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…

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MocoNews has learned that mobile games developer Hands-On Mobile is shedding its European game business six years after acquiring the company. This division, which also covers the Middle East and…

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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…

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--Independent Artists Gain Mobile Outlet: A new service available over SMS and online enables artists to sell original works as wallpapers for mobile. Hands-On Mobile launched mixtArt today and many…

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-- 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…

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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…

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Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) is buying out the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the mobile gaming company formerly known as Mforma. The Korean division is best known for its mobile…

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Well, this was coming, after all the management and board troubles over the last year: Hands-On Mobile, the mobile games and apps publisher has done a complete overhaul of the…

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All the turmoil at mobile games and content publisher HandsOn has taken a new and perhaps final turn: CEO Jonathan Sacks and president John Rousseau have been pushed out, after…

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Lots of turmoil and changes at mobile gaming and content firm Hands-On for the last few months...at one time last month, we were getting a tip a day on the…

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MocoNews.net has learned that HandsOn (formerly Mforma), the mobile gaming and content apps company based out of San Francisco, has gone through a reorg, and COO Keith McCurdy has left,…

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Mobile game publisher HandsOn (fka Mforma) has appointed a former EA exec Keith McCurdy as president of studios and products. He will  responsible for HandsOn’s games and product strategies, which…

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Mobile content publisher and distributor HandsOn (fka Mforma) has formed an advertising division, headed by veteran publishing exec John Rousseau...this marks HandsOn’s moves into mobile marketing arena. Rousseau is the…

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This is the first acqusition HandsOn (fka MForma) has done in a long time now, after a flurry of acquisitions last year. It has bought out Bellevue, WA-based Thumbspeed. Founded…

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This is funny, if nothing else...see this link and compare the logos. Inspiration comes from everywhere, I would say...and that’s all I will say. Hey, we’re just linking…

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Said Hands-On CEO Jonathan Sacks in this story: The profitable SF firm is on track to bring in “well over $100 million” in sales this year. And Sacks is growing…

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Here it is, below..the site is also live now  

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Mforma has announced its name change to Hands-On Mobile, a moved we reported on first. The logic, from CEO Jonathan Sacks: “Consumers want entertaining, enriching and empowering content at their…

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So as I suspected and found out, the mobile content publisher Mforma is indeed changing its name to ”Hands-On Mobile”, a source told me...it is slated to announce during CTIA,…

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Updated below:  Coincidentally, the latest issue of Mobile Media newsletter from Informa discovered the same trademark filing as I did...and they come to a similar speculative conclusion like I did:…

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Found this out on a tip: Mforma, the mobile content publisher, has filed for a trademark for the term “HANDS ON MOBILE”...the trademark application filing is here. Not exactly sure…

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So says an AP story, referring to the Yahoo-suing-Mforma story. I’m watching for that S-1 soon…

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John Brimacombe, who was the chief strategy officer in games for mobile content company Mforma, has left the company, MocoNews.net has learned. Before MForma, he was the CEO of nGame,…

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Our contributor Matt Maier, of Business 2.0, scores the first public interview with Jonathan Sacks, the new CEO of Mforma, where Sacks speaks about Mforma’s marketing strategy, when he plans…

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Looks like this is the mezzanine round before Mforma goes public...this is the third round and closed in at $30 million.  The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP),…

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