Following the headline news that OnLive's assets had suddenly been transfered to a new company comes the detail.
According to the Mercury News, OnLive had debts of between $30 to $40 million and was days away from running out of cash.
Insolvency Services Group was bought in at the last minute on behalf of the creditors.
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OnLive's assets were transfered to ISG to ensure the game streaming service continued to run.
"Something had to be done immediately or there would have been a hard shutdown, which would have been a disaster," said ISG's CEO Joel Weinberg.
ISG then sold the assets to a new company - confusingly also called OnLive - which had been set up by OnLive investor Lauder Partners.
This means that creditors - although not investors such as HTC and British Telecom - will receive some cash, but likely only 5-10c for each dollar owed.
[source: Mercury News]
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