Archive for the ‘Companies & M&A’ Category

Motorola Purchase by Google on the Verge of Approval

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

Some months ago, Google announced its intentions to purchase Motorola. At that time, US and European authorities still needed to give approval for the takeover. If all goes right, Google should be getting some good news along the coming week as it will be allowed to spend its 12.500.000.000 on the acquisition.

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EA Acquires Bight Games

August 16th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA has bought yet another mobile developer. This time it’s the studio that has already developed several games for EA Mobile (NBA Jam, Fleeced).

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Former Gameforce CEO Starts Mobile Studio

August 4th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

A new mobile development studio has entered the arena. This time it’s Flaregames, headed by former Gameforge CEO Klaas Kersting. He’s not the only big shot stepping in though…

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RIM to Split!?

July 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

Though the new PlayBook is a bundle of fun in our eyes, it is far from a secret that RIM is having huge problems as share prices pretty much continue to spiral downward. The solution opted now might be to split.

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EA Acquires PopCap Games

July 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

EA has announced the acquisitioin of PopCap Games, one of the leading casual and mobile gaming studios. With the acquisition, EA extends it’s mobile/casual portfolio.

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THQ Closes Two Studios

June 14th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Maybe not mobile related, but for some of you that are working with THQ it might be interesting to know the company has closed down two of their gamestudios.

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RIM Acquires Scoreloop

June 7th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Research in Motion just announced that Scoreloop will become part of the Blackberry Developer Team to bring in their experience in creating social gaming networks.

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Bye Bye Ovi

May 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Nokia has announced it will end the Ovi brand. Instead, the company will be rebranding all services under Ovi to… Nokia. Indeed, Ovi Services have become Nokia Services which sounds logic.

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EA to Acquire Firemint

May 3rd, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | 1 Comment »

EA has just announced the upcoming acquisition of Firemint Pty Ltd, the developers of successful games like Flight Control and Real Racing for the iPhone and iPad.