“Many grains of sand piled up will make a pagoda”, “Little drops of water make the mighty ocean”, there exist many other similar expressions in all civilizations. Actually, they are all about the perception of the quantitative relativity. Sorry, in human words, they are all depicting the idea “Small can be also big”.

The idea seems to be simple. However, as we are evolving from the material based world to knowledge based world, many people still have difficulties to get rid of their old value system. Despite the fact that in the physical world, materials are scarce while in the virtual world, products Read the rest of this entry »

Maybe you have been wondering why aren’t we in Western Europe yet, you do not have to do that any more, we are starting in 3 countries now!

It took us some time to do the first step at our expansion, as we wanted to cover some more difficult regions and create your favourite SMS Service types. In less than 2 years we have build a solid network which helps our customers to expand their business to rapidly growing countries. After covering wide areas of CEE and SEA, we start our expansion to West Europe now. Of course, we will continue adding new profitable destinations in East Europe and South East Asia, too.

You can now join Fortumo’s invitation phase in Spain, France and Portugal. This means that only 50 people per day can get access and start doing business in those three countries. You can ask invitations from local sites: http://fortumo.es, http://fr.fortumo.com, http://pt.fortumo.com

This is only the beginning of our expansion wave. Do you want to learn which the new countries that we will offer are? Read our blog and you will be the first to learn!

Yap, it’s summer again. The days are long and warm, and everyone just wants to get away from the city and spend a couple of weeks swimming and relaxing on a beautiful sea shore somewhere. Don’t get me wrong – we all like too get away and just chill with friends somewhere nice (actually, we just did that a couple of days ago ) – but who says that your SMS-services cant go to the beach with You?

Introducing Croatia, the newest country on Fortumo’s coverage map. It’s a beautiful country on the Mediterranean Sea, with rich culture and history, and some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. But medieval cities and 1200 amazing islands are not the only reasons why Croatia should be your next travel destination – there’s more than plenty of business opportunities for the adventurous entrepreneur out there, like:

• Croatia is one of the most tech-savvy countries in the SEE region (checkout some illustrative numbers in Branimir’s last report),
• More than 50%, or 2.5 million Croats use internet on daily bases,
• Mobile penetration, or the mobile phone per person ratio is at whopping 133% – well above average in the region,
• More than 11 million foreign tourists visits Croatia every year – and they need their SMS-services, even on vacation

Your SMS-services in Croatia will be available to users of all Croatian mobile operators, and you can choose from 2 different price-points.  All your favorite Fortumo services are there, completely free, and active in 5 minutes – it’s still as easy as creating a blog.

So enjoy your summer, and if your heading to the beach, don’t forget to bring the essentials – your swimsuit, sunblock, towel and most importantly – your Fortumo SMS-service.

As time passes new payment methods are becoming more and more relevant for internet businesses. You have to be flexible to reach to everyone, therefor it is wise to use alternative payment methods.

We are glad to present you new alternative – mobile payment. It is an alternative payment method in Romania with higher price points and better revenue sharing. As it is better known as Micropayment in Romania we have named it after that. Micropayment is meant for monetizing physical goods (CD-s, books etc), online membership and virtual goods. Like Premium SMS-connectivity it allows you to create practically any service that you could think of, but it requires some programming skills and a place to host your service.

Micropayment works in Romania only for Orange and Vodafone and only companies can run this service type. Read more about Micropayment.

For a while we have been telling you that the financial crisis is not a problem for the owners of mobile services. Look at some facts here, that are taken from IDC Cema‘s market alerts and support this thesis.

• Romanian Telecoms Market Expanded 17.1% YoY to $4.8 in 2008
• Central Asia will Continue Flocking to Mobile Telecoms Services
• Broadband and Mobile Data Revenues to Double in Slovakia
• Croatian IT Market Totaled $1.34 B
• Serbian IT Market Totaled $891.71 M

Be mobile!

We have been constantly working on new service type and some major improvements in some services, but this week we have something even better for you and it is related to money. Now you can get the money earned in Bulgaria and Czech Republic 1 month faster. Isn’t it cool.

Coming soon:
– new service type
– admin for sms-chat
– 2 new countries in CEE and 2 in Western Europe