Jon Niermann, the head of Electronic Arts in Asia, has “highlighted mobile gaming, along with online and locally-developed console content, as a key driver for the firm’s ambitions in the…

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Mitch Lasky (head of EA Mobile) talks about the mobile game business… EA Mobile will do 57,000 stock-keeping units this year—a stock-keeping unit is a game for a particular handset…

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We covered EA’s Q1 earnings last week...more details from its earnings call transcript: Mobility revenue more than doubled to $88 million, driven by increases in PSP and mobile phones and,…

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Electronic Art’s woes continue with a tax-related net loss of $16 million for Q1 compared to an $8 million profit in the same quarter last year. Net revenue rose 16…

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MobileIndustry.biz has a two-part interview up with EA’s Chief Technical Officer, Lincoln Wallen, on the Jamdat acquisition and what it means to the companies. It’s a good read. It’s interesting…

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In February, Electronic Arts Inc., the world’s biggest video game publisher, acquired Jamdat Mobile for $684 million and showed that it’s serious about mobile content. So what are its plans?…

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EA revealed some games it plans to bring to the mobile market this year at the GDC Mobile conference, running across the core, casual and sports titles. Spore was on…

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Mitch Lasky, senior VP of mobile at EA and former CEO of Jamdat, has told the GDC conference his ideas of why mobile games are stagnating. “There are too many…

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Some more on Jamdat’s Q4 earnings, now that it has been bought by EA. This is from the transcript of the earnings conference call, from CE Stock Blog (our coverage…

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EA’s earnings slumped in the holiday quarter, coming in below analysts’ already lowered expectations. EA earned $259 million, down from the year-earlier period, when the company posted a profit of…

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After the ungodly amount of money he got, who’s to blame him? Henk Rogers, the founder of Blue Lava Wireless, which was sold to Jamdat last April for $137 million,…

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Electronic Arts’ $680 millio buyout of Jamdat has received approval from U.S. antitrust authorities...The transaction remains subject to various closing conditions, including the approval of stockholders of Jamdat and foreign…

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According to Telephia Jamdat topped the games sales chart in the third quarter of 2005, grabbing 30.6% of the revenue generated by mobile games. That’s more than three times its…

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The head of EA’s mobile efforts, John Batter, will leave the company following its acquisition of Jamdat. As was announced with the deal, Jamdat CEO Mitch Lasky will be heading…

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It has been filed with the SEC now...have a look here.. Our complete coverage of the deal is here…

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In a short note on analysts at Robert W Baird reducing their “outperform” rating on Jamdat Mobile to $27, the analyst adds: “The deal would prompt other traditional gaming developers…

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This is pretty big by itself and bigger now in light of the Jamdat acquisition by Electronic Arts… I’m not sure how I managed to overlook it before. Indiagames has…

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Really, why go anywhere else...we’ve done the hard work for you: -- EA-JMDT: Data On Deck Placement Etc -- EA-JMDT: Big Cashout For Apax, Benchmark -- EA’s Build Vs Buy…

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The two main remaining investors in Jamdat were Apax Partners and Benchmark Capital (I’m assuming rest of them--Intel Capital, Sun Microsystems, and Qualcomm--cashed out with the IPO)...between the two and…

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Some quick data from M:Metrics, on U.S. carrier placement for Jamdat (for October): -- Jamdat’s titles occupy the most premium “deck placement” or real estate on the browsers of the…

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In the conference call EA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Probst was asked why EA decided to buy into mobile content rather than build their own. His reply: “Obviously…

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This is according to EA CEO Larry Probst, on the conference call happening now: -- Mobile games are a big deal..this is north of $1 billion globally and will reach…

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We were reporting all along about EA’s interest in Jamdat...EA had been sniffing around for almost a year now, but the price and valuation issues were proving to be a…

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Now we know why Jamdat CEO Mitch Lasky was not present at his company’s presentation at the UBS media conference in NYC this morning...CFO Michael Marchetti was there...Lasky obviously preparing…

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[by James Pearce] Like most people I expected EA to expand its reach in the mobile game world through acquisitions, and there have been rumors in the industry about a…

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