User Profile: john

Mar 30, 2008
Opinions Started121
Discussions Started6
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Recent Opinions

Bullish opinion about FDream:

"Football is super popular"

Bullish opinion about Smaato:

"Great platform for mobile in-game advertising"

Bullish opinion about Xumii:

"There'll be increasing demand for mobile social networking apps"

Bullish opinion about Handango:

"They have a dominant position on the mobile content distribution space"

Bullish opinion about Webcarzz:

"Founder and partner studio has great track record"

News

Handango.com Secures $15 Million Investment From Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst And Q Ventures
Sep 24, 2008 - 0 comments
March 6, 2000 Handango.com, Inc. (formerly the GoPDA network, including PalmCentral.com and CEStation.com), the largest online marketplace for the handheld computing industry, today announced that it has secured $10 million in venture capital financing from Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated and $5 million from Q Ventures. This funding will enable Handango.com to...

Handango secures additional $9.5 million in venture funding; Wants to rule the smartphone content market
Sep 24, 2008 - 0 comments
March 10th, 2008 at 3:48 am Handango has recently announced that they’ve raised an additional $9.5 million in its Series C round of financing. The money will be used to support new distribution deals, improve the scalability of infrastructure and global expansion. In addition, with all the fuss surrounding the phenomenon called “user experience”, the smartphone content...

Handango Gets A Whopping $60 Million Funding
Sep 24, 2008 - 0 comments
Mon 11 Sep 2006 08:10 PM PST Handango, which does content for smartphones, has raised a whopping $60 million in funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), Neo Carta, Pharos, SSM Partners and Centerpoint. As part of the deal Handango has appointed two new members to its board of directors: technology financier, Sandy Miller from...

Discussions

Does Opentape's design avoid RIAA issues?
Aug 26, 2008 - 2 comments
I was a fan of Muxtape and sad to see it shut down. Does anyone why whether Opentape's open source and personal design frees it from the RIAA rules and the same fate as Muxtape?

Would you use SaysMe?
Aug 19, 2008 - 16 comments
SaysMe is a new service that allows users to buy and create your own TV ads that get shown on TV. Maybe it's just me, but I don't see why anyone would want to do this as an individual. Maybe I'm missing something.