Great news everyone - Fortumo’s expansion continues with some countries in the south part of Europe. We’re talking about Bulgaria and Romania. They are the two new members in Fortumo’s list of countries.
As it has been constantly proved, Fortumo is always in the right place, at the right time. This is the situation again - the new EU members are working in cooperation for years, so it’s only natural that we launch our services there at one and the same time. Now every person from each of the two countries can create services in BOTH of them and earn revenue right at his home or office and in his country’s currency. This is something totally new for the region. And when we add the fact that there are 8 and even more countries to come…wow. Hurry up and visit the two respective sites:
http://fortumo.bg and http://fortumo.ro

In the same time, Fortumo Serbia is preparing to meet its official start, too. Currently we send invitations to selected people there and soon they will enrich us with their presence on our Fortumo map.

As a concluding paragraph - have a look at the map of the Balkans. Do you know which are the next countries to join our mobile family?

Fortumo’s plans are rapidly becoming real. In order to be really mobile, as the services that we offer, we wanted to expand to a few new countries. Earlier this month, we have started working in China, while now we are preparing to offer our services to the users of two new countries. Two of the most interesting detonations on the Balkan Peninsula. You wonder which they are - visit our blog in the forthcoming one maximum two weeks and you will see more.

Bidnet - is a popular and easy way to gain new products with low prices. It is a web based cent-auction that allows people to obtain product with much lower net value. Unlike the usual English auction, participating in Bidnet is priced and with each bet the product’s end price raises up for 0,01 Ls.

“The one-time participation’s price varies between 0,75 Ls and 0,36 Ls. It depends on the channel and at once bought credit. At the moment, people can participate via banklinks, Paypal and SMS”.

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Many of our clients have asked what are the next countries and when are we planning to launch the service there. Well, we have been preparing some countries for some time already.

During this summer Fortumo is expanding to several countries in different continents. In the 1st phase we decided to open our service in China. Why China? Big market, hundreds of millions end-users, one of the fastest growing market may be some of the reasons.

Did you know that:
* there are 1.3 billion people living in China
* China has the biggest Internet user’s community in the world, they have 228.5 million Internet users (2008 first 6 months report)
* China’s mobile penetration was 34% in 2007
* in 2006 mobile phone users sent 429 billion text messages (on average 967 text messages per user)

Stay tuned new countries are coming soon.

Beijing 2008 Olympic games are getting all the attention this week and the next one. Are you also keeping an eye on some event? Great thing is that it is fun to predict who will win and keep the fingers crossed all the time.

What do you think - will Michael Phelps win 8 gold medals in Beijing 2008?

* If you think that Michael Phelps will win 8 gold medals send an SMS to 1066109833 and write X TXT PHELPS YES
* If you think that Michael Phelps won’t win 8 gold medals send an SMS to 1066109833 and write X TXT PHELPS NO
(The cost of one SMS is 1 RMB)

Did you know that you can also create such campaigns? Fortumo.cn can help you

Uniteddogs.com and Unitedcats.com are fun and positive-minded online communities for
dog,- and catlovers all over the world. Create a profile for your dog or cat, upload photos,
post comments, pat other dogs, communicate with other dog,- and catowners and send
virtual gifts to other dogs and cats. These are just some features Uniteddogs and
Unitedcats provide.

“We give people the opportunity to express themselves through their pets, they come
together because they have something really important in common and they know that
here the people understand their “craziness” about dogs and cats.”

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Starting from this week, we have put a live stats counter on top of the Fortumo.com frontpage (currently only seen in the English version). This counter tracks the number of users and number of new services in real time.

Lets work together on growing these numbers!

This week we launched some important improvements that you have been asking lately. Check them out and we hope you will like what you see.

New short code in Latvia - 1897

To make end-users’ life easier we have opened new short code in Latvia - 1897. From now on, you can create services in Latvia with this new short code. We have also activated all the current services with the new code. It means that you can replace previous three short codes with one in your promotional materials. The old short codes will remain working until 18th of May. After that, only the new one is used. Replace the information and you will see your users getting happier

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Just wanted to let you know that Fortumo will be attending CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas on 1-3 April. If you happen to be there as well, then we would love to set up a meeting or just have a cup of coffee somewhere. Please e-mail rain.rannu@fortumo.com to get in touch. See you in Vegas

We are very happy that Mobile Monday finally launches in Tallinn, Estonia. Fortumo is obviously there, as well as many of our customers. The opening event will be held at 18:00, Omega Hall, Olümpia Conference Centre.

Mobile Monday is a world known networking format for everyone in the mobile business. Meetings in Estonia are scheduled to be held monthly, alternating between Tallinn and Tartu. Tallinn events will cover general and marketing-related topics, with international speakers and a wide audience. Tartu events will focus on mobile development topics.