Posts Tagged ‘acquisition’

Activision to Acquire Glu!?

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

When Vivendi bought Activision to form Activision-Blizzard in July 2008, many expected Vivendi Mobile to become a dominant player in the mobile games space. Yet, the new entity decided to close Vivendi Games Mobile…

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GoTV Acquires Hands-On’s Hombre Division

May 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

GoTV has snapped up Hands-On’s HOMBRE division. This division was responsible for the creation of applications for brands like Nascar, Operah, Sprint Football Live and Verizon NFL Draft.

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IMImobile to Increase Ownership of WIN plc

May 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Though the India based firm IMImobile already owns 2.4% of WIN plc, the companies have now announced that IMImobile is indexing the possibilities to increase its ownership in WIN.

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Google Acquires BumpTop

May 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Google has acquired BumpTop, the developer behind the 3D desktop with the same name. Analysts expect Google to have acquired the company for their Android operating system.

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HP Acquires Palm for $1.2 Billion – UPDATED

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Big news for Palm today as the device vendor has been acquired by HP. To many, this move came as a surprise as Lenovo seemed to be the last company in the race for the acquisition.

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Google Acquires Mobile Game Developer LabPixies

April 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Google has announced the acquisition of LabPixies. The Israeli studio specialized in social network games for iGoogle and Facebook as well as mobile games for Android and iPhone.

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Glu Shares Peaking Again

April 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

Over the past 52 weeks, Glu’s (GLUU) shares have ranged between $0,55 and $1,84. Though the shares have been between $1 and $1,20 over the past few weeks, shareprices suddenly started to increase on Friday.

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HTC Will not Acquire Palm

April 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: PalmOS | 2 Comments »

According to Reuters, a source within HTC has confirmed that the Korean cellphone vendor will not be acquiring Palm. HTC decided so after checking Palm’s financials.

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HTC Eyeballing Palm

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

According to a story from Bloomberg, HTC is playing around with the ideas of releasing their own mobile operating system or just to acquire Palm. HTC is currently ruling the Android and Windows Mobile markets.

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Reliance Acquires part of Codemasters

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

Indian entertainment investment group Reliance ANA Group has acquired 50% of the shares in Codemasters. Codemasters (with studios in the UK and NL) needs the investment to continue.