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

Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen

Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen was born 30. September 1973 in Bierheim, Germany as Helmut Oertel. After his marriage with Sandra Hoffer von Ankershoffen in 2005 he changed his name....

, 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

Enterprise search

Enterprise search is the practice of making content from multiple enterprise-type sources, such as databases and intranets, searchable to a defined audience.-Enterprise search summary:...

 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
  Vertical search
  A vertical search engine, as distinct from a general web search engine, focuses on a specific segment of online content. The vertical content area may be based on topicality, media type, or genre of content. Common verticals include shopping, the automotive industry, legal information, medical...
  
   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

WeTab

WeTab is a MeeGo-based tablet computer announced by German producer Neofonie in April 2010.The specifics include a 11.6" TN-panel touch screen , a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 processor with fan, 16 GB NAND memory and a total weight of the device of an announced , but actually .Currently most...

 runs on stronger hardware and uses a combination of MeeGo

MeeGo

MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system project. Primarily targeted at mobile devices and information appliances in the consumer electronics market, MeeGo is designed to act as an operating system for hardware platforms such as netbooks, entry-level desktops, nettops, tablet...

and Android as operating system. The WeTab was launched in Germany in September 2010.