Vodafone Launches the Vodafone Xone™ R&D Centre in Silicon Valley - Vodafone

Vodafone Launches the Vodafone Xone™ R&D Centre in Silicon Valley

Redwood City, CA. -- Vodafone, one of the world’s largest mobile communications companies by revenue, today announced the launch of its Silicon Valley integrated R&D Centre, Vodafone Xone™.

Siavash Alamouti, director of Vodafone Group Research and Development said: “Vodafone Xone™ offers Silicon Valley start ups access to more than a third of a billion customers in more than 30 countries around the world. We’re excited about this opportunity to share our scale and global expertise with the brightest and best the valley has to offer.”

ABN AMRO Subsidiary MoneYou Chooses Kony to Deliver Comprehensive Multi-Channel Mobile Strategy

ABN AMRO Subsidiary MoneYou Chooses Kony to Deliver Comprehensive Multi-Channel Mobile Strategy

ORLANDO - Kony, the leading mobile application platform provider, today announced that it has been selected by MoneYou, a subsidiary of ABN AMRO, to implement its mobile savings application across Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 operating systems, in addition to its existing iPhone and iPad applications.

MoneYou is leading the consumer banking industry by offering its customers advanced mobile applications across the five main mobile platforms that consumers are utilizing. Its MoneYou Savings App is the first of its kind in the Netherlands and in Germany, while its Windows Phone 7 application is the first of its kind in Europe. MoneYou chose Kony for their advanced mobile applications, and because of the depth of experience Kony has working with leading financial corporations across the globe. With Kony, MoneYou offers customers total, secure control over their funds – beyond basic banking capabilities – and enables them to manage their money anywhere and anytime.

“We were determined to provide our customers with the engaging and convenient mobile savings experience that they demand, across all of the primary channels that they use,” said Frank Verkerk, CEO of MoneYou. “In the increasingly competitive landscape of mobile banking, it was crucial that we found the right partner to help us deliver this goal. With our iPhone and iPad applications, which were developed by a local partner in the Netherlands, we found out just how difficult it can be to develop feature-rich applications separately for each platform. As such, we decided that for our Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 applications, we needed a simple, cost-effective solution that could be speedily delivered simultaneously across these platforms – and we knew Kony was the perfect partner for this task.”

Following an in-depth vendor analysis, MoneYou chose Kony’s solution for its reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), the speed at which it could deliver the application, its ability for a one-time development to result in deployment across multiple platforms, and its flexibility for customization.

Designed as an extension of MoneYou’s online savings capabilities, the Savings App is an on-device application that delivers a feature-rich saving experience with advanced capabilities for the management of savings accounts, including:

Unique and innovative saving assistance, enabling customers to allocate funds into their own personal savings goals, such as “holiday”, “car purchase”, “study fund”, and allowing them to upload their own personal photographs for each goal;

The ability to calculate when a savings goal is reached and what the impact of a monthly saving to the duration will be;

The ability to set e-mail reminders when you reached an x percentage of your savings goal;

The ability to open online savings accounts (paperless) through the mobile application within 24 hours;

The ability to share your savings goals with friends via Twitter, FaceBook and LinkedIn.

“It is crucial that financial corporations consider their mobile offerings as part of a long-term customer engagement scheme, and we’re very pleased to work with a company as forward thinking as MoneYou,” said Raj Koneru, CEO of Kony. “MoneYou is undoubtedly leading the European financial industry’s adoption of comprehensive mobile strategies that optimizemobile investment in order to stay ahead of the competition. We’ve partnered with MoneYou to deliver a service for its customers to which no other application in the market compares, in terms of functionality and availability on platforms.”

Kony provides companies with customizable off-the-shelf applications and a complete mobile development, deployment and production platform that generates native applications, highly optimized mobile web, SMS/MMS, social media gadgets and tablet applications. The Kony Platform supports all mobile systems on the market today, including more than 9,000 mobile devices, tablets and popular operating systems, including the iPad, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, Java ME, Windows Phone 7, and webOS devices and including browsers like Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, and HTML5.

Scottrade Chooses Kony Platform for Mobile Application Development and Deployment

Scottrade Chooses Kony Platform for Mobile Application Development and Deployment

ORLANDO – Kony Solutions, Inc., the leading mobile platform provider, today announced it has been selected by online investing firm Scottrade, Inc., to develop and deploy its mobile application, now available on Android™, iPhone® and BlackBerry® devices. Leveraging the robust Kony Platform, Scottrade worked with Kony to create the most comprehensive mobile stock market research and trading application. The free app offers more real-time research, news and analyst views than any other direct-competitor apps on the market.

In choosing Kony, Scottrade understood that the Kony Platform generates each client specific application, optimized for that channel and format. This is accomplished using Kony’s ‘Write Once, Run Everywhere’ single application definition rather than solely mobile web solutions or multiple code bases like other options on the market.Kony’s ability to create applications for more than 9,000 devices, seven operating systems and 15 browserswithout compromising native features and functionality enables brands like Scottrade to offer robust mobile experiences to consumers.

Scottrade® Mobile, developed on the Kony Platform, offers a robust mobile application experience, empowering investors with a better way to stay up-to-the-second with the information they need to react to changes in the market, including streaming quotes, news and charting.

Kony is a leading mobile application vendor, powering more than 45 Fortune 500 brands’ mobile websites, native applications and SMS/MMS campaigns and generating more than six billion total user sessions annually. By delivering such a functionally robust and stable product, global brands entrust Kony with providing mobile presence and commerce. Uniquely, Kony starts building in key new features of new operating system versions as soon as the new SDK is released to the developer community. Kony provides an SLA that states support of new versions of an existing platform SDK within 30 days of its release to the developer community and an SLA of 90 days for completely new device and operating system releases.

“We have a breadth of experience helping financial services and wealth management firms provide their customers with engaging mobile experiences,” said Raj Koneru, Kony CEO. “In addition to providing financial companies with our best-in-class mobile platform, we also offer a customizable vertical application built on best practices, specifically for mobile financial services, providing off-the-shelf functionality that lets companies reach their customers and employees on any device, operating system or browser without compromises.”