Posts Tagged ‘EA’

EA Explores Freemium with Pogo Games App

December 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Today, EA launched a free app called Pogo Games on the app store. The app contains 5 minigames for now and allows Pogo members to sign in to it.

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EA Values Mobile Gaming at $3.4 Billion in 2010

December 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Research & Stats | No Comments »

EA has done some calculating and estimates that the Mobile Gaming market is worth $3.4 billion in 2010. For 2013, they expect the amount to grow all the way to $ 4.5 billion.

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Cut The Rope Passes 2 Million Downloads

October 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

EA’s first press release for Chillingo landed in our mailbox today. The company announced that Chillingo’s recently launched Cut The Rope game has passed 2 million downloads on the App Store.

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Zynga Worth more Than EA!?

October 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

According to data from SharesPost, Zynga is now worth $5.51 Billion, effectively beating EA from the throne as second most valuable gaming company world-wide.

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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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EA Wishes for Android App Store

September 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

During his keynote at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference, EA’s CFO Eric Brown told the public that Android could be a very interesting platform if it only had an App Store.

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Financials: EA’s Q1 2010 (Q2 2010 for us)

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

EA has reported a total profit of $96 Million over the first quarter of their fiscal year 2011. That is an increase in revenues of $330 million year-on-year.

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EA Sells Ubisoft Shares

July 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Back in 2004, EA had bought 20% of Ubisoft as shareholder John de Mol needed to raise capital to start a new TV channel in Holland. Now, six years later, EA has decided to sell them on.

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Financials: EA Q4 2009 (Q1 2010)

May 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Electronic Arts has reported a profit for their fourth quarter of the financial year. Though EA’s major business remains in consoles, EA Mobile is picking up steam by now.

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AE10: Layar on Layars, Monetizing Them and EA

March 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: Layar | No Comments »

The second last company to take the stage is Layar. Layer is a very successful augmented reality browser on both iPhone and Android. The company started in 2009 and grown massively.