socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

Agoura Hills-based THQ said late Monday that it has sold off its rights to produce titles for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) brand, to Electronic Arts. According to THQ, the sale resulted in an undisclosed cash payment to THQ, and allows THQ to continue to publish its existing console and mobile titles through March 31, 2013.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2013

In its post, giving a number of its reasons for the investment, IVP said that "We Love LA", citing the success of LA''s JAMDAT Mobile , the mobile gaming firm which went public and was eventually acquired by Electronic Arts--which was founded by Mitch Lasky, who sits on Snapchat''s board and is a partner at Benchmark.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Reeves joins the firm from Electronic Arts, where she was Senior Vice President/COO Global Online. She also served as SVP of JAMDAT Mobile. Los Angeles-based Gaikai , which develops a cloud-based, game streaming services, said today that it has named Nanea Reeves to the position of Chief Strategy Officer.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

A slew of banks are coming together to back a new roll-up strategy for the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming studio, Jam City and giving the company $145 million in new funding to carry that out. According to data collected by Newzoo , mobile games revenue reached a record $63.2 That number could reach $81.3 Roughly half of the U.S.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 19, 2009

With all of the major console and PC video game companies in Los Angeles (Electronic Arts, Activision, THQ, Blizzard), it only makes sense to discuss how more and more games are bringing in aspects of social media to enhance game play.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Founder Resnick co-founded Pandemic, which ultimately was sold to Electronic Arts for $860M. The sweepstakes runs through December 31st. nProgress announced an angel funding round worth $1.7M last week, from Jarl Mohn, Gordon Crawford, Kevin Wall, Activation Media Partners, Baroda Ventures, SV Angel, Jeff Pulver, and Richard Crowell.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Los Angeles-based mobile game development studio Scopely has become America’s newest unicorn thanks to a $200 million financing which values the company at a whopping $1.4 The company raised a $55 million round of financing in 2016, $60 million in 2017 and $100 million in 2018.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2011

Lahman is also one of the co-founders of JAMDAT Mobile, the immensely successful developer of mobile games, which had an IPO in 2004, and eventually became part of Electronic Arts in 2006. We spoke with Scott about GOGII and textPlus, the shifting mobile market, and also what lessons he's applied to his new startup.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

That's the problem that the mobile app ntro is looking to solve. Josh was formerly the President of Pandemic Studios, and helped co-found the company, merge it with Bioware, and eventually sell the combined firm to Electronic Arts for $860M. Josh sat down to talk to us his new company and its new app.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

We look forward to working with the talented Jam City team in Toronto as we supercharge the live operations of Bingo Pop and develop innovative new titles and mobile entertainment experiences.”

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 21, 2012

Dragon Age / Electronic Arts, Kevin Tancharoen / Mortal Kombat- Warner Bros Interactive and Veronica Belmont’s social media campaign for General Motors. Clients include Home Depot, Sony Electronics, THQ, Virgin Mobile, Levis and Fox.@severshed George Ruiz, ICM, Head of New Media and SVP of Business Affairs, ICM.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

Matt McMahon, Fox Digital Entertainment, VP Mobile. Dragon Age / Electronic Arts, Kevin Tancharoen / Mortal Kombat- Warner Bros Interactive and Veronica Belmont’s social media campaign for General Motors. Originals is Yahoo!’s Kendall Rhodes, Relativity Media, VP Digital Programming & Content. georgeruiz.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. ” And at least I’ll draw the line at that point, and if it ever gets too close, I can always go back and work at Electronic Arts. [00:24:26] But I’m not going to lose my family.” And that’s the point.

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