Hands-On Mobile, mostly known for its mobile games business, now hopes to tap into the outside developer community. The company is leveraging mixt, its lesser known thin client portal, to increase the distribution of web-based applications. Hands-On Mobile Developer Network, which is open for beta after...
Connect2Media is preparing to release 12 games for the Android operating system, Mobile Entertainment reports . Less than two months after merging with the European operations of Hands-On Mobile, the firm is gearing up to make the games available when Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) launches the Android Market...
London-based Connect2Media , a publisher of mobile content, which just merged with the European operations of Hands-On, said it has acquired RayFusion, an Israeli-based mobile content distributor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition will enable RayFusion to expand its distribution to...
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MocoNews has learned that mobile games developer Hands-On Mobile is shedding its European game business four years after acquiring the company. This division, which also covers the Middle East and Africa, will be transferred to an expanded Connect 2 Media , a cross-platform game developer. The business...
The latest mobile games report from Nielsen Mobile shows in startling detail how hard it is to make money in this business. Of the 141 publishers tracked, shockingly few—only 55—made money through U.S. carrier partnerships in the second quarter. Even more striking, a majority of revenues—62 percent—are...
-- Qualcomm ( NSDQ: QCOM ) and Adobe Systems ( NSDQ: ADBE ) announced today at the Brew conference in San Diego that they have upgraded the Brew mobile platform to support Adobe Flash technology, which will allow developers to use video and other Flash content when creating applications in the Brew environment...
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Last week EA announced its acquisition of the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the mobile gaming company formerly known as Mforma. At that time, no financial details were released, but now digging through EA's annual report, filed late in Friday, the amount is known: it is $29 million in cash...
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Electronic Arts ( NSDQ: ERTS ) is buying out the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the moble gaming company formerly known as Mforma. The Korean division is best known for its mobile role-playing game, Heroes Lore. Upon completion of the deal, the Korea team will become EA Mobile Korea , and Gilbert...
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