Over the past year, with the rapid adoption of MobStac by customers across the world, we have had significant interest from developers inside large enterprises, publishing houses, and agencies worldwide to build customized applications powered by MobStac. The MobStac API platform will provide web developers complete access to the hosted MobStac platform to rapidly create and manage unlimited mobile sites and apps.

The MobStac API platform is packed with a lot of exciting features that makes a developers’ life easy.

• A developer will have complete control over mobile websites and apps created through simple RESTful API calls
• The platform allows you to create a device-specific experience for every mobile and tablet device in the market
• Every mobile asset, in fact each piece of content, can have a customized theme or template
• The platform works with the tools you love, like Sass+Compass and LESS for CSS, JavaScript libraries like Backbone, jQuery Mobile, xui, etc. and template tools like Mustache and Django templates
• The API platform is loaded with SDKs for developing and delivering great apps for all platforms – iOS, Android & Windows.

Would you like more details about the MobStac API platform? Sign up as a developer now.

The launch of MobStac’s API opens up a host of opportunities for developers and web development companies globally to create applications on top of our tried and tested MobStac platform. The API platform will initially be available to developers on an invite-only basis.

MobStac is directly used by more than 2,000 customers in more than 40 countries in 12 different languages. Mobile media consumption is expanding at a break-neck speed and it is imperative that businesses equip themselves to serve the needs of their mobile customers through both the mobile web and native apps. The MobStac API platform is uniquely positioned to help developers in adapting to these rapid changes.

• Will my PC website work on mobile devices or should I create a new website for every mobile phone and tablet?
• Should I create a mobile website or an app or both?
• What sort of advertising works on mobile?
  
  

Are you still figuring out answers to these questions?
You should definitely attend the free webinar by MobStac!

Date  : March 19, 2013
Time : 2000 IST | 0730 PST | 1430 UTC

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From this webinar, you will take away:

• Usable how-to tips for creating the best mobile sites and apps
• Ways to market your mobile website and apps right
• Mobile advertising ideas
• Real-world customer case studies that have made 3x revenue through mobile
  
  

In the webinar, Ravi Pratap, CTO & Co-founder of MobStac, will share ideas and learnings that he has gained over the years interacting with publishers and website owners globally. The MobStac mobile cloud is used by more than 8000 customers worldwide to power their mobile sites and apps.

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MobStac has proven its feed-handling capabilities and the ability to handle scale by powering mobile enterprises such as The Hindu and allAfrica. The ease with which our product integrates with any existing online video channel to create a mobile video site made the decision-making all the more easy for TeluguOne.

TeluguOne’s video channel on YouTube is one of the top 10 Indian channels attracting over 400 million views till date. Founded in the year 2000, TeluguOne has today expanded its online presence considerably by branching out into TeluguOne TV, TeluguOne Radio on Internet (TORI), an online gift shop, a kids website and TeluguOne Foundation.

TeluguOne.com caters to the Telugu NRI community throughout the world delivering News on current affairs and films, features that interest kids, a library of books, offers shopping facilities and much more.

We are very excited to work with the team at TeluguOne and build a mobile website for their truly global audience.

More than ever before, publishers understand that the future of content consumption is on mobile and are looking for a robust, secure, and scalable mobile cloud that seamlessly integrates with their existing publishing systems. Through this partnership publishers can create optimized mobile websites and apps using our MobStac cloud platform and monetize mobile traffic using PubMatic’s solution

MobStac will be offered as a service through PubMatic’s PubLink, enterprise app marketplace. The fact that PubMatic chose MobStac as their first mobile development partner after considering numerous other options underlines our product’s relevance in a mobile-first world.

Last month, PubMatic was ranked the 3rd Fastest Growing Company in the US Internet Sector, 20th Fastest Overall in North America, on Deloitte’s 2012 Technology Fast 500™.

MobStac’s mobile cloud is currently used by more than 10,000 publishers worldwide spread across more than 103 different countries publishing in 12 different languages, and serves over 30 million mobile pages a month.

We look forward to working closely with the PubMatic team and bringing on board some of the biggest, premium publishers in the US market on to the MobStac platform.

For a 60 year old reputed publication and ready to take the giant leap into the mobile world, it was very important to choose the right mobile partner. Put through rigorous tests, our product confessed to its full potential and proved its future-readiness to finally be the chosen one to power the mobile presence of Deccan Herald.

The fact that MobStac could clear various stringent security certifications and display a host of features that no other product in the market could even closely compete with is testimony to the fact that we have built MobStac from the bottom-up primarily keeping large publications and publishing enterprises in mind.

Deccan Herald, is a popular English language daily newspaper owned by The Printers (Mysore) Private Limited operating in the Indian state of Karnataka since 1948. With a number of editions in various cities of Karnataka and a few other Indian states, Deccan Herald has a vast footprint in India built over 6 decades and is a name that many across the globe reckon with.  The organization also owns vernacular publications like Prajavani, Sudha and Mayura which are published in the Indian language of Kannada.

With two of India’s major news publishers, The Hindu and Deccan Herald already using MobStac, and more on their way, it is clear evidence that publishers are gearing up for a mobile-first world reiterating what we have always believed in – Mobile is the new web.

Garcia Interactive and MobStac bring to you a webinar loaded with tips and tricks about designing for mobile and tablet devices panelled by celebrated designers Dr. Mario R. Garcia and his son Mario. R. Garcia Jr.

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When?

November 20, 2012 | 1500 UTC, 1000 EST, 2030 IST

Who?

Dr. Mario R. Garcia, the Head of Garcia Media, has spent more than 2 decades designing for renowned publications like The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald, The Hindu and more. He will share insights from his experience about redesigning publications for tablets. Dr. Garcia recently released a book titled iPad design lab: Storytelling in the age of the tablet which was a treasure trove of information for publishers about what design elements work with tablet readers.

Mario R. Garcia Jr, son of the legendary designer and the Head of Garcia Interactive, will talk about designing for mobile devices and possible challenges associated with it. He will share some real life examples from the hundreds of news publications he has designed for.

Who should attend?

Any enterprise news or content publisher looking to go mobile will get a chance to get a peek into the mobile ecosystem and understand the world where mobile is first.

If you are a publisher using MobStac, you get an exclusive entry to this webinar!

Hundreds of publishers under Garcia Media and Garcia Interactive will join this webinar!

Rest assured, you are in good company!

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Why?

Filled with tips about how to effectively design your mobile and tablet presence to attract more readers and hence make more mobile ad revenue, this is a great opportunity for newspapers across the world to learn more about the mobile world itself.

More so, we have a 10 minute interactive session live where Garcia would answer your questions himself.

Book your place amidst hundreds of publishers now >

P. S: This webinar is open for selected news and content publishers from the publishing industry only. So please use your work email address when you register.

A study says that more than 75% of readers consume news on mobile. As the number continues to grow, publishers look for ways to intelligently grab the mobile monetization opportunity. But catering to mobile readers is a different game altogether and comes with its own set of challenges. There are more than 6000+ mobile phones and tablets available in the market today and it is impossible for a publisher to ensure optimal readability across all devices.

This is where MobStac comes in!

MobStac is an HTML5-enabled cloud-based mobile publishing platform that lets you publish your content once and ensures optimal readability across every mobile device available – this includes feature phones with WAP and Opera Mini browsers, smartphones with JavaScript-enabled browsers and tablets. Irrespective of the operating system used – iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows, MobStac’s patent-pending technology creates a mobile-friendly layout and makes your content readable on every mobile device.

MobStac lets publishers track their mobile readers, integrate with all major mobile ad networks and monetize the growing mobile traffic.

The Hindu, India’s national newspaper uses MobStac to power its mobile website. “When we noticed that more than 4% of our readers were mobile, we decided that it was time to go mobile. By the time we launched our mobile website using MobStac, the  mobile readership grew to 10% and has grown considerably after that.”, says Nagaraj Nagabushanam, former director, New Media, The Hindu.

MobStac has recently partnered with Garcia Interactive, the interactive arm of Garcia Media owned by Designer Mario Garcia who has worked with publishers like The Wall Street Journal, Malayala Manorama etc.

MobStac has also joined hands with Google to create mobile optimized websites for AdSense publishers. Apart from enterprise publishers like allAfrica.com which churns out nearly 2000 news stories everyday, MobStac is used by digital publishers like pluggd.in, koimoi.com to name a few.

“Considering the sizing complexity of bringing a large volume of content into a mobile website and making it work on all mobile and tablet devices, MobStac has definitely done a pretty good job”, says Reed Kramer, CEO of allAfrica Global Media.

“Given how fragmented the mobile ecosystem is, the need was a one stop solution for publishers to make their websites look good on all mobile devices”, said Sharat Potharaju, the CEO & Co-founder of MobStac.

MobStac has served more than 50 million mobile pageviews till date and continues to mobilize more publishers everyday. Being the easiest solution to mobilize and monetize their content, Its only a matter of time before every publisher goes mobile with MobStac.

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Read this article in the September issue [WAN-IFRA special issue] of All About Newspapers, a magazine targeting publishers addressing issues that matter to the publishing industry.

Moving a step ahead from powering their mobile and tablet blogs, today we are offering a special gift to all those bloggers who believed in MobStac!

A gift that will help you take your blog to the next level altogether. We are giving away a FREE ebook titled ‘BLOGTASTIC!’ that will help you do what you like doing best – grow and make a difference through blogging.

Blogtastic is an ebook written by a serial entrepreneur and alchemist Rajesh Setty. He is a blogger himself with more than 1800+ blog posts on his blog and in this book he shares the lessons that he learnt over 7 years of blogging. The book also has 33 renowned bloggers share what they wish they knew about blogging before they started blogging.

The book is full of useful secrets and we are making it available to you for FREE.

You can access the book here: Get Blogtastic!

Now, here are two ways you and your fellow bloggers can benefit from Blogtastic:

1. Take Action: The book is organized for easy consumption with bite-sized chapters and action items to help you blog better. Follow them and share these tips with your fellow bloggers.

2. Share: There are more than 200M bloggers out there who can benefit from this book. So, please consider sharing this with your network. You can share the link to Blogtastic above through your social networks or you can share some of the blogging insights right from within the book.

We have an incentive for sharing too!

If you tweet about the book or tweet content from the book with the hashtag #blogtastic, you might stand a chance to be chosen as the lucky person who gets a MobStac Professional account free for a year.

This is not just for a day. For 100 days from today, one person a day gets MobStac professional plan free for one year. We hope you enjoy the book and share it with your peers.

Download Blogtastic! and take your blog to the next level.

Given the staggering growth of mobile Internet usage in India, we welcome Google’s initiative to “talk mobile” with publishers, advertisers, and businesses, as a mobile strategy is no more optional but is in fact crucial to growing one’s business and engaging with customers.

Through this partnership with Google, we are bringing to publishers in India MobStac’s HTML5 mobile-first platform that is capable of delivering mobile websites and mobile apps across a wide-range of mobile devices.



MobStac’s platform currently serves mobile websites in over 40 countries and 11 different languages. With exploding mobile Internet usage in India, this initiative has been perfectly timed to benefit Google’s extensive network of publishers.

At MobStac, we have always been driven by a deep-rooted desire to create global impact with our work. Working with Google gives us the opportunity to reach unprecedented scale in taking our product to a much larger audience than we ever imagined was possible, and today we’re taking the first steps on the path to making that happen.

Led by the legendary designer Dr.Mario.R.Garcia, his team of seasoned designers at Garcia Interactive, the interactive arm of Garcia Media have worked with publications like The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald and several well-known publications all over the world.

In India, Garcia has designed for renowned publishers like The Hindu, Mint, Hindustan Times, Malayala Manorama and The Week to name a few.

Through this strategic alliance, we bring the best of both worlds – design strategy and publishing technology, together. Garcia brings decades of experience in creating user-focused designs for publishers while MobStac provides future-ready HTML5-enabled publishing technology that renders an optimal reading experience across devices.

Mario Garcia Jr, President of Garcia Interactive said, “We’re excited at the prospects of working with Mobstac, having already shared a wonderful client in The Hindu. Their platform is exactly what our news clients need to accommodate a growing mobile user base and provide an optimum user experience that’s unique to mobile phones and tablets. And the fact that’s affordable, fast and easy makes it all more suitable with our own design solutions.”

Sharat Potharaju, Co-founder and CEO of MobStac says, “Mario Garcia and team have done an exemplary job of designing for publishers world over. As the content consumption paradigm moves to mobile, Garcia Interactive continues to be a leader and we are excited about partnering with them on creating a mobile-first world.”

We strongly believe that mobile is the new web and this strategic partnership will encourage more publishers to take the plunge and go mobile with absolutely no compromise on design aspects.

With Garcia Interactive designs and MobStac technology coming together, it is an offer publishers will never want to miss!