Posts Tagged ‘Investment’

Wild Needle Secures a $3 Million Investment

January 5th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

According to TechCrunch, mobile social gaming startup Wild Needle Games has picked up a $3 million investment. Playdom co-founder Rick Thompson has been identified as one of the executives behind the company.

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Inovisi Infracom Invests $30 Million in Ozura

October 13th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Mobile social gaming platforms are hot these days. Only a day after the acquisition of ngmoco was announced, Inovisi Infracom announces their investment in Ozura World Ltd.

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DeNa Invests in Astro Ape

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

No acquisition this time, but DeNa has announced an investment in Astro Ape, a US mobile games developer. Astro Ape is well known for its Office Heroes game on the iPhone.

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Board Changes & Fresh Cash for Connect2Media

September 21st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, People | No Comments »

While we only just reported that Eric Hobson had left Connect2media, we now have received the full press release detailing the changes and the investment into the company.

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Herocraft in Investment Discussions

September 8th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Though this year we have heard several rumors about Herocraft being bought, it seems something is about to happen very soon.

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Ngmoco Receives Google Funding

August 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

iFund backed iOS developer ngmoco has signed up a new investor; Google Ventures. The amount that Google is investing in the company is unknown as well as the terms under which they received the funding. Android could have to do with it though.

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Google Invests in Zynga – The Start of Google Games?

July 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

TechCrunch reports that Google has invested $100+ Million in Zynga, a developer of mobile and online games. This is expected to be a strategic investment to create Google Games.

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OpenFeint Moves Onto Android, Adds Strategic Investor

July 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Following competitor ScoreLoop, OpenFeint has now also made the step to Android. At the same time, OpenFeint has announced a new strategic investor to back the network.

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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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Google’s Schmidt Invests in PocketGear.com

July 2nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Though Google is pushing Android Market as the primary sales channel on Android, Google’s Eric Schmidt has apparently invested in PocketGear, another sales channel for mobile apps and games.