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November 2, 2021 The New Meta The Sandbox raises $93 million to grow open NFT Metaverse Already over 500,000 connected wallets
September 21, 2021 Sorare Support Soars Sorare raises $680 million for NFT fantasy soccer game Largest funding round in French tech history
September 14, 2020 Arm Acquisition Nvidia to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion Preparing for the "age of AI" with the acquisition
March 8, 2017 New Vision Softbank to sell 25% stake in recently acquired ARM Goes into Saudi-backed investment fund
July 18, 2016 Look At Me Worth 3 Supercells: SoftBank gets back into the expansion game with $32 billion acquisition of ARM Indebted Japanese firm spends more
June 22, 2016 From The Top Why the world's "least powerful CEO" has never been more powerful Implications for company culture
June 10, 2016 Value Of Something SoftBank and Tencent negotiations rumoured to value Supercell at $9 billion So says the rumourmill
June 6, 2016 Cash Out To reduce debt, SoftBank is selling back $685 million shares to GungHo Online Sprint deal forces hand
May 16, 2016 Super Sell Supercell valued at $5 billion as SoftBank rumoured to be selling shares Talks with buyers in China reportedly already happeneing
June 1, 2015 Softbank, Hard Cash Accel sells out, allowing SoftBank to bring its Supercell stake to 73% Supercell to remain independent despite SoftBank further growing its stake
August 22, 2014 Deals GungHo makes $74 million selling its share of Supercell back to SoftBank Japanese dev is now focusing on Asia market
February 12, 2014 50% better: Supercell becomes a three-game-company as 'risky' Boom Beach launches in March But no games coming to Windows Phone
January 31, 2014 Opinion: Forget the cash. Zynga's NaturalMotion deal is much bigger than Supercell-SoftBank-GungHo Can CSR drive Zynga back into the fast lane?
January 29, 2014 Lockscreen ad platform start-up Buzzvil raises $3 million from Softbank Got your screen
January 13, 2014 Chinese in-app search platform Wandoujia raises $120 million SoftBank leads the Series B investment round
January 1, 2014 2013 In Review: The developers' take Vlambeer, Halfbrick, Simogo and more on last 12 months
December 31, 2013 PocketGamer.biz's The Year That Was: Big publishers lock down the App Store, microconsoles fail to impress, and all eyes look east The past 365 days in bite-sized portions
December 28, 2013 2013 In Review: SponsorPay's Janis Zech Supercell deal was a vote of confidence in mobile games
December 26, 2013 2013 In Review: PocketGamer.biz's Matt Diener On the industry's need to trim the fat
October 23, 2013 Supercell: The developer that's shut down without having to shut down Our Mavens reveal why $1.5 billion was a bargain
October 22, 2013 Cash of clans: Supercell-GungHo deals pushes games M&A past $5 billion Up almost $2 billion in two weeks
October 18, 2013 Puzzle & Dragons hit 20 million users in Japan, but growth is slowing Now averaging 1 million new players a month
March 26, 2013 Japanese telecoms firm Softbank acquires majority stake in Puzzle & Dragons developer GungHo Online Spends $265m on Google Play's top grossing dev