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Mobile Content Bits: Brew Gets Flash; Juicecaster Adds Location; Nokia Goes Live; Guitar Hero Rocks - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 28 May 2008 10:16 AM PST

-- 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…

EA’s Acquisition Of Hands-On Korea: $29 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 26 May 2008 09:52 AM PST

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…

Electronic Arts Buys Korean Division Of Hands-On Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 21 May 2008 06:25 PM PST

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…

Hands-On Mobile Restructures, New CEO and Exec Team - 9 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 19 Oct 2007 09:48 AM PST

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…

Hands-On CEO and President Resign; COO Running The Company - 16 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 03 Aug 2007 03:48 PM PST

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…

Changes at Hands-On: COO Effectively Running Company; New VP; Yahoo Lawsuit Settled? - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 13 Mar 2007 07:50 PM PST

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…

Reorg At HandsOn; COO McCurdy Leaves - 5 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 08 Dec 2006 09:12 PM PST

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,…

Industry Moves: Former EA Exec Heads Up Hands-On’s Studios - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 25 Jul 2006 07:08 PM PST

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

HandsOn Forms Ad Division; China Exposure? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 11 Jul 2006 09:07 AM PST

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…

HandsOn/Mforma Buys Mobile Community Firm Thumbspeed - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 16 May 2006 07:06 PM PST

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…

Hands-On’s Guide To The Galaxy - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 05 May 2006 12:06 PM PST

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…

Hand-On/Mforma: $100 Million Revenues Expected This Year; Dissing Glu - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 03 May 2006 07:05 AM PST

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…

Hands-On/Mforma’s New Logo - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 09 Apr 2006 11:05 AM PST

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

Hands-On is Official - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 05 Apr 2006 09:05 AM PST

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…

Mforma’s Changing Name To “Hands-On Mobile”; Going D2C - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 04 Apr 2006 08:05 AM PST

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,…

More on Mforma’s “Hands On Mobile” - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 28 Mar 2006 08:04 AM PST

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:…

Mforma’s “Hands On Mobile” Brand? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 27 Mar 2006 05:04 PM PST

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…

Mforma Has $100 Million Revenues? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 28 Feb 2006 02:03 PM PST

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

Industry Moves: John Brimacombe Leaves MForma - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 15 Jan 2006 09:02 PM PST

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,…

Mforma’s Jonathan Sacks: First Public Interview As CEO - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 11 Oct 2005 05:10 PM PST

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…

Mforma Gets $30 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 05 Oct 2005 05:10 AM PST

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),…

The Sacks Effect: Mforma Appoints Sacks As CEO; Kranzler Continues As Chairman - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 23 Sep 2005 05:10 PM PST

This will cause some buzz at CTIA conferences on Monday...Mforma, one of the biggest mobile gaming publishers, has appointed its COO Jonathan Sacks as the company’s CEO, as it prepares…

More Marvel On Mobiles? - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 07 Sep 2005 10:09 AM PST

Marvel has scored a line of credit so it can produce up to 10 movies based on its comic characters, with the first expected by 2008. This means you can…

Fantastic (Four) Mobile Content Blitz - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 13 Jul 2005 02:08 PM PST

Mforma scored the mobile content rights to the latest superhero comic-turned-movie, the Fantastic Four. What differentiates this suite of mobile products (which includes a state-of-the-art mobile game plus wallpapers, cell…

@MEM: Am I Too Harsh on Mforma? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 17 Jun 2005 05:06 AM PST

At the MEM conference over the last two days in London, some of our readers asked me if I was a bit too harsh on MForma, the U.S. mobile content…