19/03/2002, 15:09:27, Olivier writes :
There will be more if they don't enough capitalize that they should
diversify their activities, not only focus on mobile, but on "mobility"
Entertainement, i mean handheld entertainement devices (PDA / GameBoy
Advance / J2ME / SMS...). Its one key factor to evolve the mobile
entertainemet business and benefits economy scale to deploy & having
valuable entertainement portfolio either for mobile operator or
entertainement agregator (like ludigames / gameloft / picofun... ).
Regards
Olivier
martin@anoria.com
Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 5:58:29 PM, you wrote:
BS> I suspect there will be more. Typically with markets like this the
BS> first mover developers who are VC backed never really make it to a
BS> public offering. They usually get bought out by larger companies in the
BS> industry and at this point given their capital expenditures for new
BS> console development no publishers around are really going to dump big
BS> change into wireless for a while which means the prospects of larger
BS> scale acquisitions is nill and with no true exit strategy why would
BS> anyone want to push forward another round of financing.
BS> - Ben Sawyer
BS> -----Original Message-----
BS> From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
BS> [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net] On Behalf Of Mika Tuupola
BS> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:12 AM
BS> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
BS> Subject: (keitai-l) RIOT-E goes belly up
BS> The inevitable seemed to have happened:
BS> http://www.riot-e.com/press/content_pressreleases.html
BS> the lesson? It is not enough just to make flashy deals
BS> on rights to use spiderman pictures.
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Olivier MARTIN mailto:martin@anoria.com
Received on Tue Mar 19 16:45:39 2002