Archive for the ‘Companies & M&A’ Category

What’s up With 8lb?

October 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Back in June, EA started 8lb. With the studio, the company would release 99 cents titles for the iPhone at a monthly rate. Yet we haven't seen anything except their first title Zombies & me.

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Unity Technologies Secures $5.5M in Funding

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Unity Technologies has just closed their series A funding round. The company managed to secure $5.5 Million from Sequoia Capital, David Gardner (CEO Atari) and Diane Greene (VMWare Founder).

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Glu in Deloitte’s Fast 500

October 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Deloitte has compiled its Fast 500 2009 listing for North America and Glu managed to get hold of the 129th position. Given the circumstances of the executives that left/are leaving, this listing is a very positive sign.

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Hands-On Restructuring Results in Layoffs

October 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, People | No Comments »

Earlyer this week, we reported that Hands-On was changing its focus again and that David White, the CEO, left. As a result of the restructuring, several employees will be sent home by the company.

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Apple Sets iPhone Sales Record

October 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Yesterday, Apple revealed their earnings for their fourth quarter of 2009. The company turned over $9.87 billion in revenues and sold a record number of iPhones during the quarter.

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Hands-On Restructuring?

October 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: DSiWare, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

Rumors reach us that Hands-On is restructuring to return/improve their position in the mobile/handheld games market. One of the first signs is that CEO David White left and products where launched on PSP Minis.

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Blue Beck Resurrected

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

After selling the Blue Beck Studios to M-Forma in 2004, the name was more or less forgotten as it was functioning as a production unit for the company (later Hands-On, then probably sold to Connect2Media).

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PopCap Secured $22.5 Million Funding

October 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

PopCap has just confirmed it's first round of funding and has successfully raised $ 22,5 million in it. The funding round was lead by Meritech Capital Partners.

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What’s up with Glu?

October 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Thurday, Jill Braff suddenly announced that she will be leaving at the end of this week. With her leaving, the company would be floating around but… since yesterday, Glu seems to be doing very well on the stock market.

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Ideaworks3D Splits

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

Following a strategic investment from ARM, developer Ideaworks3D has now announced that the company will split up in Ideaworks Labs and Ideaworks Game Studio (and so it loses the 3D).