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Lunaforte Celebrates 4 Million Downloads in One Quarter
April 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Lunaforte has reached a new milestone. The Dutch developer’s downloads in the first quarter of this year passed 4 million. Their cross-platform strategy seems to be paying off.
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SonyEricsson’s Revenues Down, Turns Profitable
April 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
SonyEricsson has sold 30% less mobile phones in Q1 2010, but did manage to turn itself profitable. In total, SE sold 10.5 million devices, down 4 million compared to Q4 2009.
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Falcone Buys Palm Shares
April 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »
Hedge fund manager Philip Falcone has purchased a large number of shares of Palm. In total, his company (Harbinger Capital) now owns nearly 9.5% of the troubled hardware vendor.
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Game Over for LemonQuest?
April 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 3 Comments »
Recently, Lemonquest started selling of their J2me assets. Reason for this was a shift of focus to smartphone platforms and though the offering was big, the licenses where expensive and fragmented.
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Reliance Acquires part of Codemasters
April 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Indian entertainment investment group Reliance ANA Group has acquired 50% of the shares in Codemasters. Codemasters (with studios in the UK and NL) needs the investment to continue.
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RIM Acquires Viigo
March 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
RIM has acquired Viigo. Viigo is the developer of a BlackBerry app with the same name. The Viigo app is able to deliver real-time information from a variety of sources, something important to the business market.
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AE10: Layar on Layars, Monetizing Them and EA
March 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: Layar | No Comments »
The second last company to take the stage is Layar. Layer is a very successful augmented reality browser on both iPhone and Android. The company started in 2009 and grown massively.
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Gameloft’s FY09 Results
March 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Gameloft has announced their financial results for the fiscal year 2009. The company witnessed an 11% growth in sales. The operating income is at
Connect2Media Acquires Sennari
March 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Connect2Media (formerly known as MForma) has acquired US publisher Sennari. With the acquisition, the company is setting some big steps to increase their position on the US market.
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Indiagames Reorganizing?
March 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
This morning we received a few e-mails from India explaining that IndiaGames is undergoing reorganizations. The e-mails where not coming from IndiaGames itself.
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