Neofonie

Neofonie GmbH

Industry	Computer software Consumer electronics Digital distribution Computer hardware IT consulting
Founded	Berlin, Germany 1998
Founder(s)	Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen Nurhan Yildirim Oli Kai Paulus
Headquarters	Berlin and Hamburg, Germany
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen (CEO)
Products	See solution listings
Services	See services listing
Employees	180 (2010)
Subsidiaries	List of subsidiaries
Website	http://www.neofonie.com

Neofonie GmbH is a software company from Germany with offices in Berlin and Hamburg. Neofonie GmbH is a solution and fullservice provider specializing on portals, search, social media, e-publishing and mobile applications.

Neofonie was founded by Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen, Nurhan Yildirim and Oli Kai Paulus. They built the first commercial search engines FIREBALL and PAPERBALL as students at Technical University Berlin before founding Neofonie in 1998. Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen used to be CEO of Neofonie until early 2011.

Services

Neofonie Services including business consulting, creative services, software development, systems integration, application service provisioning and quality assurance.

Solutions

Neofonie solutions include the WeFind Enterprise Search engine, WeMagazine e-Publishing Open Platform, WeShare social media solution and the semantic search engine Alexandria.

Subsidiaries

Neofonie subsidiaries include:

• Neofonie Mobile GmbH specializing in development of mobile apps for devices running iOS, Android, Symbian and others.
• WeFind AG specializing in enterprise search engines
• DocInsider running a vertical search and recommendation engine for doctors.

WeTab

Until 2010 Neofonie passed most of its time under the media radar. In April 2010 it came to sudden fame for presenting a competing device to the much ballyhooed Apple iPad. The Neofonie WeTab runs on stronger hardware and uses a combination of MeeGo and Android as operating system. The WeTab was launched in Germany in September 2010.

References

• Neofonie GmbH - The Company. http://www.neofonie.de/files/Neofonie_About_100720.pdf. 
• Neofonie GmbH, Crunchbase. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/neofonie. 
• Neofonie WeTab hands-on @ Engadget. http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/14/neofonie-wetab-hands-on/. 
• Neofonie @ Wikipedia (German). http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofonie. 
• Data about Neofonie Group from German Companies Registry. http://www.firmenwissen.de/index.html?phrase=neofonie&formId=searchform&sortMode=0&sortOrder=1&countryIds=1&countryIds=22&countryIds=27&countryIds=18.