Posts Tagged ‘Glu’

What’s up with Glu?

October 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Thurday, Jill Braff suddenly announced that she will be leaving at the end of this week. With her leaving, the company would be floating around but… since yesterday, Glu seems to be doing very well on the stock market.

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Glu Expanding to Social Platforms

September 22nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Though the search for a new CEO continues, Jill Braff has announced that Glu will be heading toward a more social approach. That strategy is part of the restructuring of Glu Mobile.

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Frank Keeling Leaves Glu

September 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Glu has lost it's EMEA managing director Frank Keeling. His job will be split up between James Scalpello (EMEA Marketing Director) and Olivier Bernard (EMEA Sales Director).

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Glu’s Q209 Earnings Call

August 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Glu's earnings call has been put online. In the conversation, Greg outlines a lot of details about Glu's performance and expectations on Apple's App Store. Marketing will be key in improving their business.

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Glu’s Q209 Financial Results

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

Glu has reported it's second quarter financials for 2009. It's been a historic quarter for Glu as CEO Greg Ballard has announced that he wants to leave the company.

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Glu Hires James Scalpello

July 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

According to Mobile Entertainment Magazine, Glu has hired former THQ Wireless executive James Scalpello. James Scalpello will function as their new EMEA marketing director..

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Warner Bros to Acquire Codemasters?

June 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following a bid of 33 Million for Midway, Warner Bros is eyeballing yet another big games publisher for an acquisition. Is Warner building their own mega games company? Could Glu be next?

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Glu Licenses 4 More Activision Titles

June 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Glu has announced that it will be bringing more Activision titles to the decks. Amongst them is the popular Guitar Hero brand that was initially brought to mobile by HandsOn.

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Glu’s Stock Climbing Fast, but Why?

June 17th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 2 Comments »

Over the past few days, Glu's (GLUU) value has started to climb up again. Since June 12th, the company's shares even passed the $1 line. What is triggering this sudden climb from $0.89 five days ago to $1.5999 at the time of writing?

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Glu’s Q1 2009

May 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Yesterday, Glu has announced it’s financial results for the first quarter of 2009. Losses are down, which is a positive sound. We analysed the press release and conference call about it.