Mobile game publisher Hands-On Mobile has reshuffled its top management, quietly replacing CEO David White with President Niccolo De Masi. No formal announcement has been made, but pocketgamer.biz reports that White left the business last week, and that De Masi is now listed on the company’s web site as CEO.…

—Facebook on iPhone Vs. Blackberry: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg said while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that the company currently has more than 25 million people accessing the site via their mobile devices on a monthly basis, and more than 4 million people actively using three mobile applications,…

Hands-On Mobile, the San Francisco-based mobile game maker known for Guitar Hero and Texas Hold ‘Em, confirmed today that it cut an undisclosed number of employees. CEO David White declined to say how many people were affected during the cuts, or how many employees the company will have going forward.…

Hands-On Mobile, mostly known for its mobile games business, now hopes to tap into the outside developer community. The company is leveraging mixt, its lesser known thin client portal, to increase the distribution of web-based applications. Hands-On Mobile Developer Network, which is open for beta after a couple months of…

Connect2Media is preparing to release 12 games for the Android operating system, Mobile Entertainment reports. Less than two months after merging with the European operations of Hands-On Mobile, the firm is gearing up to make the games available when Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launches the Android Market commercially early next year.…

London-based Connect2Media, a publisher of mobile content, which just merged with the European operations of Hands-On, said it has acquired RayFusion, an Israeli-based mobile content distributor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition will enable RayFusion to expand its distribution to include carrier accounts in Europe, the Middle…

MocoNews has learned that mobile games developer Hands-On Mobile is shedding its European game business six years after acquiring the company. This division, which also covers the Middle East and Africa, will be transferred to an expanded Connect 2 Media, a cross-platform game developer. The business goes right back into…

The latest mobile games report from Nielsen Mobile shows in startling detail how hard it is to make money in this business. Of the 141 publishers tracked, shockingly few—only 55—made money through U.S. carrier partnerships in the second quarter. Even more striking, a majority of revenues—62 percent—are made by the…

—Independent Artists Gain Mobile Outlet: A new service available over SMS and online enables artists to sell original works as wallpapers for mobile. Hands-On Mobile launched mixtArt today and many of the first artists featured on the platform will be at ComiCon later this week in San Diego to unveil…

—Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) announced today at the Brew conference in San Diego that they have upgraded the Brew mobile platform to support Adobe Flash technology, which will allow developers to use video and other Flash content when creating applications in the Brew environment. Of course,…

Last week EA announced its acquisition of the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the mobile gaming company formerly known as Mforma. At that time, no financial details were released, but now digging through EA’s annual report, filed late in Friday, the amount is known: it is $29 million in cash,…

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) is buying out the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the mobile gaming company formerly known as Mforma. The Korean division is best known for its mobile role-playing game, Heroes Lore. Upon completion of the deal, the Korea team will become EA Mobile Korea, and Gilbert Kim,…

Well, this was coming, after all the management and board troubles over the last year: Hands-On Mobile, the mobile games and apps publisher has done a complete overhaul of the company: it has a new CEO and president in David White. White was previously the company’s CFO. Also, Michael Temkin…

All the turmoil at mobile games and content publisher HandsOn has taken a new and perhaps final turn: CEO Jonathan Sacks and president John Rousseau have been pushed out, after being lame duck for a while. As we mentioned back in March, COO Lynn Crawford is now running the show.…

Lots of turmoil and changes at mobile gaming and content firm Hands-On for the last few months…at one time last month, we were getting a tip a day on the company, though it seemed to be a concerted campaign against the company. Anyway, the word we have is that investors…

MocoNews.net has learned that HandsOn (formerly Mforma), the mobile gaming and content apps company based out of San Francisco, has gone through a reorg, and COO Keith McCurdy has left, only after about two months in that position (he was with the company for a while…previous to COO, he was…

Mobile game publisher HandsOn (fka Mforma) has appointed a former EA exec Keith McCurdy as president of studios and products. He will  responsible for HandsOn’s games and product strategies, which includes managing development studios and maintaining licensing partnerships. Prior to this, he was the president and CEO of mobile game…

Mobile content publisher and distributor HandsOn (fka Mforma) has formed an advertising division, headed by veteran publishing exec John Rousseau…this marks HandsOn’s moves into mobile marketing arena. Rousseau is the President and GM of Hands-On Mobile Americas. Prior to joining HandsOn, Rousseau was President of the International Automotive Group at…

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…