ShoZu was founded in 2001 in London and was acquired by Critical Path, Inc. in 2010. Critical Path has offices around the globe and is a private company, backed by its main shareholders, General Atlantic Partners and Cheung Kong Group.
ShoZu allows users to maximise the potential of their mobile phones to become their personal social media hub.
As key ingredients to the company vision, ShoZu’s leadership team brings together players from the mobile handset, application development, mobile network infrastructure, and imaging and online destination realms.
ShoZu is part of Critical Path, Inc, which is backed by its main shareholders, General Atlantic Partners and Cheung Kong Group.
As an open technology – ShoZu is a single application that integrates with numerous partner sites and content feeds. Unlike the mobile internet, our patented data replication technology allows data transfers to happen invisibly to the user, making the user experience supremely easy and engaging. There’s no streaming, buffering, or waiting for content to move from here to there.
With our growing network of partners, ShoZu strives to create the best mobile user experience available. Through access to, and straightforward integration with the ShoZu gateway, our partners are thriving in the mobile space.
ShoZu works with many leading industry associations to drive mobile technology and the industry forward.
ShoZu won ”The Most Innovative Mobile Application” category at 2007 3GSM Awards
We won the “Best Branded Content Application” Category at 2006 Forum Nokia PRO awards
We won the “Best Mobile Entertainment Application” Category at 2006 CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas
