Archive for the ‘Companies & M&A’ Category

EA Sells Ubisoft Shares

July 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Back in 2004, EA had bought 20% of Ubisoft as shareholder John de Mol needed to raise capital to start a new TV channel in Holland. Now, six years later, EA has decided to sell them on.

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Flirtomatic Raises $9 Million

July 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Flirtomatic has announced to have successfully closed their series C funding round. The company received $9 million to expand their global business.

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Gendai Games Raises $1 Million

July 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gendai Games, creators of the GameSalad mobile game creation tool have announced to have successfully closed their series A round of VC funding, lead by DFJ Mercury.

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Artiq Mobile and Blinck International Fined by Consumer Authorities

July 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: SMS | No Comments »

Artiq Mobile B.V. and Blinck International have been fined by Dutch consumer authorities for misleading SMS services. Together, the companies have to pay a fine of € 1,19 million.

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Google Invests in Zynga – The Start of Google Games?

July 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

TechCrunch reports that Google has invested $100+ Million in Zynga, a developer of mobile and online games. This is expected to be a strategic investment to create Google Games.

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OpenFeint Moves Onto Android, Adds Strategic Investor

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Following competitor ScoreLoop, OpenFeint has now also made the step to Android. At the same time, OpenFeint has announced a new strategic investor to back the network.

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Glu Collects $13.5 Million Through Private Placement

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

Yesterday, Glu has sold 13,495,000 new shares on the market at around $1.00. These shares have been bought by existing and ten new investors and give the company some new capital to work with.

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TweetUp Acquires Twitdroid

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

Twitter search specialist TweetUp has acquired TwitDroid, one of the more popular Twitter clients on the Android platform. TwitDroid will be renamed to TwitDroyd.

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Google’s Schmidt Invests in PocketGear.com

July 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Though Google is pushing Android Market as the primary sales channel on Android, Google’s Eric Schmidt has apparently invested in PocketGear, another sales channel for mobile apps and games.

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Disney Interactive Media Group Acquires Tapulous

July 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Disney has acquires Tapulous, the creator of the many TapTap Revenge games on the app store (as well as a few other apps). The sum is undisclosed but will probably surface soon.