Posts Tagged ‘India’

Samsung Preparing for a Mobile Acquisition!?

May 6th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Samsung is planning to take over a mobile company. Though it is unknown which company Samsung is to acquire, it won’t be RIM. Or at least that’s what Samsung’s mobile president J.K. Shin said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

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Nokia to Terminate its Wallet Services

March 12th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Nokia Money was first announced in 2009 to serve as the first digital form of money in many countries where consumers don’t have bank accounts. The service was launched late last year.

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GetJar Does Virgin Mobile India Too

August 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Earlier today we wrote that GetJar entered into a deal with Digi in Malaysia to offer their content directly to DiGi consumers. It turns out, a similar deal is in place with Virgin Mobile India.

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Nazara Signs EA Mobile Distribution Deal

July 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Nazara has signed a new distribution deal with EA Mobile. The deal will bring EA’s games to many Nazara controlled channels in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

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Zed and Tanla in new JV

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zed and Tanla Solutions have set up a new joint venture in India. Through this joint venture, both companies hope to successfully exploit the huge Indian mobile VAS market.

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Nokia Acquired Minority Stake in Obopay

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Nokia seems to further diversify its reach in the global mobile content industry. As so, the Finish giant has invested enough in Obopay to acquire a minority share in the Redwood based mobile billing provider.

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N-Gage adds OxiCash Support for the Indian Market

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

India is clearly a very interesting market for Nokia’s N-Gage programme. So important that Nokia started a dedicated marketing wave with promo busses as well as now adding a new local payment system called Oxicash.

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MWC: Vodafone Essar Outsources Mobile Games Portal to End2End

February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Vodafone Essar (the Vodafone branch located in India) has announced that platform provider End2End will be their exclusive platform provider for their mobile games portal.