Posts Tagged ‘Glu’

Glu Collects $13.5 Million Through Private Placement

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

Yesterday, Glu has sold 13,495,000 new shares on the market at around $1.00. These shares have been bought by existing and ten new investors and give the company some new capital to work with.

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Glu Execs Surface in Video Advertising

June 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Glu’s former boss Greg Ballard and former CTO Alex Galvagni have surfaced again. The execs are now working for a video advertising outfit called Transpera.

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Glu Closes UK Studio!?

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

Glu (GLUU) is shifting its focus more toward smartphones and that seems to have a direct effect on its developers, marketers and financial specialists in the UK if rumors are right…

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Glu Appoints Matthew Drapkin as Ninth Director

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

Glu (GLUU) has expanded it’s board from eight to nine directors. The new director, Matthew Drapkin, has been a partner of Greenway Capital, a private investment firm.

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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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Glu Earnings Call Liveblog

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

Much is expected from Glu’s (GLUU) earningscall tonight. We haven’t seen any numbers yet which is normally the case and… the new CEO will be speaking. Will Glu be acquired? F5 this page on a regular basis to find out from 1:30 PST or 22:30 CET

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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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Glu Loses Two Execs, Introduces New Bonus Plan

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | 1 Comment »

Yesterday, Glu lost two executives. VP of Global Human Resources Thomas Perrault and CTO Alessandro Galvagni have chosen to resign from the mobile games publisher.

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Niccolo de Masi Responds to Glu Overhaul Story

February 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: J2me | No Comments »

Earlyer this week, we reported on an interview between Jon Jordan and Glu CEO Nicollow de Masi in which the publisher seemed to make clear that J2me would no longer have a real future in the company.

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Glu Appoints Olivier Bernard as new GM EMEA

February 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Olivier Bernard has received a great promotion at Glu as the former sales director has now been appointed as the new general manager for the company’s EMEA business.