Company
Moovweb
You have invested millions in your online strategy. With Moovweb, mobile is a simple extension of that strategy.
Moovweb brings your business to mobile. What's best depends on your web strategy. It could mean having apps, a mobile website, or both. Sophisticated e-commerce sites may want full capability of their desktop sites. Some brands want a simple landing page. For others, mobile is an altogether different product with many new features.
Regardless of your strategy, our technology handles all the hardest parts by automatically converting your website to work on mobile so that all our effort is spent on the art of creating a great mobile experience for your customers.
We know mobile
We've been writing smartphone apps since 2003 for the first mainstream smartphones and are experts in every major platform since then, including the iPhone. We've released over a dozen apps for the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Nokia (Symbian) platforms, have millions of users, and responded to thousands of pieces of customer feedback. We live and breathe mobile. We know what mobile users want.
We love the web
We want to help unlock the full potential of the web. Companies have spent billions of man-hours developing services for desktop users. Moovweb unlocks all that effort to mobile people by using your existing website.
We were able to build Moovweb by becoming obsessed with how the web works—which is easy in theory but difficult in practice. The modern web is complex with Javascript, sessions, authentication, caching, widgets and more. Our ambitious goal was to have the entire web pass through our servers and still work as designed. After passing a billion live mobile requests, we've made huge progress but are still working. We love finding quirky websites that make us rethink our algorithms. We love the web in all its beauty and hairyness.
We went further. We built an interactive editor—the Moovweb Editor™—to allow us to easily modify the web as it passes through our servers. We found that we had to make the same modifications across many sites, so we wrote hundreds routines that performed those changes generically and with a single click on our Editor.
Finally, we wrote routines for the Editor that made it easy to integrate features to your existing website that are not normally supported by browsers—location detection, advanced caching, page prefetching, among many more. And we wrote client libraries for the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Palm WebOS that communicate with your website through Moovweb with these enhancements—offering your users an experience often better than that on the desktop.
We did this all to delight your customers and improve your business. And we made it easy—we handle all your mobile needs today and in the future and you can continue running your business and website as you always have.
Company History
Moovweb was started at Stanford by Ajay Kapur who was soon joined by Ishan Anand and Andrew Farmer. We've since grown to a team that has worked & studied at MIT, Berkeley, CMU, Caltech, Beijing U., Microsoft, Google, Goldman Sachs, RIM, Oracle, NASA, JPL, and Xerox Parc. We started developing the technology behind Moovweb under the name Next Mobile Web and have served over a billion requests through it on sites such as craigslist.org, netflix.com, facebook.com, yelp.com, wikipedia.org. We are headquartered in downtown SF, profitable, and were initially funded by Andy Bechtolsheim, Eric Hahn, and others.
