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]]>“We recently announced a collaboration debut between Phunware and Cisco Webex called the On My Way mobile app portfolio for South by Southwest (SXSW) attendees in March in conjunction with the Cisco Innovation Hub at Capital Factory, where I’ll be discussing three-dimensional cognitive workspaces,” said Randall Crowder, COO of Phunware. “The Meraki Marketplace will now provide Phunware an important channel to thousands of Cisco Meraki customers across more than 100 countries worldwide who need the very best LBS solutions for their network environments without the risk of deploying unproven technology.”
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]]>The ability to engage mobile users based on their ever-changing real-time location is a core capability of Phunware’s Multiscreen-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform. In daily life, mobile users constantly move between indoor and outdoor locations. Seamlessly detecting and managing location transition to enable personalized experiences based on a user’s surroundings is critical for brands wanting to have proximity-based interactions with their audiences, as well as organizations that offer a combination of indoor wayfinding plus mobile messaging and engagement, such as hospital systems, residential and corporate campuses, entertainment venues, airports, retail locations and others.
Managing this using the tools from the underlying mobile operating system directly can make it very difficult to achieve a high degree of accuracy while, at the same time, balancing that with battery performance, which is why Phunware invested the research and development required to optimize this process.
Mobile operating systems allow devices to monitor location-based information associated with outdoor as well as indoor regions, but the operating system may limit the number of resources utilized to do so. As such, it is beneficial for an application operating on a mobile device to preferentially allocate that device’s monitoring resources based on user location in order to ensure accuracy and to provide the most personalized and valuable experience for users.
The Phunware system and method for leveraging location-based regions and location updates from the underlying operating system is architected to efficiently minimize device resource usage, while still preserving the ability to detect if a device is inside or outside any given number of location regions.
“High quality, accurate experiences are key to success in mobile and digital transformation for brands,” said Phunware’s EVP of Product and Engineering, Matt Lindenberger. “Our software enables companies to take advantage of location-based information to bring those experiences to life, and the award of this patent is validation of the uniqueness of our value proposition for our customers.”
About Phunware:
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated enterprise software platform for mobile that provides companies the products, solutions and data and services necessary to engage, manage and monetize their mobile application audiences globally at scale that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware helps the world’s most respected brands create category-defining mobile experiences, with more than one billion active devices touching its platform each month. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow @phunware on all social media platforms.
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]]>Phunware’s Chief Executive Officer is Alan Knitowski, and its Chief Financial Officer is Matt Aune. The members of the Board of Directors of Phunware are Alan Knitowski, Prokopios (Akis) Tsirigakis, George Syllantavos, Randall Crowder, Lori Tauber Marcus, Kathy Mayor and Keith Cowan. Phunware’s headquarters are in Austin, Texas, with additional offices in Newport Beach, California, San Diego, California and Miami, Florida.
Founded nearly a decade ago, Phunware’s Software and Solutions provides the only fully-integrated enterprise software platform for mobile that gives companies the products, solutions, data and services necessary to engage, manage and monetize their mobile application audiences globally at scale, including cloud-based mobile software development kits (SDKs) which include location-based services, mobile engagement, content management, messaging, advertising and analytics; a mobile application framework with pre-integrated iOS and Android software modules for building in-house or channel-based mobile application solutions; cloud-based vertical solutions for Healthcare, Retail, Media, Real Estate and Hospitality, Sports, Entertainment and others; and a knowledge graph platform, services and data allowing for real-time mobile audience targeting, reach, engagement and monetization for 1:1 insights and interactions globally at scale.
With the launch of PhunCoin, Phunware aims to transform the relationship between brands and consumers by providing individuals the opportunity to earn PhunCoin in return for sharing their information, and companies the opportunity to build a more transparent, authentic and engaged relationship with their audiences.
“We’re extremely proud to have completed our merger and begin trading on the Nasdaq, particularly during the year-end chaos in the markets,” said Phunware co-founder and CEO Alan S. Knitowski. “We are excited to expose a broader audience to the opportunity to disrupt the way brands and consumers interact through our platform and solutions which enable them to build a more trustworthy and transparent relationship on mobile.”
About Phunware:
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated enterprise software platform for mobile that provides companies the products, solutions and data and services necessary to engage, manage and monetize their mobile application audiences globally at scale that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware helps the world’s most respected brands create category-defining mobile experiences, with more than one billion active devices touching its platform each month. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow @phunware on all social media platforms.
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]]>Austin, Texas [September 18, 2018] – Today Phunware, a leading enterprise cloud platform for mobile which provides software, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide, announced its partnership with B2G Advisors, a Texas-based firm that serves clients nationally, providing services that connect business to governments at the local, state and federal level. Through working with B2G, Phunware expands its data offering by enabling national, regional and local voter file matching and targeting with unprecedented precision.
Phunware and B2G intend to shift the dynamic of ethically questionable political advertising by allowing campaigns to authentically address critical and often unreached voter audiences to empower them with information they need to make informed decisions. Phunware and B2G have a commitment to transparency in information delivery and the revitalization of the political process by arming voters with critical data, transparently delivered, so that all voters can feel engaged and energized to participate.
“Our aim is to leverage voluntarily provided personal data and information to better empower the people who provide it. By enabling campaigns to deliver relevant information at scale to the audiences that need it most, we envision a more engaged electorate and a transformed political dialogue,” said Alan S. Knitowski, CEO of Phunware. “We’re thrilled to work with B2G, one of Texas’ most trusted names in government relations, to bring this vision to market.”
With an estimated $1.7B to be spent on internet advertising this election season, verified targeting and efficient ROI are more important than ever. Phunware can reach finely-segmented audiences at scale by matching voter files to mobile devices, a technique that has already seen results for congressional and senatorial campaigns across the political spectrum. Phunware boasts an average audience reach across campaigns of over 75% while ensuring viewability through Phunware Protect, the company’s proprietary technology to prevent ad fraud.
“Our current era of politics is often framed by division, but we see an opportunity to use Phunware’s targeting capabilities to bring political information directly to the people who need it,” said Jim Grace of B2G. “We’re excited to introduce Phunware’s unprecedented data capabilities to our national network of high-profile campaigns, and we’re proud to be a part of this new paradigm in political targeting.”
About Phunware:
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware helps the world’s most respected brands create category-defining mobile experiences, with more than one billion active devices touching its platform each month. On February 28, 2018, Phunware also announced its intent to go public through a merger with Stellar Acquisition III, Inc. (Nasdaq: STLR), a publicly-traded blank check company, and to launch a cryptonetworking Token Generation Event (TGE) called PhunCoin. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow @phunware on all social media platforms.
About B2G Advisors:
B2G Advisors is a Texas based firm that serves clients nationally, providing services that connect your business to governments at the local, state and federal level. Founded by Jim Grace, Jennifer McEwan, and George Hittner, B2G Advisors has over 85 years of collective government relations, public policy, and business development experience.
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]]>Austin, Texas [September 7, 2018] – Today Phunware, a leading enterprise cloud platform for mobile which provides software, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide, announced their selection by a leading U.S. nonprofit medical center to license their Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS) platform, including mobile wayfinding and engagement solutions, to integrate with an existing mobile application.
Digital transformation in hospitals is increasingly mobile-first, and in highly fluid environments like healthcare facilities, mobility provides greater flexibility, productivity and efficiency. Integrating mobile wayfinding for patients, visitors and staff is the first logical step to digital transformation. That same mobile location technology can help solve for many other use cases that support digital transformation, including mobile engagement, which helps hospitals provide personalized experiences to patients before, during and after each visit.
The integration of Phunware’s enterprise cloud platform for mobile across the 18 million square-foot facility will provide:
- Real-time blue dot routing and static navigation from any configured point of interest to destinations within the medical center
- Access to maps that feature points of interest such as physician offices, gift shops, elevators, etc., which can be updated and edited by staff for construction updates, office location changes and more
- Personalized alerts and promotions to patients and visitors based on their location or attributes, including appointment and parking reminders, health and wellness tips, or routing changes
- Analytics and business intelligence to connect the dots between patients, locations and campaigns to uncover rich insights across the entire patient journey
“We’re extremely proud to be part of this digital innovation deployment,” said Alan S. Knitowski, co-founder and CEO of Phunware. “By licensing Phunware’s MaaS platform, we can help provide a richer and more personalized mobile experience for patients and increase staff efficiency at this facility.”
About Phunware:
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware helps the world’s most respected brands create category-defining mobile experiences, with more than one billion active devices touching its platform each month. On February 28, 2018, Phunware also announced its intent to go public through a merger with Stellar Acquisition III, Inc. (Nasdaq: STLR), a publicly-traded blank check company, and to launch a cryptonetworking Token Generation Event (TGE) called PhunCoin. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow @phunware on all social media platforms.
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]]>Austin, Texas [August 24, 2018] – Today Phunware, a leading enterprise cloud platform for mobile which provides software, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide, announced that co-founder and CEO, Alan S. Knitowski will address SYNCO’s 13th Blockchain Symposium on August 30th, 2018 in Seoul, South Korea.
PhunCoin from Phunware, an innovative cryptocurrency which will have unique global reach and distribution, will allow consumers to take back control of their data by creating a value-based exchange and a virtuous cycle of monetization.
NASDAQ-Pending Phunware decided to launch PhunCoin as a complement to their existing software and infrastructure business which averages more than 1 billion monthly active devices and more than 6 billion daily transactions worldwide and serves Fortune 5000 customers in verticals including entertainment, retail, residential and hospitality, medical and others.
Given their deep and rich base of consumer mobile data, Phunware is uniquely qualified to launch a transactional cryptocurrency designed to enable and enhance the mobile brand experience for both brands and consumers. PhunCoin will reinvent how consumers control their identities, share their personal data and get compensated for providing personal information using digital smart contracts on the blockchain, a vision Phunware believes will position PhunCoin for mainstream adoption.
SYNCO, incorporated in South Korea and Hong Kong, is Asia’s leading blockchain community network. It offers a comprehensive suite of services in media, education, investments, and blockchain centers. SYNCO has been hosting Korea Blockchain Symposiums with Key Opinion Leaders and prominent ICO projects since August 2017.
“Asia is a critical region in the launch of any global cryptocurrency, and South Korea in particular is a leader in cryptocurrency innovation,” said Knitowski. “We’re excited to share both Phunware the company and PhunCoin the project with the impressive audience of experts and investors within SYNCO’s influential community.”
About Phunware:
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware helps the world’s most respected brands create category-defining mobile experiences, with more than one billion active devices touching its platform each month. On February 28, 2018, Phunware also announced its intent to go public through a merger with Stellar Acquisition III, Inc. (Nasdaq: STLR), a publicly-traded blank check company, and to launch a cryptonetworking Token Generation Event (TGE) called PhunCoin. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow @phunware on all social media platforms.
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]]>Austin, Texas [August 22, 2018] – Today Phunware, a leading enterprise cloud platform for mobile, which provides software, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide, announced their selection by a top U.S. Cancer Research Hospital to integrate mobile wayfinding for patients, staff and visitors into their existing mobile application for facilities across Texas.
Missed healthcare appointments cost the U.S. healthcare system an incredible $150 billion per year. The integration of Phunware’s wayfinding technology aims to address one major cause of no-shows, helping patients, visitors, staff and administrators navigate complex healthcare facilities across Texas.
The app includes several features that address unique needs for hospital patients and staff, including:
Features for patients and visitors:
- Personalized Routing: Easily navigate the Hospital’s facilities from any configured point of interest to destinations within the hospital. The in-app map includes turn-by-turn directions and home-to-venue routing.
- Maps: Access indoor and outdoor maps that feature points of interest such as physician offices, cafeterias, elevators, etc., along with search and filter capabilities.
Features for staff and hospital administration:
- Update Facility Maps: Edit and manage facility maps from the cloud for construction updates, office location changes and more.
- Campaign Promotion: Promote hospital- and health-related campaigns to specific groups based on user attributes.
- Notifications and Alerts: Keep patients and visitors informed with location-based notifications.
“We’re extremely proud to be a part of this digital innovation project with the top cancer research hospital in Texas,” said Alan S. Knitowski, co-founder and CEO of Phunware. “Patient satisfaction stems from the first point of communication between patient and provider. Being able to navigate a complex facility makes hospital visits less stressful for patients, and being able to reach and inform patients with the push of button saves precious time and increases efficiency for staff.”
After a successful phase one implementation, Phunware’s scope of work will be expanded to include indoor blue dot navigation for each facility, as well as website and kiosk wayfinding.
About Phunware:
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware helps the world’s most respected brands create category-defining mobile experiences, with more than one billion active devices touching its platform each month. On February 28, 2018, Phunware also announced its intent to go public through a merger with Stellar Acquisition III, Inc. (Nasdaq: STLR), a publicly-traded blank check company, and to launch a cryptonetworking Token Generation Event (TGE) called PhunCoin. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow @phunware on all social media platforms.
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]]>The post Phunware Launches Strategic Distribution Partnership with Tech Data to Offer Best-In-Class Mobile Experiences to the Enterprise appeared first on Phunware.
]]>Phunware’s platform provides category-defining mobile capabilities that integrate with IoT infrastructure to bring enterprise and brand venues and facilities to life. Working through Tech Data, Phunware solutions—including vertical-focused mobile applications, real-time indoor navigation, mobile engagement, asset tracking, and mobile content management—are available to global, national and regional technology providers who want to create innovative and cutting-edge solutions for their customers.
Phunware helps businesses transform patient, visitor, shopper, resident, employee, fan and other end-user and consumer experiences through iOS and Android mobile solutions that provide real-time utility and engagement. As a result of the partnership, both Phunware and Tech Data are extending their product offering to reach new customers and enable a new level of mobile experience for their end users.
“Since 2009 we have been empowering companies to provide their consumers with engaging, useful and transformative experiences on mobile,” said Alan S. Knitowski, CEO of Phunware. “We are pleased to partner with Tech Data to enable them to deploy Phunware’s solutions to their customers.”
“By partnering with Phunware, we are excited to provide best-in-class enterprise-grade mobile solutions and data-driven solutions to our customers, continuing the standard of quality that they’ve come to expect from Tech Data,” said Michelle Curtis, Director, IoT Solutions, North America, at Tech Data. “Our IoT Solutions team is ready to lend its expertise and help a new set of users uncover the benefits of Phunware.”
About Phunware
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware helps the world’s most respected brands create category-defining mobile experiences, with more than one billion active devices touching its platform each month. On February 28, 2018, Phunware also announced its intent to go public through a merger with Stellar Acquisition III, Inc (Nasdaq: STLR), a publicly-traded blank check company, and to launch a cryptonetworking Token Generation Event (TGE) called PhunCoin. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow @phunware on all social media platforms.
About Tech Data
Tech Data connects the world with the power of technology. Our end-to-end portfolio of products, services and solutions, highly specialized skills, and expertise in next-generation technologies enable channel partners to bring to market the products and solutions the world needs to connect, grow and advance. Tech Data is ranked No. 83 on the Fortune 500® and has been named one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies for nine straight years. To find out more, visit www.techdata.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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]]>Austin, Texas [June 5, 2018] – On February 28, 2018, Stellar Acquisition III, Inc. (NASDAQ: STLR), announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to combine with Phunware. Today, Phunware, a leading enterprise cloud platform for mobile that provides software, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide, announced that its subsidiary, PhunCoin, Inc., has launched an offering for a new token pursuant to Rule 506(c) of Regulation D as promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933. The PhunCoin ecosystem is intended to complement and accelerate Phunware’s core business as an enterprise cloud platform for mobile.
Phunware’s nine years of business-to-business leadership has provided seamlessly integrated enterprise software, hardware and data that enables brands to have more engaging, meaningful and loyal consumer connections and experiences in their mobile applications. This success has led the company to develop PhunCoin, an innovative business-to-consumer application of blockchain technology. Once operational, PhunCoin will enable brands to not only reward their consumers, but also to empower them to retake control of both their identity and their personal data.
“We expect that blockchain technology will enable us to deliver immutable solutions to brands and consumers that fiat currency could simply never achieve at our scale,” said Phunware CEO and Co-Founder, Alan S. Knitowski. “Our ability to reach 1 in 10 mobile devices globally through our enterprise cloud platform for mobile will allow us to introduce PhunCoin first to thousands, and subsequently to millions, of people who likely have never owned a digital asset of any type in the past.”
As witnessed by recent Congressional and Parliamentary hearings both here in the United States and elsewhere, consumers, their identities and their data have long been used by corporations with little control or benefit to the individuals affected. However, with Phunware’s scale and reach to more than two and a half billion devices that have used its platform worldwide, including more than one billion unique active devices per month, the company believes that it will be well positioned through PhunCoin to enable and enhance brand experiences globally. PhunCoin intends to reimagine how consumers control their identities, share their data and get compensated for providing their information using digital smart contracts on the blockchain through which consumers can control what they receive from brands in return.
“We look to invest in projects like PhunCoin that bridge the gap between cryptocurrency and real-world users,” said Ari Paul, Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner of BlockTower Capital.
Launched in Austin in 2009, Phunware has attracted more than $100 million in traditional financing to date from institutional and corporate strategic investors including Cisco Investments, Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Fraser McCombs Ventures, Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund), Maxima Ventures, PLDT Capital, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation (SVIC), Wavemaker Partners (Draper Venture Network Fund), World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Wild Basin Investments, Baylor Angel Network (BAN), Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) and Houston Angel Network (HAN), amongst others.
“Phunware is among the first of a new wave of large, late stage private and public companies launching tokens for decentralized platforms,” said David Siemer, Co-Founder and General Partner of Wavemaker Genesis. “This may mark the end of an era in crypto as it will be increasingly difficult for early crypto startups to compete with the global scale and resources of companies like Phunware. We were extremely excited to participate in Phunware’s latest investment round and are even more excited to participate with its launch of PhunCoin.”
About Phunware:
General. Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware helps the world’s most respected brands create category-defining mobile experiences, with more than one billion active devices touching its platform each month.
Proposed Merger. On February 28, 2018, Phunware announced its intent to go public through a merger with Stellar Acquisition III, Inc. (Nasdaq: STLR), a publicly-traded blank check company, and to use commercially reasonable efforts to launch PhunCoin. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow @phunware on all social media platforms.
PhunCoin Whitelist:
https://complyapi.coinlist.co/phuncoin/
Additional Information about the Private Placement under Rule 506(c) of the Rights to be Offered by PhunCoin:
This document does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities of PhunCoin. This document in not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation. Any such offer or solicitation may only be made subject to completion of a Token Rights Agreement and on the terms set forth in the PPM which will contain material information not included herein and shall supersede, amend and supplement this document in its entirety. The securities will be subject to restrictions on transferability and resale. In particular, this document is not intended for distribution in the United States or for the account of U.S. residents, except to persons who are “accredited investors” (as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act). Investors should have the financial ability and willingness to accept the financial and risk characteristics of an investment in the Rights.
Additional Information About the Merger Transaction between Phunware and Stellar and Where to Find It:
Stellar has filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-4 with a proxy statement containing information about the proposed transaction and the respective businesses of Phunware and Stellar. Stellar will mail a final prospectus and definitive proxy statement and other relevant documents after the SEC completes its review. Stellar and Phunware shareholders are urged to read the preliminary prospectus and proxy statement and any amendments thereto and the final prospectus and definitive proxy statement in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the special meetings to be held to approve the proposed transaction, because these documents will contain important information about Stellar, Phunware and the proposed transaction. The final prospectus and definitive proxy statement will be mailed to shareholders of Stellar and Phunware of a record date to be established for voting on the proposed transaction. Shareholders will also be able to obtain a free copy of the proxy statement, as well as other filings containing information about Stellar, without charge, at the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov) or by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. Copies of the proxy statement and other filings with the SEC can also be obtained, without charge, by directing a request to: Stellar Acquisition III Inc., 90 Kifisias Avenue, Marousi 15125, Athens, Greece. Additionally, all documents filed with the SEC can be found on Stellar’s website, www.stellaracquisition.com.
About Stellar:
Stellar is a Republic of Marshall Islands blank check company, also commonly referred to as a Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC, formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, asset acquisition or other business combination with one or more businesses or entities. Stellar’s units, shares of common stock and warrants are currently listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbols “STLRU,” “STLR” and “STLRW”, respectively.
Participants in the Merger Proxy Solicitation:
Stellar, Phunware and their respective directors and executive officers and other persons may be deemed to be participants in the solicitations of proxies from Stellar’s shareholders in respect of the proposed transaction. Information regarding Stellar’s directors and executive officers is available in its annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC. Additional information regarding the participants in the proxy solicitation and a description of their direct and indirect interests will be contained in the proxy statement when it becomes available.
No Offer or Solicitation:
This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which the offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities of Stellar or Phunware shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
Some of the statements in this release and in presentations by Stellar’s management relating to the matters described herein are or may constitute “forward-looking statements.” Words such as “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “project,” “target,” “optimistic,” “intend,” “aim,” “will”, “may” and variations and similar words and expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements relating to the proposed transaction and the SEC registration statement and proxy voting process (as well as the combined company’s post-closing activities) include, but are not limited to: (i) statements about the benefits of the transaction involving Stellar and Phunware, including future financial and operating results; (ii) Stellar’s and Phunware’s plans, objectives, expectations and intentions (including with respect to the future Token Sale and the use of proceeds from Stellar’s trust account); (iii) the expected timing of completion of the transaction and the SEC registration statement and proxy voting process; and (iv) other statements relating to the transaction, the SEC registration statement and proxy voting process and the combined company’s post-closing activities that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements involve estimates, expectations and projections and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially if not substantially from those described in the forward-looking statements.
Important risks and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. With respect to the transaction, the SEC registration statement and proxy voting process and the combined company’s post-closing activities, such risks and uncertainties include, among many others: (i) the risks associated with Stellar’s SEC registration statement and proxy voting process, including uncertainty regarding the number of Stellar shareholders who may request redemption and whether Phunware shareholders will approve the transaction; (ii) the risk that the benefits to Stellar and its shareholders anticipated from transaction may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected; (iii) the risk that any projections, including earnings, revenues, expenses, synergies, margins or any other financial items are not realized, (iv) the risks associated with concentration of Phunware’s business with certain customers; (v) the potential for reductions in industry profit margins due to, among other factors, declining service revenues; (vi) the inability of the post-closing combined company to expand and diversify the business of Phunware; (vii) changing interpretations of generally accepted accounting principles; (viii) the combined company’s continued compliance with government regulations; changing legislation and regulatory environments; (ix) the ability of the post-closing company to meet Nasdaq’s continued listing standards; (x) the potential for lower return on investment by Phunware’s expected token sale; (xi) the inability of Phunware to manage growth; (xii) requirements or changes affecting the MaaS/SaaS industry; (xiii) the general volatility of market prices of Stellar’s securities and general economic conditions; (xiv) the combined company’s ability to implement new strategies and react to changing market conditions; (xv) risks associated with operating hazards; (xvi) risks associated with competition; (xvii) risks associated with the loss of key personnel; (xviii) unexpected costs, liabilities or delays in the proposed transaction; (xix) the outcome of any legal proceedings related to the transaction; (xx) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement, or (xxi) any of the factors in detailed in the “Risk Factors” section of Stellar’ s filings with the SEC.
The foregoing listing of risks is not exhaustive. These risks, as well as other risks associated with the transaction, will be more fully discussed in Stellar’s registration statement to be filed with the SEC in connection with the transaction. Additional risks and uncertainties are identified and discussed in Stellar’s reports filed or to be filed with the SEC and available at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. Forward-looking statements included in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. Stellar undertakes and assumes no obligation, and does not intend, to update Stellar’s forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
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]]>Austin, Texas [May 17, 2018] – Today Phunware, a mobile technology company developing complex digital ecosystems for marquee brands worldwide, announced that Barbary Brunner has been named its Chief Marketing Officer.
Brunner most recently served as CEO of the Austin Technology Council (ATC) and brings 25 years of global technology leadership experience to the role of CMO at Phunware. Her previous positions have included CMO for Experian’s PriceGrabber business, CMO for Yahoo! Media, Chief Digital Products Officer for MediaNews Group, Director of Global Planning for Microsoft’s MSN business and Executive Producer for SierraOnline, among others. Brunner began her career as a Program Manager at Microsoft in the early 90s. She will channel her expertise in brand and team leadership and development to support Phunware as it works to enter the public markets on NASDAQ, launches a PhunCoin cryptonetworking ecosystem and prepares for its next stage of remarkable growth.
As CMO, Brunner will be responsible for driving Phunware’s global brand marketing and communications strategy, reporting to Alan S. Knitowski, Phunware’s Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer.
Knitowski has pursued a unique strategy in building out a world-class senior executive team, including the addition of five former CEOs or Presidents. Brunner joins recent hire COO Randall Crowder, GM Audience Building and Monetization Ian Karnell, EVP Product Management and Engineering Matthew Lindenberger and EVP Corporate Development Tushar Patel, along with CFO Matt Aune and Co-Founder and CTO Luan Dang.
“With our announced intent to merge with NASDAQ company Stellar Acquisition III, Inc, and upcoming launch of PhunCoin, we are at a pivotal moment in Phunware’s history and in the larger landscapes of mobile application software, media and data,” said Knitowski. “Taking advantage of this moment requires a marketing leader with vision and expertise. Barbary possesses these and more, and we are thrilled to welcome her to Phunware’s executive leadership team.”
“I’m excited to have the opportunity to join this terrific team of leaders. I can’t think of a more perfect mutual fit than Phunware’s platform, tools and data that touch and improve the lives of more than one billion people globally every month. The breadth and depth of engagement opportunities that Phunware makes available to brands is unprecedented,” Brunner said. “And I’m also so very pleased to be joining a company that, at 50 percent diversity in its employee population and with a diverse leadership team, understands how important this is to drive product excellence, customer satisfaction and revenue results.”
About Phunware
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware helps the world’s most respected brands create category-defining mobile experiences, with more than one billion active devices touching its platform each month. On February 28, 2018, Phunware also announced its intent to go public through a merger with Stellar Acquisition III, Inc (Nasdaq: STLR), a publicly-traded blank check company, and to launch a cryptonetworking Token Generation Event (TGE) called PhunCoin. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow @phunware on all social media platforms.
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]]>Austin, Texas [April 18, 2018] – Today Phunware, an enterprise mobile software company whose mobile application lifecycle management platform helps brands engage, manage and monetize mobile users worldwide, announced a partnership with Kontakt.io, a global IoT (Internet of Things) platform provider. The partnership pairs BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacon hardware from Kontakt.io with Phunware’s powerful platform to enable real-time indoor wayfinding, workflow optimization and a host of other use cases. It also makes Phunware Kontakt.io’s solution partner, which means Phunware’s solutions can be offered to Kontakt.io’s end customers.
Across industries, enterprises with physical venues (hospitals, retail stores, live event venues, manufacturing facilities, corporate campuses, etc.) struggle to engage site visitors and optimize business operations. Internet of Things and location-based technologies help address these problems, giving these companies tools previously reserved for the online space. Their adoption proves that digital transformation is rapidly progressing: Gartner estimates that in 2017, 30% of enterprises had adopted IoT products and by 2020, this number is expected to reach 65%.
Phunware helps businesses transform the patient, visitor, shopper, resident, employee, fan and other customer experience with iOS and Android mobile solutions that provide real-time utility and engagement. The partnership with Kontakt.io adds a location and IoT layer to Phunware’s solutions to enable real-time “blue dot” indoor navigation, trigger actions, track equipment and more. Having designated Phunware as a solution partner, Kontakt.io can now directly offer Phunware software and applications to its end customers who are looking for out-of-the-box solutions. As a result of the partnership, both companies are extending their product offering and expecting to reach new customers.
“At Kontakt.io, we are making the Internet of Things as easy as consumer technologies, so Phunware’s engaging, easy-to-use software was a natural fit for us,” said Philipp von Gilsa, CEO at Kontakt.io. “Phunware’s team has the expertise and product needed to drive the digital transformation of healthcare, retail and other verticals on a massive scale. We are excited to work with Phunware to make this shift happen.”
“We are thrilled to begin this journey with our partners at Kontakt.io, leaders in BLE technology,” said Alan S. Knitowski, CEO and Co-Founder of Phunware. “Location accuracy and precision are critical when creating amazing mobile experiences for enterprise customers and their end users. We chose to partner with Kontakt.io because their hardware offers industry-leading accuracy, reliability and scalability.”
Phunware’s Location-Based Services module for iOS and Android can be embedded within a fully configurable Phunware-managed app or within a customer’s existing app. Joint implementations between Phunware and Kontakt.io to date include healthcare and corporate campus facilities.
About Phunware
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware helps the world’s most respected brands create category-defining mobile experiences, with more than one billion active devices touching its platform each month. On February 28, 2018, Phunware also announced its intent to go public through a merger with Stellar Acquisition III, Inc (Nasdaq: STLR), a publicly-traded blank check company, and to launch a cryptonetworking Token Generation Event (TGE). For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow @phunware on all social media platforms.
About Kontakt.io
Kontakt.io digitalizes the physical world. Our Internet of Things (IoT) platform and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) tags and beacons are the cornerstone of solutions improving mobile customer experience, indoor wayfinding, asset and people visibility and condition monitoring. We focus on public spaces, healthcare and food and pharma supply chains. With more than two million devices shipped, hundreds of installations in place and a global customer and partner base of 20,000 businesses, we are the number one beacon provider globally. Reducing the risk of IoT project failure through high quality technology, expertise and support has garnered Kontakt.io a loyal customer base that continues to grow. Our in-house R&D focuses on connecting artificial intelligence, blockchain and IoT. To date, Kontakt.io has raised seven million dollars in venture capital.
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]]>Austin, TX [March 19, 2018] – Today Phunware, an enterprise mobile software company whose mobile application lifecycle management platform helps brands engage, manage and monetize mobile users worldwide, announced the launch of Go Vegas, a new Apple TV app for the City of Las Vegas. The app hosts multiple channels showcasing many areas of the City of Las Vegas, from new businesses and events to local city council meetings.
Las Vegas attracts nearly 40 million tourists and hosts over 22,000 events each year. The Go Vegas Apple TV app showcases the local economy, attracts new businesses and keeps current residents up-to-date on municipal activities. Content in the app includes video vignettes and shows like the Daily Dose and Li’l Mayors that promote the city’s local happenings outside of tourist attractions. Residents can also tune in to a dedicated city government channel that streams resident-focused content such as city council meetings.
“Las Vegas is a world-class city undergoing a game-changing digital transformation,” said Alan S. Knitowski, CEO and co-founder of Phunware. “We’re proud to be part of the select list of industry-leading partners the city is bringing on to support its journey. The City of Las Vegas Apple TV app provides a one-of-a-kind experience for residents, businesses and tourists. We’re excited to work with the city’s team to bring users this next-gen TV experience.”
“Phunware is helping to further the city of Las Vegas’ digital transformation efforts,” said Michael Sherwood, CIO of City of Las Vegas. “By joining new channels and platforms like Apple TV, we will be able to better engage and collaborate with our constituents—tourists, residents or business partners—and introduce a whole new audience to what the city has to offer.”
The Go Vegas Apple TV app is available to download in the App Store for any tvOS-enabled device.
About Phunware
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware helps the world’s most respected brands create category-defining mobile experiences, with more than one billion active devices touching its platform each month. On February 28, 2018, Phunware also announced its intent to go public through a merger with Stellar Acquisition III, Inc (Nasdaq: STLR), a publicly-traded blank check company, and to launch a cryptonetworking Token Generation Event (TGE). For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow @phunware on all social media platforms.
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]]>The transaction with Phunware enables Stellar to enter two of the most innovative and rapidly growing sectors within the technology space: mobile cloud software and blockchain. Phunware’s mobile application lifecycle management platform delivers mobile engagement, analytics and business intelligence, alerts, notifications and messaging, content management, location-based services, audience engagement, audience monetization, vertical solutions, big data and cryptonetworking. The platform processes over 4 billion events per day, totaling over 1.4 trillion events per year. This amounts to petabytes of actionable data across thousands of mobile application portfolios. Currently, Phunware receives revenue from a large and diversified customer base that includes numerous Fortune 5000 companies in both Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) via recurring revenue streams and transactional formats.
Phunware intends to initiate within the 1st half of 2018 a Token Generation Event (“TGE”) based on its “PhunCoin
” cryptonetworking ecosystem.
Phunware was established in February 2009, and has grown rapidly to date through acquisitions and venture capital offerings to strategic investors and partners. The company today has notable investors such as Wavemaker Partners (Draper Network Fund), Fraser McCombs Ventures, Maxima Ventures, Samsung, Cisco Investments, World Wrestling Entertainment, PLDT Capital, Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN), Baylor Angel Network (BAN) and others. We believe that having strategic partners with aligned interests is important in the achievement of common goals.
Following the closing, the common stock and warrants of the combined entity are expected to trade on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the name Phunware, Inc. and trading symbols “PHUN” and “PHUNW”, respectively. The combined company will be led by Mr. Alan S. Knitowski, who will continue as Phunware’s Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Matthew Aune, who will continue as Phunware’s Chief Financial Officer. As part of the transaction, the combined company will redomesticate from the Marshall Islands (Stellar’s jurisdiction of formation) to Delaware.
Management Commentary
Mr. Alan S. Knitowski, CEO of Phunware, said, “Our stated goal has always been to reach every connected device on Earth through mobile applications, and this transaction turbocharges our ability to achieve that vision. With a current reach to over one in ten devices worldwide, our platform is a formidable foundation to build upon. Merging with Stellar will enable us to scale that foundation through organic and inorganic growth, including the PhunCoin Token Generation Event. We are extremely proud of this important milestone and are excited for the future.”
Mr. Matt Aune, CFO of Phunware, added, “Since Phunware’s founding in 2009, we have seen dramatic growth both financially and as a platform. We are now at an exciting stage of our development where we are prepared to take our products and scale to the next level, and this transaction provides the resources that we will use to implement our ambitious plans worldwide.”
Mr. Akis Tsirigakis, Co-CEO of Stellar, stated “We are very pleased to announce this transaction and our entry into the mobile cloud software and blockchain sectors, both extremely attractive and rapidly growing market segments, with great potential for many years to come. Phunware is in the process of implementing its ambitious plan to become the global leader in Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS) and becoming a public company, which will allow Phunware to further enhance its quality and governance foundations.”
Mr. George Syllantavos, Co-CEO of Stellar, added “Through this transaction, we offer our shareholders the opportunity to participate in the growth prospects of this innovative company within the exciting MaaS/SaaS/blockchain sectors. Phunware is a company on the forefront of technological advancements, having the vision and unique ability to integrate mobile cloud software and blockchain technology for the benefit of the global consumer. We are excited about the future and are committed to contribute to the company’s success.”
Overview of Phunware
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware creates category-defining mobile experiences for the world’s most respected brands, with petabytes of data across thousands of mobile application portfolios. Its offerings include:
- Enterprise mobile software including content management, location-based services, mobile engagement, business intelligence and analytics, alerts, notifications and messaging, audience engagement, audience monetization, vertical solutions and cryptonetworking, as well as an Application Framework for developers and publishers building their own mobile applications in-house;
- Media for mobile audience building and activation, application discovery, brand awareness, user engagement, user monetization and more; and
- Data for audience insights, campaign engagement and business process optimization.
Phunware will use commercially reasonable efforts to launch PhunCoin, a blockchain-powered utility token and ecosystem that enables consumers, brands and application developers to transact directly and create a value-based and voluntary data exchange.
Summary of the Transaction
Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, Phunware shareholders will receive consideration in the form of newly issued Stellar equity securities, valued based on an enterprise value of $301 million for Phunware and subject to customary adjustments for cash and debt and, at the election of Phunware’s shareholders, acquire from Stellar sponsors up to 929,890 warrants to purchase Stellar common stock at $0.50 per warrant. In addition, all Phunware stock options and warrants will be assumed by Stellar in the transaction as part of the merger consideration. Cash proceeds released from Stellar’s trust account after any shareholder redemptions and payment of transaction expenses and other Stellar liabilities shall remain with the combined company, and Phunware intends to use the cash proceeds from the trust account to grow its business, fund inorganic growth initiatives and for working capital.
The transaction is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The transaction is currently expected to close in the second quarter of 2018.
The description of the transaction contained herein is only a summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the definitive Merger Agreement relating to the transaction, a copy of which will be filed by Stellar with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K.
Additional Information About the Transaction and Where to Find It
Stellar intends to file with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-4 with a proxy statement containing information about the proposed transaction and the respective businesses of Phunware and Stellar. Stellar will mail a final prospectus and definitive proxy statement and other relevant documents after the SEC completes its review. Stellar and Phunware shareholders are urged to read the preliminary prospectus and proxy statement and any amendments thereto and the final prospectus and definitive proxy statement in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the special meetings to be held to approve the proposed transaction, because these documents will contain important information about Stellar, Phunware and the proposed transaction. The final prospectus and definitive proxy statement will be mailed to shareholders of Stellar and Phunware of a record date to be established for voting on the proposed transaction. Shareholders will also be able to obtain a free copy of the proxy statement, as well as other filings containing information about Stellar without charge, at the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov) or by calling 1-800-SEC-0330. Copies of the proxy statement and other filings with the SEC can also be obtained, without charge, by directing a request to: Stellar Acquisition III Inc., 90 Kifisias Avenue, Marousi 15125, Athens, Greece. Additionally, all documents filed with the SEC can be found on Stellar’s website, www.stellaracquisition.com.
Advisors and Counsel
Maxim Group LLC and Graceworth Ltd. are acting as financial advisors to Stellar in connection with the proposed transaction. Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP is acting as counsel to Stellar. BTIG LLC is acting as financial advisor to Phunware in connection with the proposed transaction. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. is acting as counsel to Phunware.
About Stellar
Stellar is a Republic of Marshall Islands blank check company, also commonly referred to as a Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC, formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, asset acquisition or other business combination with one or more businesses or entities. Stellar’s units, shares of common stock and warrants are currently listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbols “STLRU,” “STLR” and “STLRW, respectively.
Participants in the Solicitation
Stellar, Phunware and their respective directors and executive officers and other persons may be deemed to be participants in the solicitations of proxies from Stellar’s shareholders in respect of the proposed transaction. Information regarding Stellar’s directors and executive officers is available in its annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC. Additional information regarding the participants in the proxy solicitation and a description of their direct and indirect interests will be contained in the proxy statement when it becomes available.
No Offer or Solicitation
This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which the offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in this release and in presentations by Stellar’s management relating to the matters described herein are or may constitute “forward-looking statements.” Words such as “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “project,” “target,” “optimistic,” “intend,” “aim,” “will”, “may” and variations and similar words and expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements relating to the proposed transaction and the SEC registration statement and proxy voting process (as well as the combined company’s post-closing activities) include, but are not limited to: (i) statements about the benefits of the transaction involving Stellar and Phunware, including future financial and operating results; (ii) Stellar’s and Phunware’s plans, objectives, expectations and intentions (including with respect to the future Token Generation Event and the use of proceeds from Stellar’s trust account); (iii) the expected timing of completion of the transaction and the SEC registration statement and proxy voting process; and (iv) other statements relating to the transaction, the SEC registration statement and proxy voting process and the combined company’s post-closing activities that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements involve estimates, expectations and projections and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially if not substantially from those described in the forward-looking statements.
Important risks and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. With respect to the transaction, the SEC registration statement and proxy voting process and the combined company’s post-closing activities, such risks and uncertainties include, among many others: (i) the risks associated with Stellar’s SEC registration statement and proxy voting process, including uncertainty regarding the number of Stellar shareholders who may request redemption and whether Phunware shareholders will approve the transaction; (ii) the risk that the benefits to Stellar and its shareholders anticipated from transaction may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected; (iii) the risk that any projections, including earnings, revenues, expenses, synergies, margins or any other financial items are not realized, (iv) the risks associated with concentration of Phunware’s business with certain customers; (v) the potential for reductions in industry profit margins due to, among other factors, declining service revenues; (vi) the inability of the post-closing combined company to expand and diversify the business of Phunware; (vii) changing interpretations of generally accepted accounting principles; ( viii) the combined company’s continued compliance with government regulations; changing legislation and regulatory environments; (ix) the ability of the post-closing company to meet Nasdaq’s continued listing standards; (x) the potential for lower return on investment by Phunware’s expected TGE; (xi) the inability of Phunware to manage growth; (xii) requirements or changes affecting the MaaS/SaaS industry; (xiii) the general volatility of market prices of Stellar’ s securities and general economic conditions; ( xiv) the combined company’s ability to implement new strategies and react to changing market conditions; (xv) risks associated with operating hazards; (xvi) risks associated with competition; (xvii) risks associated with the loss of key personnel; (xviii) unexpected costs, liabilities or delays in the proposed transaction; (xix) the outcome of any legal proceedings related to the transaction; (xx) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement or (xxi) any of the factors in detailed in the “Risk Factors” section of Stellar’ s filings with the SEC.
The foregoing listing of risks is not exhaustive. These risks, as well as other risks associated with the transaction, will be more fully discussed in Stellar’s registration statement to be filed with the SEC in connection with the transaction. Additional risks and uncertainties are identified and discussed in Stellar’s reports filed or to be filed with the SEC and available at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. Forward-looking statements included in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. Stellar undertakes and assumes no obligation, and does not intend, to update Stellar’s forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
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Retail’s New Playground: a Guided Tour of the Cisco Toy Box
Welcome to the Toy Box
At check-in, you receive an empty shopping basket and an iPhone 8. This being a convention, of course you need caffeine, so you stop at the Coco Café. The friendly staff greets you and introduces the café’s MenuPad, which presents the available fueling options. You opt for a large mocha latte and use the iPhone you were given to buy your drink via Apple Pay, directly on the menu board. Well, that was easy.
Let’s Go Shopping
You fire up the ToyBox app on your iPhone and got to your shopping list. If this were a real-world shopping experience, the store app would be integrated with your customer profile, so everything you’ve searched for online or added to your online shopping cart would appear in your list when you arrived at the store. Here at the Toy Box, your shopping list shows all the retail technology “toys” you expressed an interest in.
You choose your first item and select “Route.” Using Phunware’s real-time indoor navigation, the Toy Box app gives you turn-by-turn directions right to that item inside the store. (Imagine you’re in a large hardware store, looking for a new flathead screwdriver…. How great would it be to have clear, accurate directions to the right spot on the right aisle, right in the palm of your hand?) You head out towards your first item in the Toddler Toys section of the store.
But Wait, There’s More
As you navigate to your first item, a push notification pops up on your iPhone—”New Item Has Arrived!”—showing you a featured product along your route. You can choose to see more information about that product, but you decide to stay focused. You find your item in Toddler Toys and choose “Scan with MishiPay” to purchase. The Toy Box app opens to the scanner screen in the MishiPay app. You scan the item’s barcode and get details on price, name and brand, then add it to your cart. Behind the scenes, the store inventory automatically adjusts to reflect your purchase.
Not Just for Shoppers
The Toy Box wasn’t only about helping store shoppers explore and navigate from item to item smoothly and seamlessly. The same technology that powers these shopper experiences can supercharge associate productivity related to stocking, restocking and completing Buy Online, Pickup In Store (BOPUS) orders. It can also help store associates navigate to shoppers requesting assistance and even notify them if VIP customers arrive.
Smart, integrated store experiences like the one offered at the Toy Box may seem futuristic, but they are rapidly becoming the norm. Learn more about how some retailers are using mobile to maintain a competitive edge in our webinar:
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]]>SALTO Systems is a worldwide leading manufacturer in battery-operated RFID locking systems supplying its solutions to a variety of industry verticals including multi family residential, healthcare, education, transport, government, and hospitality. Phunware’s enterprise mobile app lifecycle management platform helps brands engage, manage and monetize mobile users worldwide.
The first joint project—a luxury high rise in Miami with hundreds of doors—leverages an integration between the SALTO and Phunware platforms to allow residents to manage SALTO electronic locks with the same Phunware-powered application they use to submit work orders, receive package delivery notifications and other luxury living essentials. The integration eliminates the need for a physical access card by securely sending a mobile key to a registered and verified iOS or Android device. If the device is lost or stolen, access can immediately be updated.
The project will function using a SHIP integration with the Phunware mobile application. SHIP is a proprietary communications protocol based on a software dialog that allows third-party access control providers to manage and control SALTO offline and wireless locking devices by way of their own software graphical user interface (GUI). Even though the SALTO locks are governed by the SALTO service, the operations are triggered from Phunware’s GUI.
“This is an innovative integration that draws on strengths from both SALTO and Phunware to deliver user-friendly access control at an enterprise level,” said SALTO Senior Vice President of Commercial Sales Michael J. Mahon. “As a leading access control provider for multi family developments, SALTO is enriching our products for this important vertical and by working with Phunware we deliver a solution that is robust and efficient.”
“With the integration of SALTO’s mobile access control, our mobile solutions for residential and mixed-use real estate continue to set industry standards,” said Alan S. Knitowski, Phunware CEO and co-founder. “Transforming the user experience for residents, patients, shoppers, fans and all other mobile consumers is a key part of the mobile future we’ve envisioned at Phunware since 2009. We’re excited to begin working with SALTO to transform the resident experience for users across the country.”
About SALTO Systems
SALTO Systems is a global leader in the development and manufacture of world-class access control solutions, particularly in sectors where security is critical – hospitality, airports, healthcare, government, education, sports and entertainment venues, and more. The company revolutionized access control with a pioneering approach that featured the first stand-alone, battery-powered electronic lock; the SALTO Virtual Network (SVN) data-on-card technology; and the first wireless access control system that combined a stand-alone locking device with online, real-time capabilities – all without using wires or mechanical keys. SALTO’s leading-edge hardware and software technologies are in use in more than 15,000 installations worldwide, with an estimated 20 million daily users. SALTO is headquartered in northern Spain, with local offices in 25 countries and a partner network that extends its reach to nearly every region of the globe.
About Phunware
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware creates category-defining mobile experiences for the world’s most respected brands, with more than 800 million active devices touching its platform each month. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow us on social media at @phunware.
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]]> Internet of Things (IoT) partner ecosystem. Phunware will be adding the Atrius Navigator software development kit (SDK) to its indoor positioning technology offerings, providing customers an innovative, energy-efficient option to support Phunware’s hardware-agnostic location capabilities.
Phunware currently provides an indoor wayfinding solution, available on both Apple® iOS and Android operating systems, which can be embedded within a fully configurable Phunware-managed native app or within a customer’s existing app via Phunware’s Mapping and Location SDKs. By becoming an Atrius IoT Partner, Phunware is now able to offer customers an additional supported indoor positioning service (IPS) with increased reliability and centimeter-level precision, increased energy efficiency and lower maintenance costs.
The Atrius Sensory Network, including luminaires enabled with Atrius, features embedded Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) and Visible Light Communication (VLC) technologies acting as all-in-one access points for indoor and adjacent outdoor environments. Phunware’s customers are expected to benefit from using the Atrius IoT platform for indoor positioning because the communication technology is embedded in LED luminaires, eliminating the need for additional hardware components such as stand-alone beacons that require separate installation, maintenance, and power.
“The ease of integration and highly adaptable nature of the Atrius IoT platform makes this technology suite ideal for creating high-value mobile applications that deliver indoor navigation, mobile engagement, contextual content and much more,” said Matthew Lindenberger, Vice President of Engineering at Phunware. “As an Atrius partner, we can also help deliver the added benefit of networked intelligent lighting that provides highly accurate location awareness, significant energy savings and digital controls to our customers.”
For more information on Atrius IoT solutions, the Atrius Navigator and the Atrius Partner Program, please visit: www.acuitybrands.com/atrius.
About Acuity Brands
Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is the North American market leader and one of the world’s leading providers of lighting and building management solutions. With fiscal year 2017 net sales of $3.5 billion, Acuity Brands currently employs over 12,000 associates and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with operations throughout North America, and in Europe and Asia. The Company’s products and solutions are sold under various brands, including Lithonia Lighting®, Holophane®, Peerless®, Gotham®, Mark Architectural Lighting, Winona® Lighting, Juno®, Indy, Aculux®, Healthcare Lighting®, Hydrel®, American Electric Lighting®, Carandini®, Antique Street Lamps, Sunoptics®, Distech Controls®, nLight®, ROAM®, Sensor Switch® and Atrius. Visit us at www.acuitybrands.com.
About Phunware
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware creates category-defining mobile experiences for the world’s most respected brands, with more than 800 million active users touching its platform each month. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow us on social media at @phunware.
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]]>St. Louis, MO [November 29, 2017] – World Wide Technology (WWT), a market-leading technology solution provider, and Phunware, an enterprise mobile software company, today announced a strategic partnership to create richer mobile experiences with location-based applications that can scale and be tested in conjunction with various networks for increased optimization and faster time to market.
“Partnering with World Wide Technology allows Phunware to power new types of mobile experiences for an even broader range of enterprise customers”
Phunware offers a rich platform layer of application development tools including mobile engagement, location-based services, content management, messaging, advertising and analytics to complement WWT Asynchrony Labs’ location-based experiences. WWT customers can also leverage mobile data from devices touching Phunware’s platform to make more informed business decisions or to better target and engage users.
WWT will combine its expertise in mobility and big data with custom application development leveraging Phunware’s scalable platform to turn raw location data into actionable insights so enterprise customers can create personalized marketing offers, navigation or collateral tied to points of interest. Users will be able to receive personalized discounts through their mobile device depending on their shopping history and where they are in a store. They can expect similar custom experiences at arenas, restaurants, malls, resorts, airports, condominiums and hospitals.
“This partnership with Phunware broadens our capabilities to build location-powered mobile experiences encompassing software, network, and analytics into one complete package,” said Bob Elfanbaum, general manager of WWT Asynchrony Labs. “Enterprise clients of both companies can now significantly scale out their mobile footprint with new capabilities for engaging their customers on the go.”
Components of Phunware’s mobile application lifecycle management platform will be available for testing in WWT’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC). The ATC represents the pinnacle for validating IT innovation in a safe sandbox environment before it is rolled out. Here it is possible to tailor the platform to different networks types, optimizing how Phunware pulls location analytics for use in mobile engagements. WWT, a Cisco Gold Certified Partner, can also customize how Phunware interacts with the strong wireless accuracy of Cisco Wireless and Cisco Meraki to power granular navigation and other location-triggered engagement.
“Partnering with World Wide Technology allows Phunware to power new types of mobile experiences for an even broader range of enterprise customers,” said Phunware co-founder and CEO Alan S. Knitowski. “Together we are helping to create a mobile environment richer and more immersive than the market has seen before.”
About World Wide Technology
World Wide Technology (WWT) is a technology solution provider with more than $9 billion in annual revenue that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions to large public and private organizations around the globe. While most companies talk about delivering business and technology outcomes, WWT does it. Based in St. Louis, WWT employs more than 4,000 people and operates over 2 million square feet of warehousing, distribution and integration space in more than 20 facilities throughout the world. For more, visit www.wwt.com.
About WWT Asynchrony Labs
World Wide Technology Asynchrony Labs is an information technology consulting firm located in St. Louis, Missouri. WWT Asynchrony Labs specializes in application development, mobile computing, systems and sensor integration, enterprise architecture, and tactical collaboration. Its diverse client base includes commercial, non-profit, and government organizations. WWT Asynchrony Labs has delivered solutions ranging from back-end government middleware to front-end applications and full-scale, commercial cloud infrastructures. In short, WWT Asynchrony Labs connects people, sensors, information, and systems.
About Phunware
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware creates category-defining mobile experiences for the world’s most respected brands, with more than 800 million active users touching its platform each month. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow us on social media at @phunware.
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]]>Austin, TX [June 28, 2017] – Phunware, an enterprise mobile software company whose mobile app lifecycle management platform helps brands engage, manage and monetize mobile users worldwide, is pleased to announce a new partnership with worldwide technology leader Cisco Meraki (NASDAQ: CSCO), creating an attractive joint solution that can provide the mobile component of brands’ digital transformation. Through this new partnership, businesses can offer high-capacity and high-speed cloud-managed wireless as well as rich mobile experiences for their end customers that include real-time indoor navigation, mobile engagement, contextual content and more.
The Phunware – Cisco Meraki partnership gives businesses the hardware and software components necessary for providing an on-site experience enriched in a relevant way—such as via real-time indoor wayfinding at a hospital or stadium. By pairing Phunware’s enterprise MaaS platform with Cisco Meraki’s cloud-managed wireless hardware, businesses can give customers a better branded mobile experience before, during and after a visit to their physical venue. The hardware-software combination also provides deep device and location analytics that can help them optimize operations, marketing and other business processes.
“Phunware’s partnership with Cisco Meraki is a continuation of the great work that we have been able to do across Cisco Systems and further evidence of the successes we are having in supporting a broader array of Cisco hardware options for its global customers,” said Phunware co-founder and CEO Alan S. Knitowski. “We are very excited to deliver mobile software that can take advantage of Cisco Meraki hardware indoors to dramatically enhance the experience of mobile application users everywhere.”
The Phunware – Cisco Meraki partnership allows enterprise customers to take advantage of Cisco Meraki’s cloud-managed network with simplified administration and Phunware’s tools for engaging, managing and monetizing mobile users. Because Cisco Meraki’s access points are built with highest-grade components, they create faster connections with more coverage, enabling a seamless user experience. And because Cisco Meraki has the largest number of BLE-enabled access points installed, Phunware has large existing infrastructure to work with.
“Phunware’s cloud-based software makes it easy for customers to leverage a Cisco Meraki wireless network with built-in BLE beacons to power their branded mobile application portfolios,” said Colin Lowenberg, Cisco Meraki’s technology partnership lead. “For example, I’ve deployed wayfinding applications for some very complex use cases, including museums and casinos, and in many of them integration was a major hurdle requiring heavy investment in implementation and consulting. Now that Phunware natively supports Cisco Meraki BLE, the amount of time and effort required to deploy this two-part solution—and many other mobile experiences—is minimal.”
Ultimately, the data that Cisco Meraki access points deliver to Phunware facilitates a robust and feature-rich front-end mobile experience across multiple industries for customers and employees alike. By partnering with Phunware, Cisco Meraki offers an enhanced benefit package to its customers that unlocks the full power and potential of its BLE-enabled infrastructure.
To learn more about this partnership or to explore opportunities to partner with Phunware, visit www.phunware.com/partner/ or contact Nicholas Van Zandt at partnersales@127.0.0.1.
About Phunware
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware creates category-defining mobile experiences for the world’s most respected brands, with more than 700 million active users touching its platform each month. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way the world interacts with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow us on Twitter @phunware.
About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that has been making the Internet work since 1984. Our people, products, and partners help society securely connect and seize tomorrow’s digital opportunity today. Discover more at newsroom.cisco.com and follow us on Twitter at @Cisco.
About Meraki
Founded in 2006 and acquired by Cisco in 2012, Meraki has grown to become an industry leader in the IT space, with over 160,000 customers and over 1 million active customer networks and counting around the world. Meraki’s comprehensive set of solutions includes wireless, switching, security, communications, EMM, and security cameras, all managed through a web-based dashboard interface. Discover more at developers.meraki.com and follow us on Twitter at @Meraki.
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]]>That’s why Phunware chose to partner with Lotame®, the leading independent data management platform (DMP). A DMP is essentially a data warehouse that, as Gartner for Marketers puts it, does three things:
- imports and unifies structured consumer data from various different systems,
- finds audiences as defined by advertisers or publishers across multiple data sources and data vendors, and
- sends instructions about who to target, with what message and where (i.e., which channel or device)—in effect, it activates all that data.
In other words, according to Martech Today, “a DMP offers a central location for marketers to access and manage data like mobile identifiers and cookie IDs to create targeting segments for their digital advertising campaigns.”
Through this partnership, Phunware’s data will be available to marketers in the Lotame DMP. This is fantastic news for marketers as it expands the Lotame DMP with access to Phunware’s deep and unique contextual mobile data. Consider:
- Phunware reaches one in every ten mobile consumers globally
- Phunware’s platform touches more than 700 million devices and 40 billion mobile user events every month
- We capture more than 70 unique types of event data—think of events as “moments”—like whether a user opens one of our apps, taps on an ad, appears around certain locations, etc.
Recently, we sat down with Lotame’s CEO and founder, Andy Monfried, to talk about trends in the DMP space and what makes the Phunware / Lotame partnership so exciting. Check out our conversation below.
- PW: How is growth in mobile adoption (smartphones, 4G, 5G) changing the DMP landscape?
AM: Consumers are “always on” today—and marketers need to be able to grab their attention on any screen, anytime. Before someone even leaves the house in the morning, they are checking their phone for the weather, getting status updates from their social circles, looking at their bank statement or ordering a cup of coffee from Starbucks. These moments have become an integral part of our lifestyle and, in turn, have a huge impact on how marketers reach their target audiences across screens.
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Because mobile devices are always on, marketers can collect a wealth of intelligence about users’ interests and actions, which is now vital to a successful integrated marketing strategy. DMPs like Lotame empower marketers by aggregating all this information (from desktop, mobile, offline, social, search, etc.) into one centralized platform.
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Lotame is leading the charge to help our customers put this valuable mobile data to work. Five years ago, audiences were built and campaigns were served to online and mobile audiences through separate platforms—without any clear understanding of audience overlap and without the ability to deliver sequential messages. Lotame’s cross-device technology determines the relationships that exist between billions of signals across platforms, so marketers can understand which ad to send to what audience at the right time.
- PW: How are brands using DMPs as part of their mobile strategy?
AM: The most basic uses include audience insights and analytics, targeting, and campaign optimization. The ability to link different devices together gives advertisers and publishers significant opportunities to target the right person on the right device.
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The more fluid the user experience across devices, the more likely the customer is to convert. To help enable this fluidity, marketers use Lotame’s DMP to improve their cross-screen targeting efforts (which also reduces their overall advertising spend).
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Frequency capping, for example, enables a marketer to limit the number of advertisements to any one person during a certain campaign. If an individual person uses two different devices every day (laptop and smartphone), cross-device frequency capping allows marketers to limit the number of ads that consumer sees. No one wants to send repeated messages to an audience that isn’t interested or isn’t responding—it’s wasteful for the marketer’s budget and for the consumer’s patience.
- PW: Why are some marketers slow to fully adopt DMPs, and what are they risking with their failure to launch?
AM: Many marketers have jumped on the DMP bandwagon, but there is a significant difference between a beginner and an advanced DMP user. I think one of the biggest challenges is education—more marketers need to fully understand what a DMP is and how it can be used effectively.
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For so long, marketers have made huge campaign decisions based on judgment or gut instinct. Working with a DMP would give them additional data points that could either back up or disprove these opinions. Analytics, campaign optimization, content personalization and retargeting capabilities are just a few of the many things a data management platform can do, but it takes education and experience to understand the advanced use cases of a DMP.
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Bottom line: the marketers who fail to keep up and adopt a DMP will be left in the dust.
- PW: Many people who are aware of DMPs think they’re just for ad buying. What other applications are there that execs need to know?
AM: Behaviorally targeted ads are the first basic business case, but we work with hundreds of companies who are using DMPs for so much more. Publishers use their audiences to customize content on their websites or serve personalized ads to specific audiences, which leads to increased engagement and time on site. Many brands and marketers use the DMP to learn more about their consumers through audience insights and analytics, then feed these insights back into their marketing plans to make sure they are effectively communicating with their targets. You can also use a DMP to optimize campaigns or simply for buying and selling second- or third-party data. The possibilities are varied and limitless.
- PW: How important is cross-device functionality with a DMP?
AM: Cross-device functionality is not an option anymore—it’s a requirement for successful data-driven marketers. When you understand consumer behavior across devices, you can target more accurately and improve campaign performance. Combining laptop, tablet, and cell phones via a device graph such as Lotame’s enables marketers to send consistent messages to one user on whichever device they are using at the time. Ultimately, this empowers marketers to target consumers across all devices in a productive, cost-effective way.
- PW: How does a relationship with Phunware enhance Lotame’s offering to brands?
AM: We’re excited about this partnership because Phunware brings a massive new mobile data set to our device graph. Phunware’s mobile reach is huge, gathering powerful data from hundreds of millions of devices. This will add another level of depth to the amount of information we know about each mobile device, which will help marketers know who they are sending ads to and when they are ready to buy.
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Phunware Partners with Lotame to Help Marketers Better Target and Convert Mobile Users https://www-origin.phunware.com/phunware-partners-with-lotame-to-help-marketers/https://www-origin.phunware.com/phunware-partners-with-lotame-to-help-marketers/#respond Tue, 20 Jun 2017 16:02:07 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/?p=29706 Using Lotame’s cross-device capabilities, the partnership enables marketers to understand consumer behaviors to effectively target the right audiences across platforms. Austin, TX [June 2, 2017] – Phunware, whose mobile application lifecycle management platform helps brands engage, manage and monetize mobile users worldwide, today announced a new partnership with data management platform Lotame, giving brands access […] The post Phunware Partners with Lotame to Help Marketers Better Target and Convert Mobile Users appeared first on Phunware.
]]>Austin, TX [June 2, 2017] – Phunware, whose mobile application lifecycle management platform helps brands engage, manage and monetize mobile users worldwide, today announced a new partnership with data management platform Lotame, giving brands access to rich data insights for more accurately targeting and converting new and existing mobile users across devices.
With 47% of the world’s population expected to access the internet in 2017 and mobile representing 65% of consumers’ digital media time, today’s marketers have access to a wealth of intelligence users leave behind across multiple devices. Through the partnership, users of Lotame’s data management platform (DMP) gain access to data from hundreds of billions of events powered by Phunware’s platform, which today touches hundreds of millions of devices each month across 300+ segments. With deep mobile insights now available on Lotame’s centralized platform, marketers can more precisely target users at the right time and on the right device, allowing for continuous advertising optimization, improving engagement and reducing overall advertising spend.
“Collecting and using mobile data is no longer optional for marketers,” said Ian Karnell, GM of Mobile Audience Building, Engagement and Monetization at Phunware. “We are excited to partner with Lotame as they help lead the charge in helping brands put this valuable mobile data to work with cross-device capabilities.”
“DMPs offer marketers the data and actionable audience insights to make the right campaign decisions and drive continuous performance improvements,” said Andy Monfried, CEO of Lotame. “With data from hundreds of millions of devices, Phunware brings a massive new mobile set to our device graph, offering a new level of customer behavior insight to help marketers know who they are reaching and when they are ready to buy.”
For more information on Phunware, and how the company helps brands gain an unparalleled view and understanding of their audience across its mobile software and monetization platform, please visit www.phunware.com.
About Phunware
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware creates category-defining mobile experiences for the world’s most respected brands, with hundreds of millions of active users touching its platform each month. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way the world interacts with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow us on Twitter @Phunware
About Lotame
Lotame enables companies to use data to build stronger connections with their consumers. Lotame is proud to be the leading independent data management platform (DMP) and offer the most widely used, trusted and comprehensive data exchange in the industry. Committed to innovation, agility and – above all, customer success – the Lotame team aims to continuously find new and meaningful ways to help its clients harness the power of data to fuel more relevant and personalized experiences across screens and devices, online and offline. Lotame is headquartered in New York City, with resources around the world, including Maryland, San Francisco, London, Singapore, Mumbai and Sydney. For more information, visit www.lotame.com.
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Phunware and Pixalate Team Up to Fight Ad Fraud https://www-origin.phunware.com/phunware-and-pixalate-team-up-to-fight-ad-fraud/https://www-origin.phunware.com/phunware-and-pixalate-team-up-to-fight-ad-fraud/#respond Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:14:46 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/press-releases/phunware-closes-50m-series-f-copy/ Phunware announced today a new partnership with Pixalate to continue the fight against ad fraud. Pixalate is the first and only data platform with a comprehensive suite of products built specifically to bring transparency to advertising and eliminate fraud. Phunware will leverage Pixalate's fraud prevention solutions across its platform, which touches more than 650 million monthly active devices every month, to monitor for and prevent fraudulent and non-human traffic across all mobile monetization and audience building campaigns. The post Phunware and Pixalate Team Up to Fight Ad Fraud appeared first on Phunware.
]]>AUSTIN, TX [November 17, 2016] – Phunware, whose Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS) real-time audience platform helps brands engage, manage and monetize their users anytime, anywhere, today announced a new partnership with Pixalate to continue the fight against ad fraud.
Pixalate is the first and only data platform with a comprehensive suite of products built specifically to bring transparency to advertising and eliminate fraud. Phunware will leverage Pixalate’s fraud prevention solutions across its platform, which touches more than 650 million monthly active devices every month, to monitor for and prevent fraudulent and non-human traffic across all mobile monetization and audience building campaigns. “With mobile ad fraud rocketing from 22% to 37% from 2014 to 2015, this is now the biggest problem facing the mobile ad industry,” said CEO of Pixalate, Jalal Nasir. “By leveraging Pixalate’s Anti-Fraud technology suite, Phunware is ensuring that they have the best tools to ensure the integrity of their inventory. We welcome Phunware to the ongoing battle against ad fraud and look forward to supporting them in the future.”
With global mobile ad spend estimated at more than $100 billion, fraud is costing advertisers tens of millions of dollars every year. The partnership with Pixalate furthers Phunware’s long-standing commitment to fighting ad fraud, expanding on existing Phunware Protect tool, which uses proprietary technology and third-party verification to ensure campaigns are running in 100% brand-safe environments and in front of real human beings. Phunware’s partnership with Pixalate has already further decreased general invalid traffic on the Phunware platform to less than 1%.
“Our partnership with Pixalate is an important next step in improving transparency and performance in mobile advertising,” said Ian Karnell, Phunware’s GM of Audience Building and Monetization. “As a company that works with Fortune 500 brands and top-grossing developers every day, this partnership ensures that their campaigns not only run in the right places, but in front of real users who are interested in the product, brand and app at hand.”
For more information on Phunware MaaS platform products, solutions and data, including how the company is driving progress in programmatic advertising, please visit www.phunware.com.
About Phunware
Phunware is the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), a fully integrated suite of platform products, solutions and data, that allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime, anywhere mobile application users worldwide. Phunware creates category-defining mobile experiences for the world’s most respected brands, with more than 650 million active users touching its platform each month. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way the world interacts with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com and follow us on Twitter @phunware.
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Phunware is Now a TUNE Certified Partner! https://www-origin.phunware.com/phunware-now-tune-certified-partner/https://www-origin.phunware.com/phunware-now-tune-certified-partner/#respond Fri, 26 Feb 2016 04:11:31 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/?p=23757 Phunware is officially a TUNE Certified Partner! TUNE is a mobile marketing platform that combines measurement across user acquisition, discovery, retention and engagement. Phunware partners with TUNE to track and optimize many of the user acquisition campaigns we run for developers. TUNE started its Certified Partner Program to give marketers more visibility into which advertising […] The post Phunware is Now a TUNE Certified Partner! appeared first on Phunware.
]]>TUNE is a mobile marketing platform that combines measurement across user acquisition, discovery, retention and engagement. Phunware partners with TUNE to track and optimize many of the user acquisition campaigns we run for developers.
TUNE started its Certified Partner Program to give marketers more visibility into which advertising partners adhere to certification standards, provide industry-leading customer service, deliver quality results and use best practices in the marketplace. In fact, TUNE has seen a 30% improvement of best practice adoption since launching its Certified Partner Program.
Out of over 75 applications received by TUNE, Phunware was one of only eight selected to become Certified Partners. We look forward to continuing our work with top-grossing publishers, helping them build their audiences and find the users most likely to engage and monetize over the long term.
Stay tuned for more exciting news next week about how Phunware is partnering with TUNE during its second annual School of Mobile Tour, which brings marketers and partners together for deep discussions of user acquisition and retention, best practices and new marketing tactics.
Learn more about gaining high-LTV users in our blog, “5 Steps to Driving Quality Installs for Your App.”
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PLDT Capital Invests in US Mobile Platform Leader Phunware for Next-Gen Mobile Customer Engagement Solutions https://www-origin.phunware.com/pldt-capital-invests-in-us-mobile-platform-leader-phunware/https://www-origin.phunware.com/pldt-capital-invests-in-us-mobile-platform-leader-phunware/#respond Wed, 07 Oct 2015 20:52:55 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/?p=21984 Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company ("PLDT") (PSE: TEL) (NYSE: PHI), through PLDT Capital, has entered into a joint venture with Phunware, whose world-first integrated applications platform enables companies to engage and manage relationships with their customers worldwide: anytime, anywhere, on any device. The post PLDT Capital Invests in US Mobile Platform Leader Phunware for Next-Gen Mobile Customer Engagement Solutions appeared first on Phunware.
]]>Austin, TX (PRWEB) [October 7, 2015] – Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (“PLDT”) (PSE: TEL) (NYSE: PHI), through PLDT Capital, has entered into a joint venture with Phunware, whose world-first integrated applications platform enables companies to engage and manage relationships with their customers worldwide: anytime, anywhere, on any device.
The new partnership involves a total investment of $10 million that will enable PLDT’s subsidiary, ePLDT, to market and exclusively distribute Phunware’s targeted mobile and multiscreen solutions in Southeast Asia.
Through its pioneering Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS) platform, Phunware gives companies everything they need to engage seamlessly with their customers through mobile devices, from indoor and outdoor location-based marketing and advertising to content management, notifications and analytics, to indoor mapping, navigation and wayfinding.
“Filipino and ASEAN consumers are among the most engaged users of mobile and digital services in the world,” said Winston Damarillo, Managing Director of PLDT Capital and Chief Strategy Officer of PLDT. “We see mobile phones as an essential part of our daily lives and expect new experiences to pique our digital curiosity.”
“The partnership of the PLDT Group and Phunware will also enable our corporate and SME clients to address the growing needs and appetites of their digital consumers,” Damarillo added.
Phunware currently supports more than 500 million monthly unique users globally on its multiscreen cloud platform, including branded application portfolios and infrastructure for hundreds of enterprise customers across more than 40 billion indoor and outdoor user events.
Phunware’s impressive list of top-tier customers includes CBS Interactive, NBC Sports, Dignity Health, GameStop, Mandarin Oriental and WWE amongst many others.
Highlighting the value of Phunware’s partnership with PLDT, Phunware Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Alan S. Knitowski said, “With more than 70 million subscribers, PLDT instantly provides a large base of audiences and communities that will enjoy new and unprecedented levels of real-time engagement both indoors and outdoors across their favorite brands and venues. At the same time, we look forward to expanding PLDT’s product portfolio.”
ePLDT CEO and PLDT EVP Eric Alberto said the joint venture will provide an edge for companies that do business in retail, travel, hospitality and real estate.
“ePLDT is constantly seeking ways to provide strategic digital advantages for our customers,” he said. “Phunware’s market ready solutions – together with our other digital solution sets in the domains of Data Center, Cloud and Big Data – will enable ePLDT to accelerate the ongoing digital transformation of large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses.”
ePLDT-Phunware services are set to launch within the next 90 days.
About PLDT
PLDT is the leading telecommunications service provider in the Philippines. Through its principal business groups – fixed line, wireless and others – PLDT offers a wide range of telecommunications services across the Philippines’ most extensive fiber optic backbone and fixed line and cellular networks.
PLDT is listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE:TEL) and its American Depositary Shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:PHI). PLDT has one of the largest market capitalizations among Philippine-listed companies.
About Phunware
Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Phunware has a horizontal customer engagement platform, a vertical solutions catalog and the multiscreen services that support them both. It has introduced category-defining experiences for the world’s most respected brands across industries including healthcare, travel, retail, media and entertainment, sports, luxury residential, live events and more. It is a two-time honoree on the Forbes list of America’s Most Promising Companies and a three-time honoree on both the Inc. 500 list of America’s Fastest Growing Companies and the Austin Business Journal Fast50 list for Central Texas. For more information, please visit www.phunware.com and follow @Phunware on Twitter.
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Thanks, Andy! Everybody at Phunware is excited about this partnership as well. We can’t wait to get busy helping marketers build smarter engagements. To learn more about Phunware’s partnership with Lotame, view the press release: Phunware Partners with Lotame to Help Marketers Better Target and Convert Mobile Users.
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