BELLEVUE, Wash.—Mobile gaming continued the move toward consolidation this week with news that Hands-On Mobile snapped up wireless applications developer Thumbspeed Inc.
Financial details were not disclosed.
Thumbspeed’s 30 employees develop mobile instant messaging, e-mail and personalization applications. Hands-On, which until recently was known as Mforma, is looking to expand beyond its wireless game-making roots into a publisher of a variety of entertainment and messaging applications.
“Hands-On shares our vision that community and messaging capabilities should be pervasive throughout mobile phone applications,” Thumbspeed General Manager Hank Skorny wrote in an e-mail to partners and colleagues. “Together, we will continue to be the leader in mobile messaging and can offer new and innovative messaging/social applications and business models on mobile.”
