Wireless entertainment publisher InfoSpace Mobile officially rolled out its gaming division at 3GSM World Congress Monday. The announcement of Infospace Games was expected from the Bellevue, Wash.-based publisher, which recently acquired gaming companies Atlas Mobile, IOMO Ltd. and elkware GmbH. InfoSpace said the new...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Wireless Internet company InfoSpace Inc. continued its acquisition spree with the purchase of German wireless gaming company Elkware GmbH for $26 million in cash. Infospace said Elkware managed $1 million in revenues in its previous quarter. "We are excited about expanding our presence...
Wireless Internet company InfoSpace Inc. continued its acquisition spree with the purchase of German wireless gaming company Elkware GmbH for $26 million in cash. Infospace said Elkware managed $1 million in revenues in its previous quarter."We are excited about expanding our presence in the...
Yet another mobile gaming acquisition was announced this week, as InfoSpace Inc. revealed it had bought IOMO Ltd., a U.K.-based publisher, for $15 million in cash.IOMO has developed more than 80 titles in its four-year history, with branded offerings such as Tiger Woods PGA...
Bayly Communications Inc. named Fernando Anaya as its sales representative for Latin America. Most recently, Anaya was sales manager for Motorola Inc. in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. CraniteWireless local area network security company Cranite Systems Inc. made two appointments to its executive...
Fallout from the Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. merger continued last week as separate developments sent tumbling shares of one mobile content provider and another e-commerce company. Shares of InfoSpace Inc. fell 8 percent on Nov. 17 after the content provider...
NEW YORK-InfoSpace Inc. got some good news Friday as Piper Jaffray maintained an "outperform" rating and $60 target price on the mobile technology company.InfoSpace was buffeted earlier this week when a Raymond James analyst downgraded the company and reduced its target price, citing uncertainty...
Fallout from the Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. merger continued Wednesday as separate developments sent tumbling shares of one mobile content provider and another e-commerce company. Shares of InfoSpace Inc., which recently reported record third-quarter revenues, fell 8 percent after the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-InfoSpace Mobile and Blue Lava Wireless announced the winners of a cross-carrier mobile-phone games tournament held in September and October.Competitors in the 'Tetris Tournament Mobile Championship' played for nearly $10,000 in prizes. The grand prize is a trip to Hawaii to meet Tetris...
SAN FRANCISCO-Billboard magazine and Consect, a mobile market analysis firm, announced the Billboard Hot Ringtones chart, an aggregated chart of U.S. polyphonic ringtone sales, which will premiere in the Nov. 6 issue of Billboard in the debut of the magazine's new Digital Entertainment special...
WASHINGTON-The chief executive officer of First Cellular of Southern Illinois, Terry Addington, will be the 2005 chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, CTIA announced.Addington has been serving as vice chairman. He replaces Scott Ford, president and CEO of Alltel. Ford will continue...
SAN FRANCISCO-Billboard magazine and Consect, a mobile market analysis firm, announced the Billboard Hot Ringtones chart, an aggregated chart of U.S. polyphonic ring-tone sales, which will premiere in the Nov. 6 issue of Billboard in the debut of the magazine's new Digital Entertainment special...
NEW YORK-Nokia Corp. has teamed with Major League Baseball to bring audio broadcasts, real-time scoring and streaming video to wireless handsets.The service, which is currently available on the Nokia 6600 and soon should be available on the Nokia 6620, features live audio broadcasts of...
NEW YORK-Nokia Corp. has teamed with Major League Baseball to bring audio broadcasts, real-time scoring and streaming video to wireless handsets.The service, which is available today on the Nokia 6600 and soon should be available on the Nokia 6620, features live audio broadcasts of...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-The mobile gaming industry continued its contraction, with the announcement that InfoSpace Inc. acquired the assets of Atlas Mobile Inc., a provider of wireless multiplayer tournament games.The value of the acquisition was not disclosed."The acquisition of Atlas Mobile's multiplayer tournament game platform and...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-The mobile gaming industry continued its contraction, with the announcement that InfoSpace Inc. acquired the assets of Atlas Mobile Inc., a provider of wireless multiplayer tournament games.The value of the acquisition was not disclosed."The acquisition of Atlas Mobile's multiplayer tournament game platform and...
Verizon Wireless launched its Mobile Web 2.0 service, which the carrier said would provide customers easier access to news, tools and information content and the ability to read and send e-mail messages from their wireless handsets.The service, which builds on the carrier's original Mobile...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Wireless content and entertainment company Mforma Group Inc. announced it scored a whopping $44 million in venture funding in its first institutional round. General Catalyst Partners, eFund and Bessemer Venture Partners led the round.The news comes on the heels of several major funding...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Internet and wireless technology vendor InfoSpace Inc. reported $48.1 million in revenues, up 59 percent from the same quarter a year ago. The company also scored net income of $5.4 million, a turnaround from the $1.9 million net loss it reported in the...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands-KPN in The Netherlands announced it will expand its relationship with InfoSpace Mobile with the purchase of the company's Modalyst Storefront Management product, which the carrier said it will use for its youth-branded Web site as well as its KPN.com portal."InfoSpace Mobile...
NEW YORK-InfoSpace Inc. said it scored a deal with Major League Baseball to offer ball club logos to mobile-phone users. The deal will allow users to personalize their phones with logos from all 30 MLB clubs."We are very excited to offer our clubs, and...
ATLANTA-The U.S. wireless content industry continues to crackle with growing pains as Japanese gaming company Square Enix announced it will buy UIEvolution for a stunning $58 million in cash. The deal is the latest in a series of major mergers and acquisitions in the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Internet and wireless technology company InfoSpace Inc. announced major fourth-quarter results and a positive outlook for the year, news that sent the company's stock up almost 30 percent to about $32.13 per share following the news.InfoSpace reported revenues in the quarter of $46.9...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-A superior court judge ruled largely against wireless and Internet technology company InfoSpace Inc. in its legal battle with Naveen Jain, its founder and former chief executive officer.InfoSpace last year filed suit against Jain and Kevin Marcus, the company's former chief software architect,...
