June 6th, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Trends | No Comments »
The city is a hub of the young but growing cell phone gaming business
THE MID-PENINSULA has long been ground zero for the video-game business, so it’s no shocker that the city of San Mateo is emerging as a hub for the fast-growing cell phone game industry.
But with seven phone-game companies in the same town only a few miles apart, industry leaders carefully watch what they say in public.
"It’s like Hollywood," said Andy Riedel, vice president of game production for InfoSpace, which bought Atlas Mobile last year to get into the phone-game business. More …
