U2opia Mobile
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{{Infobox dot-com company
| name = U2opia Mobile
| logo =
| company_type = Private
| foundation = {{Start date and age |2010}} in Singapore,{{cite web|last1=Khan|first1=Taslima|title=Look East Policy|url=http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/why-many-indian-start-ups-are-moeving-to-singapore/1/193222.html|website=businesstoday.intoday.in/|publisher= Living Media India Limited|accessdate=12 June 2014}}
| founder = {{unbulleted list|Sumesh Menon|Ankit Nautiyal}}
| locations = Dubai, Gurgaon, San Francisco, Manila and Singapore(HQ)
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people =
| products = Fonetwish
| num_employees = 150 (2015)
| url = {{URL|www.u2opiamobile.com}}
}}
U2opia Mobile is a Singaporean mobile technology company. The company’s main product Fonetwish enables customers to receive real time updates from social networking sites such as Facebook,{{cite web|last1=Puri|first1=Nitin|title=Indian vendor taps USSD to provide Facebook access|url=http://www.zdnet.com/in/indian-vendor-taps-ussd-to-provide-facebook-access-7000023480/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131124225415/http://www.zdnet.com/in/indian-vendor-taps-ussd-to-provide-facebook-access-7000023480/|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 November 2013|website=ZDNet|publisher=CBS Interactive|access-date=12 June 2014}} Twitter and Google on any handset without access to the internet.{{cite web|author=Kurt Wagner |url=http://mashable.com/2013/12/06/internet-free-twitter/|title= Internet-Free Twitter Service Coming to International Markets
|publisher= mashable.com/|date=6 December 2013|accessdate=12 May 2014}}
It also develops several social applications.
History
U2opia Mobile was founded by Sumesh Menon{{cite web|last1=Khan|first1=Taslima|title=What Narendra Modi can do for start-ups|url=http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/election-results-what-narendra-modi-can-do-for-start-ups/1/206234.html|website=businesstoday.intoday.in/|accessdate=12 June 2014}} and Ankit Nautiyal in 2010.
By 2014, the company had a customer base of 15 million in over 33 countries.{{cite web |last1=KK |first1=Sruthijith |title=Two-thirds of the world's mobiles are dumb phones. Meet the company getting them online|url=http://qz.com/217909/two-thirds-of-the-worlds-mobiles-are-dumb-phones-meet-the-company-getting-them-online/|website=qz.com/|publisher=Atlantic Media Co.|accessdate=12 June 2014}}
In October 2017, U2opia Mobile launched Reycreo, a platform geared to help game discovery and adoption in frontier markets.{{Cite news |url=http://bwdisrupt.businessworld.in/article/U2opia-Mobile-Launches-Reycreo-Focuses-on-Game-Distribution-in-Frontier-Markets/10-10-2017-128042/ |title=U2opia Mobile Launches Reycreo Focuses on Game Distribution in Frontier Markets |publisher=BW online bureau |work=BW Disrupt |access-date=11 June 2018|language=en}}
Products and services
Fonetwish, the company’s main product, is a mobile application platform that works on the USSD protocol. It enables customers to access their Facebook or Twitter accounts from any location without having a 3G, EDGE or any other internet connection.{{cite web|author=Chanpreet Khurana |url= http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/pRVrbzk1tKMCQP8fRUWbxH/U2opia-Mobile--Just-text-to-tweet.html|title= U2opia Mobile-Just text to tweet
|publisher= www.livemint.com|date=15 June 2013|accessdate=12 May 2014}} Users can access their accounts by navigating through a textual, session-based interface. The service is popular in several countries in Asia and Africa. The service is also available in Central and South American countries like Haiti, El Salvador and Bolivia. The versions of Facebook and Twitter are text only and do not have any photos or videos.{{Citation needed|date = October 2015}} The company also develops several social applications.{{Citation needed|date = October 2015}}
Operations
U2opia Mobile has offices in Dubai, Gurgaon, and San Francisco along with their headquarters in Singapore. It has over 150 employees and was backed by the private equity investment firm Matrix Partners in 2011. It has partnered with telecom companies such as Bharti Airtel, Facebook and Twitter.{{Citation needed |date = October 2015}}
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