biNu’s Popular Wordnik Dictionary App Wins Best App for Languages and Translators Opera have concluded their Top App Awards 2012 competition an announced the winners for the year, based on votes by millions of users across the globe. We are proud to announce that biNu’s popular English Dictionary app, which is powered by Wordnik, has [...]
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biNu closes $4.3m A-round with more high profile investors, expands social platform with launch of biNu credits
Posted by tim.wightman, November 22nd, 2012
Dick Parsons, Ronald Lauder and Dave McClure’s 500 Startups back emerging mobile social platform 21 November, 2012. Sydney, Australia: biNu, the mobile social platform, today announced it has finalized a $4.3m A-round investment. Participants include 500 Startups, Dick Parsons and Ronald Lauder’s PanAfrican Investment Co., which is making its first investment, and Australian industry figures [...]
biNu wins Meffy Innovation Award
Posted by tim.wightman, September 14th, 2012
Leading global mobile body awards biNu the 2012 Meffy for Innovation for Growth Markets London, UK: Australia’s biNu, the mobile app platform that brings iPhone-like experiences to low-end smartphones and feature phones, has won the prestigious 2012 Meffys Innovation for Growth Markets Award. This recognition from the Mobile Entertainment Forum, a peak global trade body [...]
biNu Secures $2 Million Series A Funding
Posted by tim.wightman, August 16th, 2012
biNu Secures $2 Million Series A from TomorrowVentures and others to build out Mobile Social Content Platform for Developing World 4 million monthly active users, growing at 400% Sydney, Australia and San Francisco, CA: biNu, the mobile app platform that brings iPhone-like experiences to low-end smartphones and feature phones, today announced a $2 million funding [...]
New Social Features on biNu
Posted by tim.wightman, June 13th, 2012
We have a number of new social features either complete or slated for development in the near future. The first cab off the rank is the ability to search for other biNu users in order to meet new people in the biNu community from all over the world, and communicate with them using biNu’s messaging [...]
Worldreader Partner Update
Posted by tim.wightman, May 9th, 2012
By Clare Joy Did you know that you have a library full of exciting material on your phone? With Worldreader Books in a few easy clicks you could be reading our free articles on health, falling in love with a contemporary short story or browsing classic fiction from some of the best writers of our [...]
BBC on biNu: Turning dumbphones to smartphones
Posted by tim.wightman, May 1st, 2012
The biNu team were very excited to see recent coverage of biNu by the BBC. In his article, BBC reporter Clark Boyd reminds us that despite all the glitz and glamour of smartphones, feature phones remain the workhorse for the majority of mobile users and that a very healthy after-market exists for companies that improve [...]




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