Posts Tagged ‘Hands-On’

GoTV Acquires Hands-On’s Hombre Division

May 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

GoTV has snapped up Hands-On’s HOMBRE division. This division was responsible for the creation of applications for brands like Nascar, Operah, Sprint Football Live and Verizon NFL Draft.

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Hands-On Launches Operah Apps

April 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Hands-On has struck a sweet deal with Harpo to release the official application for Operah Winfrey’s TV shows. Hands-On will be delivering the Operah app on iPhone, BlackBerry, WebOS and Android.

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Hands-On Licenses Fieldrunners

April 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Hands-On has licensed the very successful Fieldrunners brand from Subatomic. Fieldrunners is one of a few very successful iPhone titles that now find their way back into the classic mobile games industry.

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Hands-On Restructuring Results in Layoffs

October 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, People | No Comments »

Earlyer this week, we reported that Hands-On was changing its focus again and that David White, the CEO, left. As a result of the restructuring, several employees will be sent home by the company.

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Hands-On Restructuring?

October 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: DSiWare, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

Rumors reach us that Hands-On is restructuring to return/improve their position in the mobile/handheld games market. One of the first signs is that CEO David White left and products where launched on PSP Minis.

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Hands-On Receives Two Mobile Game Webby Nominations

April 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

For the upcoming Webby Awards (the 13th already), mobile games developer and publisher Hands-On managed to receive 2 nominations with World Poker Tour and Guitar Hero.

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Hands-On Announces Layoffs

December 15th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following the sale of it's non-US based divisions, Hands-On has started to fire all personnel that is no longer needed by the company. The number of employees that will be looking for a new job this Christmas is unknown.