Hands-On Mobile
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Hands-On Mobile is a wireless entertainment company, established in 2001.
The company develops, publishes and distributes mobile content via network operators and portals. It offers its content in or via Java ME, BREW, SMS, MMS, and WAP in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Czech, Chinese and Korean.
Hands-On Mobile is a private company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has further offices in San Diego, London and Manchester (UK), Madrid (Spain), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), Beijing and Shanghai (China), and São Paulo (Brazil).
Hands-On Mobile's investors include eFund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, General Catalyst Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.
History
Hands-On Mobile was founded by Daniel Kranzler, a wireless industry executive and entrepreneur. Hands-On Mobile grew organically [clarification needed] as well as through business combination [clarification needed] when it acquired several leading mobile entertainment developer and technology companies: nGame Ltd and Blue Beck of the UK, Mobilemode Ltd European operations, FingerTwitch (a U.S. mobile technology company), and two mobile entertainment content development companies in China. In 2008 Hands On sold its Korean operations to EA, and sold its European operations to Connect 2 Media. Then in 2010 Hands On sold its US applications business to GoTV.
Senior officers
- Judy Wade, CEO
Partners
Notable customers
AT&T, Sprint/Nextel, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Alltel, US Cellular, Bell Mobility,
Notable media partners
Activision, Billboard, CBS, NASCAR, NBA, and World Poker Tour.
Published applications
- Acquaria
- Alien Fish Exchange
- Amazing Spider-Man: Webslinger
- Barry Bonds Home run History
- Baseball 2005 by CBS Sportsline
- Baywatch Beach Volleyball
- Blade: Trinity
- California Games
- Call of Duty
- Call of Duty 2
- Call of Duty 3
- CBS Sportsline Track & Field
- Chip's Challenge
- Connect 4
- Darkest Fear: Grim Oak's Hospital (US)
- Ducati Extreme
- Duckshot
- Elektra: Assassin
- Face-Off Sergei Fedorov Hockey
- Fantastic Four
- Ghost Rider
- Gold Mahjong
- Guitar Hero III Mobile
- Gumball 3000
- Heroes Lore
- IHRA Drag Racing
- Impossible Mission
- IQ Academy
- Largo Winch
- LEGO Bricks
- LEGO Racers
- LEGO World Soccer
- Little Miss Naughty
- Lucky Luke Outlaws
- Ludo
- Milton Bradley Board Games
- Monopoly Tycoon
- NCAA Football 1st down and 10
- Operation
- Popeye Kart Racing
- Pro Bowling
- Pro Euro Football
- Renaissance
- Riverboat Blackjack
- Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
- Santa Claus Revolution
- Scratch City Pool
- Soduku Garden
- Star Trek Nemesis
- Summer Games
- Super Putt
- The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold
- The Incredible Hulk: Rampage
- The Italian Job
- Top Gun
- Top Gun 2
- Top Gun: Gulf Crisis
- Tour Championship Tennis by Venus Williams
- Treasure Chest Slots
- True Crime: New York City
- True Crime: Streets of LA
- Ultimate Spider-Man
- Universal Monsters: Dracula (a/k/a Vampire Bloodline)
- Winter Games
- Woody Woodpecker: Wacky Challenge
- World Poker Tour 7-Card Stud
- World Poker Tour Texas Hold'em
- X-Men 2: Battle
- X-Men: Last Stand
- X-Men: Rise of Apocalypse
- X-Men 3 Mindmaze