Masabi Secures $2.8 Million from Fontinalis Partners, MMC Ventures and M8 Capital to Transform Transit Ticketing Investment will accelerate U.S. deployments of mobile ticketing and agile fare collection systems for transit, building on success with Boston’s MBTA New York, USA and London, UK – March 20th, 2013 – Masabi, the leader in transit mobile ticketing [...]
Masabi to Attend Mobile World Congress 2013 Mobile World Congress, the world’s premier mobile phone event, kicks off in Barcelona next Monday. As in previous years Masabi will be in attendance, if you’re going to be there and are interested in hearing about our mTicketing solutions contact us via Twitter, Email or Phone and we [...]
Masabi Named As Finalist For Global Mobile Award Company’s JustRide End-to-End Smartphone Ticketing System for Transit Short-Listed in Smart Cities Category alongside AT&T, Vodafone, Huawei and Streetline London, UK – 6th February 2013 – Masabi, the transit mobile ticketing pioneer, today announced that the company’s JustRide end-to-end Smartphone Ticketing system for transit has been named [...]
Masabi Sells $1Million of Rail mTickets in Boston in Just Seven Weeks Mobile Tickets Now Accounting for Nearly 10% of All Tickets Sold on Boston’s Commuter Rail Network BOSTON, MA – 17th January 2012 – Masabi US Ltd, the transit mobile ticketing pioneer, today announced that the company’s JustRide end-to-end mTicketing system used by Boston’s [...]
Masabi Shortlisted in Two Categories at The Europas: Best UK Startup and Best Transport, Travel or Environmental Startup Catagories The Europas, described as Europe’s Most Prestigious Tech Awards, have chosen to nominate Masabi in not one but two categories in 2013. As well as a nomination in Best Transport, Travel or Environmental Startup, Masabi have [...]
Masabi Nominated as Most Successful Mobile Ticketing Programme at the Transport Ticketing Awards A great start to the New Year here at Masabi as we’ve been nominated for the Most Successful Mobile Ticketing Programme at the Transport Ticketing Awards. The awards will take into account service adoption, consumer experience and innovative approaches to implementing the [...]
Customers in Boston React to MBTA mTicket App Launch Mobile ticketing has a huge number of benefits for Transit Agencies, one of which is delivering a good news story – a product that customers love. The MBTA identified a number of customer problems they wanted to solve with mobile ticketing, from waiting in line to [...]
MBTA & Masabi Launch US’ First Smartphone Commuter Rail Ticketing System From Today, Boston Commuter Rail and Ferry Customers Can Buy & Display Tickets Using iPhone & Android Apps BOSTON, MA – 12th November 2012 – Today, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and Masabi US Ltd, the transit mobile ticketing pioneer, jointly announced the [...]
Masabi Crowned 2012 Bully Award Winner Transport mobile ticketing pioneer honoured as a leading European TMT company BARCELONA and London – 9 October 2012 Masabi, a developer of mTicketing technology for the transit sector, was announced today as a Longhorn winner of the 2012 Bully Awards honouring Europe’s leading technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies [...]
mTicketing and Agile Fare Collection at InnoTrans with Masabi See you in Hall 7.1B, Stand 108 – September 18-21 Thinking about rolling out mTicketing, or interested in how Agile Fare Collection can save your agency millions of dollars? Then we’d love to chat at InnoTrans this September. We’ll be demoing our live UK deployed apps [...]
Masabi Named as Finalist for 2012 Bully Awards Masabi honoured as a leading European TMT company BARCELONA – 5 September 2012 – White Bull Summits, champions of European innovation today announced that Masabi, the leading developer of mobile ticketing technology for the transport sector, has been named as a finalist for the 2012 Bully Awards [...]
top 50 mobile innovators 2012 Masabi has been listed as one of Mobile Entertainment’s 50 Mobile Innovators of 2012, the second year in a row we’ve been put forward. Writing of Masabi, Mobile Entertainment said “Another great year for Masabi and its mission to be the go-to firm for mobile ticketing – and not just [...]
Direct Marketing for Mobile Apps To me, smartphones have changed the way advertising operates. It turns every advert, no matter where, into an instantly actionable engagement with a brand. Whether it’s Nike using a hashtag to encourage the public to #makeitcount, or charities looking for instant donations via text; if an advert is in a [...]
Masabi and MBTA to bring mTicketing to Boston Commuter Ferries Masabi’s first US deployment just got a even more exciting with the announcement that those commuting by boat will get mobile ticketing as well as those travelling by rail. The ‘T’ (as the MBTA is affectionately know in Boston) boat system comprises of three routes [...]
New York’s MTA Metro-North Railroad to Test Smartphone Ticketing This Summer Project to test smartphone ticketing using iPhone, Android and Blackberry handsets on the largest commuter rail network in the US NEW YORK – 12 July 2012 – New York’s MTA Metro-North Railroad, working with transit mobile ticketing specialists Masabi US Ltd., will begin testing [...]
masabi winners in the railway industry innovation awards 2012 We are delighted to announce that Masabi have again been recognised as an innovator in the transit space, alongside Chiltern and Atos, winning the Passenger Experience category of The Railway Industry Innovation Awards for 2012. This award recognises efforts to improve passenger experience for all aspects [...]
Masabi unveils app for reading smart card transport tickets using NFC-enabled phones Android app allows display of ITSO smart card-based ticket content, paving the way for phone-based inspection system, ‘top-ups’ and ticket purchases LONDON, UK – 31st May 2012 – Masabi, a developer of mTicketing technology for the transport sector, today unveiled a proof-of-concept Android [...]
Redspottedhanky.com and Masabi Launch Windows Phone 7 UK Rail Ticketing App Buy tickets with no booking or card fees, search train times and earn loyalty points on phones such as the Nokia Lumia 800 LONDON, UK – 28th May 2012 – redspottedhanky.com, the award winning online travel retailer, today announced the launch of its ground [...]
first great western launches masabi’s first windows phone 7 mTicketing app We’re delighted to announce our first Windows Phone 7 (WP7) mTicketing app for UK Rail, in conjunction with First Great Western, has hit the Marketplace. It’s free to download and boasts live train running and platform information as well as the ability to securely [...]
mbta & masabi on untether.tv Our announcement with the MBTA made it onto Untether.tv! Click the link below and skip to 9:20 to watch the video discussion about the new mTicketing system: http://untether.tv/2012/this-week-in-location-based-marketing-75-the-hunt-for-revenue/