By
Julien Theys

Highlights:

• Q2 2010 has been a prolific quarter on the M&A front. With 58 deals accounted for, the highest level recorded since Q1 2007.
• Google, Twitter, HP, Apple, eBay, HTC, Motorola, Nokia and Yahoo are among the companies having closed acquisitions in Q2 2010.
• Marking the end of a bygone era, Palm got acquired by HP after a long erosion of its relevance.
• On a year-on-year basis the number of funding deals grew 88% to 92 deals. The number of deals in sharp progression compared to the 65 recorded in Q1 2010. In terms of value the total Q2 2010 recorded funding volume grew 117% year-on-year to $676m, which also represents a 12% increase compared to the previous quarter.
• The average deal value fell from $9.3m in Q1 2010 to $7.3m.
• Screen Digest has also summarised the latest quarters in mobile advertising, detailing the concurrent trends in funding and M&A.

In this report:

• Mobile M&A: Consolidation reaches new highs
• Company M&A Spotlight: the Twitter ecosystem
• Mobile Funding: more smaller deals
• Software leads in numbers, hardware in value
• Q2 2010: Top Funding Deals in Mobile
• Regional analysis
• Activity Spotlight: Advertising

Tables and charts included:

• Mobile M&A deals
• Q2 2010 M&A deals per category
• Twitter-related acquisitions in mobile
• Mobile funding deals
• Mobile funding deal value
• Q2 2010 mobile funding deals by activity
• Q2 2010 mobile funding deal values by activity
• Q2 2010 table of top funding deals in mobile
• Q2 2010 funding deal geography
• Mobile advertising quarterly funding deal values
• Mobile advertising quarterly M&A deal count
• Recent mobile advertising M&A deals

Pages: 8

Tables & charts: 12

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