Content providers around the world scrambled last week as China Mobile Communications Corp. disclosed plans to strengthen policies for third-party content subscriptions. The nation's largest operator unveiled a series of changes including offering one-month free trials, increasing the number of text-message reminders to users...
LOS ANGELES-Like fans at a rock concert shouting to be heard above the din, game publishers are trying just about anything to rise above overcrowded carrier decks and present their wares-and their names-to consumers. Multi-layered decks have long been a problem for mobile content...
DURHAM, N.C.-Motricity is looking to expand its content business after raking in $40 million in venture capital. Advanced Equities Inc. led Motricity's most recent round; fellow existing investors New Enterprise Associates and Technology Crossover Ventures also participated. Motricity has raised more than $120 million...
DURHAM, N.C.—Motricity is looking to expand its content business after raking in $40 million in venture capital. Advanced Equities Inc. led Motricity’s most recent round; fellow existing investors New Enterprise Associates and Technology Crossover Ventures also participated. The announcement follows July’s $30 million fundraising...
LAS VEGAS-Mforma Group Inc. is the latest mobile-game publisher to get a makeover, dropping its name in an effort to become more consumer-friendly.The San Francisco-based developer is rebranding as Hands-On Mobile and expanding its portfolio to offer a variety of lifestyle applications in addition...
Motricity Corp. is building on its relationship with Alltel Corp., inking a deal to deliver content and wireless Internet service to the operator's subscribers regardless of device. The agreement, which will be announced this week, expands on Motricity's pact to supply wireless Web service...
BOSTON-Wireless operators should develop sophisticated, community-focused game services to stave off increasing competition from Electronic Arts Inc., Yahoo Inc. and other media giants, according to a study from Strategy Analytics.The firm said carriers should expand game download services by adding chat rooms, game ratings,...
With the first few mobile virtual network operators out of the starting gate and more marching to the post, 2006 looks to be the year of the launch. After 2005, during which several MVNOs spent gearing up for and touting their upcoming launches, the...
A new year is a perfect time to set priorities-and clean off the pile of papers oozing beyond the allotted boundaries on one's desk. (OK-my desk.) One of my first priorities this year is to study the trends that likely will affect the wireless...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. partnered with mobile content provider Motricity to launch a new version of Alltel's Axcess Web wireless Internet service.The service, which costs $6 a month, gives subscribers easier access to ringtones, wallpaper and Internet browsing, according to Alltel. For example, users...
DURHAM, N.C.-Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. said it will use Motricity Inc. to power its Sony Ericsson Application Shop, a site for third-party application developers to sell applications developed for Sony Ericsson mobile phones.Motricity said it will work closely with Sony Ericsson's developer community...
M-commerce software developer Valista has teamed with Motricity Inc. to develop a mobile retail platform for operators and content providers. The offering couples Valista's transaction and content packaging technology with Fuel, Motricity's content delivery platform. The companies said the platform is designed to address...
Leap Wireless International Inc.'s service expansion continues, as the carrier announced plans to launch high-speed wireless data capabilities and WAP-based browsing. The carrier also plans to loosen the rein on its Jump prepaid service to better target the youth demographic. Leap's high-speed wireless data...
Third-party content providers are becoming increasingly savvy in hiding wireless transactions from the network operators that deliver them, industry insiders say. A handful of direct-to-consumer content providers in the United States and abroad are disguising their wares on mobile networks as photo messages and...
While the industry steps up marketing campaigns in an effort to push lucrative nonvoice applications, content providers are quietly working to create "mobile communities" centered on wireless content and services. Motricity Inc., a North Carolina-based content and technology provider, began spending some if its...
Wireless content and technology provider Motricity Inc. has put some of it investment capital to work, acquiring mobile virtual community builder M7 Networks Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.M7 Networks has made headway powering content-based mobile virtual communities such as the Game...
DURHAM, N.C.-Mobile content and solutions provider Motricity said it closed a $30 million venture-funding round.The round was led by Advanced Equities Inc., and existing investors Technology Crossover Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and Intel Capital participated in the funding round.The company said the funding will...
