PocketGear Buys Handango
PocketGear Inc., a Durham, N.C.-based mobile app store and content marketplace, has acquired Handango, a Hurst, Texas-based provider of smartphone content. No financial terms were disclosed. Handango had raised around $80 million in VC funding since 1999, from Institutional Venture Partners, Advanced Technology Ventures, Centerpoint, Neo Carta Ventures, Pharos Capital Group and SSM Partners. PocketGearraised an undisclosed amount of VC funding from Noro-Moseley Partners and Wakefield Group, as part of its spinout from Motricity.
25 February 2010•4 mins read
