Mobile Acceleration Week Kicks off in San Francisco

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Mobile Acceleration Week is back in the Bay Area, beginning a nine city worldwide tour through the U.S., Europe, and Asia.  The event began in full Halloween spirit on Monday, October 31, with a group of 14 top startups building apps with more tricks and treats for Windows Phone users. 

The event is being broadcast live via Twitter (#MAW) and our Mobile Acceleration Week website.

Similar to our past events in New York City, Mountain View, and Washington, D.C., Mobile Acceleration Week helps a group of high potential startups build applications on Windows Phone.  The event features dedicated technical support, including assisted coding, 1:1 workshops, and UI design consultations.  Every startup attending will receive new Windows Phone devices and AT&T SIM cards, as well as free tools via Microsoft BizSpark. 

In addition to technical support, all startups will benefit from PR training and will have the opportunity to pitch their applications at the end of the week.  At the end of the program, startups will have their applications featured on the Windows Phone Marketplace to drive downloads, as well as receive special considerations from the Microsoft Advertising team. 

We’re excited about our largest Mobile Acceleration Week to date and welcome all 14 startups to the program.  Congratulations! 

 

Booyah : Real-World Gaming

 

inToochoffers socially aware people a seamless way to engage digital social connections with the people they meet in real life.

 

 

CitySourceddelivers best of breed mobile reporting tools enabling governments to streamline processes and engage their customers.

 

 

Echoecho is a simple location-based mobile application for finding friends in the real world.

 

 

WNM Live is a social discovery network that introduces you with people nearby and lets you connect with them anonymously.

 

 

News Republic : provides instant breaking in-depth news to mobile device.

 

 

News360is a next-generation news personalization and aggregation service.

 

 

Rodaxsoft : The Skedi app combines your family's calendars in the cloud so you know everyone’s schedule, anywhere, anytime.

 

 

Clever Sense offers a context-aware personalized recommendation platform that helps people that are on the go to find things that match their tastes, using our machine learning and data mining technologies.

 

 

Chuteoffers a mobile media management platform to power your media applications at the desktop and on the mobile.

 

 

Stitcheris the leader in delivering personalized on demand talk radio content directly to mobile devices.

 

 

RDIOis a social music service.

 

 

Nextag is the ultimate resource for online shoppers, offering a fun, reliable and expansive browsing experience for everything from toys to travel plans.

 

Mixaroo is a stealth mode company.

 

Published: 11/2/2011 9:15 AM