Motricity will pay an initial $100m in cash and potentially shares with up to a further $50m in performance fees based on targets for the next 12 months for Adenyo.

Motricity, a Nasdaq-listed provider of mobile software backed by two strategic investors, has agreed to buy Adenyo, a Canada-based provider of mobile marketing, advertising and analysis.

Motricity will pay an initial $100m in cash and potentially shares with up to a further $50m in performance fees based on targets for the next 12 months.

News provider PEHub.com said Motricity had raised more than $365m in venture funding including from two corporate venturing units, Intel Capital and Qualcomm Ventures, before its flotation in June.

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.