In this Industry Report

Highlights:

• Q3 2009 has seen a significant increase on the M&A front. With 36 deals accounted for, this is the most active quarter since Q1 2008.
• The big players have been noticeably active in their acquisitions, including Nokia, Apple, Google, Research in Motion, NTT DoCoMo, AT&T and Yahoo, indicating that the market may be ripe for buyouts.
• With four acquisitions in Q3 alone, Nokia was the most active major player.
• On a year-on-year basis the number of funding deals grew 155% to 67 deals. The number of deals grew 148% compared to the 45 recorded in Q2 2009 and in terms of value, the total Q3 2009 recorded funding volume shrank 6% year-on-year to $530m, which also represents a significant 180% uptake compared to the previous quarter.
• The average deal value grew from $6.5m in Q2 2009 to $7.9m.
• Screen Digest has looked at the European funding deals on record over the past 24 months (starting October 2007 and the UK leads the EU mobile funding scene by a considerable margin, with no less than 49 deals.

In this report:

• Mobile M&A: ripe market for consolidation
• Company M&A Spotlight: Nokia
• Mobile funding: is the worst behind us?
• An uptake felt in all categories
• Q3 2009: top funding deals in mobile
• Regional analysis: UK king of Europe
• Activity Spotlight: Mobile UGC & Social Networking

List of tables and charts:

Mobile Media Intelligence

Author/s

Julien Theys

Territories covered

Western Europe

Finland, France, Italy, UK,

North America

Canada, USA,

Africa and Middle East

Israel,

Asia-Pacific

China, India, Singapore,

Companies mentioned