Archive for the ‘Companies & M&A’ Category

RIM Acquires Scoreloop

June 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Research in Motion just announced that Scoreloop will become part of the Blackberry Developer Team to bring in their experience in creating social gaming networks.

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Bye Bye Ovi

May 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Nokia has announced it will end the Ovi brand. Instead, the company will be rebranding all services under Ovi to… Nokia. Indeed, Ovi Services have become Nokia Services which sounds logic.

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EA to Acquire Firemint

May 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

EA has just announced the upcoming acquisition of Firemint Pty Ltd, the developers of successful games like Flight Control and Real Racing for the iPhone and iPad.

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Sagem/Mobiwire Files for Bankruptcy

May 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Ahhhh, good old Sagem Wireless. They made the cheapes phones for any operator that would sell them and they were a bliss. Though underpowered, compatibility was great making porting just a bit more fun.

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Glu to Publish Blammo Games

May 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Distribution | No Comments »

Following their (controversial) success with the Smurfs Village game on iOS, Blammo games now signed a deal with Glu to get multiple titles published.

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PopCap Games Acquires ZipZapPlay

May 2nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

UK based studio PopCap games has acquired San Francisco based social games studio ZipZapPlay. With this acquisition, PopCap extends its Facebook portfolio as well as settles itself in Silicon Valley.

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Zynga Acquires Wonderland Software

April 28th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga has snapped up yet another mobile games studio. This time, the giant has swallowed Wonderland Software in it’s hunger for mobile projects.

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eBay Acquires Where

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It seems the right time for multi-million acquisition announcements today as eBay has bought a mobile developer called ‘where’ for a massive $135 million.

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Gree Acquires OpenFeint

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gree, a leading social mobile gaming platform in Japan, has announced the acquisition of OpenFeint. Gree has over 25 million users and a market cap of $3 billion.