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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.