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Experts discuss ways to embed patient voices and values in clinical research

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Reforms needed to rebuild public trust in clinical trials, reports Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Rochester, MN, April 30, 2013 There is worldwide concern in the biomedical research community that enrollment in clinical trials is lagging, putting clinical research and consequent benefits to society in jeopardy. Experts explore ways to embed patient voices and values in clinical research in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Clinical trials of new drugs, devices, or procedures require the active participation of human volunteers. Mark A. Yarborough, PhD, of the Bioethics Program, University of California Davis, calls for greater transparency about the social value of research in recruiting patients to participate in clinical trials, as part of the initial informed consent process.

"Not all clinical research is equal," Dr. Yarborough says, comparing research into the use of stem cells to improve the life of Huntington's disease patients with "me too" drug studies that are competing with existing and effective (and often cheaper) medicines to treat conditions such as hypertension. "Clinical research has produced a lot of good, life-improving and life-saving drugs that have really improved the lot of patients. But we need to remain mindful that some trials are more deserving of public trust than others." He proposes the incorporation of a clear declaration in informed consent forms that states whether a trial is investigating a way to potentially improve current medical care and explains why it does or does not have the potential to do so.

"We owe the public honest disclosure about why any given trial is being conducted so that they understand the extent to which a trial, if completed, could promote the common good," Dr. Yarborough explains. "The informed consent process is one way to provide this disclosure to prospective research participants."

Yarborough acknowledges that there may be critics but, he continues, "One possible good outcome is just to have discussion about transparency about the research setting. I hope a consensus will emerge from this conversation that increased transparency will help to build the public's trust."

In the same issue, investigators at the Cleveland Clinic and McMaster University report on a prospective observational trial to explore the effect of the timing of obtaining consent. They monitored the timing of seeking informed consent for a moderate- to high-risk trial of clonidine and aspirin in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery and found that, contrary to expectations, patients did not have increased anxiety or decreased understanding if they are asked on the same day as the surgery is due to take place.

"This is the first study, to our knowledge, to specifically compare the impact of consenting on the day of surgery with consenting before that time on patient comprehension," observes lead investigator Daniel I. Sessler, MD, of the Department of Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic. "From a practical perspective, consenting before the day of surgery appears preferable, but proposing moderate- to high-risk research on the day of surgery itself does not compromise essential elements of the consent process."

In an accompanying Editorial, Barbara A. Koenig, PhD, of the Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco, notes that both articles focus on just a single component of human research protection: the informed consent process. "We must reform a system that valorizes the informed consent process to the exclusion of other elements of human research participant protection," says Dr. Koenig.

"I applaud efforts to conduct empirical research interrogating standard informed consent practices and we need more well-designed studies," Koenig comments, referring to the study by Sessler and colleagues. "However, current efforts to reform the conduct of human research rest too heavily on revising the informed consent process and place too much emphasis on disclosure of risk or potential researcher conflict of interest to the human research participant, to the relative exclusion of other equally important or potentially more important components of the research approval process."

Koenig also questions whether explaining the social value of a clinical trial to research participants is the answer. "Although I share Yarborough's desire to make certain that the social utility of research is highlighted ... his disclosure-based reform assumes that individual patients, confronted by information and data, will 'just say no' to research that lacks social value, in the same way they might seek to minimize personal risk," she says.

Koenig believes that a renewed focus on promoting and enabling authentic ethical reflection as well as a new pathway for embedding patient values and voices into the practice of research is needed. "We cannot simply ask individual patients, unaided, to weigh risk levels and evaluate projects by themselves."

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Reforms needed to rebuild public trust in clinical trials, reports Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Rochester, MN, April 30, 2013 There is worldwide concern in the biomedical research community that enrollment in clinical trials is lagging, putting clinical research and consequent benefits to society in jeopardy. Experts explore ways to embed patient voices and values in clinical research in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Clinical trials of new drugs, devices, or procedures require the active participation of human volunteers. Mark A. Yarborough, PhD, of the Bioethics Program, University of California Davis, calls for greater transparency about the social value of research in recruiting patients to participate in clinical trials, as part of the initial informed consent process.

"Not all clinical research is equal," Dr. Yarborough says, comparing research into the use of stem cells to improve the life of Huntington's disease patients with "me too" drug studies that are competing with existing and effective (and often cheaper) medicines to treat conditions such as hypertension. "Clinical research has produced a lot of good, life-improving and life-saving drugs that have really improved the lot of patients. But we need to remain mindful that some trials are more deserving of public trust than others." He proposes the incorporation of a clear declaration in informed consent forms that states whether a trial is investigating a way to potentially improve current medical care and explains why it does or does not have the potential to do so.

"We owe the public honest disclosure about why any given trial is being conducted so that they understand the extent to which a trial, if completed, could promote the common good," Dr. Yarborough explains. "The informed consent process is one way to provide this disclosure to prospective research participants."

Yarborough acknowledges that there may be critics but, he continues, "One possible good outcome is just to have discussion about transparency about the research setting. I hope a consensus will emerge from this conversation that increased transparency will help to build the public's trust."

In the same issue, investigators at the Cleveland Clinic and McMaster University report on a prospective observational trial to explore the effect of the timing of obtaining consent. They monitored the timing of seeking informed consent for a moderate- to high-risk trial of clonidine and aspirin in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery and found that, contrary to expectations, patients did not have increased anxiety or decreased understanding if they are asked on the same day as the surgery is due to take place.

"This is the first study, to our knowledge, to specifically compare the impact of consenting on the day of surgery with consenting before that time on patient comprehension," observes lead investigator Daniel I. Sessler, MD, of the Department of Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic. "From a practical perspective, consenting before the day of surgery appears preferable, but proposing moderate- to high-risk research on the day of surgery itself does not compromise essential elements of the consent process."

In an accompanying Editorial, Barbara A. Koenig, PhD, of the Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco, notes that both articles focus on just a single component of human research protection: the informed consent process. "We must reform a system that valorizes the informed consent process to the exclusion of other elements of human research participant protection," says Dr. Koenig.

"I applaud efforts to conduct empirical research interrogating standard informed consent practices and we need more well-designed studies," Koenig comments, referring to the study by Sessler and colleagues. "However, current efforts to reform the conduct of human research rest too heavily on revising the informed consent process and place too much emphasis on disclosure of risk or potential researcher conflict of interest to the human research participant, to the relative exclusion of other equally important or potentially more important components of the research approval process."

Koenig also questions whether explaining the social value of a clinical trial to research participants is the answer. "Although I share Yarborough's desire to make certain that the social utility of research is highlighted ... his disclosure-based reform assumes that individual patients, confronted by information and data, will 'just say no' to research that lacks social value, in the same way they might seek to minimize personal risk," she says.

Koenig believes that a renewed focus on promoting and enabling authentic ethical reflection as well as a new pathway for embedding patient values and voices into the practice of research is needed. "We cannot simply ask individual patients, unaided, to weigh risk levels and evaluate projects by themselves."

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First Data names JPMorgan executive Bisignano as CEO

MADRID, April 28 (Reuters) - Malaga kept up their push for a possible return to the Champions League next season with a 2-1 win at home Getafe that lifted them to fifth in La Liga on Sunday. Striker Roque Santa Cruz headed them in front just before halftime and defender Weligton doubled the lead with another header, this time from a corner, two minutes after the re-start. Getafe pulled one back with a close-range volley from Juan Valera in the 70th minute and Manuel Pellegrini's side endured some nervy moments near the end as they missed a number of chances to settle the game. ...

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European Union: Nuclear talks with Iran have failed

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - Iran and six world powers failed to reach agreement Saturday on an approach to reducing fears that Tehran might use its nuclear technology to make weapons, with the EU's foreign policy chief declaring that the two sides "remain far apart on substance."

Expectations that the negotiations were making progress rose as an afternoon session was extended into the evening. But comments by the two sides made clear that they failed to make enough headway to qualify the meeting as a success.

"What matters in the end is substance, and ... we are still a considerable distance apart," Catherine Ashton, the European Union's head of foreign policy, told reporters at the end of the two-day talks.

Ashton said negotiators would now consult with their capitals. She made no mention of plans for a new meeting - another sign that the gap dividing the two sides remains substantial.

Chief Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili spoke of "some distance between the positions of the two sides." He suggested Iran was ready to discuss meeting a key demand of the other side - cutting back its highest-grade uranium enrichment production and stockpile - but only if the six reciprocated with concessions far greater than they are now willing to make.

Iran's 20 percent enriched uranium is just a step away from weapons-grade uranium. Stopping its production and shipping out most of it would keep Iran's supply below the amount needed for further processing into a weapon.

The six - the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany - say the Islamic Republic must meet its demand on 20 percent uranium, and make that move first, to build confidence that its nuclear program is peaceful.

But Iran wants greater rewards for any concessions that the six are ready to give. They have offered to lift sanctions on Iran's gold transactions and petrochemical trade. But Tehran wants much more substantial sanctions relief. It seeks an end to international penalties crippling its oil trade and financial transactions.

Jalili questioned that it was up to Iran to make the first step, saying it was up to the six powers to demonstrate their "willingness and sincerity." He urged them to "take appropriate confidence-building steps in the future" - shorthand for Iran's request to lift major sanctions and offer other concessions.

The talks already seemed to run into trouble shortly after they began Friday with a Western diplomat saying Iran's response to the offer from the group fell short of what the six wanted and instead amounted to a "reworking" of proposals it made last year at negotiations that broke up in disagreement.

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Conn. gov faults gun lobbyists over restrictions

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ? Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy harshly criticized gun industry lobbyists on Sunday, saying they are doing too little to halt gun violence.

Just three days after he signed into law new restrictions on weapons and large-capacity magazines, the governor compared Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, to clowns and said lobbyists want to ensure that the industry can sell guns indiscriminately.

"Wayne reminds me of the clowns at the circus," Malloy said of LaPierre on CNN's "State of the Union." ''They get the most attention and that's what he's paid to do."

Representatives of the NRA did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

"What this is about is the ability of the gun industry to sell as many guns to as many people as possible even if they're deranged, even if they're mentally ill, even if they have a criminal background," Malloy said. "They don't care. They want to sell guns."

Robert Crook, executive director of the Connecticut Coalition of Sportsmen, a lobbying group, said Malloy's criticism was "absolutely false."

"It's another political statement from a governor with little knowledge," he said.

Connecticut's gun industry supports a gun trafficking task force and tighter background checks of buyers, Crook said.

Andrew Doba, a spokesman for Malloy, said the Democratic governor was criticizing lobbyists, not the gun industry. Malloy has said he wants Connecticut's large gun industry to remain in the state, though gun manufacturers say the new restrictions will hurt their business.

"People are welcome to stay in our state as long as they're producing a product that can be sold in the United States legally," Malloy said.

Nearly four months after a gunman killed 20 children and six educators at an elementary school in Newtown, lawmakers and Malloy enacted legislation that adds more than 100 firearms to the state's assault weapons ban. It also immediately bans the sale of magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. People who purchased those guns and magazines before midnight Wednesday will be allowed to keep them if they're registered with the state police before Jan. 1.

Required background checks for private gun sales also take effect.

Other parts of the new law include a ban on armor-piercing bullets, establishment of a deadly weapon offender registry, expansion of circumstances when a person's mental health history disqualifies them from holding a gun permit, mandatory reporting of voluntary hospital commitments, doubled penalties for gun trafficking and other firearms violations, and $1 million to fund the statewide firearms trafficking task force.

Malloy said he preferred an "all-out ban" on magazines of more than 10 rounds of ammunition, but the legislature opposed him on the issue.

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Facebook?s long road to ?mobile best?: HTML5, native apps, and now Home

Facebook has come a long way in its quest to be a mobile force to be reckoned with ? but it?s still not there. On Thursday, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg told press and the world that his company had become a ?mobile first, mobile best? company with the release of its Android launcher software called ?Home?. But for all of its efforts, can Zuckerberg claim that Facebook has really reached that goal of a mobile nirvana?

There?s no discounting the fact that Facebook has made a concentrated effort in trying to reach out its more than 1 billion users on every feasible platform ? desktop, phone, and tablet. From building HTML5 apps to those that run on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry, to now its evolution ? the Facebook phone and Home, just how does Facebook?s standing in the mobile space really measure up?

The rise and stagnation of Facebook?s HTML5 app

Where exactly is Zuckerberg, let alone Facebook, going with its mobile presence? The company says that no matter what kind of phone you?re using, whether it?s an iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone, the social network will be accessible to you.

But the company has been rather wish-washy in what they claim will be the best thing for its users. Last October, Zuckerberg said that more people used the service more on its mobile-targeted website versus on the iPhone and Android combined.

?iPhone is a great platform. There are more people who use Facebook on Android ? because Android is just ? more people use it, at this point. And the thing that I think a lot of people don?t think about is that there are actually more people in the world using Facebook on mobile Web, right, so not using the apps on iOS or Android, but actually just going to a browser on a phone.?There are more people doing that than the iPhone and all of Android phones combined, right? So it?s actually a pretty diverse ecosystem.

By reading that statement, it?s apparent that Zuckerberg really wanted the mobile Web to succeed, and it very well could have ? and still might with those lesser advanced phones and for those users who refuse to download the app. But keep in mind that a month prior to Facebook?s CEO making that statement, he appeared on TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in his first public appearance since the company went public and admitted that it was the company?s ?biggest strategic mistake? to go with HTML5 instead of a native app.

Enter the native apps

In August 2012, Facebook released an update to its iOS app that makes it more native to the iPhone and iPad device. People have said the experience using the company?s HTML5-based app with a UIWebView interface was simply terrible: long load times, notifications were intermittent, and the app even crashed quite frequently. Facebook heard these complaints and recognized it needed to change its strategy:

On iOS and Android you can just do so much better by doing native work and we needed to do that.

With this update, the social network company said it rebuilt everything from the ground up and that it became twice as fast as its predecessors when launched on the iOS device.

Several months later, the company released a native Android app. In announcing the release, it said that ?we?re moving from a hybrid native/webview to pure native code, allowing us to optimize the Facebook experience for faster loading, new user interfaces, disk cache, and so on.?

The launch of the native apps could be considered to be a major milestone for the company because it?s a good sign that Facebook was beginning to take the mobile experience of its users very seriously. If they hadn?t, would it be subject to a similar fate that other social networks like MySpace (not Myspace) and Friendster?

On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, Zuckerberg said that over the next three to five years, the performance of his company would ?depend on how we do with mobile.?

It?s fundamentally misunderstood how good mobile is on Facebook. There?s more engagement, they?re spending more time. We also think that we?re going to make more money on the time that they spend on mobile.

Mobile is vital to Facebook?s existence

Facebook has a lot riding on being a mobile company. Following its disappointing IPO, its COO Sheryl Sandberg appeared on CNBC and said she supported Zuckerberg?s statement. She also said that to help compensate for its performance, mobile and advertising products would be key to winning the hearts of investors.

Zuckerberg?s point was reiterated following the company?s Q3 2012 earnings report?on a call where it was announced that more money was to be made from mobile ? an area where people had a 70 percent likelihood of using Facebook daily. ?Most people underestimate how fundamentally good the trend towards mobile can be for Facebook,? he said.??We should be able to reach more people on mobile than on desktops.?

As TNW?s Matthew Panzarino reported, Zuckerberg believed that over the long run, more monetization for time will happen on mobile than on desktop ? partially because of the fact that ads need to be built into the mobile apps and made to work like ?movies? which will be more likely to engage users.

Owning the experience

Last fall, Facebook revealed that in its pursuit to improve the mobile experience, it had directed its different teams to own their product experience. This is a considerable change in the world?s largest social network. Now, teams are able to ?push the envelope? when it comes to their applications and, after soliciting feedback from experts and thought leaders, they can create more thoughtfully-executed experiences across multiple platforms. In addition, these teams will be able to rapidly share any changes with its users without having lengthy internal review times.

Currently, the social network has a few stand-alone applications besides its base service, including Instagram, Messenger, Poke, and Pages. Facebook also has Camera? although it appears not much has been done with it since its launch and the acquisition of Instagram.

Already we?re seeing departments with Facebook launching some new features, including VoIP calling through its Messenger app in Canada, the US, and the UK.

A different way to make money through mobile

After all of this effort, some might wonder whether Facebook has finally broken through the barrier and has found magic bullet to mastering the mobile space. Slowly it looks that way and through native apps. It has even initiated new programs to help developers monetize their products besides the traditional banner ads. Previously, the only way for advertisements to happen on the social network was through the desktop.

Last October, the company announced the release of its mobile app install ads feature ? a new advertising service to help drive users to install apps on their smartphones.

Naturally, advertising has been one of the traditional forms of monetization for any company and it?s no different for Facebook. The launch of its advertising platform has made some to compare it to Google, but could it compete??Sandberg thinks so. She says that its advertising programs are strong enough to rival even Google. As we reported then, she says that?with great targeting and the fact that people are using the service to reach customers who are real and will truly engage, there can be tremendous value for marketers to ?get the bank for their buck that they need?.

Google recently released its Google+ sign in feature, which also now implements the behavior of the mobile app install ads.

For its part, mobile advertising seems to be paying off for Facebook. In Q4 2012, the company revealed that 23 percent of its advertising revenue was made up from its mobile ad platform, worth $305 million. This was a 9 percent increase from the previous quarter.

The journey to Home

It?s clear that Facebook has had much success with its native applications and there appears to be an increase in mobile usage as a result. The company said in its Q3 10-Q filing that it expects more users to come from mobile devices than desktop and that quarter was the first that statement became true. With more than 1.01 billion users, 604 million of them are mobile, perhaps because of its flexibility in being portable.

To that end, it probably shouldn?t surprise anyone that last Thursday, Facebook released its first phone, at least technically. Through its Android launcher it?s calling Home, the company says it?s hoping to change the dynamics of the mobile landscape by no longer making the experience about the apps, but rather the people.

If you?re thinking that this is a larger move for Facebook to create an operating system, you?re mistaken. Zuckerberg said that Home isn?t an operating system, nor is it a phone. It?s an integration layer ? some might reference it to be akin to your desktop on Microsoft Windows in that it?s all about the customization.

As TNW?s Emil Protalinski said, ?a launcher means Facebook can get Android users to install, and Android partners to preload Home as an additional option. It?s a genius move that ensures Facebook?s presence on the world?s most popular operating system becomes even more important.?

Starting with the HTC First, Facebook looks like it wants to build an ecosystem of its supported apps right on a user?s phone. Of course, privacy concerns abound, but the company has said that its system will not track the device?s GPS location, and can be turned off and reverted back to the stock Android OS version. In addition, Facebook says that it will not look at any data from non-supported applications.

Advertisements will not be displayed in Home, but in the future could be added, leading some to believe that much more targeted ads are set to be revealed.

In the end, Facebook has gone from trying to take on the mobile Web to seeing its revival with native apps. Now, it appears to be looking forward to expanding its reach to something more holistic ? the entire device. Could this be Facebook?s way to mimic Google?s Chromebook computers, but for the mobile device? We?ll have to wait and see ? perhaps the social network company will release some more apps to support its ecosystem to help the phones truly be all about Facebook.

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2 supremacists sought in Colo. prisons chief death

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows paroled inmate Evan Spencer Ebel. A clerical error allowed Ebel, suspected of killing Colorado?s prisons chief, to be released from custody about four years early, officials said Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections, File)

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows paroled inmate Evan Spencer Ebel. A clerical error allowed Ebel, suspected of killing Colorado?s prisons chief, to be released from custody about four years early, officials said Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections, File)

DENVER (AP) ? Authorities investigating the death of Colorado's prisons chief have issued an alert seeking two members of a white supremacist prison gang.

El Paso County sheriff's Lt. Jeff Kramer said Wednesday that deputies are seeking 47-year-old James Lohr and 31-year-old Thomas Guolee in connection with the death of Tom Clements. He says their names surfaced during the investigation and the men could be headed to Nevada or Texas.

The Denver Post reports (http://bit.ly/ZAIGxt ) both men are members of the white supremacist prison gang 211 Crew. That's the same gang whose members included Evan Ebel (EE'-bul), who is suspected in the fatal shootings of Clements on March 19 and of a pizza delivery driver two days earlier.

Ebel was killed in a shootout with Texas authorities after their deaths.

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Where in the world is it safe to travel?

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Reports of brutal rapes of foreign tourists in India and Brazil in recent months have rocked the international travel industry.

According to data cited by The Atlantic, visitors to India have dropped 25 percent since December's fatal gang-rape of a young woman on a bus in the capital of New Delhi, and 35 percent among female travelers. And that data was compiled before March 16, when a Swiss woman who was touring the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh by bicycle with her husband was gang-raped by a group of eight men.

In Madhya Pradesh, there are nine reported rapes every day, according to the Washington Post.

In Brazil, where an American tourist was raped by three men over the course of six hours on Monday, reports of rapes there have risen 150 percent since 2009, The Atlantic reported.

Not surprisingly, Brazil and India are among the most dangerous places to travel, according to an interactive map produced by Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs.

But they're not the most dangerous: North Korea, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Mali, Niger, Sudan, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Somalia are where would-be tourists are warned to "avoid all travel."

For other countries, like Libya, visitors are cautioned to "avoid non-essential travel."

The color-coded danger map also includes region- and time-specific warnings. In Pakistan, tourists are told to avoid:

- areas reporting military or militant activity;
- all border areas, except the Wagha official border crossing point;
- Kashmir region, including Azad Kashmir;
- the province of Baluchistan, including the city of Quetta;
- the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, including Swat, the city of Peshawar and the Khyber Pass;
- and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

In Mexico, those "required to travel to Monterrey, in the state of Nuevo Le?n, should avoid movement after dark and stay within the suburb of San Pedro Garza Garc?a."

So where, exactly, is it safe to travel? Australia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, most of Europe, Greenland, Iceland, New Zealand, Malaysia, South Korea, the United States and Uruguay, according to the agency.

"No matter where in the world you intend to travel," the department's website advises, "make sure you check the travel advice and advisories page twice: once when you are planning your trip, and again shortly before you leave. ... The decision to travel is the sole responsibility of the individual."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/countries-safe-danger-travel-140344866.html

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BillPin Acquires Obopay's BillMonk Bill-Splitting Service

After some years of languishing, BillMonk’s service and user base will be taken over by a young Singapore startup, BillPin, which provides a similar bill-splitting service. Just over six months old, BillPin pitches itself as a “Mint for groups” and offers a way for people to track how much money they owe each other. It has plenty of competitors in the bill-splitting space, including?Splitwise, Billsup, Spotme, Divvyit, Splitmybill.ie;?scooping up BillMonk’s user base might provide it a firm leg up in the fight for user acquisition. BillMonk was founded in 2005 and was acquired by Indian mobile money provider Obopay in 2007. It’s one of the older players in the space, and seems to have suffered from neglect for a few years. Some of its competitors have tried to capitalize on that. Splitwise launched a campaign to bring BillMonk users onboard last year. BillPin launched a similar service?in October last year. BillPin’s co-founder, Darius Cheung (whose previous startup, tenCube WaveSecure, was acquired by McAfee in 2010), acknowledged the older firm’s state of neglect.?”Not much improvement was added to BillMonk at all over the past seven years, and in fact BillMonk has suffered significant down time in the last six months or so,” he said. Of the migration service BillPin created, he said: “It was launched to catch BillMonk users who were frustrated with its downtime, but we didn’t know then we were going to inherit its entire user base.” Still, BillMonk continued to add users over its lifetime, and steadily at that, he said. As a result, bringing BillMonk’s user base onboard will give BillPin “easily 50 times” more users. He wouldn’t say how many that is, but according to reports, BillPin has a small base of 5,000 or so users. He made it clear that this move was an acquisition of the larger service’s user base, but none of BillMonk’s engineers will come over from Obopay. BillPin has five employees in Singapore and one in India. It’s bootstrapped so far, but Cheung is currently hoping to raise an angel round. Obopay started in 2005, and provides technology to corporate clients like Nokia and Societe Generale, and telcos like Warid Telecom in Uganda to allow them to offer their own branded mobile money-transfer services. It was started in Bangalore, and now has its headquarters in Redwood City, Calif. It has Bangalore and Mumbai offices.

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