Posts Tagged ‘acquisition’

EA Mobile, Gameloft and Glu, What can Happen?

January 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 7 Comments »

The market seems to be shaking with rumours on the big three. It's not that strange considering Glu is still in financial problems and EA is missing several key employees in their Mobile unit.

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Mondia Ltd Acquires Arvato Mobile

January 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 8 Comments »

As of January first, Arvato Mobile has been acquired by Mondia Ltd.(housed in Dubbai). As Arvato Mobile will be split off from the rest of Arvato (part of the Bertelsmann group) we guess the company will be renamed at sometime.

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Glu Takes Financial Measures for 2009

January 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

2008 didn't even end, and Glu already announced some financial changes in order to stabilize their position in the market. With their latest measures the company seems to secure their business for 2009, but there is still a lot of work ahead…

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EA Food for Acquisition!?

November 6th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Could EA be bought? That is a question on the mind of MocoNews earlier this week. They looked at various situations in which EA could end up as property of other multinationals.

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Mandalay Media (Twistbox) Acquires AMV

November 3rd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mandalay Media, Owner of Twistbox and Waat Media, has completed the acquisition of AMV Holding. AMV is specialized in mobile media and marketing and delivers it's content along several European countries.

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What’s up Vivendi!?

September 21st, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Following the shout by MocoNews a few days, we also make a shout out to
anyone connected to Vivendi Games Mobile. We would love to know more
about what’s going on in there.

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VSST Acquires Skyzone Entertainment

September 10th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

VSST, a Korean software company has announced that it has agreed with SK C&C to acquire a majority share of mobile game developer Skyzone Entertainment.

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Connect2Media Acquired RayFusion? UPDATED

September 4th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

This morning we received a fresh rumor about the possible acquisition
of Israeli based content aggregator Rayfusion by Connect2Media.

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Square-Enix to Acquire Tecmo

September 2nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

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Tecmo is a small name in the mobile gaming market. Fair enough, the mobile games they presented at the E3 back in 2005 where the worst I had seen that year. Now, Square prepares to acquire the company.