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GetJar Ends White Label Stores

April 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

About a year ago, GetJar launched their White Label store program to stimulate downloads through operators. Now, the company announced it will be ending the program as consumers moved away from the operators.

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Zynga Acquires MarketZero

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

Buying everything that’s successful works for Zynga. As so, the company has just bought MarketZero, a company that specializes in tracking poker players. What!? It’s not a gaming studio!?

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Vodafone Sells Off SFR

April 4th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Vodafone has sold off their 44% in SFR to Vivendi. Vivendi already was the ‘other’ major stakeholder in the company, making it effectively theirs.

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RIM Acquires TinyHippos

March 30th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Those that visited our Mobile Unconference event last September in Düsseldorf probably met the great guys from TinyHippos. Great news for them, they have been bought by Research in Motion.

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Financials: Gameloft’s FY 2010

March 24th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Today, Gameloft announced their sales figures for 2010. In the announcement, the company trumpets a record profit jump of 127% to € 13.6 million compared to 2009.

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AT&T Acquires T-Mobile US

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

AT&T has bought competitor T-Mobile US from Deutche Telecom. AT&T paid $39 billion for the operator that just introduced the new Sidekick to the North American market.

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Rovio to Float in NYC

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

After hauling in millions of revenues on Angry Birds and their first funding round, Rovio is planning their next step; filing for an IPO in New York somewhere in the next five years.

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Herocraft Back on the Market

March 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Over the past couple of months, our sources say Herocraft has been in negotiations with various companies in search to find a new partner suitable partner for growth. Negotiations have ended, putting the company back on the market.

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Insomniac Games to Focus on Web & Mobile Games

March 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Yet another PC/Console publisher is set to jump into the app wars as Insomniac Games’ Chief Creative Officer Brian Hastings officially announced a change of strategy.

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Rovio Raises $42 Million

March 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Rovio has closed a series A funding round and managed to pull in $42 million in fresh capital. The funding round was lead by Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures.

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