Widgets for Your Mobile Life

Plusmo (Santa Clara, CA) an Under the Radar grad that built an easy to use multi-device mobile widgets development platform, has had a busy year. The company won top honors at multiple dev challenges, including the Nokia Developer Summit and the Nokia Hackathon.

Multi-platform Widgets Pay Off Big Time for Plusmo

Plusmo widgets pack a lot of punch, with traffic numbers pushing north of 100M mobile pageviews a month. The firm raised 4.41M last year from New Enterprise Associates and HRJ Capital (Capital Dynamics), and has heavenly angel support.

Seems like the M&A situation may be heating up…AT&T snapped up Plusmo for an undisclosed amount, and will fold the tech into its Interactive division (which includes wireless dev efforts and will allow the firm to roll out apps like YPmobile – a mobile version of YELLOWPAGES.COM – across multiple handsets).

Looks like AT&T wanted an in house dev shop to reduce development time/$, and allow quick updates when new features are ready to roll. Perhaps most interesting is AT&Ts drive to be first with app and widget integration across mobile, TV, and web.

Check out the press release here. More at TechMeme here. Congrats to Aydin Senkut, the rest of Plusmo’s angel board, and the entire Plusmo team.

Hang with AT&T at Under the Radar this year – seems like carriers may be on the prowl for additional tech and talent acquisitions. It’s a good time to go mobile…