Well, I’ve had the news for a while now but waited until this became public to reveal it, even on les echos.
So, my old company has been sold to a small industry player at a really ridculous value, meaning that my shares are now worth nothing :’(

Anyway, I certainly won’t give lessons, knowing how complex it is to set-up a company, grow it and make it a profitable business. I will however give some clues about why I think IN-FUSIO failed.

• The “I want it all” syndrom: IN-FUSIO had the will to be:

• A mobile games service provider
• A mobile games technology provider
• A top ranked mobile games publisher
• On all continents, all technologies…

Seems ambitious, with interest conflicts? It is. When you’re small, you can’t perform well on so many different (even if complementary) segments. Even worse, how do you can you have your competitors adopt your technologies (a game engine in this case).

• Mobile games not taking up as expected: The mobile games market overall in Europe and US has been growing at a much lower rate and with lower prices than expected.
• Big players with big bucks: All the game industry players are coming to mobile with huge means, EA, Ubisoft… These guys are in an industry that is bigger than the movier industry, if they have decided they want to compete in the mobile space, the small players stand with a few chances.

Anyway, good luck to the new entity and to the ex-IF employees!

Small & funny video at innovate 07. A new kind of spanish language is born: the spanfrenglish.

Other than this, Innovate is really great and I’m eagerly waiting to present on stage this afternoon Webwag mobile.

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TwitBin seems to be willing to make money over the growingly popular twitter micro blogging / IM / sms platform. After a huge development of 2 weeks, according to techcrunch, their product is ready and making money
Interesting to see a pre-ecosystem on a product/company that is not making a buck yet.

Note: Grr, can’t get it to work on my macbook/firefox!!!

Now releasing pre-beta to mobidget early registered users.

Stay tuned for general availability in a few days.

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So the news is over on codorblog & techcrunch… and various web sites. French mobile advertising company Screentonic is being acquired by Microsoft.
First of all congrats to Didier and the other shareholders! Good job. This initiates a concentration in the mobile advertising space that will continue in the coming months… So guess who’s next… admob, thirdscreenmedia?

The amount? Undisclosed What do you think?

Anyway, congrats again to the team!