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Danny Lein: successful mobile sites of newspapers

December 5, 2008 by tom.corbett 

Recently launched mobile site of De Standaard quickly reached top 10 list of sites in Belgium. Only portals of mobile operators are larger, says Danny Lein of MobileWeb.

MobileWeb offers plug & play mobile solutions to business customers, incl. newspapers, since 2001. Among these mobile solutions are SMS, MMS, mobile marketing & entertainment, mobile internet.

MobileWeb organised the Web Goes Mobile seminar in Grimbergen in Belgium on Dec. 4, 2008, that we have covered on forum4editors.

Mr. Lein formerly worked for Procter&Gamble and McKinsey & Company.

He told Inge van Gaal of INMA about the projects MobileWeb have done together with Belgian newspapers: De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad and Le Soir.

Watch full interview:

(Video by Tom Corbett of INMA.)

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