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 M&A deals
Q3 2009 M&A deals per category
List of past Nokia acquisitions in mobile
Mobile funding deals
Mobile funding deal value
Q3 2009 mobile funding deals by activity
Q3 2009 mobile funding deal values by activity
Q3 2009 table of top funding deals in mobile
24 months European mobile funding value
Quarterly mobile social networking funding value
List of cumulative funding of mobile social networking companies
For more information please visit:http://www.aarkstore.com/reports/Mobile-Market-Monitor-Funding-and-M-A-trends-Q3-2009-6556.html
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