Posts Tagged ‘Glu’

SEGA Ditches Glu for Gameloft?

May 6th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | 5 Comments »

It seems Glu is getting a new kick toward the it's grave as one of it's biggest partners, SEGA, seems to be switching to it's number 1 competitor Gameloft!

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The Motley Fool: BUY Super High Risky GLUU

March 30th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | 1 Comment »

The guys behind The Motley Fool wrote a very interesting article on Glu. The editor advises to buy Glu’s shares, though he claims that they are a super high risk because he doesn’t know any cash positive mobile game publisher

GDC: Zeebo Partner Update

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Brew | No Comments »

Yesterday, we covered the news that Qualcomm is finally releasing Zeebo in the Brazilian market. Meanwhile, we have started to check around on the internet to find out which content partners already signed up for the Brew/3G based console.

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Glu Signs FusionOne for DRM

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | 5 Comments »

Transferring mobile games from one handset to another might become a tandard service soon if it’s up to FusionOne. The company has just signed up Glu as its customer for the technology.

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GDC: Glu Signs 5 New Activision Licenses

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

Glu Mobile announced to bring five new Activision titles to the mobile gaming platform. The upcoming titles will be published worldwide for carriers and application stores that support Android, Blackberry, BREW, J2ME and Windows Mobile.

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Glu & The Risk of Conversion

March 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Though company remains struggling to hold their position within the changing mobile games market, one great lesson to learn is that conversion can lead to loosing money for nothing.

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Glu Shows 2009 Management Bonuses

March 5th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | 3 Comments »

Glu's management is working hard to get the company back in a healthy position. One of the steps taken was by Greg Ballard himself as he reduced his salary to give the company more room to breathe.

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Glu’s Q4 Earnings Call

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

Glu seems to be committed to launching many more mobile games focused at various smartphone platforms. The company will devote 30 to 40% of it's development time at it.

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Financials: Glu

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

In their latest quarterly earnings report, Glu has revealed that the company had a consolidated revenue of $21.6 million, an increase of 19% compared to $18.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2007.

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Glu Goes D2C (Again)

January 29th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

In the good old days, there was a very powerful platform on the market called Provision X. It was created by a company called MacroSpace and held a series of options most competitors dreamt about…