Posts Tagged ‘acquisition’

Player One goes Belly Up

December 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

As I said, we will try to keep covering the big news during my Prague trip and the minute I get into my hotel room, it's Player One all over the mailbox. The company went bust and ROK (who started to acquire it) is not happy at all…

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Playdom Acquires Trippert Labs

November 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Playdom has raised $43 Million to fullfil two strategic investments that will allow the developer to establish itself in both social (Facebook) and mobile (iPhone) gaming.

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HandyGames and AMA Release First Ubisoft Title, Sign of More to Come?

October 28th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Brand Licensing | 2 Comments »

About a month ago, MGB reported that the love between Gameloft and Ubisoft was pretty much over and that Ubisoft was open to discussion when it comes to licensing their IP out to others.

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Binbit Acquires Acme Mobile (Amob)

October 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Acme Mobile (Singapore), an aggregator from the old days, has been acquired by Binbit (Mexico). With the acquisition, Binbit is now working in 26 countries world-wide.

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ROK Acquires Player One

October 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

It has been silent around Player One for a long time but today's news is certainly big for them. The mobile games and TV publisher has been acquired by ROK Entertainment.

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Webwag Acquires MobileScope

September 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

With the old In-Fusio going down, one of the components that wasn't salvaged for the new In-Fusio Europe was the MobileScope platform business. It has now been acquired by Webwag.

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NTT DoCoMo to Acquire Net-M

September 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

NTT DoCoMo has announced that it is making a voluntary public tender offer to acquire the shares of Net Mobile AG, a mobile content distributor located in D

Matt Spall Sells Studio Again

September 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Matt Spall used to be the owner of the famous Morpheme studios. After a while he rebranded it to Gimm5Games to focus on casual and online. Not too long after, he sold that studio for the first time to Eidos.