Digby announced today the launch of Digby Localpoint, a revolutionary new mobile platform that enables location-based marketing, analytics and commerce for top brands. Through powerful web-style analytics into shopping activities at a brand’s physical locations and effective, targeted location-aware mobile messaging tools, Digby Localpoint enables brands to attract, influence, understand and own the relationship with their loyal customers across all channels. How it works – Digby Localpoint enables brands to create geo-fences around their stores [...]

mobileTechTuesday, by Steve Guengerich Yesterday, Austin-headquartered Digby announced that 7GeGe.com, leading Chinese specialty retailer of fashionable and contemporary apparel, had selected Digby to launch a mobile optimized website for 7GeGe.com before year’s end. Digby’s partnership is a microcosm of the greater opportunity that Austin mobile developers and app makers should be thinking about with respect China. At a macroeconomic level, there’s no surprise as to why China is generating more interest than ever. It already [...]

mobileTech Tuesday, by Steve Guengerich It’s Wednesday, not Tuesday (the holiday through me off) and this is a bit more of a pure editorial piece than my normal contribution, but bear with me.  There was as good article in a recent edition of the Sunday Statesman by Brian Gaar on the greater Austin mobile scene.  What I really liked about the article, besides the picture of Whurley with Grover, were some of the comments from the [...]

Austin-based Digby, has been making the news today, announcing further funding which has even been picked up by TechCrunch. A leader in mobile commerce and in-store mobile engagement for more than 45 top retail brands, Digby announced today that it has raised $8 million in Series C funding led by Battery Ventures and with participation from current investors including BlackBerry Partners Fund (NASDAQ: RIMM), S3 Ventures and Daylight Partners. The funds will be used as [...]

AT&T today announced a new service, Digby Mobile Commerce from AT&T, created specifically for retailers to help them design, deploy and manage mobile commerce web sites and rich applications optimized for smartphones. It’s a big deal, and we’ve already seen coverage today on The Statesman, and TechCrunch.

Invodo, the only full-service eCommerce video partner for online retailers, and mobile commerce leader Digby today announced that they have partnered to implement retail eCommerce product video within mobile-optimized websites and rich apps for Smartphones. Retailers such as Golfsmith are working with both companies to produce and implement eCommerce video that is optimized for viewing on Smartphones. “Both mobile and video are key sales-driving initiatives for retailers now,” said Matt Corey, chief marketing officer for [...]

Digby, the leader in mobile commerce solutions specifically designed for retailers, today announced the addition of four key executives including Ron Jennings, Chief Financial Officer; Eric Newman, Vice President of Client Services; Dan Lowden, Vice President of Marketing; and Curtis Hill, Vice President of Engineering. The new executives will support Digby’s rapid growth and recent customer expansions and wins including 1-800-Flowers, Wet Seal, Arandell and SkyMall. According to forecasts from Coda Research Consultancy, U.S. mobile [...]

Digby, the leading provider of mobile commerce solutions for retailers, today announced the acquisition of Movaya Wireless, Inc., a Seattle, Washington-based mobile software company focused on building digital goods storefront applications for the iPhone, Android and mobile web platforms. Additionally, Movaya Chengdu Technology, Ltd., Movaya’s Asian operations center, will form the basis for Digby Chengdu Technology, Ltd. Digby Chengdu will serve as Digby’s hub for the rapidly expanding mobile commerce market in Asia. Movaya co-Founder [...]