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Mobile Distillery Opens new Offices

March 28th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mobiledistillery Porting specialist Mobile Distrillery has announced to have opened up two brand new offices. One in Montreal and one in Paris.

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Glu Finalizes Superscape Acquisition

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

Glu Glu has finalized the acquisition of US based mobile game developer and publisher Superscape Mobile for the amount of $ 35.7 million and updated their fiscal forecasts.

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Distinctive Opens new Post Production Facility

March 20th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Distinctive Developments has opened up a new post production facility in Gliwice, Poland in order to increase the productivity of the mobile game developer.

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Deutsche Bank Downgrades Glu

March 17th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Glu Glu Mobile’s stock prizes took another dip last thursday as Deutsche Bank downgraded the stocks to ‘sell’. Analysts of the bank did this as economic concerns for the sector risen.

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Sony to Acquire 2WayTraffic

March 17th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Sonypictures Though in theory this news seems to be a bit far away from the world of mobile games, this deal might rip the Who Wants to be a Millionaire license out of Glu’s hands in the future.

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Glu’s MIG Acquisition Details

March 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Glu_2 Following our news of the MIG acquisition by Glu on 20-12-2007, we now follow up with the financial details about the MIG company.

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KPN Acquires Ortel Mobile

March 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Ortelmobile Dutch telecoms giant KPN has closed yet another acquisition as it swallows pre-paid giant Ortel Mobile which is active as an MVNO in The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.

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Acer Acquires E-Ten

March 5th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Eten It seems that the smartphone market keeps shaking this year. This time, E-Ten falls as they just got acquired by Acer.

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SCI Cuts 25% of Staff

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

Eidosinteractive As part of a radical restructuring plan to get the company back on track, SCI has announced to sack 25% of it’s workforce and cut off 14% of the current running projects.