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Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 14 May 2008 10:46 AM PST
Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) shares rose today after an analyst ungraded the stock following the mobile game publisher’s solid Q1 results yesterday. The stock is up today about 40 cents,…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 13 May 2008 02:05 PM PST
-- CelluMall is the latest effort by Cellufun to generate revenue. Cellufun runs an ad-supported mobile games community, and the idea behind CelluMall is that players will be able to…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 13 May 2008 05:45 AM PST
Mobile games firm Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) announced first quarter revenue of $20.6 million, up from $15.7 million compared to the same period a year ago. They also reported a…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 13 May 2008 01:00 AM PST
-- *Glu* unveils “Mystery Case” game: Today, Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) is unveiling “Mystery Case Files: Agent X,” a game designed and developed by Big Fish Games for mobile phones…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 09 May 2008 05:42 PM PST
-- O2 and Samsung are teaming up to sell exclusive content for the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie. Wallpapers, true tones, voice tones and…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 08 May 2008 03:53 PM PST
Rafat is reporting over on our sister site PaidContent.org that RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) says it will spin-off its global casual games business into an independent company by the end of…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 07 May 2008 04:15 PM PST
-- Verizon (NYSE: VZ) launches VZ Navigator version 4: Verizon has launched version 4 of VZ Navigator, which lets customers access information about traffic incidents on major roadways, obtain traffic…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 06 May 2008 02:20 PM PST
Revenues for THQ (NSDQ: THQI) Wireless fell by 27 percent for the full fiscal year 2008, bringing in $19.579 million compared to $26.698 million for fiscal 2007. This represents a…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 01:59 PM PST
Glu Mobile’s (NSDQ: GLUU) longtime CFO Rocky Pimentel is leaving to become the CFO and COO of McAfee, the company announced today. Eric Ludwig, the company’s current SVP of finance…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 29 Apr 2008 04:19 PM PST
The market for rich media advertising on mobile—in the form of TV, video, games, user-generated content (UGC) and music—will reach $2.79 billion by 2012 predicts Screen Digest. The bulk of…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 28 Apr 2008 11:42 AM PST
-- The Money Channel has launched MoneyChannel Mobile, which will offer business, stock market and economic news, as well as stock quotes and corporate announcements. Users will also have the…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 24 Apr 2008 02:54 PM PST
Last week, Seattle-based Mobliss laid off about half of its 20 employees, following a wave of high-profile losses, mocoNews has learned from multiple sources. In the last couple of months,…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 24 Apr 2008 07:28 AM PST
London-based mobile games developer, publisher and distributor Telcogames has gone in to administration, we can reveal after confirming with CEO Jamie Conyngham. The company was placed in to the administration…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 23 Apr 2008 10:52 AM PST
The number of new businesses entering the mobile games industry peaked in 2003, but the total number of active companies is still increasing according to UK based research group the…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Apr 2008 10:00 AM PST
Oberon Media, the New York City-based online and mobile gaming which bought I-Play and PixelPlay in the last year, has finally figured out no one understands what Oberon means, and…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 21 Apr 2008 04:16 AM PST
There was a time when operators wanted to lock in people to their own content portals, but for Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), that’s the past. Since last year, the UK operator…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 11 Apr 2008 11:46 AM PST
Now that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has made the plunge and has reorganized its business to focus on mobile content through its Ovi portal, it appears others are working up the…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 09 Apr 2008 08:03 AM PST
-- Orange UK IPTV: They said the same thing last year, but France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) CEO Didier Lombard this morning told MipTV Orange’s much-delayed UK IPTV service will launch…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 08 Apr 2008 04:00 PM PST
-- SEGA Mobile: The company announced a portfolio of new games today that includes both original titles and licensed brands. Some of the titles include: Sonic at the Olympic Games;…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Apr 2008 09:49 AM PST
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) resurrected its N-Gage games device as a platform for Nseries phones at CTIA last week - now M:Metrics has given us data showing why the handset maker…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 07 Apr 2008 07:44 AM PST
Late last week, we interviewed Brian Farrell, CEO of THQ (NSDQ: THQI), about his plans to improve the business after a lackluster year. On the mobile side, Farrell said THQ…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 03 Apr 2008 04:20 PM PST
After months of anticipation on when Nokia (NYSE: NOK) would launch its gaming platform called N-Gage, the world’s largest handset maker did it quietly this morning when it let the…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 03 Apr 2008 12:26 PM PST
At the big CTIA wireless show in Las Vegas this week, I did a short video interview with Vishal Gondal, the CEO of Indiagames, the big mobile and online gaming…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 01 Apr 2008 12:29 PM PST
-- Guitar Hero III Mobile will rock your BlackBerrry: Hands-On Mobile, Inc. has partnered with Activision (NSDQ: ATVI), Inc. to bring Research in Motion’s (NSDQ: RIMM) (RIM) Guitar Hero III…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 01 Apr 2008 09:00 AM PST
-- Greystripe and Vivedi to offer for-pay games: Greystripe is partnering with Vivendi (EPA: VIV) Games Mobile to offer for-pay games that can be trialled before purchase. Greystripe has been…
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