{"id":75,"date":"2007-10-26T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/26\/end2end-buys-terraplay\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T23:51:00","slug":"end2end-buys-terraplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/end2end-buys-terraplay\/","title":{"rendered":"End2End buys Terraplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/RyKAouROIYI\/AAAAAAAABUc\/HMv6AXhout8\/s1600-h\/end2end_logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:pointer;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/RyKAouROIYI\/AAAAAAAABUc\/HMv6AXhout8\/s320\/end2end_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Not too much is being divulged about the latest deal in the consolidation of the mobile sector other than that it happened: The Danish mobile platform company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.end2endmobile.com\/\">End2End<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.end2endmobile.com\/en\/news__events\/press_releases\/2007_press_releases\/oct_24_07.htm\">acquired<\/a> the Swedish multi-player enabler <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terraplay.com\/\">Terraplay<\/a>. If well-managed, this could be a smart move: End2End has shown some strength recently in managing the mobile content platforms for a couple of operators whilst Terraplay had quite a few wins in the early land-grab to becoming the operators&#8217; partner for the facilitation of multi-player gaming. Combining the two propositions is an imminent win: the true value of mobile games (beside killing time) is its always-on, anytime, anywhere nature. A mobile phone is a communication device, and connected gaming makes use of just that &#8211; communication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/RyKAy-ROIZI\/AAAAAAAABUk\/Rr6TL5W2_VM\/s1600-h\/Terraplay.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;cursor:pointer;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/RyKAy-ROIZI\/AAAAAAAABUk\/Rr6TL5W2_VM\/s320\/Terraplay.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Given that most operators\/carriers seem to choose an outsourced solution (presumably because they have no internal bandwidth for this &#8211; relatively speaking &#8211; niche opportunity), the combination of a platform provider with a connected applications enabler is a great move. End2End had a need to ramp up their footprint to avoid becoming a little shadow player in the big land-grab. They have just added this little extra now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too much is being divulged about the latest deal in the consolidation of the mobile sector other than that it happened: The Danish mobile platform company End2End has acquired the Swedish multi-player enabler Terraplay. If well-managed, this could be a smart move: End2End has shown some strength recently in managing the mobile content platforms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[137,192,398,399,404,442,639],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-connected-games","tag-end2end","tag-mobile-content","tag-mobile-content-platform","tag-mobile-games","tag-multiplayer","tag-terraplay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-1d","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}