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Glu Mobile Rises On Solid Earnings Outlook And Upgrades - 0 Comments
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,…

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Mobile Content Bits: CelluMall; Zedge; Opera Mini 4.1; oneSearch on Rogers - 0 Comments
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…

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Updated: Earnings: Glu Mobile Reports Higher Losses, Higher Revenues - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobile Content Bits: Big Fish And Glu; SendMe And IAC; Sega And Greystripe; Momail Email In UK - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobile Content Bits: Indiana Jones; Yahoo Go 3.0; Australia 3G - 0 Comments
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…

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RealNetworks To Spin Off Its Game Business; Considering IPO - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobile Content Bits: VZ Navigator; Paramount Games; Java Video - 0 Comments
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…

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Earnings: THQ Wireless Falls 27 Percent Year-On-Year In ‘08 - 0 Comments
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…

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Industry Moves: Glu Mobile’s Longtime CFO Resigns; Goes To McAfee As COO/CFO - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobile TV Advertising Worth $2.44 Billion By 2012: Report - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobile Content Bits: MoneyChannel; Greystripe Ad Results; LG Slifter Sweepstakes; iPhone Gets Haptic - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobliss In Trouble, Slashes Staff; Reaxion May Take Over - 1 Comment
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,…

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UK Mobile Games Outfit Telcogames In Administration; Management Buy-Out? - 2 Comments
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…

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Mobile Game Industry Maturing: Report - 0 Comments
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…

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Updated: Gaming Firm Oberon Rebrands Publishing Unit As I-Play - 0 Comments
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…

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Interview: Mike Eaton, Head Of Content, Vodafone UK:’Don’t See Us Ever’ Swapping Ads For Paid Game - 0 Comments
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…

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First Nokia Becomes A Content Company, Now Qualcomm? - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobile Content Bits: Orange UK IPTV; Tesco Mobile Ads - 0 Comments
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…

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Mobile Content Bits: Sega Mobile Game Line-Up; NewBay and O2; Cars.com; QuickPlay’s Ad-Funded Video - 0 Comments
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;…

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Behind N-Gage Relaunch, Nokia ‘Underperforms’ On Mobile Games - 0 Comments
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…

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Interview: Brian Farrell, CEO, THQ: Still Keen On Mobile - 0 Comments
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…

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@ CTIA: Nokia Quietly Launches N-Gage; Details From the Show Floor - 0 Comments
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…

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@ CTIA: Video Interview With Vishal Gondal, CEO, Indiagames: Not a Big Fan of Mobile Advertising - 0 Comments
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…

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@ CTIA Wire: Day One: Guitar Hero-Blackberry; CondeNet-Verizon; Disney-Mobi; MobiConnect; WaveMarket - 0 Comments
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…

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@ CTIA: Mobile Bits: Greystripe And Glu Announce Games; Medio Adds Content to Search - 0 Comments
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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