Archive for the ‘Companies & M&A’ Category

Mliven Acquired Redboss

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

Redboss We received many emails about the GC rumours that Redboss would be acquired soon. Finally it is official now and we are able to tell you the new owner is Czech based Mliven.

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D2C Closses New Funding Round

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

D2c D2C Games has received $ 6 million in their second funding round let by Rubicon Venture Partners and 755 Capitol Partners.

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More on EA’s Fishlabs Acquisition Gossip

August 28th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

A day after posting the rumours surrounding the possible acquisition of Fishlabs by EA Mobile, we spoke to Michael Shade, CEO of Fishlabs about how true this story could be.

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Will EA buy Fishlabs? (updated)

August 27th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

Fishlabs Will the gossiping in the industry ever stop? We don’t hope it! Another hot rumour came to us from various sides as it seems there is more M&A news coming from EA Mobile.

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Strong Acquisition Rumours in Czech

August 21st, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It seems to be that time again. The GC is open and rumours fly around. This year, Czech company Redboss is expected to come with some M&A news soon.

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Digital Chocolate Adds 2 New Studio’s

August 20th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Digitalchocolate Digital Chocolate has announced to have acquired two new development studios in order to expand their mobile gaming production facilities.

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Glu, Shares Drop

July 23rd, 2007 by Anonymous Blogger Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Glu It has been a while since we looked at Glu‘s shares (GLUU). Thought they lost some value right after entering the stock market, they recovered well until the management was changed.

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Oasys Mobile Does Chapter 11 Filing

July 23rd, 2007 by Anonymous Blogger Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Oasys Oasys Mobile has announced their chapter 11 filing, meaning they went into a status of bankruptcy protection. This follows several issues of bad news around the company lately.

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Ubisoft Sells All Gameloft Shares

July 17th, 2007 by Anonymous Blogger Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Ubisoft announced that it is selling all the shares owned in mobile game developer Gameloft to the Canlyon Cr

Net-M Acquires Stake in 8 Elements

July 11th, 2007 by Anonymous Blogger Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Netm Consolidation still seems to be all around us, and recently a lot is happening in the distribution field. After Buongiorno recently bought iTouch, Net-M now announced to have bought a strategic stake in 8 Elements to expand in the Asia-Pacific area.