If you want a startup job, think like an entrepreneur and ask for one As Masabi looks forward to the upcoming startup recruitment event Silicon Milkroundabout – being held this Sunday 30th October at the Old Truman Brewery – I was encouraged by Ben, our CEO, to share my experiences of startup job hunting, and [...]
Masabi have been nominated for the finals of the ME Awards 2011 in the category ‘Best App Developer’. The awards are being presided over by mobile news site Mobile Entertainment and will take place on 23rd November at the Royal Garden Hotel, London. Good luck to all the nominees!
Chiltern Railways have been shortlisted for the Effective Mobile Marketing Awards 2011 in the ‘Most Effective Mobile Ticketing Solution’ category for their Chiltern Railways mobile app, developed in conjunction with Masabi and Atos. The annual awards, organised by Mobile Marketing Magazine, recognise the most successful mobile projects and solutions released this year. The awards ceremony [...]
There are a number of UK rail operators now promoting mTicketing applications and below is a selection of adverts from stations and trains taken over the past couple of days. This Chiltern Railways poster is at Birmingham Moor Street. A CrossCountry Trains billboard was spied at Birmingham New Street. Finally, Virgin Trains’ [...]
Following the rapid growth we’ve had as a company in the past year, Masabi has moved office! What’s your new address? We have moved just two roads over from our old address, so exactly the same public transport connections apply. Our new full address is: Masabi Ltd. 56 Ayres Street London SE1 1EU UK We [...]
The Chiltern Railways app was given a starring role in last night’s episode of the Gadget Show on Channel 5. In the show’s regular challenge segment, two of the presenters raced each other to a destination using public transport. One used the latest technology to make her journey quicker and easier, while the other was [...]
Our app for thetrainline.com is App of the Week on Life of Android. Life of Android is a site dedicated to news and reviews of Android apps. The App of the Week section also includes an excellent video review:
Last night, Masabi won a competition organised by App Circus London to find the best mobile app that the UK has to offer. We beat off some serious competition to convince a panel of judges that we were worthy of the title. The guys at App Circus awarded us a fancy certificate and nominated us [...]
Masabi’s article on the ‘quiet but essential’ revolution in mobile ticketing was recently published in the March/April edition of Rail Technology magazine. In it, CEO Ben Whitaker explains the convincing case for a mobile ticket rollout across the UK from both a passenger and a transport operator perspective. You can read the article online here [...]
Ben Whitaker will deliver a speech on ‘Ticketing and Travel Booking’ at The Future of Air Rail conference, an international event going on in Riga, Latvia 18th-19th May. Ben will explain how mobile ticketing provides a fast, convenient and reliable service for travellers, while at the same time offering a cost-effective solution for air rail [...]