Skyfire, the makers of the “game-changing” Skyfire mobile browser, has tapped Jeffrey Glueck to join the company as CEO. Formerly Chief Marketing Officer at Travelocity, Glueck helped grow sales for the travel site from $3.5 billion to $10.6 billion globally and introduced the Travelocity Guarantee and the “Roaming Gnome” advertising campaigns. Prior to Travelocity, Glueck co-founded last minute deal start-up Site59.com, which was sold to Travelocity in 2002.
Former Skyfire CEO Nitin Bhandari will become chief product officer with the goal for expanding Skyfire as a platform for media and entertainment companies to build video apps. Skyfire is free and the only browser of the bunch to support Flash, Silverlight, and a number of other technologies generally reserved for desktop browsers. Skyfire, which has over one million users, supports devices from Nokia, Samsung, LG, HTC, Palm, and Motorola, and is testing a BlackBerry version.
Will surely help SkyFire in better management and better Marketing!!
I am happy. SkyFire is a great app
Good Luck Jeffrey in your new role I am sure your presence will add alot of value to the company, when you’ve done what you have to do at SkyFire theres a job waiting for you at http://www.appgiveaway.com
sounds like a good fit
I have just downloaded SkyFire to my Nokia phone, I opted for them to send me the file by text and to download it straight on my Nokia phone. Straight forward!
Just watched the Skyfire demo and DLed the browser. I wanted to visit Hulu like the guy does in the demo.
Did Hulu block Skyfire?? I get a “this video is unavailable” error when I try to play a video.
What a bunch of dicks.
Can someone with Skyfire 1.0 tell me if they’re unable to play hulu.com videos too.
also, I’m using a Nokia e71
The business model of Skyfire is quite questionable. They operate large farms of content adaptation servers and give their browser out for free. The only viable model which will work in a long term here is subscription. But how many users will gonna pay for using internet browser? Another question: how long will they have their “flash and etc support” advantage? 1-2 years at most. These technologies will eventually come to mobile. Deadpool.
I mostly agree with you, with the exception that subscription is not the only business model.
Just like FireFox, search promotion can be lucrative, particularly on mobile.
FireFox does not operate server farms.
If I could short it, I would. When you bring in an outside CEO, company is surely f’ed!
9 out of 10 times, when you bring in a CEO and replace the founder, company will fail within 18 months.
Skyfire, it was nice knowing ya!
Oooh… I guess thats what happened to Google when they brought in Eric Schmidt!
Last time I checked, he’s just a co-CEO! Sergey and Larry are also CEOs!
Got a better example?
Really? Google has 3 ceos????
I have tried Skyfire on Nokia and Windows Mobile, and it is one of the best mobile browsers out there. What this downtown Mtn. View startup needs at this stage is rigorous marketing and increased visibility.
And they are pretty much in tune with the latest developments..one of them being 3d rendering on clients..remember the 3D Browser conference in Apple campus last month?
Though sky-fire may have been ‘game changing’ when it was first demo’d, aren’t they now just barely ahead of the curve?
With the quality of mobile browsers on Android, iPhone and Frenec (Firefox), does SkyFire still offer a significant improvement?
Microsoft should buy these guys up and offer a comparable mobile browser experience to it’s competitors.
Skyfire is only a VNC client. It’s using desktop mozilla on a server farm, sending video back over h.264. They claim they get like 400 people to a server, but it’s constantly crashing, and disconnecting users who do streaming audio. It’s more like 10 users to one server, since every user is creating a new launch of mozilla firefox.
This is even worse then I thought.
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