Looks like game over for Thumbplay as a standalone entity: we have learned that the mobile content company’s last remaining asset—its ringtones, games and other casual mobile entertainment business—has been sold to SendMe Mobile for an undisclosed sum. As we revealed exclusively at the beginning of March, the music streaming…

Update: Clear Channel announced that it is the media company buying the cloud-based music subscription service Thumbplay Music—a deal that was first reported by mocoNews.net. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but our source says it is likely to be less than 10 percent of the company’s…

Ten years ago, three brothers in Germany founded Jamba, jumping head-first into the global fad of selling ringtones, which ultimately grew to be a billion-dollar industry. Since then, the well-known mobile content company has taken a number of twists and turns. Long story short, Jamba was acquired by News Corp…

Thumbplay has hired an exec away from Apple’s iPhone ranks to bulk up its team as it attempts to transform the ringtone company to a full-track music download service for the phone and PC. Pablo Calamera, who oversaw the launch of Apple’s MobileMe cloud services, will serve as the company’s…

—HTC Announces Brew Phones: HTC, the Taiwanese handset-maker known for Windows Mobile and Android phones, has jumped into making mid-range phones on the Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) Brew mobile platform. The phones will be under the HTC Smart brand, and will be available this spring across Europe and Asia. The unveiling…

Thumbplay, the NYC-based mobile content company that raised a $6 million sixth round earlier this year, has added $2 million more to it, according to an SEC filing. This brings the total money pumped into the company to $61 million over the years. Details on who led the round were…

Thumbplay, the New York-based mobile content company, confirmed today that two c-level executives are leaving the company. This closely follows the departure of Mitch Rotter, Thumbplay’s SVP of content acquisition and strategy, who left in January to become the VP of marketing at Universal Music Group Distribution. A spokeswoman confirmed…

Mobile content company Thumbplay said today that it is now handling the sales of all ringtones for Billboard.com. The ringtones are available from all of the music charts, which will have links to Thumbplay, where people can preview and choose to download the music to their phone. As an example,…

Thumbplay, a New York-based mobile entertainment company, said today it is trimming its workforce for what they are expecting to be a prolonged economic downturn. Thumbplay wouldn’t specify how many employees would be let go, but confirmed it was much lower than the 25 percent reported by Silicon Alley Insider.…

Thumbplay has launched a full-track music store for mobile phones with a catalog of 1.5 million songs. With DRM-free tracks from Universal, EMI, The Orchard (NSDQ: ORCD) and INgrooves, Thumbplay is hoping to grab as much interest for full songs as it has with ringtones. As ringtone sales continue to…

*Sony* Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios has, for the first time ever, licensed some of its PlayStation titles to be published by a third party for mobile. Player X nabbed the rights to publish mobile versions of Buzz! and Destruction Derby while Thumbplay secured off-deck distribution rights for Player X’s video…

Update: MTV and Thumbplay both contacted us to clarify a few points of their deal that got lost in the minutiae when it was brought to our attention on Friday. For starters, the deal is not exclusive to Thumbplay, despite some lingering confusion on their part on this point. MTV…

Thumbplay is the latest company to get sued over mobile content billing, with claims the company is guilty of “either passive indifference or active cooperation in a scheme to defraud”. The lawsuit alleges that “the rapidity with which the mobile content industry has grown has led to “a disastrous flaw”:…

Mitch Rotter has been promoted to senior VP of content acquisition and strategy at Thumbplay, the company announced today. Rotter brings more than 15 years of experience in music and entertainment to his new position at the company, which he joined in 2005. The company credits him for having contributed…

Thumbplay confirmed today it has signed a deal with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) to add content from artists such as Kid Rock and Missy Elliot to its catalog of ringtones, graphics and videos. The content started to appear on the site this week, and a Thumbplay spokesperson confirmed today…

You’ve heard of conducting mobile searches by text message, such as sending “pizza 98112” to GOOGL to find out the nearest restaurant in Seattle. Well, Thumbplay, the seller of ringtones, graphics, games and other mobile content, has launched its own version, too. Called GET, a user sends a text to…

Thumbplay has signed a distribution deal with Clear Channel (NYSE: CCU), which plans to use the mobile content company’s services to roll out custom retail pages across more than 650 of its local mobile music stations’ websites. Clear Channel and Thumbplay will also create several other content stores for the…

Thumbplay, the mobile content retailer which is rumored to be on sale, is apparently not. It has raised a big $18 million fifth round, from its previous investors and new ones. The investors in this round include Softbank Capital, i-Hatch Ventures and *Verizon* Investments. We reported wrongly on the new…

New York-based Thumbplay said it now has distribution agreements with three of the top four record labels with today’s addition of Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG. The new partnership adds about 7,000 pieces of content to its catalog of more than 80,000 ringtones, wallpapers, games and videos. The company already had…