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Facebook Acquired Instagram

April 9th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Facebook announced the acquisition of Instagram. Earlyer today we reported about the massive success of the photography app on the android platform. Now it will be part of the ever growing Facebook family.

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Dragonplay Raises $14 Million

April 3rd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Dragonplay, a developer specialized in mobile gambling on Android devices, has raised $14 million to expand their business. The studio is likely to use the money for acquisitions and expansion onto iOS.

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Sony One Combines Xperia and Vaio Branches

March 28th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Under Sony’s CEO to be (starting April 1st) Kazuo Hirai, Sony will be restructured. The restructuring leads to a new Sony with a three-pillar approach. In that approach, the Xperia and Vaio products will be coming from a combined unit.

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Rovio Acquires Futuremark Games

March 28th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following the acquisition of animation studio Kombo, Rovio has made a second acquisition. This time, it took control over Futuremark Games Studio. The gaming branch of 3DMark inventors Futuremark.

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Zynga Paid $180.000.000 for OMGPOP

March 25th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following the acquisition of OMGPOP, there has been a lot of speculation about the value of the deal. Analysts expected Zynga to pay between $150 and $250 million for the developer.

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Sliced Bread Games Open for Business

March 23rd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A new California based game development unit has launched under the inspirational name Sliced Bread Games. The outfit consists of two pastry experts combining 12 years of experience.

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Zynga Acquires OMGPOP

March 21st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It was only yesterday we popped up the rumour of Zynga being interested in acquiring OMGPOP and today… it happened! Zynga has pulled the DrawSomething developer on board.

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Mobiles Republic Raises $3 Million

March 21st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mobiles Republic is a French mobile outfit specialized in news services and apps. In a series A funding round, the developer managed to gather $3 million in investments.

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Symantec Acquires Nukona

March 21st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Symantec has also announced a new mobile acquisition today. The anti-virus giant made a swoop for app-management firm Nukona to enable itself to offer cross-platform IT protection.

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Halfbrick Acquires Onan Games

March 21st, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Halfbrick, famous for their Fruit Ninja game, has acquired Onan Games. Onan games is a cross-platform specialist that could help Halfbrick to expand its portfolio on alternative platforms.