Cash-cow Handango

[Colin Dunstan]

I read in a press release today that Handango has made into the Inc. 500 list:

Today, Inc. Magazine announced that Handango was chosen as one of the 500 fastest growing privately-held companies in the United States. In its first year of eligibility, Handango ranked #273 on the list with 132.2 percent net sales growth over the past four years. Handango's revenues are derived predominantly from sales of mobile content through a network of more than 100 sales channels, including some of the largest brands in the mobile industry.

You can read the rest here.

Now this is slightly annoying to me. Remember the discussion on the ESD Monopoly? Well it appears nothing has really changed much since then. Handango makes it into some silly ranking list and can still celebrate its ESD margin of 40% or greater.

[TadW]

I think this topic is pretty much dead. People have recognized that they need ESD's like PalmGear and Handango to distribute their software.