Archive for the ‘Companies & M&A’ Category

Gameloft’s Full Year Results 2008

March 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gameloft has reported it's 2008 financial results. The company reached an operating income of

Glu & The Risk of Conversion

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

Though company remains struggling to hold their position within the changing mobile games market, one great lesson to learn is that conversion can lead to loosing money for nothing.

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Sony to Acquire SonyEricsson?

March 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

The latest industry rumours say that Ericsson is interested in selling it's share of SonyEriccson to JV partner Sony. Does this mean that the much rumoured PSP phone will come anyway?

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fbFund Offering up to $100k in Investments

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

Facebook might be offering small and mid-sized developers the chance of a lifetime. Through their fbFund programme, developers can earn between $25k and $100k in seed funding from the company.

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Hot M&A News Tomorrow – UPDATED

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

Rumours about this weeks acquisition in the EU market have been flying in our mailbox over the past two weeks. Following an e-mail conversation with the company involved, we can tell you…

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Greystripe Secures $ 5.5 Million in Series C Funding

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

Mobile advergaming platform giant Greystripe has secured another $ 5.5 million in funding in a Series C investment round led by Incubic Venture Capital, Steamboat Ventures and Monitor Ventures.

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Former IOMO Staff Launches TinRaven

March 8th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

IOMO has a broad history within the mobile games industry. Being bought and sold by InfoSpace some years ago, most of the company's staff landed at FinBlade. This week however, TinRaven was launched as well.

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Eidos to be Acquired in May

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

Square Enix and Eidos have announced that the companies have agreed on the acquisition of Eidos by Square Enix. When the formalities are over, the companies expect the acquisition to be official by the end of May.

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Gaming is the Cheapest Hobby

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

According to a study in The Netherlands, gaming (excl. mobile) is the cheapest hobby consumers can have in a time of recession. This despite complaints about overpriced console games.

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Namco Ramps up EU Business

March 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Namco Bandai Networks has started to ramp up their European mobile games business over the past few months. With main competitors shrinking or leaving the market, the timing is just right for the Japanese games publisher.