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Accumulate Rebrands to Flexion

January 31st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Accumulate UK Limited, the company behind the Flexion wrapper technology and platform has announced it will rebrand it’s organization to Flexion as it is their most successful and important product.

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Zynga Acquires Area/Code

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

Zynga has acquired Area/Code, a developer well known for it’s Drop 7 game. Zynga didn’t announce the sum of the acquisition but did say it will rebrand the studio into Zynga New York.

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Glu Raises Another $15 Million Through Stock

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following it’s successful freemium game launches, Glu has announced to hand out 7.3 million new shares in order to raise money for further roll-out of their new strategy.

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THQ’s New Logo

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

We honestly have to get used to this, but after years of putting their old logo in front of the public, THQ has chosen to introduce a new one to show change within the company.

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TapJoy Secures $21 Million Investment

January 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mobile & Web app promotion company TapJoy has secured an investment of $21 million in an investment round led by Rho Ventures. The investment is a surprise given the scandal the company was involved in.

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Wild Needle Secures a $3 Million Investment

January 5th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

According to TechCrunch, mobile social gaming startup Wild Needle Games has picked up a $3 million investment. Playdom co-founder Rick Thompson has been identified as one of the executives behind the company.

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Firemint Acquires Infinite Interactive

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

Firemint, maker of the successful Flight Control and Real Racing racing games on the App Store has acquired fellow developer Infinite interactive that is well known for it’s Puzzle Quest titles.

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Fox Mobile Sold to Jesta group

December 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It seems News Corp managed to find a new owner for it’s Fox Mobile Group. The Jesta Group has acquired the assets from news Corp. The news follows on a 15% staff reduction in November.

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eBay Acquires Critical Path Software

December 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

eBay announced the acquisition of Critical Path Software, the mobile developer that was responsible for creating eBay’s apps and those of eBay subsidiaries.

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Chunk Games Launches

December 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Digital creative agency Chunk Digital has announced the launch of Chunk Games, a new mobile unit within the marketing agency that is aiming purely at the development of multi-platform games.