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News Corp / Fox Mobile Reorganisations
October 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
With the recent acquisition of the last Jamba shares from Verisign, it
got time for News Corp to start reorganizing it’s mobile entertainment
division in order to improve the market position.
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Gameloft Sao Paulo Update
October 17th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »
We reported that Gameloft Sao Paulo is closing down earlier this week. PocketGamer talked to Gameloft to get the fine details about this sudden change in Brazil.
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Gameloft Closes Sao Paulo Studio
October 16th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Following the news that Gameloft topped the quality rankings of MobileGamesDB on Mobile Entertainment Magazine, we noticed a comment on the post that hinted on the Sao Paulo studio closing down. Of course we started looking into the subject.
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MoConDi Out of Money
October 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 9 Comments »
Breaking news today as we received official proof that MoConDi ltd. is not able to pay its debts to both employees of the company as well as creditors.
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Oberon Gets $20 Million Investment
October 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Oberon Media (owner of I-Play) has secured an investment of $ 20 million from the Infinity I-China Fund in order to enter the Chinese gaming market.
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Verisign Sells Jamba, Exits Mobile
October 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
With the closing of Ojom, Verisign already exited mobile game development. Now by selling their remaining Jamba shares to News Corp, the company exits mobile in total.
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Capcom Reorganizations
October 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Capcom has decided to reorganize its company structure in order to improve it’s services and decrease the costs. The reorganization means that North America and Europe will be joined.
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Glu Lowers Q3 Expectations
October 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
The problems on the financial market
seem to be hitting the mobile games industry as well. Due to exchange
losses and lower revenues, the company warns that Q3 results might be
below expectations.
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More on Vivendi Games Mobile
September 24th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 5 Comments »
It seems our last story on Vivendi Games Mobile winding down actually
brought in more information on what will happen with the company and
its employees.
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Vivendi Winding Down Business
September 23rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Our call for tips clearly worked well. Looking at the combined information, it is crystal clear that Vivendi Games Mobile is winding down its business and sacks most of the staff.
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