Blog - Mobile Clicks 2011

Vodafone today acknowledged and rewarded three start-ups at the forefront of mobile internet service innovation. The start-ups are the winners of an international competition established by Vodafone to help identify and support the next generation of leaders in the global application development community.

The winners of the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011 are:

1^st place (€150,000 prize): FrogTek (Spain) is a simple and intuitive point-of-sale inventory management application with the potential to transform how shopkeepers in the developing world manage their businesses. The application uses basic Android smartphone and barcode reader functionality to enable retailers to access sophisticated stock ...

Vodafone today unveiled the seven mobile internet start-ups that have reached the final of the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011 competition. They are:

Germany Wunderlist is the first cross platform task management app that supports over-the-air sync and unlimited sharing completely for free.

Netherlands Skylines offers a search platform for real-time images. Combining data from social media sites like Instagram, and Yfrog Twitpic, Skylines indexes over one million photos a day.

Portugal Hole19 is a complete mobile and web performance optimization platform for golfers, connecting them to golf instructors and golf courses.

Republic of Ireland HeyStaks is a social search service ...

Vodafone Netherlands today announces Skylines (http://skylin.es/) as a finalist in the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011 contest. Skylines beat off serious competition from other Dutch start-ups, such as Repudo and 22 Tracks, in two local judging rounds, and will now go to head-to-head against six other country finalists to be in with a chance to win a share of the €225,000 prize fund.    

Skylines offers a search platform for real-time images. Combining data from social media like Instagram, and Yfrog Twitpic, Skylines indexes over one million photos a day. Skylines currently is available in a concept version on ...

Vodafone UK today announces that ParcelGenie has been selected as a finalist in the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011 contest. ParcelGenie (http://www.parcelgenie.com/) beat serious competition from other UK start-ups in two local judging rounds, and will now go head-to-head against six other country finalists to win a share of the €225,000 prize fund.    

ParcelGenie is the world’s first Instant Gift Messaging service that makes sending real gifts to friends and family almost as simple as sending an email or a text message. Customers can send a gift to someone using just their mobile number – no delivery ...

With just three weeks to go before the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011 competition closes, the race is on across the internet start-up community to submit an entry and be in with the chance to win a share of the €225,000 prize fund. The closing date for entries is midnight on 12^th June, 2011 CET.

This year’s panel of local and global judges includes Rudy de Waele, founder of Mobile 2.0 Europe and dotopen; Peter Barry, Vodafone Ventures; Paul Jozefak, Mobile VC; Reshma Sohoni; partner at Seedcamp and Lee Epting, Vodafone Group. Each judge will be scoring ...

Today at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, we're delighted to announce the opening of Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011, an international contest to identify and develop the best, most innovative mobile internet start-ups.

Already known as the biggest start-up competition of its kind, this year’s Vodafone Mobile Clicks is open to seven markets. Any start-up in Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Turkey or the United Kingdom that has a mobile site, service or application can compete for the €225,000 prize fund by submitting entries to www.vodafonemobileclicks.com. 

This year’s high-profile judges ...