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GlobalFun Generated 1.1 Million in Revenues

April 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

This afternoon we got tipped on GlobalFun’s financial updated that where updated for the 2008 financial year. The sun seems to be shining for the company as it generated about

Update on Disney Mobile

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A few weeks back we reported that a lot of rumors where flying around that Disney was going to stop its efforts in the mobile games market. During the GDC, we received an update from the company about those rumours.

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Zed and Tanla in new JV

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zed and Tanla Solutions have set up a new joint venture in India. Through this joint venture, both companies hope to successfully exploit the huge Indian mobile VAS market.

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Vodafone MobileClicks 2009 Fund

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

At MobileMonday in Amsterdam yesterday, Vodafone announced the plans for the 2009 edition of its MobileClicks fund that aims at helping start-ups enter the world of mobile entertainment and services.

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Mogees Acquires Berrystore

March 31st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mobile billing provider Mogees has announced the acquisition of Berrystore. Berrystore is an App Store like sales channel that is aimed at the BlackBerry platform. Unlike RIM?s official BlackBerry World shop, Berrystore offers more variation in pricing levels.

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Thumbplay Raises $6 Million

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

In their sixth round of financing, mobile content and gaming D2C publisher Thumbplay has successfully raised $6 million from various shareholders.

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Terrie Lloyd Takes Instinct Entertainment to Japan

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Instinct Entertainment will be bringing
it’s Flash Mobile game creator platform to Japan with the help of
investor Terrie Lloyd. In return, Terrie Lloyd will get a strategic
share in the company.

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Shareholders Agree on Eidos Acquisition

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

The acquisition of Eidos by Square Enix is another step closer as the shareholders have reacted positively on the offer of the Japanese games publisher Square Enix (which will make them Square Enix Eidos?)

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ng:moco Raises another $10 Million

March 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

iPhone mobile game developer ng:moco managed to raise yet another ten million dollar via it's second round of funding, led by Northwest Venture Partners according to VentureBeat.

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Disney to Downsizing Mobile Gaming Efforts – UPDATED

March 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Strong industry rumors are flying all around about the expected end of Disney’s efforts in mobile gaming. Of course, we have taken the time to try and dig up all information we could get about it.