Archive for the ‘Companies & M&A’ Category

Financials: EA’s Q2 (2010)

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA Mobile has generated a turnover of $ 51 Million during the quarter. Other platforms still seem to hold well as mobile is still roughly 5% of EA’s total revenues.

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Zeemote Closes Down!?

November 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Gaming Gear | 2 Comments »

Zeemote, the industry’s only thumbstick peripheral, is closing down or at least offering the business for sale. Though many doubted the success when it started, we didn’t expect it to fail after signing deals with most big handset vendors.

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TelcoGames

November 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

It took well over a year, but finally MCR Corporate Restructuring changed the status of TelcoGames Ltd from ‘in Administration’ to ‘Dissolved’. With this final step, the books can finally be closed and debts written off. Time of death: October 13th 2009.

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ngmoco Acquires Miraphonic

November 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

ngmoco continues to make a lot of noise in the industry. Following their successful launch on the app store over a year ago, they just completed their first acquisition of Miraphonic.

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Financials: Glu’s Q3

November 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Glu reported $19.6 Million in revenues, $4.3 Million less than Q3 2008 ($23.9 Million). GAAP loss from operations and net loss were $(2.8) million and $(4.0) million, respectively.

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Financials: Gameloft’s Q3

November 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gameloft has reported its third quarter financial results. The company has shown growth once again. The company is up 15% year-on-year but that’s less growth then the other quarters have shown.

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DeNa Takes 20% Stake in OpenFeint

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Japanese mobile social network company DeNa has invested several millions into OpenFeint in order to secure a 20% stake in the (competing) iPhone based social network.

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Glu’s First Facebook Release and Virtual Currency

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

Earlyer on, Glu announced that it would switch from a pure mobile games publisher and developer to one that aims downloadable platforms. Facebook is part of that new target as they released their first game on it.