Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Screen Digest
Published: August 2009
Product Code: R261-98Description Highlights:
- With 25 deals versus 34 in Q2 2008, the quarterly number of mobile M&A deals dropped by 26% year-on-year. Content categories (Advertising, TV, Video, Music, UGC, Games) accounted for half of those.
- Standing out in Q2 2009 is Intel's acquisition of embedded systems software specialist Wind River Systems for an estimated $880m. Ericsson's $1.1bn acquisition of Nortel's CDMA and LTE North American business will be taken into account in Q3.
- Mobile software was an important category with eight deals, including Amazon's puchase of SnapTell (product image search) and Lexcycle (ebook application developer). Research In Motion acquired Dash Navigation for an estimated $8m. Mobile advertising saw considerable consolidation as well, with a total of at least five deals.
- In terms of value, total Q2 2009 recorded funding volume dropped 58% year-on-year to $290m, which also represents a 41% drop compared to the previous quarter.
- Roughly one-third of the deals were seed or first rounds, and these first rounds mostly focused on advertising and software companies. This is a strong increase compared to the previous quarter which saw less than a fifth of the deals being seed or first rounds.
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- The average deal value went down to $6.6m, from $9.7m in Q1 and $10.6m in Q2 2008.
In this report:
- Mobile M&A: cautious consolidation ongoing
- Company M&A Spotlight: Microsoft
- Mobile funding: funding sources drying up
- Mobile payments and advertising still popular
- Q2 2009: top funding deals in mobile
- Regional analysis: USA influence eroding
- Activity Spotlight: Mobile Games and Software
Table of Contents - List of tables and charts:
- Mobile funding deals
- Mobile funding deal value
- Q2 2009 mobile funding deals by activity
- Q2 2009 mobile funding deal values by activity
- Q2 2009 table of top funding deals in mobile
- USA vs. rest of world: comparison of first six months 2007-2009
- Quarterly mobile games and software funding value
- List of cumulative funding of mobile advertising companies
- Mobile M&A deals
- Q2 2009 M&A deals per category
- List of past Microsoft acquisitions in mobile
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