Archive for the ‘Companies & M&A’ Category

Karl Woods: Kiloo waiting to be acquired

August 31st, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

MobileIndustry.biz yesterday posted their long awaited interview with Karl Woods. Ok, it’s only part one of the interview, but it’s getting interesting from the beginning. As Karl explains, they are currently busy polishing up the company to make it ready for acquisition by one of the current big boys who need experience in the mobile gaming market. As example, Karl stated Activision, one of the major pc/console publishers who doesn’t have it’s own mobile department.

Need investment?

August 21st, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A fresh VC company was raised last week called Moshir Venture Partners. Their plans are to invest between 250K and 1 million in mobile entertainment companies.

Player One Sports Division launch

August 2nd, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

With the massive success of their sports games in mind, UK based Player One announced their launch of a dedicated sports division. The new division will not only take care of game production around sport events, but will also make available an offering of other mobile entertainment products like wallpapers, ringtones and more to boost sales.

THQ’s Q2 numbers

July 29th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Yesterday, THQ announced their Q2 numbers for 2006. Overall the company seems to do pretty good even though it had a 12 million Euro loss. Our sector, wireless, seems to face some problems of the problems. The 6.5 million Euro turnover in Q2 last year has shrunk to 5.5 million Euro. According to MoCoNews who was in the conference call, the difference is explained by the massive Star Wars license THQ launched in Q2 last year, meaning their expected 10% growth on average was still sustained.

Gameloft Q2 2006 Successfull

July 28th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gameloft announced their figures for Q2 2006. Gameloft has shown a 50% increase on sales in comparison to the same quarter in 2005. Gameloft created a turnover of 15.8 Million Euro which is one million euro more then Q1 2006. Mobile game sales represented 97% of the total turnover. The remaining 3% came from the internet sales driven by jeuxvideo.com. On the 10th of June, Gameloft sold this division for 22.9 Million Euro.

Gamevil aims their nose to the US

July 27th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Korean based Gamevil is planning their move to take over the U.S. market by opening up a US subsidiary in L.A. Gamevil’s widest known game is the award winning Skipping Stone released by I-Play. With distribution as one of the biggest problems, Gamevil plans to use D2C and community based promotions which have proven success in Korea where Gamevil is a market leader on mobile games.

Gameloft shares take a steep fall

July 27th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Ever thought about investing in Gameloft? This might be your chance. After industry rumours, stock prices dropped in an amazing rate to only about 50% of their previous value. Will they stay this way? Probably not

Game over for Daydream!?

July 26th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Strong industry rumors say the end of Daydream is near. New owner 24h Poker has put the stockprice to zero about a month ago and is now looking for buyers to sell bits of the company. Those bits include projects like LBS based Botfighters, Kidz Mobile and much more. Need a contact? Send me a mail and I will forward your details.

Konami to purchase Bluelabel

July 25th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Konami announced the acquisition of Blue Label Interactive. The purchase is used to enhance performance of Konami Mobile. Under the Konami Mobile division, this purchase also allows room to move with other mobile products, probably wallpapers and ringtones.

Mobile2Win to expect $ 10-15 Mln funding

July 24th, 2006 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

According to ContentSutra, Mobile2Win is about to sign for a funding between $ 10 Mln and $ 15 Mln from Northwest Venture Partners. Current investors are Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH, Softbank China Venture Capital and Contests2Win India.