After a busy first half of 2017, mobile gaming M&A activity has moved from too-hot-to-touch to a still very warm simmer. Here’s our summary of recent mobile gaming M&A activity. The biggest recent news is Tencent’s rumored acquisition of Angry Birds developer Rovio, for an amount reported to be around $3 billion. There’s speculation that…
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With the recent flurry of M&A activity around mobile gaming companies, we thought it might be interesting to take a look at our list of notable mobile games-related transactions from 2015 through June 2017. Why pick 2015 as a starting date? While the decision was somewhat arbitrary, there are two reasons we chose that year.…
Read More List of Acquisitions of Mobile Game Companies in the West
It’s been a big couple of weeks for games investments. From Google’s acquisition of Owlchemy Labs to Softbank’s investment in game technology company Improbable, plus a host of other investments and publishing deals, game companies are starting to feel even hotter as investment targets. It’s no secret that much of this investment is being led…
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