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Flurry Raises $7 Million

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

In their latest funding round, Flurry has secured an investment of $ 7 Million. This news follows closely after Flurry announced their merger with Pinch Media on December 23rd of last year.

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Glu Announces new CEO

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

Following the appointment of William J Miller as interim president and CEO just over a month ago, Glu has now announced who will be leading the company over the years to come; Niccolo de Masi.

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Nostromo Enters Administration – UPDATED

January 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

Nostromo is one of the old names in the mobile games Industry and was once known as a very important and well respected distributor and developer of J2me titles and other content.

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Flurry to Merge with Pinch Media

December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It seems Christmas is also bringing peace and love in the analytics industry as Flurry and Pinch Media have announced to be merging in order to create a new analytics force for mobile game developers.

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Oberon Media (I-Play) Restructures, Don Ryan Leaves

December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

The past week, Business Insider reported that Oberon Media (owner of i-Play) is restructuring. Amongst the changes, COO Don Ryan will be leaving the company in pursuit of his own dreams.

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Smule Raises $ 8 Million

December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following successful iPhone launches like I Am T-Pain and Leaf Trombone, developers Smule announced to have raised $ 8 Million in its third round of VC funding.

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Zeemote Acquired by Aplix

December 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Gaming Gear | No Comments »

Good news for the good old Zeemote as the device has been saved from going extinct by Aplix last week. Aplix decided to acquire the company that went into problems earlier this November.

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Key Fox Mobile Management Leaves

December 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, People | No Comments »

This morning we received an e-mail detailing that an important part of the Fox Mobile management has left the company. Amongst those leaving are the CEO and COO.

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Player One goes Belly Up

December 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

As I said, we will try to keep covering the big news during my Prague trip and the minute I get into my hotel room, it's Player One all over the mailbox. The company went bust and ROK (who started to acquire it) is not happy at all…