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| Aug 12, 2014 | Mobile publishing startup Onswipe acquired by Beanstock, service will live on | TechStars alum and former Bloomberg reality TV headliner Onswipe today addressed acquisition rumors, confirming its sale to publisher-centric ad tech company Beanstock Media in a stock and cash deal.
Onswipe, which optimizes web publishers’... |
| Apr 18, 2014 | Why brand advertising is a huge opportunity in mobile — and how to seize it | Jason Baptiste is the CMO and co-founder of Onswipe.
The 2014 Venturebeat Mobile Summit was awesome and a great meeting of the minds in mobile. I was fortunate enough to chair the ad formats session with MoPub cofounder Nafis Jamal and Vung... |
| Apr 18, 2014 | Why brand advertising is a huge opportunity in mobile — and how to seize it | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Jason Baptiste is the CMO and co-founder of Onswi... |
| Mar 2, 2014 | Among News Apps, Flipboard Drives The Most Traffic For Publishers (According to Onswipe) | Mobile publishing startup Onswipe is releasing data today that looks at the popularity of mobile newsreading apps from the perspective of digital publishers.
Onswipe’s platform allows publishers to create mobile-optimized versions of their ... |
| Dec 31, 2013 | Samsung Got A Bigger Tablet Boost For Christmas Than Apple, According To Onswipe | Touchscreen publishing company Onswipe has good news for Samsung. As Onswipe’s Chief Marketing Officer Jason Baptiste put it in an email, “Samsung clearly won Christmas when it comes to tablets.”
Specifically, the company looked at visitors... |
| Dec 17, 2013 | Stop believing the fairy tales about the iPad’s demise | Every quarter or so, IDC releases an update on the tablet market that has numbers showing the iPad falling further and further away from first place.
Journalists readily publish it, because it’s simple to understand and it’s easy to get tra... |
| Dec 17, 2013 | Stop believing the fairy tales about the iPad’s demise | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Every quarter or so, IDC releases an update on the tablet market that has numbers showing the iPad falling further and further away fro... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Mobile Publishing Platform Onswipe Revamps With Support For Android Smartphones | Onswipe is launching the new version of its publishing platform for mobile browsers today. The biggest change? It now offers full support for Android smartphones.
The company has been talking about the revamp publicly for several months at ... |
| Nov 20, 2013 | OnSwipe’s new cloud-powered platform loads mobile sites faster, adds Android support | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When it launched in 2011, Onswipe fed a major nee... |
| Nov 15, 2013 | Tablet Publishing Startup Onswipe Names Jonty Kelt As CEO, Founder Jason Baptiste Becomes CMO | There’s a new CEO at Onswipe — Jonty Kelt, who was most recently CEO of e-commerce startup Group Commerce.
Until this week, that’s the role Jason Baptiste held at Onswipe (which he co-founded in 2010), and it sounds like he’ll continue to b... |
| Sep 29, 2013 | The Silicon Valleys of Latin America: A tale of 3 nations | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Conrad Egusa is the co-founder of Espacio, the co... |
| Sep 29, 2013 | The Silicon Valleys of Latin America: A tale of 3 nations | Conrad Egusa is the co-founder of Espacio, the co-owner of Colombia Reports, and is currently a mentor at The Founder Institute.
In 2012, the Wall Street Journal and Citi announced their finalists for the most innovative “City of the Year” ... |
| Sep 26, 2013 | Eniac Ventures doubles down on mobile startups with new $12.9M fund | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Eniac Ventures hasn’t gotten tired of mobile startups yet.
The seed-stage investment firm announced today that it has raised a new $12.... |
| Sep 26, 2013 | Eniac Ventures doubles down on mobile startups with new $12.9M fund | Eniac Ventures hasn’t gotten tired of mobile startups yet.
The seed-stage investment firm announced today that it has raised a new $12.9 million fund, dubbed Eniac II, to once again focus on mobile startups. With its first fund, which clock... |
| Sep 19, 2013 | iOS 7 Adoption Already As High As 35% In One Day, Apple And Developers Reap The Rewards | Apple’s big iOS 7 update rolled out to devices yesterday, around 1 p.m. ET, and while many users encountered a lot of frustrating server errors trying to get it, the numbers show that a lot of people were successful in updating. Like, a who... |
| Aug 7, 2013 | Former Sonar CTO Paul Fisher Joins Tablet Publishing Startup Onswipe | Paul Fisher, who was most recently CTO at social discovery startup (and TechCrunch Disrupt alum) Sonar, has joined Onswipe in the same role.
Onswipe works with publishers to optimize their websites for tablets and other touch devices. In Ju... |
| Jul 2, 2013 | iOS 7 Shows Interest In Apple Pre-Release Software On The Rise, Per Onswipe | Apple’s iOS 7 is growing quickly with more tablets and iPhones running the beta software than were running iOS 6 at the same time last year, according to new data released by mobile web optimizing company Onswipe. The startup found that by ... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | On Its 2-Year Anniversary, Onswipe Says It Has Delivered Tablet Content To 125M+ iOS Users | To celebrate the second anniversary of its launch, touch publishing startup Onswipe is releasing its first Onswipe Sage report, offering data on who’s actually reading its publishers’ content.
The big number, which is both a nice bragging p... |
| May 8, 2013 | iOS 7 Mobile Traffic Spikes On Both iPhone And iPad Ahead Of Apple’s WWDC, According To Onswipe | Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is only around a month away, and while we’re already expecting to see iOS 7 at least previewed at the event, now we have some actual data to back up that supposition. Onswipe, the mobile site c... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Onswipe Data Suggests Kindle Fire Maintained Its Holiday Traffic Bump, While Nexus 7 Shed Share | Last year, Onswipe noticed that despite considerable growth for the Kindle Fire during its first holiday sales season, interest seemed to drop off pretty quickly a month or so after all the gifts were unwrapped. This year, it wanted to see ... |
| Feb 1, 2013 | Why NYC startups are winning the engagement race, and other Silicon Alley trends to watch | Hadley Harris is a general partner at ENIAC Ventures and Chief Business Development Officer at Thumb.
As a NYC based investor, it’s been pretty incredible to watch New York’s startup scene grow into a dynamic tech playground over the past f... |
| Feb 1, 2013 | Why NYC startups are winning the engagement race, and other Silicon Alley trends to watch | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hadley Harris is a general partner at ENIAC Ventu... |
| Jan 30, 2013 | iOS 6.1 Adoption On Track To Be Fastest Yet Says Onswipe, With 22% Of Users On Board In 36 Hours | iOS 6.1 arrived just a couple of days ago, bringing little beyond support for new international LTE carriers and movie ticket purchasing via Siri in the U.S., but it’s already been installed on a significant percentage of active iPhones, iP... |
| Jan 4, 2013 | Startup News: The Library of Congress Has a Twitter Problem | Congress Fail Whale (Photo: blogspot.com)
API Rate Limit Exceeded Back in April of 2010, the Library of Congress promised to add every tweet up to that date to its famous archives. But like anyone following too many people at once, it’s jus... |
| Dec 31, 2012 | The mobile advertising divide: apps vs. the browser | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Zach Kubin is the Director of Client Development at Onswipe.
Media planners just love putting apps in their mobile ad buying plans. But... |
| Dec 31, 2012 | The mobile advertising divide: apps vs. the browser | Zach Kubin is the Director of Client Development at Onswipe.
Media planners just love putting apps in their mobile ad buying plans. But are apps the right focus when it comes to mobile advertising?
Apps receive the lion’s share of attention... |
| Dec 28, 2012 | Touch Publishing Platform Onswipe Now Reaching 10M Monthly Active Users On iOS | Onswipe, a startup that helps publishers build websites optimized for iPads and other touchscreen devices, is closing out what sounds like a big year. Content published through the Onswipe platform reached 44 million unique visitors over th... |
| Nov 14, 2012 | For Web Content Formatting, Apple Makes iPad Mini Indistinguishable From Regular iPad | Apple made a big deal about the iPad mini providing an uncompromised iPad experience for users, and it’s standing by that by making it impossible for web developers to detect whether a web page is being read on an iPad or an iPad mini. Usua... |
| Nov 8, 2012 | iPad is king of mobile web traffic, plus more intriguing data from OnSwipe | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apple’s iPad makes up 54.5 percent of mobile web traffic on websites using the site optimization service OnSwipe, the company revealed ... |
| Nov 8, 2012 | iPad is king of mobile web traffic, plus more intriguing data from OnSwipe | Apple’s iPad makes up 54.5 percent of mobile web traffic on websites using the site optimization service OnSwipe, the company revealed today, compared to just 19.05 percent of web traffic coming from iPhone and 26.45 coming from other mobil... |
| Oct 28, 2012 | Hurricane Sandy is no match for New York City’s tech startups | Hurricane Sandy is bearing down on the Eastern Seaboard as I write this. It’s got New York City right in front of it.
The National Weather Service is forecasting torrential rains, power outages, and widespread flooding. The storm will pick ... |
| Oct 28, 2012 | Hurricane Sandy is no match for New York City’s tech startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hurricane Sandy is bearing down on the Eastern Se... |
| Oct 24, 2012 | Startup News: Bloomberg Wiring up NYC and Canadians Make Sweet Love to Songza | Mr. Bloomberg. (Twitter)
Time Warner Still Sucks On Friday, Mayor Bloomberg made a big move toward ing promise to expand broadband in New York. He launched ConnectNYC, a contest for small businesses that will award free fiber cable wiring (... |
| Oct 19, 2012 | Small tablets = big engagement: 20% more pageviews, more time on site for e-readers | Something special is going on with 7-inch tablets like the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire. Not only are they cheaper than full-sized 10-inch tablets at $200, but their smaller size also seems to be encouraging consumers to engage more with website... |
| Oct 19, 2012 | Small tablets = big engagement: 20% more pageviews, more time on site for e-readers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Something special is going on with 7-inch tablets like the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire. Not only are they cheaper than full-sized 10-inch t... |
| Oct 18, 2012 | Onswipe’s Jason Baptiste on Ramping Up & Reinventing Tech for Touchscreens | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected, Oct. 19. See below] Talking to Jason Baptiste always reminds me of why tech entrepreneurs are in the game. And, perhaps more importantly, how they go about playing... |
| Oct 10, 2012 | Startup News: Lerer Ventures Looks for a Hustler, Branch Steals From Twitter, BaubleBar Gets Brick and Mortar | (Photo: twitter.com)
Non Hustlers Need Not Apply Lerer Ventures is looking to hire a new analyst. The job requires one or two years of experience at a venture backed startup or major tech company. You have to also be “a sweet and cool perso... |
| Sep 28, 2012 | iOS 6 Adoption At Just Over One Week: 60% For iPhone And 41% For iPad | Adoption of Apple’s iOS 6 continues to trend upwards, with touch-friendly website conversion provider Onswipe seeing more users flocking to the newly-released platform, despite its apparent shortcomings. Based on a sample of 100,000 users c... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | New Executives At Mobile Platform Onswipe: Jumptap’s Jared Hand And AOL’s Rich Bloom | Onswipe, which optimizes websites for touch interface like the iPad, is announcing two big executive hires today — Jared Hand, who is the company’s first chief revenue officer, and Rich Bloom, its first chief operating officer.
CEO and co-f... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | Touch Publishing Platform Onswipe Moves Beyond iOS With Kindle Fire Support | Since fully launching a year ago, Onswipe has built touch-optimized experiences for iOS — starting with the iPad and, more recently, adding iPhone. Today it’s taking its first step beyond the Apple ecosystem with the launch of support for t... |
| Jun 18, 2012 | Gary Sharma’s Highlights from F.ounders NY 2012, the Michael Jordan of Tech Events | Ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ at the F.ounders NY 2012
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), Founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last c... |
| May 12, 2012 | How to design web sites for tablets | This story is brought to you by Sourcebits, a Global leader in Strategy, User Experience & Engineering for Mobile & Cloud. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.
Imagine a website that looks horrible on a tablet. ... |
| Apr 18, 2012 | Ultralight Startups Think Big, Keep It Simple, Move Fast | What’s the secret to startup success? According to Jason Baptiste, CEO of Onswipe and author of the new book, “The Ultralight Startup: Launching a Startup Without Clout or Capital”, it’s all about thinking big, keeping it simple and shippin... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Pulse grows from 1M to 11M users in 2011, works on monetization | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Pulse, which makes a news reading app for Apple and Android tablets and smartphones, threw a party in the penthouse of the Kimberly Hot... |
| Feb 22, 2012 | Startup News: Grokking Facebook Timeline for Fun and Profit | Betabeat: Bringing you the finest in tech and startup news from these fine machines since before we were born. (BuzzFeed)
BLAST FROM THE PAST. Now, thanks to BuzzFeed, you can show all your friends how vintage chic your technology was—befor... |
| Feb 15, 2012 | Onswipe Now Recommends Partner Content Throughout Its Network | Tablet publishing platform Onswipe is launching its content recommendation throughout its network of publishers today — introducing a Outbrain like feature where readers are given choices of articles from its thousands of partners in realti... |
| Feb 13, 2012 | Pressly Goes DIY: Will Turn Tumblr, WordPress & Twitter Into Touch-Friendly Websites | Following its November debut, HTML5 publishing platform (and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist) Pressly, is preparing to launch its self-serve platform for bloggers. Planned to go live this spring, the platform will allow publishers of any kind –... |
| Jan 31, 2012 | The secret to finding business jobs in StartupVille | Have you noticed that there are very few job listings for business development, marketing, operations, and other business-related functions at startups? It seems like all the non-technical jobs get snatched up before they are even made publ... |
| Dec 13, 2011 | Jason Baptiste of OnSwipe Talks Tablets, TV, & Taking On Google | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Beware of CEOs who dress like their company logo. Beware of Jason Baptiste.
Just kidding. Baptiste is one of the most intensely likable startup founders around (emphasis on in... |
| Nov 21, 2011 | Six Cities, Six Big Tech Ideas on Dec. 1: Here’s the Agenda | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This is life’s big question: what should you spend your time on?
If you’re starting a company, you probably want to do something fun that lets you be your own boss and maybe, ... |
| Nov 16, 2011 | How HTML5 Tablet Apps Get a Boost From a New Breed of Publishing Tools | Back when the iPad was nothing more than an Apple gadget rumor, publishers began imagining the possibilities the device would bring. Only 22 months into the so-called tablet revolution, the iPad hasn’t “saved” struggling print publishers, b... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Blogging Is So Over: Jux Comes To The iPad | Jux, the boldest, loudest big-screen personal publishing platform around, has just made its natural leap to the iPad. As of today, the multimedia publishing platform that launched in August now supports touch-powered browsing. It’s iPad-opt... |
| Oct 5, 2011 | Six Cities, Six Big Tech Ideas Coming to Boston on December 1: Stephen Wolfram to Keynote | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. Ahem.
[A giant “6×6” fills the screen.]
Macho narrator voice:
Star Wars had The Empire Strikes Back (Vader: “I am your father”)
Th... |
| Sep 19, 2011 | Did TechStars Startup CrowdTwist Just Get Sexy Enough for Bloomberg TV? | Too sexy for this startup?
OnSwipe’s Jason Baptiste better watch his back!
As the promo reel for TechStars new reality show make clear, Bloomberg producers are trying to frame one startup as a “winner” from the inaugural New York class for ... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | MediaCore Raises Seed Funding, Launches Platform To Let SMBs Create Their Own YouTube | Launching officially to the public today is a new venture called MediaCore, brought to you by Damien Tanner and Stuart Bowness, the former of whom was responsible for Pusher, a solution that adds realtime tech to apps that was funded by the... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | The Rise of the Cloud in the Age of the App | The intersection of cloud and mobile computing means the next generation of software will be available everywhere, but getting there won’t be easy.
Although relatively new technology, cloud implementations have been quickly adopted on the W... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Onswipe Wants To Make Slate, Forbes And Your Website Feel Like A Native Tablet App | Onswipe, the publishing platform that allows any content site to create an app like experience on the iPad and other tablets, is coming out of beta this week and will be available to the public tomorrow at 3:00pm EST. With the launch Onswip... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | OnSwipe secures $5 million to kill apps | Tablet publishing company wants your content to look great on every device with a touchscreen
Tablet publishing company OnSwipe said Friday that it has raised a $5 million Series A round led by Spark Capital, with participation from Lightba... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | OnSwipe Pulls in $5 Million | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Jason Baptiste, co-founder of New York-based OnSwipe, told Xconomy in early May he’d soon have something to announce about the “Series Awesome” funding round he had been sayin... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | Onswipe Raises $5 M. Series Awesome from Lerer, ENIAC, Betaworks and More | TechStars NY grad Onswipe just announced its series Awesome, complete with an actual term sheet bearing that header.
The round will be led by Spark Capital and followed on by Lightbank, Yuri Milner, Lerer Ventures, SVAngel, Betaworks, Morad... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | OnSwipe raises $5M for tablet publishing that’s “insanely easy” | OnSwipe, the tablet publishing startup that plans to launch later this month, just announced that it has raised $5 million in its first institutional round of funding (aka the Series A, or as OnSwipe calls it, “Series Awesome”).
You can rea... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | OnSwipe Raises $5M in Series A Funding | OnSwipe, a New York-based company that provides a platform that allows publishers to distribute their content on touch enabled devices via the browser, has raised $5m in its Series A funding.
The round was led by Spark Capital, with partici... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | Spark, Lightbank And Yuri Milner Get In On OnSwipe's $5M 'Series Awesome' | Tablet publishing platform Onswipe is announcing a $5 million round of “Series Awesome” funding today after their one million in seed funding in January. The round will be led by Spark Capital and followed on by Lightbank, investment badass... |
| May 11, 2011 | Do You Really Need an Incubator? Join the Debate at XSITE on June 16 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Although nobody seems to like the term “incubator”—mostly because of failures from the dot-com era—it’s clear that mentorship and accelerator programs like Y Combinator, TechS... |
| May 4, 2011 | OnSwipe’s Platform for Beautifying iPad Web Pages Attracts Investors | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
On April 14, OnSwipe co-founder Jason Baptiste marched onto the stage at TechStars’ first New York Demo Day and told the audience of venture capitalists, “We’re not raising a ... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | OnSwipe Brings Tablet Publishing To The Browser (TCTV Demo) | As tablets become the preferred digital reading device, every publisher out there is creating their own iPad apps. And soon they will have to create Android apps and maybe RIM Playbook apps and HP WebOS apps too. Or they can keep on publish... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | In The Belly Of The TechStars Beast. Have Seed Valuations Gone Insane? (TCTV) | Earlier today, I dropped by the TechStars NY office to check out some of the startups in its inaugural class in New York City before they do their big Demo Day next week. The place was buzzing, and the startups I saw were all way more polis... |
| Jan 28, 2011 | Referral Platform Zferral Acquires SaaS App Store Cloudomatic | Web-based affiliate management system and “incentive engine” Zferral has bought SaaS web app store Cloudomatic for cash and equity. Cloudomatic was founded by OnSwipe co-founders Jason Baptiste and Andres Barreto, who will continue on as ad... |
| Jan 16, 2011 | Pitching Without a Pitch Deck | Startups often put a lot of work into a pitch deck. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. After all, you don’t want to be stuck delivering a presentation to potential investors which is eminently awful because of your slides.
But here’s a pie... |
| Jan 13, 2011 | OnSwipe Raises $1M in Funding | OnSwipe, a New York,NY-based platform for tablet publishing and advertising, has raised $1m in funding.
Backers include investment firms Spark Capital, Betaworks and ENIAC Ventures and angel investors Dharmesh Shah (co-founder of Hubspot), ... |
| Jan 12, 2011 | OnSwipe Raises, Like, A Million Dollars | PadPressed, the WordPress plugin that makes your blog look like a native app is branching out, with a new one million seed round of funding, a new name (OnSwipe) and homebase (New York). The round, which was completed in a marathon 30 days,... |
