Yahoo Buys Multi-Player Mobile Gaming Company

Upfated: read below…Yahoo, in the wake of a wave of publicity about its entertainment plans, has bought out mobile multi-player gaming company Stadeon. The financial details were not disclosed…
The startup provides technology for the deployment of multiplayer gaming across IP-based networks…the technology is suitable for mobile to mobile, and mobile to PC networked game playing, something which a company like Yahoo is in a great position to explout, becuase of its scale…
This should certainly be the talk of the Games Developer Conference in SF next week…
LAT: (reg. req.) Last summer the company replaced General Manager Dan Hart with Geoff Graber, a game industry veteran whose assignment is to get both casual and serious gamers to pay for more Yahoo services, as well as to lure more advertisers. The new company has moved to Yahoo’s headquarters, where founder John Cahill will lead the mobile-game group.

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