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By: China's Tencent Buys Riot Games For $400 Million | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:38:35 +0000

[...] Web-based game deals in the last year. Among the more notable ones: Walt Disney purchased Playdom, Electronic Arts purchased Playfish and DeNA purchased Ngmoco. View Comments Tagged: Internet, MediaMemo, Peter Kafka, digital, [...]

By: Casual Games Start-Up OMGPOP Raising a Serious Funding Round | From Christmas With Love

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:03:02 +0000

[...] in casual games has sparked a flurry of deals in the past year, including Electronic Arts’ purchase of Playfish, Disney’s purchase of Tapulous and DeNA’s purchase of Ngmoco. But the big player [...]

By: Casual Games Startup OMGPOP Raising a Serious Funding Round | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:55:56 +0000

[...] in casual games, have sparked a flurry or deals in the past year, including Electronic Arts’ purchase of Playfish, Disney’s purchase of Tapulous, and DeNA’s purchase of Ngmoco. But the big player [...]

By: Another Big Bet on Mobile Payments: Boku Raises $25 Million | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:02:04 +0000

[...] Boku and competitors like Zong are focused, for now, on letting people use their phones to buy “virtual goods”, primarily on social games run by the likes of Zynga, Playdom and Electronic Arts’s (ERTS) Playfish. [...]

By: Electronic Arts to Sack 1,500 | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:26 +0000

[...] Reporting a second-quarter loss that widened thanks to a weak videogame market, Electronic Arts (ERTS) today said it will cut 1,500 jobs by early next year as part of a restructuring effort aimed at trimming at least $100 million in costs. This after announcing plans this morning to acquire social network game maker Playfish for $400 million. [...]

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TechKive » Blog Archive » EA Hooks Playfish [Digital Daily] — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:47:15 +0000

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Kevin Dent — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:28:34 +0000

I was expecting this, but I thought that they would hold off because of all of the negative publicity going on around the referral ads.

By: Accel Partners Feels Like a Billion Dollars Today…No, Really! | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:30:12 +0000

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