Posts Tagged ‘MocoNews’

Backflip Studios Raises $145K

August 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

According to MocoNews, iPhone developer BackFlip Studios has raised %145K in it's first round of funding. The source of the money remains unknown for now.

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MWC: Fox Mobile wants Clarity from Apple on App Store

February 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The guys form MoCoNews met Fox Mobile CEO Mauro Montarano today at the Mobile World Congress. They interviewed him about Fox' experience and problems with the App Store.

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Jamba not Rebranding due to Economic Climate

January 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Last October, New Corp bought the remaining Jamba shares from Verisign. Following the purchase, the company announced that it would re-organize and re-brand it's mobile offering. Now, the company announced that the change of strategy is delayed to to the economic climate.

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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.

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Glu Starts Answering our Questions?

December 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Remember the community interview we talked about before? According to our contact at Glu, Greg is still busy to fill in all the answers. Yet via Moconews, we found out that he is already answering several of them indirectly.

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EA Food for Acquisition!?

November 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Could EA be bought? That is a question on the mind of MocoNews earlier this week. They looked at various situations in which EA could end up as property of other multinationals.

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Handango Goes Android

October 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Android is getting more and more industry support. After the first mobile game launches, Handango has now announced to start distributing games and applications for Google’s Android platform.

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