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WebMobi History
WebMobi is a cloud based mobile web application creation and publishing platform that allows for rapid creation and distribution of mobile web apps and hybrid apps for smartphone and tablets. WebMobi is the 1st mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) that is entirely web-based.

WebMobi was co-founded in 2011 by Sachin Anand and Robert Chiang. Sachin Anand, CEO and co-founder of WebMobi, is an IIT alumni with hands-on software development and product management experience in mobile at Motorola, Sony, Bear Stearns & Hughes. Robert Chiang, CTO and co-founder of WebMobi, has experience in software engineering and business development at HP, Avaya, PCC, Philips Semiconductor, Innopath and other start-ups.

In January 2012, WebMobi launched it's Mobile SaaS platform publicly. With a "freemium" plan model allowing anyone to sign up and experience building apps for free with an extensive list of features, over 1000 apps were quickly built by users within the 1st 6 weeks of launch. Anyone who is skilled enough to create a blog post with links and images can build a mobile app or optimize a webpage for mobile devices. Business and Enterprise subscription plans round out the offering with advanced features that software developers require.

The WebMobi Platform
The platform offers mobile designers and developers the ability to build mobile apps or optimize content for delivery to mobile devices. A typical workflow involves selecting a template to modify and using drag and drop widgets to build pages. Widgets include:
 * custom with image
 * rss feed (blog, pinterest)
 * twitter
 * youtube
 * photos
 * poll
 * map
 * share
 * form
 * openbox
 * store
 * custom (API)
 * multimedia
 * opentable booking
 * event
 * video
 * audio
 * click-to-call

Mobile Device Support
WebMobi is fully compatible with iPhones and iPads (iOS), Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and other major mobile devices with an underlying framework using jQuery Mobile.

Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) features
By July 2012, Webmobi included support for Node.js, PhoneGap, GitHub, push notifications, and a growing number of partner API’s making the platform attractive to enterprise customers looking to build mobile apps for the enterprise. The platform can reside in the cloud, on a private cloud behind the corporate firewall, or in a hybrid configuration. JQuery themeroller support allows for color palette customization to satisfy corporate branding design guidelines.

The WebMobi Mobile API for Clients encapsulates the OS layer, letting developers focus on application functionality instead of the variety of mobile platforms that are out there to support. Code developed with the WebMobi Mobile API for Clients can be integrated into a mobile application created using the WebMobi Mobile control panel.

Publishing / Submitting WebMobi Mobile Apps
For marketing groups needing mobile optimized web content, simply publishing a URL often suffices to meet the need without submitting apps to an app store. For true mobile applications, apps are built in PhoneGap and the WebMobi platform provides the capability to either download the executable app for internal enterprise delivery or submit the app to the appropriate App Store or App Marketplace.