody, and though we've heard a few peeps from them since, the whole process hasn't been super clear. That's probably why the iFund people are stepping up themselv

[edit] The iFund's VCs start blogging

16 September 2008, by Mike Schramm When Apple first announced the iFund a while back, the idea seemed pretty opaque by its very nature -- the plan was to invest $100 million in people and companies who were interested in developing innovating apps for the iPhone. ...

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16 September 2008, by cnilson

[edit] iPhone News Roundup for 9/15/08

16 September 2008, by This is your daily fix of iPhone news in one place so you don’t have to visit 60 sites to know what happened today in the iPhone world. Apple Developing ARM Processors for iPhone Wei-han Lien, the senior manager of Apple’s chip team, dished out the morsel on LinkedIn, saying he’s busy at work crafting an ARM processor for the next-generation iPhone. Edit most document types with TextGuru TextGuru is a new iPhone application that promising, useful — and also really powerful! The application

[edit] Kleiner Perkins launches iFund Blog for iPhone

16 September 2008, by Trying to catch up with the times, Kleiner Perkins has decided to put up its very own blog for the Apple iFund and iPhone. They’re calling it… the iFund Blog. I bet you didn’t see that coming. KP aims to make the iFund Blog a “forum for dialogue around the impactful trends and observations as the [...]...(read more)

[edit] Kleiner Perkins launches iFund Blog for iPhone

16 September 2008, by Trying to catch up with the times, Kleiner Perkins has decided to put up its very own blog for the Apple iFund and iPhone. They’re calling it… the iFund Blog. I bet you didn’t see that coming. KP aims to make the iFund Blog a “forum for dialogue around the impactful trends and observations as the promise of open mobile is being fulfilled.” Hopefully, they stick with this rather simple goal and if not make it a mission statement, at least always keep it in miind, for the benefit of all people

[edit] App Store on track to do a billion items by 2009

16 September 2008, by Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTS, Software, iTunes, Apple, iPhone, App Store You read that right -- it took the iTunes Store a few years, but as Roughly Drafted has calculated, Apple's App Store is on track, even if growth stops right now, to hit a billion apps served up by 2009. Obviously not all of those are paid apps, but by any count, that's a ton of applications dumped onto iPhones and iPod touches around the world. That said, the App Store is far from perfect -- Apple's approval pro

[edit] iFund Blog Launched

15 September 2008, by Silicon Valley legendary VC Kleiner Perkins has launched iFundVC, a blog about iPhone and iFund.

[edit] App Store on track to do a billion items by 2009

15 September 2008, by You read that right — it took the iTunes Store a few years, but as Roughly Drafted has calculated, Apple’s App Store is on track, even if growth stops right now, to hit a billion apps served up by 2009. Obviously not all of those are paid apps, but by any count, that’s a ton of applications dumped onto iPhones and iPod touches around the world. That said, the App Store is far from perfect — Apple’s approval process has come under fire lately for a lack of transparency, among other issues, an

[edit] $30 Million For Widgets including GOGII; $70 Million Available For Next Idea

15 September 2008, by Via: $100M iFund Is Now One Third Smaller (AAPL) Are you an iPhone developer hoping to get a piece of the $100 million iFund? You better hurry up. The Kleiner Perkins-backed cash hoard earmarked for coders working on Apple's mobile platform, is about a third gone. Matt Murphy, the manager of the iFund, said in a blog post that more than $30 million has gone out to five different app developers

[edit] Kleiner Perkins Starts an iPhone Blog

15 September 2008, by Kleiner Perkins Starts an iPhone Blog By Claire Cain Miller Devotees of the iPhone have a new place to find information about which hot new applications might be on the way. On Monday, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, the venture capital firm that is investing its $100 million iFund in mobile applications for the iPhone and iPod touch, unveiled iFundVC, a new blog on the iFund. “The purpose is to share (and hear) perspectives around the iPhone and emerging open mobile ecosystem. We’v