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April 19, 2013

Constant Contact to Host Apps & Apps Events in Oakland and San Francisco

4/25 and 5/16 Events to Help Small Businesses and Nonprofits Achieve Success with Email Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Apps and Integrations

April 9, 2013

Big Money For Little Sites: Mobile Website Maker DudaMobile Raises Another Round, Extends Series B By $10.3 Million

From techcrunch.com Mobile website maker Dudamobile has just raised another round, following a busy 2012 which saw the service grow to 4 millionmobile sites, the introduction of new partnerships, and a major overhaul of its site builder product. The funding, an extension to its $6 million Series B from last spring, bring in $10.3 million in new funding, led by previous investors Israeli-based Pitango Venture Capital and Oren's Capital.

March 19, 2013

What's Next From the Israeli Tech Community?

It's no secret that Israel has become one of the world's most important technology epicenters. While the tiny Middle Eastern country was best known in the 90's as a robust producer of hardware (semi conductors, chips and the likes) - and then became known for software (particularly for the enterprise) around the dot com boom - the Israeli tech scene today is blossoming and foraying into many new, exciting niches.

February 19, 2013

Google Boot Camp: Bottom Line

DudaMobile was featured on Bloomberg TV as part of a segment about Google Boot Camp. Go to 24:04 to view our segment.

February 15, 2013

Google, Intuit push small business owners to create web presence

For the 42 percent of small businesses who do have Websites, only a small minority have sites specifically designed for mobile access, Levitan added. Google partnered with DudaMobile, a Palo Alto-based software company helping desktop sites transition to mobile-friendly versions.

February 11, 2013

Help Your Business Get Social: 3 Free Tools

Back in the day, you'd have to hire a Web designer to develop your mobile site. Not anymore. The folks at Dudamobile have created a platform that makes it really easy to create a great-looking mobile version of your website, no design expertise required.

November 15, 2012

Go Daddy Goes Mobile: Domain Hosting Giant Bumps Up Its Business Services With Mobile Website Builder And Mobile Commerce Option

Go Daddy has for a while been building out its domain registering and hosting business into business services to create new revenue streams to compete against the likes of Google and Amazon in serving the small/medium business sector, and today that strategy took a mobile turn, with the launch of a new mobile component to its Website Builder service. Go Daddy customers can now optimize websites for the mobile web, or create new ones altogether, and they can also now add in mobile commerce services as part of that process.

November 8, 2012

DudaMobile Announces SMB Mobile Sites Deal with Yahoo

As one of the features of its small business suite of services (e.g., webhosting), Yahoo is now making mobile websites available through DudaMobile. This is a coup for DudaMobile, which already has similar partnerships with Google and with OpenTable.

November 8, 2012

Preparing Your Clients for Mobile on WordPress Sites

More and more readers are finding their news on their mobile devices rather than by PC or Laptop, so it is vital that your clients have their content ready for mobile readers.

October 31, 2012

OPINION: Six tips to get more from mobile ads

David Glickman, VP of advertising solutions for DudaMobile, offers advice to small businesses that want to acquire better leads and more sales through mobile search advertising.

October 26, 2012

DudaMobile: Now with Mobile Search Ads

Leading SMB mobile website provider DudaMobile has added advertising to its services.

October 16, 2012

OpenTable Bringing Restaurant Sites Mobile Booking

To boost online restaurant reservations and keep pace with mobile technology, OpenTable, the largest online reservation system, is offering to upgrade restaurant Web sites that are part of its paying membership. The upgrade will make it easier for customers to book tables using their phones.

September 12, 2012

Four tips to create a rich mobile web experience in less than an hour

Cody Zimmer, partner manager for DudaMobile, shares insider tricks and tips on how service providers can make the most of Duda’s mobile website builder.

September 4, 2012

Opinion: Why local businesses must go mobile

Itai Sadan, co-founder and CEO of DudaMobile, shares why Duda is on a mission to educate small and medium-sized businesses about the need to go mobile.

September 3, 2012

Boxee, Anobit, DudaMobile Backer Pitango Closes $150M In Newest $250M Fund

Israel’s Pitango — backers of Boxee, Anobit (now part of Apple), fring, mySupermarket, and many other startups — is gearing up for a new round of investment activity: the venture capital firm has announced a $150 million first closing on its latest fund.

July 23, 2012

Does Your Gas Station Have A Mobile Site Too?

Last month I got a big surprise from my local gas station.It wasn’t just that the price of gas had significantly dropped (contrary to what so many of the forecasters were saying earlier this year).

July 1, 2012

Top 50 Mobile Movers & Shakers

Mavens and pundits across the ’Net have been waiting (for what seems like years, by our count) for the day to arrive when a mobile presence took priority over a desktop/ Web presence.

June 26, 2012

Are small tourism businesses really ready for the mobile revolution?

For years we’ve been told that “this year will be the year of mobile”. Unfortunately, for many of us, this tiresome line became mundane and predictable years ago.

June 14, 2012

Restaurant Industry Is Leading the Pack in Mobile Adoption [INFOGRAPHIC]

The restaurant and food industry is embracing the mobile movement more than other business sectors, according to a new infographic.

June 11, 2012

Getting Started With GoMo & DudaMobile, Now Backed By Google Analytics

Mobile is all the rage right now. Just a few days ago, Google came out and said that they recommend responsive design for mobile SEO and now, the Google Analytics division has just launched a new mobile solution.

May 25, 2012

DudaMobile is Awarded the Best Web Tool

DudaMobile Winning the WebHostingSearch.com award for best web tool is not something that many companies or sites can brag about.

May 25, 2012

Who's Building Mobile Websites? Pizzerias and Plumbers

Mom and pop pizzerias love – and I mean love — the mobile Web. Why?

April 5, 2012

Google Wants to Mobilize Your Web Site - For Free

Google and Duda Mobile are offering free hosting and customization of Web sites for mobile browsers.

April 5, 2012

Google's GoMo Expands, Adds DIY Mobile Website Building Tools

DudaMobile, the DIY mobile website maker, fresh off news of its $6 million Series B, is today announcing a partnership with Google.

March 28, 2012

Funding Daily: DudaMobile Grabs Funding to Build Mobile Websites

Tuesday, DudaMobile announced a $6 million second round of funding from Pitango Venture Capital.

March 26, 2012

Going After SMBs, Mobile Website Maker DudaMobile Raises $6M Series B

DudaMobile, a company which helps convert existing websites into mobile-optimized versions, has just raised $6 million in Series B funding.

January 12, 2012

DudaMobile Has Converted 1 Million Sites To the Mobile Web

DudaMobile has converted one million websites to the mobile Web. It is a significant sign of the times.

December 16, 2011

Why Your Business Needs a Mobile Website Right Now

First, the good news: If you have a website, then you have a site that can be accessed by any mobile device with a browser. Now, the bad: Chances are, that site looks pretty crappy on said mobile device.

November 25, 2011

Google's Battle for the Mobile Web

Having less to do with which tech heavyweight is backing the standard, the shift to web apps is more a function of economics.

November 24, 2011

Pushing On-the-Go Gadgets, Google Makes Its Pitch in Mobile

Mobile-friendly sites are typically simpler than regular sites, making them easier to read when peripatetic consumers use gadgets like smartphones and tablets.

November 23, 2011

How To Optimize Your Mobile Site

You’ve probably heard that mobile is increasingly important, but even so, the latest stats may astound you.

November 14, 2011

Google’s Mobile Stars Fall on Alabama

The song “Blues in the Night” includes a lyric that begins, “From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe.” Now, marketers will be watching the results of a campaign that extends from Mountain View to Mobile.

November 14, 2011

City of Mobile, AL Goes Mobile

DIY mobile website platform DudaMobile has teamed up with Google to run an event in the city of Mobile, Alabama.

November 1, 2011

DIY Tools for Creating Smartphone-Friendly Websites

Tech Trends columnist John Brandon reviews DudaMobile and FiddleFly, two services that convert regular websites to mobile sites that work on most smartphones.

October 12, 2011

DudaMobile Converts Websites To Mobile Sites, Now Right On Your Mobile Phone

Mobile website builder DudaMobile is really eating its own dog food with the launch of its mobile site for its mobile website builder at m.dudamobile.com.

August 10, 2011

Websites on the Fly

Looking to build a mobile presence, without building an app? A new DIY service called Duda Mobile lets you customize your website for a variety of mobile devices...

August 9, 2011

DudaMobile Makes Your Website Mobile in One Click

DudaMobile just launched a new, self-serve platform that lets existing website owners create a mobile version of their site just by typing in the website’s URL.

August 3, 2011

An App to Make Your Company Website Mobile-Friendly

Have you checked your company website to see how it looks on phones and tablets? Unless it's been specially coded for mobile devices, it might not look too hot. At the very least, it may require a lot of pinching, zooming, and scrolling -- a potential turnoff for your customers.

May 16, 2011

SMBs and Mobile: Will It Be Monetized?

For more than 80% of US SMBs mobile marketing and advertising is not something they’ve prioritized.

November 17, 2010

Webs, Inc. Launches Mobile Website Builder App

Webs, Inc., the world’s largest website building solution, announces the launch of the DudaMobile app, a mobile website application that seamlessly gives any website a best-in-class mobile user experience on any smart phone (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, etc.).

September 6, 2010

6 Startup Trends from TechCrunch Disrupt

I’ve spent the last 3 days at TechCrunch Disrupt learning about the latest and greatest tech startups Silicon Valley (and actually the world) has to offer. I noticed that many of the start-ups, many of which launched at TechCrunch Disrupt, are doing very similar things. Here I’ll summarize the trends I saw. While not totally relevant to the social enterprise world, I do believe many of these technologies can be leveraged to make a difference or at least improve the operations of a sustainable business.