Moov Now: An activity tracker with a brain (hands-on)
Mooving on from step trackers
Until recently, the only activity tracking I was really doing was through the Health app on my iPhone. I write about wearables…
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Until recently, the only activity tracking I was really doing was through the Health app on my iPhone. I write about wearables…
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Our very own Olly Farshi dropped by his local Apple Store in Helsinki and was kind enough to hook us up with…
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Well, this was coming, after all the management and board troubles over the last year: Hands-On Mobile, the mobile games and apps publisher…
All the turmoil at mobile games and content publisher HandsOn has taken a new and perhaps final turn: CEO Jonathan Sacks and president John…
Lots of turmoil and changes at mobile gaming and content firm Hands-On for the last few months…at one time last month, we were getting a t…
MocoNews.net has learned that HandsOn (formerly Mforma), the mobile gaming and content apps company based out of San Francisco, has gone thr…
Mobile game publisher HandsOn (fka Mforma) has appointed a former EA exec Keith McCurdy as president of studios and products. He will
Mobile content publisher and distributor HandsOn (fka Mforma) has formed an advertising division, headed by veteran publishing exec John Rou…
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This is funny, if nothing else…see this link and compare the logos. Inspiration comes from everywhere, I would say…and that’s all I will…
Said Hands-On CEO Jonathan Sacks in this story: The profitable SF firm is on track to bring in “well over $100 million” in sales this year.…
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Mforma has announced its name change to Hands-On Mobile, a moved we reported on first. The logic, from CEO Jonathan Sacks: “Consumers want e…
So as I suspected and found out, the mobile content publisher Mforma is indeed changing its name to “Hands-On Mobile”, a source told me…it…
Updated below: Coincidentally, the latest issue of Mobile Media newsletter from Informa discovered the same trademark filing as I did…an…
Found this out on a tip: Mforma, the mobile content publisher, has filed for a trademark for the term “HANDS ON MOBILE”…the trademark appl…
So says an AP story, referring to the Yahoo-suing-Mforma story. I’m watching for that S-1 soon…
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“Two thing…
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A detailed story on how mobile content/gaming company Mforma lured the former president of AOL Interactive Services Jonathan Sacks out of re…
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mForma CMO Robert Tercek announced the “exclusive long-term partnership” with Billboard this afternoon during a session billed as a case stu…
Led by Chairman/CEO Daniel Kranzler, Mforma publishes and distributes mobile media and entertainment for more than 100 carriers in 39 countr…