ComScore , the web measurement and analytics company has bagged Certifica , which provides similar services. Certifica is based in Latin America and the purchase would help comScore have some influence in the region as well. We aren’t aware of the terms and finances of the deal. As for Certifica, the web analytic company has existed since 2000, providing stats on the Internet usage in the region....
You know how this works: You're a shareholder in a major company -- let's say a major video game publisher like ... Midway Games -- and while the suits assure you that, despite lagging sales and a lousy portfolio, everything's going to be "OK!" Things started looking dodgy when CEO David Zucker abandoned ship in March of 2008 . "Everything okay in there?" you ask. "Yup, everything's...
A US District Court judge has ruled in favour of former Midway Games executives, following a case brought by shareholders that alleged the company had tried to hide the truth about its financial status. Shareholders lost millions when the company was sold to Warner Bros earlier in the year, after majority shareholder Sumner Redstone controversially sold his 87 per cent stake to investor Mark Thomas...
Looks like Digg found Kevin Rose’s Twitter directory worth having as it acquired WeFollow . The site lets users visit the site and and have themselves registered there. The site has grown quite exponentially over time with more than 650,000 followers. Well there has been no cash paid for this acquisition and it’s more like a transfer of personal ownership to Digg and with this, Digg will...
Here comes news of quite an important acquisition in the Arab world as Smashing Magazine acquired Noupe , an Egyptian blog. Why? Well because Smashing Magazine is the most popular web development and design website with over 4 million visitors a month while Noupe also focuses on both design and development of websites. We aren’t aware of the cash value of this acquisition but I bet its quite...
Here comes another news of a .com being sold for a high price, Insure.com was sold for a staggering $16 Million! This makes the Candy.com acquisition pretty low. This one makes a huge leap, given that it was bought for a tenth of its sale price. The site existed as an insurance broker and has been acquired by QuinStreet . The acquisition is the highest in the current year amongst the many domain purchases...
Next week Robomodo president Josh Tsui joins us live on Kotaku Talk Radio to chat about his company's upcoming game Tony Hawk: Ride. Before co-founding Robomodo in 2008, Tsui worked at Midway Games...
OnLive , the connected gaming technology company founded by Apple alum Steve Perlman, just received a major dose of credibility in the form of a double-digit round of funding from big, new investors like AT&T. Perlman didn’t disclose the amount, but said it was “much larger” than the company’s first two rounds; an SEC filing shows that OnLive raised $16.5 million from Warner...
Agent Red, aerial perfromer. Image courtesy of Art Outside. As we've mentioned , this year's Art Outside is going to be bigger and better than ever before. One of the areas where this is most evident is in the ambitious line-up of performance artists that have signed on to participate in the event. In addition to a full scheduled of bands and DJ as well as dozens of visual artists, Art Outside will...
Finnish mobile manufacturing giant, Nokia is set to expand its territories further as it acquired travel social network Dopplr . The service provides users a place to share the future travel plans they have with friends. The acquisition has cost Nokia somewhere in the range of $15 to $22 Million and has been made right when Dopplr was anticipating a new round of funding. The social network had been...
Mortal Kombat was the first entry in the famous and highly controversial Mortal Kombat fighting game series by Midway Games, released in arcades in 1992. It was later picked up by Acclaim Entertainment for the home version, then later returned to Midway. It centers on the first Mortal Kombat tournament and the ultimate defeat of [...]
If you want to enjoy smart online games, you have to check out the Blitz: The League. Blitz: The League was developed by Midway Games in the year 2005 and the re-launched in the year 2006. This game was published by Midway Games. Blitz: The League is from the Sports genre. This game is compatible with [...] Related posts: Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, PC, PS2, PS3, Xbox360 Looking for Interesting Xbox...
Mortal Kombat 1.0| 5.5MB Mortal Kombat was the first entry in the famous and highly controversial Mortal Kombat fighting game series by Midway Games, released in arcades in 1992. It was later picked up by Acclaim Entertainment for the home version, then later returned to Midway. It centers on the first Mortal Kombat tournament and the ultimate defeat of the evil Shang Tsung by the monk Liu Kang.Originally,...
Unreal Tournament 3 | 37 Part | 6.9 GB | 200MB Links | Published by: Midway Games Developed by: Epic Games Release Date: November 19, 2007 Genre: First-Person Shooter From the studio that brought you Gears of War, Unreal Tournament 3 is the highly anticipated, third installment of Epic Games’ most popular and in-depth sci-fi shooter series! Unreal Tournament 3 marks the return of the world’s...
Warner Bros. likely to buy bankrupt Mortal Kombat maker Midway Games Whether or not Warner Bros. exercises those rights into movie spin-offs is not known, although with the epidemic of board games and other favorite toys from the 1970s and 1980s, it certainly seems like a distinct possibility. Read More From Orginal Site
For those of you in the dark, Midway Games has a new driving/shooter video games coming out next month called The Wheelman . Vin Diesel stars as Milo Burik, an undercover CIA operative and highly skilled driver (Wheelman) who must infiltrate the criminal underworld of Barcelona to gather information about a covert heist. ********ARTICLE: Vin Diesel stars in Wheelman Video Game