Handango said it will start selling Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android applications when the phones become available next month. The company, which now sells apps for nine different operating systems, including Windows Mobile, Palm (NSDQ: PALM), Symbian and BlackBerry, appears to be one of the first independent companies to say that…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) smartphone users have another direct route to more content and applications thanks to a new global partnership with Handango. Users of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and other UIQ handsets will have access to an application store on their device called InHand. In addition,…

The Carphone Warehouse in is to begin selling mobile apps and content from Handango’s catalog in its European stores. It’s a rather unique move - though there is a wealth of online downloads out there, many customers never both to add to the applications there handset came preloaded with when…

Handango has raised a $9.5 million third round from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), Centerpoint, Neo Carta, Pharos Capital Group and SSM Partners. All of these investors participated in the Hurst, TX-based company’s much bigger $60 million second round in September 2006. The announcement calls the current…

Bill Stone, till recently the president of the shuttered MVNO service Amp’d, has joined mobile software and content retailer Handango as the new CEO. Founder Randy Eisenman will remain “actively engaged with the company and board in areas including corporate strategy, strategic partners and acquisitions,” the company said. Handango was…