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Connect2Media Acquired RayFusion? UPDATED

September 4th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

This morning we received a fresh rumor about the possible acquisition
of Israeli based content aggregator Rayfusion by Connect2Media.

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Xendex Opens UK Office

September 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Xendex
With the current state of the mobile games market, expansion seems a strange thing for small and mid-sized developers. Yesterday, Xendex announced to open a London office.

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Square-Enix to Acquire Tecmo

September 2nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Squareenix
Tecmo is a small name in the mobile gaming market. Fair enough, the mobile games they presented at the E3 back in 2005 where the worst I had seen that year. Now, Square prepares to acquire the company.

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net-m Acquires Minick

September 2nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Netm
Swisscom has sold it’s ownership in Minick to German mobile content and games aggregator net-m. In exchange, Swisscom will acquire a number of shares in net-m.

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Twistbox Plans to Acquire AMV

August 26th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

According to MocoNews, Mandalay owned Twistbox has set the first step
to try and acquire a company called AMV Holding. This name might sound
unknown, but the company ownes several portals.

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iFund Invests in ng:moco and Gogii

August 26th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gogii
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has invested in two iPhone aimed
mobile gaming startups through their iFund fund. The lucky companies
are ng:moco and Gogii.

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Jump Games also goes America

August 25th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Jumpgames
I admit, sometimes our mailboxes are
flooded. One of the things we accidentally skipped is Jump Games’
entry to the US mobile gaming market space through Reliance.

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Artificial Life Goes America

August 25th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Artificiallife
In a time where many mobile gaming companies suffer, Artificial Life
continues to expend it’s business around the globe. Since August 19th,
Artificial Life America Inc was initiated.

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Tira Wireless Closing Down?

August 22nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Tirawireless
Another industry mammoth falls to the ground as porting specialist Tira
Wireless seems to be closing down. Yes it’s rumor time again here at
MGB.

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Hands-On Split Official (more or less)

August 18th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Handson
We already reported about a possible split within the Hands-On company
before we went on our vacation break. Now we’re back, it’s all official
and see that Eric Hobson returns.