Archive for the ‘Companies & M&A’ Category

NTT DoCoMo to Acquire Net-M

September 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

NTT DoCoMo has announced that it is making a voluntary public tender offer to acquire the shares of Net Mobile AG, a mobile content distributor located in D

Matt Spall Sells Studio Again

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

Matt Spall used to be the owner of the famous Morpheme studios. After a while he rebranded it to Gimm5Games to focus on casual and online. Not too long after, he sold that studio for the first time to Eidos.

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Rumours: UBI & Gameloft, the Love is Gone!?

September 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing, Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS | 2 Comments »

The signs where hanging in the air and many where saying it at both the GC and GamesCom. With the announcement of UBI doing Assasins Creed on the iPhone we can openly say the love between the both is gone.

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Greystripe Raises Another $2 Million

September 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Greystripe has completed their third round of financing. During this round, the company secured $2 million from the Peacock Equity Fund, a fund from General Electric's and NBC Universal.

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In-Fusio, The Questions

August 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 4 Comments »

The past days, In-Fusio stole the show with the termination of the original company and the start of one called In-Fusio Europe. You sent in some questions and Sebastien Martin is answering them in this post.

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In-Fusio Europe Rises from In-Fusio’s Ashes – UPDATED

August 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 7 Comments »

A new day, a new company. Having declared In-Fusio dead yesterday, today we found out that In-Fusio Europe has been set up. As we noted yesterday, we received both the news about the liquidation of the company as well as news about restructuring in Germany.

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InFusio Bites the Dust? – UPDATED

August 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

InFusio, another big name from the past, seems to have passed away. The company has resided in administration over the past months and last week the employees where informed that the show is over.

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Gamevil’s Financial Results

August 26th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gamevil closed a very good quarter. The company saw it's revenues grow 67% (or 5.4 billion KRW) year-on-year and the profits went up 214% to 2.6 billion KRW.

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GamesCom: Gedda Headz Launches

August 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

This morning we came across a booth with Gedda Headz. Though at first they looked like nice (canned) toys, there is actually a full mobile gaming environment behind them that evolves around online play.