The February event of Mobile Monday Mumbai is on the topic “Mobile Payments” and will be held on February 25th, 2008.

Thanks to mChek for sponsoring the event and supporting the community.

Topic:
Mobile Payments

Agenda:

• Sanjay Swami, CEO, mChek
• Vivek Gawri, AVP Mobility, MakeMyTrip
• Q&A
• Group Discussion
• Dinner

When:
Monday, 25th January
6.30pm - 9.30pm

Where:
Grapeviine
Club Peninsula,
Peninsula Corporate Park,
GR Kadam Marg,
Lower Parel,
Mumbai - 400 013.

Click here to register.

Sponsors:

About mChek:
mChek is a Bangalore based mobile security and payments services. It recently won the GSMA Global Mobile Award 2008 for Best Billing and Customer Care Solution with Airtel for its mChek on Airtel postpaid bill payment service.

The mChek on Airtel mobile payments service has more than 60,000 transacting customers with a 90% repeat usage pattern, and has processed more than 100 million Rupees of mobile payments since its launch in September 2007.

Business Standard has an article on Netcore’s MyToday SMS service.

MyToday offers 20+ SMS channels on various topics like News, Sensex, Cricket, Jokes, Horoscope and Bollywood free-of-cost to subscribers.

A user needs to subscribe to the service by sending an SMS to a pre-designated number (9845398453) with the text START followed by the name of service (Like NEWS or JOKES).

Abhijit Saxena, CEO, Netcore Solutions:

“The mobile phone is a true convergence device which would shortly replace the TV and the computer and text messaging is the most potent medium to reach large addressable audience in the shortest span of time,”

Even though it is a recently-launched service, the company sends out around 8 million SMSes per day to around 2.5 million subscribers. It is also adding around 20,000 new subscribers every day.

Free of cost!? Here’s how Netcore plans to make money.

Netcore Solutions, which has a tech team of around 110 personnel working in Mumbai and Bangalore, is looking at recovering its expenses for providing the service through advertisements.

Below the text of the subscribed content, it provides advertisements and links to the websites of the advertisers. It has roped in Birla Sun Life Insurance, Tata Sky, Nokia, Prudential ICICI and Moneycontrol.com among others as advertisers.

Netcore Solutions is the company I work for, when I’m not busy blogging or organising Mobile Mondays.