In the beginning of May I posted about the BlackBerry Partners Fund announcing the second BlackBerry Developers Challenge at WES 2009. The Challenge opened yesterday at 12 A.M. and will run until September 25, 2009 at 11:59 P.M.

The Grand Prize will consist of a cash prize of $75,000 plus a $25,000 Grand Prize Package, with 16 finalist prizes including one week in the App World Featured Application Carousel, a DevCon Pass, a BlackBerry smartphone and participation in BlackBerry Partner Fund Demo Event at DevCon.

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This morning the BlackBerry Partners Fund announced the second BlackBerry Developers Challenge at WES 2009.

We believe that strong developer ecosystems yield significant innovation and opportunity. As venture investors, we are always looking for bright entrepreneurs doing never-before-thought-of-things. So this year we are merging an app contest and business plan competition to discover a compelling investment opportunity for the Fund. The Grand Prize may be valued at $50,000, but if we are successful it could be worth much much more.

You can submit your email address to be notified when the challenge opens at the BlackBerry Developers Challege 2009 page. For more info check out the BBFundBlog.

Good luck to those developers who plan on entering!

Best of Show Grand Prizes

Two (2) $150,000 Investment Opportunities by the BlackBerry Partners Fund™. These investment awards will be in the form of a convertible debenture. There will be additional terms and conditions with respect to the investments with which the winners must agree to prior to the issuance of this debenture.

Finalists

Personal Productivity and Lifestyle
Finalist: AP News Mobile by Associated Press and FreeRange Communications
Finalist: PaperIQ Digital Flipchart by DevelopIQ
Finalist: Poynt by Multiplied Media

Multimedia
Finalist: Flycast Mobile Broadcast Network by Flycast
Finalist: Nobex Radio Companion by Nobex Technologies, Inc.
Finalist: Strands Social Player by Strands Inc.

Web
Finalist: Billing Revolution Merchant Account Tool by Billing Revolution
Finalist: Gym Technik by TSR Gym Technik Ltd.
Finalist: MLB.com Gameday by Major League Baseball Advanced Media

Game
Finalist: Astraware Platypus by Handmark
Finalist: Hard Rock Casino 2 by EA Mobile
Finalist: Nintaii by Mobigloo LLC

Enterprise
Finalist: B*Nator Remote Control for BlackBerry by ISEC7 GmbH
Finalist: Bridge for Highrise by Metova, Inc.
Finalist: Optimii by Outerin Limited

Source – BlackBerry Partners Fund

Gain distinction by entering to win the BlackBerry Partners Fund™ Developer Challenge for BlackBerry® Developers. The challenge is designed for BlackBerry® developers that have created their own BlackBerry applications in one of five main categories:

• Most Innovative Game
• Most Innovative Multimedia Application
• Most Innovative Personal Productivity and Lifestyle Application
• Most Innovative Enterprise Application
• Most Innovative Web Application

Each category will have three (3) finalists, for a total of 15 winners. A Grand prize winner will be chosen for each category.

Deadline: September 30, 2008

I recently made a post about the BlackBerry Partners Fund website being down. Well it turns out that the site was being updated to an entirely new look with a few additions. Not only that, but a developers challenge was announced.

Gain distinction by entering to win the BlackBerry Partners Fund™ Developer Challenge for BlackBerry® Developers. The challenge is designed for BlackBerry® developers that have created their own BlackBerry applications in one of five main categories:

• Most Innovative Game.
• Most Innovative Multimedia Application.
• Most Innovative Personal Productivity and Lifestyle Application.
• Most Innovative Enterprise Application.
• Most Innovative Web Application.

Each category will have three (3) finalists, for a total of 15 winners. A Grand prize winner will be chosen for each category.

The contest officially begins August 19, 2008, but applications are already being accepted. The deadline to submit applications is September 30, 2008.

Registration for the Developers Challenge is now open.

For more info and to register click here.

The BlackBerry Partners Fund is also sponsoring a 2008 BlackBerry Developers Conference which will be held on October 21 and 22 in Santa Clara, California. Click here for more info.

To check out the new BlackBerry Partners Site website click here.