articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . october 2013 mobilebits corporation . type public industry mobile marketing and engagement founded 2010 headquarters sarasota fl u.s. key people hussein abu hassan chairman kent kirschner ed omar bazzari chief product officer products mobile commerce network software platform number of employees 78 website mobilebits.com mobilebits corporation is an american marketing technology advertising company that operated a pure brand mobile marketing and engagement network called samy and which markets a software platform for developing mobile shopping applications . 1 contents 1 history 2 product 3 partners 4 awards 5 references 6 external links 7 see also history edit mobilebits corporation is a united states mobile technology company . walter kostiuk a former blackberry executive 2 founded the company in 2010 . 2 the company is traded on the otc us as mbit . 1 between 2011 and 2013 mobilebits acquired 3 companies to help accelerate grow of its ip holdings product platform and software development resources starting with the merger of pringo inc. on july 1 2011 bringing a social media integrated development platform called pringo connect . 3 mobilebits then acquired aixum tec on august 20 2012 bringing it an enterprise back end software system developed for retailers to market exclusive offers deals and coupons as well as deliver digital loyalty and rewards cards on mobile devices called samy4me . 4 the company also acquired the assets of proximus mobility an atlanta based hyperlocal proximity based marketing software company on june 4 2013 bringing the samy product enhanced proximity and geofencing capabilities . 5 in late 2015 mobilebits corp entered into a strategic agreement with dubai based mobilesolutions inc for joint product development and marketing . in the process mobile solutions inc obtained ownership over all ip previously owned by mobilebits corp splitting commercialization rights and operations between the two companies . mobilesolutions then changed their name to mobilebits inc. product edit on august 30 2012 mobilebits introduced samy a shopping application for iphone and android . 6 a store merchant or retailer can upload vouchers offers create loyalty cards and create messages in the application . those vouchers offers and loyalty cards can be viewed by users of the application . users can select specific companies that are listed in the application to add to their my samy section of the mobile application . samy supports over 35 000 merchants in switzerland canada and the united states . 7 due to the success of the samy mobile application and business model mobilebits inc in 2016 subsequently introduced a white label version of their technology for third party partners to deploy in local markets . it is defined as a mobile commerce network platform . partners edit in 2012 quantum group partnered with mobilebits to provide access to samy for all of quantum groups merchants through their existing point of sale systems . 8 mobilebits signed a strategic agreement with ddr corp. a us based reit operating 450 shopping centers on may 9 2013 . the agreement provided for the acquisition of ddr s proprietary location based mobile marketing solution called valutext and the opportunity for mobilebits to distribute samy through 450 shopping centers . 9 mobilebits owned marketing and engagement network samy finalized an exclusive multi year agreement with ignivia technologies on july 8 2013 to provide samy services in turkey the united arab emirates uae kuwait bahrain qatar oman saudi arabia jordan and lebanon . 10 in 2013 mobilebits received a job creation grant from sarasota county fl with support of the economic development council of sarasota edc . 11 awards edit mobilebits has received numerous awards for its mobile commerce network and samy products including a being recognized by the local search association and local media associations as having the best new revenue solution in mobile for the local media industry . there was a 3rd place finish at the 2013 ctia e tec for best mobile apps money payments banking mobile commerce shopping & rewards . 12 finalist at the 2013 tampa bay business journals 2013 biztech awards . 13 winner of the 2012 effective mobile marketing awards for most effective mobile couponing or barcode campaign mcdonald s euro 2012 campaign . 14 three super star first place finishes at mobilevillage mobile star awards in 2012 for best success stories mobile marketing mcdonald s & samy ; best enterprise solutions marketing ; best consumer apps shopping or sales . 15 references edit a b yahoo finance . cite error invalid ref tag ; name yahoo finance defined multiple times with different content see the help page . a b bloomberg businessweek . siemer & associates llc advises pringo inc. on its merger with mobilebits holdings corp. siemer & associates llc july 1 2011 . mobilebits acquires aixum the next web august 20 2012 . samy gets enhanced proximity and geofencing capabilities pr web june 4 2013 . mobile marketing watch august 30 2012 . anderson steve december 10 2012 . samy mobile network a big buy with mobile shoppers . mobile commerce insider . michael ninan . mobilebits partners with the quantum group . ddr executes strategic agreement with mobilebits to enhance mobile marketing offering ddr corp may 9 2013 . us mobile marketing service samy expands into the middle east mobile entertainment july 9 2013 . mobilebits expands by adding 40 new jobs in sarasota county edc sarasota county september 23 2013 . ctia the wireless association announces 2013 e tech award winners ctia wireless association may 22 2013 . tbbj s 2013 biztech awards finalists named tampa bay business journal february 7 2013 . 2012 winners effective mobile marketing awards december 4 2012 . 2012 mobile star awards winners mobilevillage 2012 . external links edit griffin julie . a look at samy canada s fastest growing mobile mall . technology marketing corporation . kopun francine november 29 2012 . new app could replace groupon . toronto star . tottman phil july 9 2013 . us mobile marketing service samy expands into the middle east . mobile entertainment . see also edit mobile advertising mobile marketing retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mobilebits & oldid 715812284 categories mobile technology companieshidden categories pages with reference errorspages with duplicate reference namesorphaned articles from october 2013all orphaned articlespages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 18 april 2016 at 04 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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