Posts Tagged ‘Glu’

MWC: Glu’s Big Overhaul, No More J2me

February 17th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Jon Jordan sat down with Glu’s new CEO Niccolo de Masi, The interview he had pointed out that Glu will drop J2me, abandon brand licensing and hopes ‘Freemium’ will work out.

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Glu Tests Augmented Reality Gaming

February 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Location Based Gaming, Marketing Strategies, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

With their latest release, Glu is putting Augmented Reality to the test. In their adventure game ‘1000: Find ‘Em All’, players are challenged to find virtual objects in a real world game.

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Glu Involves Operators in Crime

January 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | 2 Comments »

In a new attempt to win the hearts of the operators, Glu has started to include content/platform managers of several big channels in their latest ‘Crime Files’ games.

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Glu Announces new CEO

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

Following the appointment of William J Miller as interim president and CEO just over a month ago, Glu has now announced who will be leading the company over the years to come; Niccolo de Masi.

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IO’10 Alex Galvagni

December 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Glu, the third biggest publisher of mobile games has seen a true management drain this year. Still 2009 has been good for the publisher as well since they managed to get cashflow positive. Alex Galvagni (CTO and SVP of Global Product Development) reflects on 2009 with us and looks ahead at 2010.

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Financials: Glu’s Q3

November 4th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Glu reported $19.6 Million in revenues, $4.3 Million less than Q3 2008 ($23.9 Million). GAAP loss from operations and net loss were $(2.8) million and $(4.0) million, respectively.

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Glu’s First Facebook Release and Virtual Currency

November 1st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: Facebook | No Comments »

Earlyer on, Glu announced that it would switch from a pure mobile games publisher and developer to one that aims downloadable platforms. Facebook is part of that new target as they released their first game on it.

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Connect 2 Media Bags PES License

October 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Today we found out Connect 2 Media has increased it cooperation with Konami even further as the company has started offering Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer title to operators and other sales channels.

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Glu in Deloitte’s Fast 500

October 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Deloitte has compiled its Fast 500 2009 listing for North America and Glu managed to get hold of the 129th position. Given the circumstances of the executives that left/are leaving, this listing is a very positive sign.

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Glu Jumps on Windows Marketplace

October 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

Microsoft has launched it's marketplace today and one of the first publishers announcing their released is Glu. Might this be why their stock (GLUU) is up since yesterday?