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Private Media Group Takes 1Million Euro Stake in Horse Creek Entertainment - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Sun 09 Dec 2007 10:01 PM PST

Spanish adult content provider Private Media Group has taken a 17.2 percent stake in Swedish company Horse Creek Entertainment, a content aggregator and creator of a broadband VOD platform. Horse…

Interactive World Buys Sports Media Group For $100 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 12 Aug 2007 06:04 AM PST

Mobile adult content group Interactive World has closed a deal to buy tabloid paper group Sport Media Group in a deal worth about 50 million pounds (US$100 million). Interactive World…

Mobile Company To Buy UK Publisher For $120 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 26 Jun 2007 01:16 AM PST

Some British tabloids are in the process of being sold to a mobile content and services company, which would result on them being listed on the stockmarket. Interactive World—which is…

UK Operators Launch Poker Service - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 28 May 2007 06:07 AM PST

UK operators T-Mobile and 3 will launch a live multiplayer poker service by teaming up with gambling site Bwin. Bwin’s PokerRoom.com has 11 million customers, and site can be accessed…

Cometa Closes $2 Million First Round Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 14 May 2007 07:18 AM PST

Cometa Wireless Gaming Systems (previously Cometa Games) has closed its first round of funding, bringing in one million pounds (US$1.98 million) in a round led by Mfusion. The funding values…

Operators & European Commission Vow To Protect Kids From Adult Content, Violent Images, Bullying - 0 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Tue 06 Feb 2007 06:01 AM PST

Reuters reports a group of 23 mobile operators, content providers and organizations (including Vodafone, Orange, Telecom Italia, Deutsche Telekom and TeliaSonera) have pledged to support the European Commission in its…

RyanAir Aims To Offer In-Flight Mobile Gambling - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 02 Nov 2006 07:00 PM PST

European discount airline RyanAir is planning to offer mobile gambling on their flights, pending regulatory approval of mobile phones on airplanes, and assumedly there’ll be some regulations around the gambling…

Rok Targets Gambling Via Mobile TV - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sat 24 Jun 2006 07:07 PM PST

Rok (currently only in the UK but keen to expand in other countries) has a beta version of something refered to as Rok Bet, which works with its 2.5G mobile…

Vodafone’s Mobile Casino - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 12 May 2006 08:05 AM PST

Vodafone UK has struck a deal with Gaming Corporation to launch an interactive mobile casino on Vodafone Live next month. “The service will initially have 11 java games, including Blackjack,…

@ FT Mobile: Women Are a Mystery - Unless They Are Naked - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Tue 09 May 2006 07:05 AM PST

[by Jemima Kiss] David Warga from Naked News is having trouble with women. If they are naked (or semi naked) that’s fine - people pay to see that. But when…

Playboy’s Mobile Revenues: No Domestic Business - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 07 May 2006 04:06 PM PST

In Playboy’s Q1 earnings call last week, some more details on the digital media business, from the call transcript: “The new media digital platforms of international, online and wireless have…

Italy To Probe Into Adult Content On 3 Italia Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Sahad PV - Thu 04 May 2006 06:05 PM PST

In another regulatory measure, Italy’s communications ministry is probing into pornography available on Hutchison Whampoa’s 3 Italia mobile telephone network. A TV network had reported that the X-rated images could…

Waat Media Acquires Mobile Gaming Company Charismatix - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 14 Feb 2006 09:02 AM PST

Adult and gaming mobile content company Waat Media has bought our German mobile gaming company Charismatix. Rationale of the deal? an Aaron, President/CEO of WAAT Media, said the platform technologies…

Mobile Gambling Set To Take Off In Asia - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 13 Nov 2005 08:12 PM PST

Governments across Asia are lifting restrictions on gambling on mobile phones...according to Informa Telecoms & Media global revenue from mobile gambling will increase from $1.2 billion in 2005 to $7…

The Not-So-Innocent Games We Play - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 10 Oct 2005 12:10 PM PST

There’s a couple of mobile initiatives announced today designed to teach people the rules and strategies of the great game of love and seduction… Mobile2win has teamed up with fragrance…

UK Is Nation Of ‘Mobile Download Junkies’ - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 21 Sep 2005 06:10 AM PST

“UK mobile phone users are “download junkies” spending a whopping Â£740m on ringtones, games and pictures, according to research outfit Mintel...The surge in spending - up from Â£40m in 2002…

Mobile Content In Western Europe To Reach â‚¬32bn in 2012 - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 01 Sep 2005 06:10 AM PST

A report by analysts Berg Insight has predicted that the mobile content and entertainment market in Western Europe will reach â‚¬ 32 billion by 2012 with the percentage of mobile…

O2 Launches Betting Exchange On Xda II - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 27 Jul 2005 01:08 PM PST

UK operator O2 has partnered with online betting exchange Betfair to bring a community gambling service on its Xda ll handsets. It sounds like the software will be preloaded on…

Call To Help Protect Consumers As 3G Takes Off - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 16 Jun 2005 11:06 AM PST

A law firm has called for action to close loopholes in UK and EU mobile telecommunications law to help protect consumers, and particularly vulnerable groups such as children, from unsolicited…

William Hill Launches Mobile Betting On Horse Races - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 06 Jun 2005 07:06 AM PST

“The UK’s first live 3G sports service was announced this week following a deal between 3, At the Races and William Hill...Users need to dial a short code on their…

Ann Summers Launches WAP Site - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 28 Apr 2005 02:04 PM PST

Ann Summers (a high street store that sexual toys and things) has launched a WAP site featuring a downloadable voucher offering £5 off a £30 purchase, in the form of…

3 Hands Football Content T0 UKBetting - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 19 Apr 2005 07:05 AM PST

Online bookmaker UKBetting‘s football content site Football365 has launched a stand-alone soccer channel on the 3 portal, offering free and paid-for content. “3, which has over three million customers, said…

The Body Beautiful - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 30 Mar 2005 09:03 AM PST

Whether or not you believe the claims that adult content will drive uptake of mobile services in the same way it drove uptake of the Internet—and I certainly don’t—it will…

For Your Eyes Only - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 10 Oct 2004 04:10 PM PST

(reg. req.) A very good overview of adult mobile content market, from a European perspective, in the latest Mobile Communications International magazine...It has been predicted many times that adult material,…

Playboy Expands Wireless Offering to Spain and Portugal - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 04 Oct 2004 10:10 AM PST

Playboy and 1633SA will expand content distribution via wireless in Spain and Portugal. 1633SA will offer Playboy’s content to mobile devices through wireless networks… With the addition of Spain and…