LiveWire Gets FoneStarz

Littleton, MA-based LiveWire Mobile announced today that it has bought FoneStarz Media Group, a British supplier of mobile content, in a deal reported to be worth $4 million. LiveWire provides personalized music services and apps for mobile platforms, and said its acquisition of FoneStarz allows its service to reach 400 million users through 40 mobile operators globally.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.