page_title: Oke Okaro
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caption_attribution_description: English: Oke Okaro in Lagos, Nigeria on May 3rd, 2015.
context_page_description: Oke Okaro is a British-born Nigerian technologist and product manager. He is the founder of Burner, a wellness technology platform. He founded ESPN Mobile in 2004 and ESPN Interactive TV in 2005. In 2010, he started the mobile and connected devices businesses at Bloomberg L.P.
  Okaro created the first third-party video streaming app for Apple Inc.'s IOS platform with his team at ESPN. He presented the app for ESPN on stage during the IOS 3 release event. Okaro also created the first iOS app with push notifications which he demonstrated at the IOS 3 release event. Okaro also created the first iOS app to use Apple's subscription service when he launched the Bloomberg Businessweek+ app in April 2011. He was a co-creator of BREW, the first mobile application development and distribution platform created by Qualcomm. In 2001, Okaro was among the first people in the U.S. to create mobile apps. Okaro has 12 U.S. patents for mobile technology.
context_section_description: Oke Okaro is a British-born Nigerian technologist and product manager. He is the founder of Burner, a wellness technology platform. He founded ESPN Mobile in 2004 and ESPN Interactive TV in 2005. In 2010, he started the mobile and connected devices businesses at Bloomberg L.P.
  Okaro created the first third-party video streaming app for Apple Inc.'s IOS platform with his team at ESPN. He presented the app for ESPN on stage during the IOS 3 release event. Okaro also created the first iOS app with push notifications which he demonstrated at the IOS 3 release event. Okaro also created the first iOS app to use Apple's subscription service when he launched the Bloomberg Businessweek+ app in April 2011. He was a co-creator of BREW (binary runtime for wireless), the first mobile application development and distribution platform created by Qualcomm. In 2001, Okaro was among the first people in the U.S. to create mobile apps. Okaro has 12 U.S. patents for mobile technology.
caption: Oke Okaro in Lagos, Nigeria on 3 May 2015
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