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Mauj Acquires Mobango

August 24th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mumbai based Mauj Mobile has announced the acquisition of the UK based content provider Mobango. Through the acquisition, Mauj hopes to strengthen its position outside India.

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Yahoo Acquires LBS Advertiser Cirius

August 24th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

In a race to acquire mobile advertisers, Yahoo has set its money on Japan based location based mobile advertising specialist Cirius.

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Ngmoco Receives Google Funding

August 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

iFund backed iOS developer ngmoco has signed up a new investor; Google Ventures. The amount that Google is investing in the company is unknown as well as the terms under which they received the funding. Android could have to do with it though.

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Microsoft Setting up Mobile Game Development Studio

August 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Microsoft has started to setup a dedicated mobile games studio to publish first- and second-party games on both the upcoming Windows Phone 7 devices as well as other emerging platforms.

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Financials: Gamevil’s Q2 2010 – Profits Up 29%

August 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gamevil has reported a rise of sales of 25% year-on-year for the second quarter, resulting in 6.72 billion Won in revenues. 3.4 billion won was registered as net profit, up 29% year-on-year.

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Financials: THQ’s Q2 2010 – Mobile Revenues Down

August 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Over the first quarter of their 2011 fiscal year (Q2 2010 for us), THQ Wireless made $1.6 million in revenues. Down $2.6 million year-on-year. The wireless division accounts for just 1.1% of THQ’s global revenues.

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Apple to Acquire Handseeing!?

August 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

When Apple discussed a possible acquisition with a company, it normally happens behind closed doors in order to surprise not only the media, but also investors and competitors. With Handseeing, it seems to be a different story.

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Zynga Acquires Unoh

August 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga has announced the acquisition of Japanese mobile and social game developer Unoh in order to drive expansion into Asia and mainly Japan.

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Financials: DeNa’s Q1 2010 – Heading for No. 1

August 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

DeNa has released their quarterly financials and they seem to be looking good for the giant as it prepares to take over the number one position in Social Gaming from competitor Zynga. Both also develop and publish mobile titles.

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Namco Bandai Games and Namco Networks Merge

August 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Namco Networks America and Namco Bandai America have both been serving the same market, but on different platforms over the past few years. Now, both companies will merge into Namco Bandai Games America brand.