Hands On Mobile

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Hands-On Mobile (formely MFORMA) is a global publisher of mobile lifestyle, games and personalization products targeting all market segments of the mobile handset marketplace. With operations in four continents, Hands-On Mobile develops, publishes and distributes mobile content to more than 400 operators in more than 75 countries, reaching more than 1 billion mobile phone users.

Hands-On Mobile develops and publishes a large catalogue of content in or via Java (J2ME), BREW, SMS, MMS, mophun, and WAP in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Czech, Chinese, Korean to over 500 different mobile handsets.

Hands-On Mobile is a private company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has further offices in San Diego, London and Manchester (UK), Krakow (Poland), Madrid (Spain), Munich (Germany), Seoul (Korea), Beijing and Shangai (China), Bangkok (Thailand) and Sao Paulo (Brazil).

Hands-On Mobile's investors include eFund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, General Catalyst Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.

Senior officers of the company:
Jonathan Sacks, CEO.
Lynne Crawford, COO.
James Brelsford, EVP Corporate Affairs
David White, EVP & CFO
Eric Hobson, GM Europe, SE Asia & Latin America
John Rousseau, President Media Division
Grace Zhang, GM China
Gilbert Kim, GM Korea

Some of its brand partners include:
Activision
Atari Interactive
Billboard
CBS SportsLine
King Features
Marvel Entertainment NCAA
Primedia
Susan Miller Omni Media
Universal Studios Consumer Products
Viacom Consumer Products
World Poker Tour.

Published game titles include:
Acquaria
Alien Fish Exchange
Amazing Spider-Man: Webslinger
Barry Bonds Homerun History
Baseball 2005 by CBS Sportsline
Baywatch Beach Volleyball
Blade Trinity
California Games
Call of Duty
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 3
CBS Sportsline Track & Field
Chip's Challenge
Connect 4
Darkest Fear: Grim Oak's Hospital (US)
Ducati Extreme
Duckshot
Elektra: Assassin
Face-Off Sergej Fedorov Hockey
Fantastic Four
Ghost Rider
Gold Mahjong
Gumball 3000
Heroes Lore
IHRA Drag Racing
Impossible Mission
IQ Academy
LEGO Bricks
LEGO Racers
LEGO World Soccer
Little Miss Naughty
Lucky Luke Outlaws
Ludo
Milton Bradley Board Games
Monopoly Tycoon
NCAA Football 1st down and 10
Operation
Popeye Kart Racing
Pro Bowling
Pro Euro Football
Renaissance
Riverboat Blackjack
Sabrina Teenage Witch
Santa Claus Revolution
Scratch City Pool
Soduku Garden
Star Trek Nemesis
Summer Games
Super Putt
The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold
The Incredible Hulk: Rampage
The Italian Job
Top Gun
Top Gun 2
Top Gun: Gulf Crisis
Tour Championship Tennis by Venus Williams
Treasure Chest Slots
True Crime: New York City
True Crime: Streets of LA
Ultimate Spider-Man
Universal Monsters: Dracula (a/k/a Vampire Bloodline)
Winter Games
Woody Woodpecker: Wacky Challenge
World Poker Tour 7-Card Stud
World Poker Tour Texas Hold'em
X-Men 2: Battle
X-Men 3: Last Stand
X-Men: Rise of Apocalypse
X-Men 3 Mindmaze

Published applications include:
Astrology Zone Mobile
Baseball GameCenter by CBS Sportsline
Basketball GameCenter by CBS Sportsline
Billboard Mobile
CBS Sportsline Mobile
Fantasy Baseball Companion by CBS Sportsline
Fantasy Football Companion by CBS Sportsline
Flirting by Blind Date
Football GameCenter by CBS Sportsline
Football Live Match Centre (soccer)

History
Hands-On Mobile was founded by Daniel Kranzler, a veteran wireless industry executive and entrepreneur, and his philanthropic venture fund, eFund, LLC, which combined the technology, content and talent of some of the early leaders in wireless entertainment to establish Hands-On Mobile (then known as Mforma) in spring of 2001. Hands-On Mobile grew organically as well as through business combination when it acquired several leading mobile entertainment developer and technology companies: nGame Ltd and Blue Beck of the UK, MobileGame Korea, FingerTwitch (a U.S. mobile technology company), and two mobile entertainment content development companies in China. Hands-On Mobile also established a strategic partnership with Magus-Soft, a leading Chinese mobile games company.