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HandsOn/Mforma Buys Mobile Community Firm Thumbspeed

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This is the first acqusition HandsOn (fka MForma) has done in a long time now, after a flurry of acquisitions last year. It has bought out Bellevue, WA-based Thumbspeed. Founded in 2004, Thumbspeed specializes in mobile e-mail, IM and mobile blogging software. It has an R&D lab in India.
This comes as everyone’s speculated that HandsOn will IPO later this year.

May 16, 2006 10:06 PM ET

Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Social Media, Companies, Hands-On

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