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Financials: EA Q4 2009 (Q1 2010)

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

Electronic Arts has reported a profit for their fourth quarter of the financial year. Though EA’s major business remains in consoles, EA Mobile is picking up steam by now.

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Localytics Raises $700.000

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

Localytics has raised $700.000 to further develop and expand the reach of their app analytics suite. This funding round adds to $18.000 which the company had already received through Techstars.

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Glu Appoints Matthew Drapkin as Ninth Director

May 11th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Glu (GLUU) has expanded it’s board from eight to nine directors. The new director, Matthew Drapkin, has been a partner of Greenway Capital, a private investment firm.

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Gameloft Turns 10, Rebrands and Celebrates

May 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Following HandyGames, Gameloft has also turned ten this year. The company uses the occasion to introduce a new logo and announce 10 iPhone games which will given away for free.

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Activision to Acquire Glu!?

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

When Vivendi bought Activision to form Activision-Blizzard in July 2008, many expected Vivendi Mobile to become a dominant player in the mobile games space. Yet, the new entity decided to close Vivendi Games Mobile…

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GoTV Acquires Hands-On’s Hombre Division

May 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

GoTV has snapped up Hands-On’s HOMBRE division. This division was responsible for the creation of applications for brands like Nascar, Operah, Sprint Football Live and Verizon NFL Draft.

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Glu Earnings Call Liveblog

May 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Much is expected from Glu’s (GLUU) earningscall tonight. We haven’t seen any numbers yet which is normally the case and… the new CEO will be speaking. Will Glu be acquired? F5 this page on a regular basis to find out from 1:30 PST or 22:30 CET

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Moblyng Partners with Playdom, Secures Funding

May 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing, Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Moblyng had two interesting announcements today. First off, the company has secured $2.65 million in funding. Secondly, the company has set up a partnership with Playdom, which is big on Facebook.

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IMImobile to Increase Ownership of WIN plc

May 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Though the India based firm IMImobile already owns 2.4% of WIN plc, the companies have now announced that IMImobile is indexing the possibilities to increase its ownership in WIN.

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Google Acquires BumpTop

May 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google has acquired BumpTop, the developer behind the 3D desktop with the same name. Analysts expect Google to have acquired the company for their Android operating system.