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Oasys Mobile Emerges from Chapter 11

October 15th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Oasys Since it’s chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in July, Oasys Mobile has been working hard to recover and return healthy into the mobile business. Yesterday, Oasys announced the company announced to be healthy again.

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Tag Games Expands

October 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Taggames Dundee based mobile games developer Tag Games has moved into new office earlier this year which now allows the developer to expand and double the headcount.

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Gamelion Expands in Poland

October 2nd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gamelion has expanded it’s development team by adding 40 fresh new developers in order to shorten the time for mobile game development.

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Blade Interactive Enters Mobile Gaming

September 30th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Bladeinteractive With mobile gaming becoming a hotter subject by the day, Blade Interactive has now chosen to follow the route of many other developers and so, to set up a mobile development team.

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T-Mobile Acquires Orange NL

September 29th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Orange The Dutch mobile operator market is slimming down again as for the second time, one MNO buys another. This time, T-Mobile acquired Orange, leaving only 3 networks in the Dutch market.

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Twistbox Receives $ 19.5 Million Funding

September 11th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Twistbox Entertainment announced to have received in total $ 19.5 million in funding led by an affiliate of ValueAct Capital and several other strategic investors.

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Ideaworks 3D Receives Funding

September 9th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Ideaworks3d Ideaworks 3D is preparing itself to move into Asia. As so, the company started it’s first funding round since it started back in 1998.

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SCI / Eidos Confirms Takeover Negotiations

September 5th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Eidos SCI, Owner of Eidos, has confirmed to be in talks about a takeover. In the past, rumours already exposed talks with Vivendi and Midway last year, but now it seems Time Warner is also interested.

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Jan Rezab on Merger RedBoss with Mliven

August 31st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

After the news of the Redboss Merger with Mliven, our mailbox received many questions and new rumours about the whole situation on the Czech mobile gaming and content market. Jan Rezab, former CEO of RedBoss and now Vice President of Mliven gave MobileGamesBlog.com an exclusive interview.

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TelcoGames Acquires Viva La Mobile

August 31st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

TelcoGames has added yet another company into their Group. After the acquisition of Fathammer last year, TelcoGames now swallows Viva La Mobile, a mobile multiplayer expert.