Three mobile games publishers now on the abphone mobile search engine

abphone today announced it has signed on three mobile game publishers. Publishers Glu, Hovr and Twistbox now have their entire games catalogs indexed on the multimedia entertainment content search engine.
Glu publishes historic mobile games. Hovr publishes free games, and Twistbox offers many licensed games.
abphone launched the first search service for mobile games in 2008. [...]

Mobile search Abphone goes on-deck for all three major French carriers

Abphone, provider of ad-sponsored search for entertainment and multimedia, has become the first search engine to go on-deck for all the major French carriers. Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom all use the service, which allows users to search for images, wallpapers, videos and games.

From the release:
Pierre Scokaert, CEO of abphone declared: “The future is bright [...]

Abphone launches first vertical white labelled mobile content search engine – The Abphonebox

Dear me! What a lot of French innovation this morning. Mobile content search engine Abphone has gone from brand to white label from off portal to on portal and back again.

From the press release:
Abphone’s new white-labelled mobile search engine is a real traffic booster opportunity, which offers the best-in-class technology to maximize and monetise mobile [...]

ABPHONE SIGNS ADVERTISING DEAL WITH ZESTADZ MOBILE ADVERTISING COMPANY

Abphone  the multimedia mobile search engine has signed  a new agreement with ZestADZ,  mobile ad network in India. This deal with Zestadz will help abphone increase its wareness with advertisers and brands, and will leverage their notoriety among Indian mobile users in the second largest mobile market in the world.

Abphone has decided to strategically invest [...]

Abphone launches mobile game search with Gameloft

The French alternative mobile search engine Abphone has teamed with game company Gameloft for a mobile game search service.

What?
Well this sounds interesting. Abphone is popular for its image and video search and perhaps now games will join the equation. Abphone will probably index the Gameloft portfolio for fast or instant mobile game access.
From the press [...]

Mobile Search chat with Pierre Scokaert ABphone

I had a very interesting chat with ABphone recently. If you don’t know ABphone – you should. The company is a branded mobile search engine which is part of a business in France called OpenSugar. At the moment both units are combined –but they should separate in 2008; with ABphone as a brand in its [...]

Abphone mobile search reaches half a billion searches

The multimedia mobile search engine abphone has said it has delivered it 500 millionth search.

abphone key milestones
November 2005: Creation of abphone by Pierre Scokaert, Jean-Philippe Coumes,
two ex-France Telecom R&D engineers and Hervé Hoff, former Managing Director of
Alinto and of a subsidiary of EADS.
March 2005: Launch of the photo search.
June 2006: First tests on advertising banners
February [...]

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