Posts Tagged ‘acquisition’

Gree Acquires OpenFeint

April 22nd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gree, a leading social mobile gaming platform in Japan, has announced the acquisition of OpenFeint. Gree has over 25 million users and a market cap of $3 billion.

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Zynga Acquires MarketZero

April 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Buying everything that’s successful works for Zynga. As so, the company has just bought MarketZero, a company that specializes in tracking poker players. What!? It’s not a gaming studio!?

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RIM Acquires TinyHippos

March 30th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Those that visited our Mobile Unconference event last September in Düsseldorf probably met the great guys from TinyHippos. Great news for them, they have been bought by Research in Motion.

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AT&T Acquires T-Mobile US

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

AT&T has bought competitor T-Mobile US from Deutche Telecom. AT&T paid $39 billion for the operator that just introduced the new Sidekick to the North American market.

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Facebook Acquires Snaptu

March 21st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

Facebook has acquired Snaptu, a developer of mobile apps that focuses on the J2me market for feature phones. The two companies were already working on a mobile Facebook client for J2me devices. Facebook paid $70 million for the J2me developer.

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Activision to Acquire Take Two Interactive!?

February 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

If rumours are right, Take Two might get to be acquired by market leader Activision. The acquisition would bring the successful Rockstar Games label under Activision’s control.

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THQ Sells THQ Wireless

February 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

THQ has made a rather remarkable transaction by selling off THQ Wireless to 24MAS as THQ also noted that it will remain publishing mobile games on the more successful platforms.

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Motricity to Acquire Adenyo

February 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It seems Motricity is increasing its grip on the mobile advertising market as the firm acquires ad specialist Adenyo for a massive $100 million in cash and shares as well as a $50 million earn-out.

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Zynga to Acquire Whereoscope

February 1st, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Zynga is about to swallow yet another company. This time they are swallowing Wheroscope, a startup focused at helping parents find back their kids. Why would they pick this?

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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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