Posts Tagged ‘Investment’

Gree Invests in IUGO

April 19th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Gree has announced a new, minority investment in the Vancouver based mobile development unit IUGO. The investment follows on Gree’s investment in HTML5 developer Wizcorp.

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RedicalFlow, Development without Coding

April 19th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

RadicalFlow is a new project on Kickstarter that should allow prosumers to develop their own app. It should be as easy as putting content into the CMS and testing the end result. A bit too easy, or the last possibility to flood the App Store?

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MoMinis Raises $4.5 Millioin

April 18th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

MoMinis just closed their second round of funding. The Israeli company manages to raise $4.5 million. This adds up to the $4.7 million the company raised before.

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Qualcomm Invests in BlueStacks App Player

April 11th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

BlueStacks, an emulator that allows PC users to launch Android apps on their personal computers, has attracted an investment from Qualcomm. The investment follows downloads of the player passing the 1 million mark.

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Dragonplay Raises $14 Million

April 3rd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Dragonplay, a developer specialized in mobile gambling on Android devices, has raised $14 million to expand their business. The studio is likely to use the money for acquisitions and expansion onto iOS.

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Samsung set to Acquire BlackBerry 10 License!?

March 20th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

Following Google’s swoop for Motorola and Microsoft’s lovemaking with Nokia, it seems Samsung is looking for an alternative OS to push next to Windows Phone, Android and Bada. The OS of choice? BlackBerry OS 10…

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GetJar Secures $25 Million Investment

February 15th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

In a third round of financing, Get Jar has secured $25 million in capital. Though the company is running open app stores for multiple OS environments, the money will mainly be used for a push into Android.

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HTC Invests $40 Million in OnLive

February 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

HTC has bought 5.33 million shares prized $7,50 in OnLive, the cloud based gaming service. It is likely HTC made the investment to increase the quality of games that can be played on it’s handsets.

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Glu Raises Another $15 Million Through Stock

January 12th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Following it’s successful freemium game launches, Glu has announced to hand out 7.3 million new shares in order to raise money for further roll-out of their new strategy.

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TapJoy Secures $21 Million Investment

January 10th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mobile & Web app promotion company TapJoy has secured an investment of $21 million in an investment round led by Rho Ventures. The investment is a surprise given the scandal the company was involved in.