Travel 2020 recently published their exhibitor talks from their brilliant 2011 show. Among them was CEO Ben Whitaker, presenting an illuminating argument for mTicketing as a way of solving many of the most pressing problems facing the UK rail industry. Keep listening to the end for a thought-provoking final point from Ben. Click on the [...]
masabi on panel at mwc 2012 Keep your eyes glued to the big screen on the Avenida this February: Masabi CEO Ben Whitaker is set to appear on the main speaker panel on the opening day of the world’s biggest mobile event. The session is entitled “Apps for all: how apps are changing our lives” [...]
Buy Rail Tickets on Everyday Mobile Phones and Smartphones with First TransPennine Express Apps No more queuing at stations with ticket machines in your pocket for Nokia, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and other popular phones. A local train company is launching a brand new application to quickly and easily help passengers plan journeys [...]
Masabi has been hailed as a Top 50 Mobile Innovator by influential mobile news website Mobile Entertainment (ME). Announced on 19th August 2011, the top 50 winners of ME’s Mobile Innovators project were identified by a judging panel of VCs, analysts, entrepreneurs and other mobile experts to be the most exciting and innovative British firms [...]
Imagine the year is 2001… Relatively speaking, it’s a bit of a Stone Age as far as mobile technology is concerned. It is time when colour screens on mobiles were rare, only 43% of us were texting each other, and we were all just discovering a really useful search engine called Google. We’re planning a [...]
Chiltern Railways has been named ‘App of the Week‘ for iPhone on the Apple App Store! The Chiltern Railways app, developed in conjunction with Masabi and Atos Origin, was launched on the 11th May and has since seen widespread media coverage from high-profile publications such as the Financial Times and the Gadget Show. Using the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Masabi walked away from the recent Mobile Monday competition with one of the top prizes on offer – a place on the UKTI stand at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona! Going head-to-head for one of three coveted places on the stand, 11 companies each made a 3 minute Dragon’s Den-style presentation to impress [...]
LONDON, UK – 28th September 2010 – Masabi, the developer of mobile ticketing technology for the transport sector, today announced it has secured $2 million from m8 Capital, the specialist mobile technology venture capital fund. The investment will be used to support commercial deployments of Masabi’s mobile ticketing systems with UK rail companies and to [...]