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10-Q Watch: EA’s Acquisition of Rupture: $15M, Not $30M

Rafat Ali

Aug 4, 2008 5:32 PM

Electronics Arts filed its quarterly 10-Q with SEC earlier today, and an interesting number on its Rupture/ThreeSF acquisition two months ago; the purchase price for the social gaming startup from Shawn Fanning was $15 million in cash, not $30 million as earlier reported. From the filing: “On May 28, 2008,…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, electronic arts, shawn fanning, threesf

Electronic Arts Buys Shawn Fanning’s Gaming Social Network ThreeSF; Price $15 Million

Rafat Ali

Jun 3, 2008 9:33 PM

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) is not just trying to buy big (efforts to buy Take-Two, for example) but extending its M&A mandate to smaller online players: it has bought a relatively unknown social gaming service called ThreeSF, the company announced in a rather brief release this evening. ThreeSF, whose first…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, electronic arts, shawn fanning, threesf

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