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• Album Sales (week of 11/3) + Industry News

  
  iHipHop — Authority: 150
  ............Album Sales Week of 11/3Shwayze “Let It Beat” - 10,764 (over 74% digital)Hell Rell “Live From Hell”- 277CunninLynguists “Strange Journey Vol. 2″ - 394Last Week:Tech N9ne “K.O.D.” - 10,299 (this week) - 40,246 totalLet me know if there are any albums that you’d like to know numbers on that ...
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• Massive layoffs looming over EA

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 490
  A pair of sad, unusual, and conflicting reports coming out of EA.  With disappointing financials posted for the last quarter ( a loss of $391Million ), EA has decided to trim the “fat” and laid off an amazing 1500 people including management, support staff, developers, and graphics artists.  An internal memo ...
  16 hours ago

• Does Silicon Valleys Spending Spree Signal a Recovery?

  
  DealBook — Authority: 781
  From Bits: Big technology companies are spending $1.5 billion to buy three high-profile startups, after a long drought in acquisitions and initial public offerings.
  16 hours ago

• Does Silicon Valleys Spending Spree Signal a Recovery?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Big technology companies are spending $1.5 billion to buy three high-profile startups, after a long drought in acquisitions and initial public offerings.
  18 hours ago

• EA bought Playfish for $300 million

  
  It's miccy — Authority: 118
  Electronic Arts has announced that they have acquired a leading and aggressive creator of social network games, Playfish™ for approximately $275 million in cash plus an approximately $25 million in equity retention arrangements according to their official website. I say it’s a bargain for EA considering that their ...
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• Gaming Podcast 147: Drama

  
  Gaming Podcast — Authority: 108
  Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts This week we’re talking about some gaming news, TV and media, flashing back to Marble Madness and looking at the historical development career of one Mark Cerny. Here are this weeks news links: Gearbox Mad at Valve Iphone developer accused of Stealing ...
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• EA to lay off 1500 workers, close some facilities

  
  The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Authority: 782
  Filed under: Gaming , Software Large-scale layoffs have been hitting everywhere in the past year, and Electronic Arts is now no different: according to Gamasutra , the game publisher announced today that it will lay off 1,500 workers by April 2010, after posting a year-to-year decrease in revenue and a net loss ...
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• All Change at EA…

  
  www.GamesAreEvil.com — Authority: 139
  At the same time that EA announces it will be fronting up to $400 million USD to buy the phenomonally successful social network  game developer, Playfish, they have also announced 1500 job cuts. Due to the publishing giant seening its eleventh quarterly loss in a row they have decided to cut 1500 jobs, 900 of ...
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• Electronic Arts Buys Playfish Studios

  
  BeefJack - The Gamer's Sauce. — Authority: 521
  Appealing to those who are not naturally drawn to video games has been the mantra of many developers over recent years. Social game developer, Playfish Studios, has been at the top of that pyramid for quite some time.  More than 150 million Playfish games have been installed on computers up to this point, and popular ...
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• Η EA αγοράζει την Playfish

  
  blogZ.gr - 30.000 ?????? ???? ??? blog???????! — Authority: 161
  
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• Tech Talk Around The Internets

  
  MissTheda.com — Authority: 149
  EA Drops $400 Mil for Playfish. The company is the second-most popular games-maker on Facebook after Zynga. Its games include Country Story, Pet Society, and Restaurant City. I’ve been waiting for this one. Starting tonight and tomorrow morning, users of Twiter and LinkedIn can sync their status updates. The ...
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• EA Acquire Playfish Casual Games Firm

  
  DailyGamesNews.com — Authority: 160
  EA has announced the acquisition of social games firm Playfish for $300 million, split between $275 million in cash, and $25 million in a equity retention arrangement. The firm will operate under the EA Interactive division. SVP and GM of EA Interactive Barry Cottle commented: “Social gaming, with its emphasis on ...
  2 days ago

• Η Electronic Arts Kοινωνικοποιείται και Αγοράζει την Playfish!

  
  blogZ.gr - 30.000 ?????? ???? ??? blog???????! — Authority: 161
  
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• Electronic Arts acquires Playfish for $275 million

  
  iWorld — Authority: 142
  Electronic Arts today announced it has acquired Playfish, a leading creator of social network games. The acquisition accelerates EA’s position in social entertainment and strengthens its focus on the transition to digital and social gaming. Playfish will operate within EA Interactive, a division of EA focused on the ...
  2 days ago

• EA Lays Off People; Also Buys Fish

  
  GameAxis Online — Authority: 431
  Its a double dose of EA news: EA lays off 51 employees from their Tiburon studio. Then, they ended up acquiring one of the largest social media game creators on the block.
  2 days ago

• EA Games bets on social networks

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  The games maker Electronic Arts (EA) has closed the acquisition of Playfish for $ 275 million in cash and other forms of compensation, extending its business to the growing social gaming industry. The Playfish, a company founded two years ago with headquarters in London , makes games to be played on the ...
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• EA Purchases Social Gaming Company For $400 Million

  
  StarterTech.com — Authority: 425
  In case you’ve ever wondered if your favorite game on Facebook is making any money … it is. Electronic Arts (EA), a major gaming company for game consoles, computers and mobile devices, has decided to enter the social media gaming space in a major way. It was announced today that EA would purchase Playfish , ...
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• Electronic Arts spends $300 million to buy social network games developer Playfish

  
  Video Games Blogger — Authority: 535
  EA has bought Playfish for $300 million. Playfish is known as a leader in the industry of social network videogames and Electronic Arts is planning to use this acquisition to strengthen their “focus on the transition to digital and social gaming”. Playfish will be absorbed into EA Interactive as a separate ...
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• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Breaking News: Hopkins acquires dairy producer & cereal maker

  
  SeanPAune.com — Authority: 475
  Welcome to another week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of The Cynical Bastards ! For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in the tech ...
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• Electronic Arts Cutting 1500 Jobs

  
  EmploymentSpectator — Authority: 136
  Video and computer game maker Electronic Arts is planning to cut 1500 jobs, or about 17% of its total workforce.  The cuts are a reaction to  sharp drops in consumer spending on entertainment.  EA recently acquired online game maker Playfish and is shifting its focus away from traditional “pay then play” games ...
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