Zed, announced the acquisition of Mobitween, a
leading developer and publisher of Flash based content for mobile and
online worlds.
Mobitween brings to Zed an impressive know-how in Adobe
Flash® technology for mobiles, an extensive product portfolio with more
than 100 in-house titles, the first " game 2.0" concept offering and
important agreements with key carriers in Europe and the US.
Mobitween has established
distribution agreements with major US and European mobile operators
including Verizon Wireless and Orange Group, amongst others. Mobitween
builds Flash Lite mobile gaming portals that replicate
the web browsing model enabling players to play, rate, share and post
hi-scores through a rich-media and customisable mobile client .Currently,
the majority of mobile games developed is based on Java or Brew
technologies, and require significant resource to port each game or
application to a growing number of mobile handsets. Adobe Flash is the
industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive
websites, engaging digital experiences, and high-impact mobile content.
More than 500 million Flash LiteT enabled devices have shipped worldwide and one million designers and developers use Adobe Flash
.
Mobitween
is at the forefront of the development of Flas based content which
will become a prevailing technology platform for games for handheld
devices as it has established itself as the defacto standard in the
online world.