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Zynga Interested in OMGPOP!?

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

With OMGPOP’s DrawSomething attracting 30 million downloads in just five weeks, the company put itself in the spotlights to be acquired. One of the companies that is rumoured to be interested in OMGPOP is Zynga.

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Sony Starts Sony Ericsson Rebranding Campaign

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

With the first Xperia’s with the Sony logo on the shelves, Sony has started a global promotional campaign to introduce itself as well as the new slogan “Made of Imagination” to the (smartphone) consumer.

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King.com Acquires Fabrication Games

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Online game specialist King.com has started to make a move for mobile by acquiring Fabrication Games. Fabrication Games, based in Sweden, is a mobile development outfit specialized in iOS games.

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PaymenOne Becomes PayOne

March 13th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Direct billing provider PaymentOne has started its rebranding operations as the company will now proceed as PayOne. The company has been operating under its original name over the past twelve months.

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Motorola Purchase by Google on the Verge of Approval

February 11th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Some months ago, Google announced its intentions to purchase Motorola. At that time, US and European authorities still needed to give approval for the takeover. If all goes right, Google should be getting some good news along the coming week as it will be allowed to spend its 12.500.000.000 on the acquisition.

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EA Acquires Bight Games

August 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA has bought yet another mobile developer. This time it’s the studio that has already developed several games for EA Mobile (NBA Jam, Fleeced).

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Former Gameforce CEO Starts Mobile Studio

August 4th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A new mobile development studio has entered the arena. This time it’s Flaregames, headed by former Gameforge CEO Klaas Kersting. He’s not the only big shot stepping in though…

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RIM to Split!?

July 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Though the new PlayBook is a bundle of fun in our eyes, it is far from a secret that RIM is having huge problems as share prices pretty much continue to spiral downward. The solution opted now might be to split.

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EA Acquires PopCap Games

July 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA has announced the acquisitioin of PopCap Games, one of the leading casual and mobile gaming studios. With the acquisition, EA extends it’s mobile/casual portfolio.

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THQ Closes Two Studios

June 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Maybe not mobile related, but for some of you that are working with THQ it might be interesting to know the company has closed down two of their gamestudios.