Archive for the ‘Companies & M&A’ Category

Zattikka Receives Skype Funding

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

Zattikka recently got into the news as it had acquired Gimme5Games/Morpheme. Now the company has attracted some fresh funding to boost their performance.

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Binbit Acquires Acme Mobile (Amob)

October 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Acme Mobile (Singapore), an aggregator from the old days, has been acquired by Binbit (Mexico). With the acquisition, Binbit is now working in 26 countries world-wide.

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ROK Acquires Player One

October 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It has been silent around Player One for a long time but today's news is certainly big for them. The mobile games and TV publisher has been acquired by ROK Entertainment.

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Zero9 Goes into Liquidation

September 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

A few days ago, Mobile content distributor Zero9 has gone into liquidation. Zero9 owns a number of D2C channels where it is selling mobile games amongst other digital downloads.

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Webwag Acquires MobileScope

September 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

With the old In-Fusio going down, one of the components that wasn't salvaged for the new In-Fusio Europe was the MobileScope platform business. It has now been acquired by Webwag.

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EA Takes over Distribution of Namco Europe

September 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Distribution | No Comments »

Yesterday, we could already tell you that NamcoBandai would sign over European distribution of it's mobile games. Today we can officially announce that EA will be their exclusive partner for Europe, Russia, India, Latin America, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

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Namco to Outsource Mobile?

September 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Distribution | 2 Comments »

This morning, we got several tips that Namco would be closing it's mobile branch. Due to an NDA I can't reveal all the info in those tips as well as the communications we had with Namco already. Yet, a part of it has been made public by Namco already.

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Neomobile Takes New Investors on Board

September 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

BlueGem and MPS Venture have taken a controling stake in mobile content and services distributor Neo Mobile. They replace Teleunit who used to be the major shareholder.

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Iugo Eyeballs Platform Expansion

September 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Iugo, maker of the toybot series on the iPhone has announced that it is looking to expand it's universe to platforms like the Sony PSP and RIM's BlackBerry.