June 2nd, 2005 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
Electronic Arts, the largest U.S. video game maker, was scheduled to announce on Wednesday an agreement with Qualcomm aimed at grabbing a bigger slice of the $1.3 billion market for games played on mobile phones.
The partnership will mesh games made by Electronic Arts with software developed by Qualcomm, a leading maker of chips that power cellphones, John Batter, the vice president for Electronic Arts’ mobile-games unit, said on Wednesday.
"It’s time for us to get involved," Batter said. "We saw the market developing in terms of consumer downloads." More …
