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Greystripe Secures $ 8.9 Million Funding, Konami Joins Network

May 23rd, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Greystripe has announced to have raised $ 8.9 million in their Series B funding round led by Walt Disney’s Steamboat Ventures. At the same time, Greystripe announced to have closed a deal to make a few Konami mobile games available on ad-supported basis.

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Oasys Mobile Q1 2007 Financial Results

May 18th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Oasys Oasys Mobile has announced their first quarter financial results. Though 2006 showed a clear need for investment in the company, 2007 started off with an increase in revenue.

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Cometa Games, Fresh Funding and a Fresh Name

May 14th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Cometa When we spoke to the Cometa Games guys at the World Telemedia Congress a few weeks back, they already announced to us that some big B2B news would pop-up soon. Today, they sent us a press release about their new name and latest funding.

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THQ Wireless’ Q1 2007 Financial Results

May 14th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

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THQ has released their quarterly earnings report last week which shows
a big increase for the complete company, but also a dip for THQ
Wireless, their mobile gaming division which recently bought Universomo.

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In-Fusio, The Value of a Former Giant

May 14th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zenops Last Friday’s news about Zenops acquiring both In-Fusio and Filao Mobile came as a surprise to many players in the mobile games industry. Now however, we got tipped on a message from Florent Pitoun about the value.

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In-Fusio and Filao Mobile Acquired by Zenops

May 11th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

Zenops It seems to be an interesting Friday again as Zenops announced the acquisition of both Filao Mobile, In-Fusio and MobileScope (which was owned by In-Fusio).

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24hpoker Blames HQ Bank for Daydream Disaster

May 10th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Just when we thought the soap around the Daydream acquisition form
24hpoker was settled down after officially closing and selling off all
of Daydream’s assets, new bits start popping up in the press.

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Playphone Secures $ 18.75 Million in Third Round Funding

May 10th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

U.S. based mobile games and content portal operator Playphone has
announced to have received $ 18.75 million in their third and latest
financing round.

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EA Mobile’s Q1 2007 Financial Results

May 10th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

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EA’s mobile games division has been performing well in the group and
has now brought in 5.9 percent of the total group’s first quarter
revenues.

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THQ Wireless Acquires Universomo

May 10th, 2007 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

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THQ Wireless has announced the acquisition of the finish mobile games
developer Universomo after changing their mobile games strategy a few
times over the past few years.