The end of May saw a major update of biNu for Android from the hard working development team and while most of the updates are primarily behind the scenes including enhanced performance, Version 5.0.1 added smooth scrolling as well as sideswipe for reading books. The smooth scrolling means pages now load dynamically as you [...]
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biNu and Etisalat Nigeria partner to give subscribers 10 times faster browsing experience
Posted by tim.wightman, May 7th, 2013
6 May, 2013. Sydney, Australia & Nigeria Etisalat Nigeria, the most innovative telecommunications company in Nigeria, today announced its partnership with biNu to bring the popular mobile application to its 15-million feature phone and Android users. The biNu app includes an extensive range of local and international content, messaging and social features and [...]
biNu in the news
Posted by mark.shoebridge, March 6th, 2013
In February we have been featured in The Next Web, BetaKit and VentureBeat BiNu brings sexy services like Dropbox and Snapchat to dumb phones as it hits 5m monthly users February, 2013 BiNu, the cloud-based service that brings apps and other smartphone-like experiences to feature phones, has followed its $4.1 million Series A round announced [...]
Opera Awards biNu English Dictionary Best In Category
Posted by tim.wightman, December 6th, 2012
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 [...]
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 AfricaCom Award
Posted by mark.shoebridge, November 16th, 2012
African business and communications leaders recognise biNu for mobile capabilities in emerging markets CapeTown, South Africa: Australia’s biNu, the mobile app platform that brings iPhone-like experiences to low-end smartphones and feature phones, has won the prestigious AfricaCom Award for Best Feature Phone application. biNu, which has over 4 million active users, many of [...]
mEducation Alliance in Washington DC
Posted by mark.shoebridge, September 21st, 2012
biNu and Worldreader presented at the mEducation Alliance in Washington DC. Mark Shoebridge from biNu and Elizabeth Wood from Worldreader spoke about using feature phones to access a cloud based library of books. The conference was organised by USAID and was attended by over 200 people from around the world. The presentation described the use [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Worldreader talks about delivering books on mobile using biNu
Posted by mark.shoebridge, March 21st, 2012
At the Tools of Change for Publishing Conference – Children’s Book Fair in Bologna, Elizabeth Wood from Worldreader delivered a keynote address and introduced how they plan to deliver ebooks on mobile devices using biNu. Here is a short video and demonstration of the application. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7iM5Yke7VY Worldreader now delivers books on any regular mobile phone [...]
biNu Messenger In-app Notifications!
Posted by tim.wightman, March 7th, 2012
This long awaited feature is now live on biNu! The way it works is as follows: If a new biNu-to-biNu chat message is received in your Messenger Inbox while you are inside biNu, the notification icon will appear. The notification is a green button with an asterisk (*) located at the bottom of the screen [...]
New languages supported in Google Translate API
Posted by tim.wightman, March 2nd, 2012
Finally! Google just added more languages to their translate API. For a few months, some languages were supported via the web interface but not via the API. We are sure that this will please so many of our users who have been eagerly awaiting their languages to be supported, especially Bengali and Urdu. The new [...]
biNu and Worldreader Partner to Bring Digital Books to Millions of Mobile Users
Posted by mark.shoebridge, February 15th, 2012
Sydney, Australia and Barcelona, Spain (PRWEB): biNu, a content rich, social networking platform optimized for mobile feature phones and low-end smartphones, today announced a partnership with Worldreader to deliver digital books to biNu users. The partnership provides a new distribution channel for Worldreader – a social enterprise whose mission is to transform reading in the [...]
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