Posts Tagged ‘acquisition’

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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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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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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EA Acquires Chillingo

October 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Good news for the guys over at Chillingo. The successful iOS publisher has been acquired by gaming behemoth EA. With the acquisition, EA will further strengthen its position on the App Store.

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FremantleMedia/RTL Acquires Ludia

October 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

RTL’s FremantleMedia has acquired a controlling stake of 51% in Montral based mobile game studio Ludia. The acquisition follows closely on Endemol’s announcement to start a mobile and online gaming studio in the UK.

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DeNa Acquires ngmoco, its True

October 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

We already wrote about the rumor earlier this week, but it turns out DeNa indeed bought ngmoco. Ngmoco will help DeNa get grip on the western mobile gaming market.

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Cellfish Media Acquired Airborne Mobile

October 11th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Cellfish Media has announced the acquisition of Canada based branded content pioneer Airborne Mobile. This is the third time the companies changes ownership.