Taptu is a mobile search engine, focused on providing the best mobile-friendly results. Since the company was founded in 2005, we’ve been looking for ways to make our own mobile life more interesting, colourful and user-friendly. We crawl the web and create handy little summaries, giving you a snapshot of the results without having to visit the site.

Our blog reflects both the latest Taptu news, as we tinker, build and experiment with it, and also our thoughts about the mobile web as it evolves, out there in the big grownup world.

The team

Jason Harris
Jason is a techie at heart, tinkering with gadgets and mobile devices every time he gets a chance. Living in Portland, Oregon, he carries his MacBook Pro, Nokia N Series phones and iPod Touch everywhere he goes. He’s a devoted dad and much like Steve he’s an avid cyclist. He’s on Twitter too and blogs at TechCraver.

Steve Ives
Steve is the founder of Taptu and man of many great ideas. Previously, he founded Trigenix, which was acquired by Qualcomm Inc in 2004.

More about Taptu

In February 2008, during Mobile World Congress, we received the Mobile Monday Peer Awards’ Community award in the Emerging Startups category, which was a great honour. Then, in April 2008, we were nominated by Red Herring as one of their Top 100 Tech Startups in Europe.

Want to find out more?

• More about Taptu
• Taptu whitepaper on Making Search Social
• What you say about us in the media
• Fancy working at Taptu? Check out the jobs page for new openings
• Questions about how Taptu works? Have a look at the FAQ in case we’ve already answered it!

And of course, you can get in touch with us at hello@taptu.com at any time because we love to hear from you.

Credits:

• The blog template was created by pepsmedia
• The taptology phonetic spelling was provided by Will at Linguistic Mystic
• Various images across the site from artists at istockphoto and our own snap-happy team