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Flurry Raises $15 Million

December 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Flurry has raised $15 million in a series C funding round to accelerate the development of new monetization services for mobile developers, focusing new development on the iOS and Android communities.

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AMV Acquires K2 Media

December 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mobile content publisher AMV (American Mobile Ventures) has announced its acquisition of K2 Media to strengthen its position in the market. K2 owns several mobile content franchises.

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The Astonishing Tribe was sold for 800.000.000 Kr

December 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A Swedish newspaper reported today that Research in Motion bought The Astonishing Tribe for 800.000.000 Swedish crowns or 87.7 million Euro.

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Zynga Acquired Newtoy

December 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga has acquired Newtoy, the studio that developed the For Friends app series on the App Store. Zynga was interested in acquiring Newtoy for its knowledge in social gaming.

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RIM Acquired The Astonishing Tribe

December 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Recently, The Astonishing Tribe managed to get the world’s attention with their demo video on how screens will function in our future lives. Today, the news reaches us that the company has been sold to RIM.

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New Layoffs at FOX Mobile

November 30th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

FOX Mobile still hasn’t been sold, so it seems the management is not ordered to reduce costs in the company by laying off several staff members across the company’s global offices.

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Glu Strongly Reduces EU Headcount

November 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, People | No Comments »

The rumors have been flying around for some time, but I think we and most of our readers have been expecting this for a while. Last week, lot’s of Glu employees in Europe received their termination notice.

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NaturalMotion Games Launches

November 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

PC/Console Developer NaturalMotion has announced the launch of NaturalMotion Games, a new unit that will have a strong focus on mobile games on iOS and Android.

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Layar Receives €10 Million Funding

November 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Intel Capital has invested €10 million in Dutch developer Layar. The investment is meant to increase the number of products and services based on augmented reality.

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SEE: Nokia Takes Back Symbian

November 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

The rumors are true, the Symbian Foundation is winding down, but symbian itself won’t. In fact, Nokia has announced it will be taking Symbian back in-house, not long after the EU funded it.