Today independent app store PocketGear announced the acquisition of Handango. The new combination will be a provider of smartphone applications globally for the BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, and Linux platforms, with over 140,000 applications in their library from more than 32,000 developers.
According to PocketGear’s CEO Jud Bowman:
Our vision is to facilitate an open app store ecosystem that supports every mobile device, every application, and every carrier network globally.
After this acquisition, the resulting company will continue to operate under the PocketGear name. Handango will join the PocketGear network of direct-to-consumer app storefronts, which also includes SymbianGear.com, AndroidGear.com, RIMGear.com, Smartphone.net and PalmGear.com. More than 1,000 developers are also leveraging the firm’s developer storefront solutions to market and sell their software directly from their own websites and other marketing channels. According to PocketGear, together with Handango it has generated more than $400 million in mobile application revenues to date. (via Fierce Developer)
Gert Jan Spriensma