PointAbout featured in Bisnow for its participation in the Deloitte Tech Venture Center panel on mobile advertising.

Click here to view the full Bisnow write-up.  Bisnow writes, “Yesterday morning¸ we rose early to hear about a certain market that’s growing despite the economic downturn: mobile advertising. We joined about 30 others for an executive briefing at the Deloitte Tech Venture Center in McLean, where we learned the number of mobile devices in the U.S. will jump more than 32% next year. You mean there’ll be even more than there are Starbucks?

PointAbout co-founder Daniel Odio and Mobile Posse CEO Jon Jackson. Daniel’s three-month-old startup creates shell mobile applications that use the phone’s GPS to retrieve useful information. They even created a Metrorail app to show your nearest stop and scheduled wait time. (We hope the 2.0 version will help us find an empty seat on the bus.) Jon tells us Mobile Posse is a targetedmobile advertising platform and just inked a deal to carryGaithersburg-based Weather Bug’s info.”