JMDT - News and Analysis from Seeking Alpha 'JMDT' Tag RSS Syndication from SeekingAlpha.com SeekingAlpha.com http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/jmdt Electronic Arts Acquiring Jamdat -- Responses and Analysis (ERTS, JMDT, THQI, ATVI) http://seekingalpha.com/article/4913-electronic-arts-acquiring-jamdat-responses-and-analysis-erts-jmdt-thqi-atvi?source=feed 4913 Electronic Arts (ticker: ERTS), the world's largest video game publisher, announced last night it's buying Jamdat Mobile (ticker: JMDT), the top mobile gaming publisher, for $680 million. Electronic Arts will pay $27 in cash for each share of Jamdat stock, a 19 percent premium over the $22.77 JMDT closing price yesterday. This is the biggest acquisition EA has ever made. Jamdat chief executive Mitch Lasky will take over EA's mobile gaming unit.

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EA Chairman Larry Probst: 'We decided we wanted to move really fast on this, so we joined with the leader in North America to enable our content to be deployed on mobile phones more aggressively here and globally.'

]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:51:19 -0500 Electronic Arts (ticker: ERTS), the world's largest video game publisher, announced last night it's buying Jamdat Mobile (ticker: JMDT), the top mobile gaming publisher, for $680 million. Electronic Arts will pay $27 in cash for each share of Jamdat stock, a 19 percent premium over the $22.77 JMDT closing price yesterday. This is the biggest acquisition EA has ever made. Jamdat chief executive Mitch Lasky will take over EA's mobile gaming unit.

Responses:

EA Chairman Larry Probst: 'We decided we wanted to move really fast on this, so we joined with the leader in North America to enable our content to be deployed on mobile phones more aggressively here and globally.'


Complete Story »]]> ATVI ERTS JMDT TheStreet.com's James Altucher Suggests a Do-It-Yourself Internet Index Fund, But Why Doesn't It Include TheStreet.com? (ETF: HHH; Stock: TSCM) http://seekingalpha.com/article/4124-thestreet-com-s-james-altucher-suggests-a-do-it-yourself-internet-index-fund-but-why-doesn-t-it-include-thestreet-com-etf-hhh-stock-tscm?source=feed 4124 In an article on TheStreet.com, hedge fund manager James Altucher points out that no index fund or ETF provides adequate coverage of the Internet sector for long-term investors. Merrill Lynch's Internet HOLDRs (ticker: HHH), for example, is a static basket of stocks that was chosen years ago, and as a result doesn't include Google. Instead, Mr Altucher suggests that long-term investors build a do-it-yourself Internet index fund from the following stocks:

]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:57:31 -0500 David Jackson In an article on TheStreet.com, hedge fund manager James Altucher points out that no index fund or ETF provides adequate coverage of the Internet sector for long-term investors. Merrill Lynch's Internet HOLDRs (ticker: HHH), for example, is a static basket of stocks that was chosen years ago, and as a result doesn't include Google. Instead, Mr Altucher suggests that long-term investors build a do-it-yourself Internet index fund from the following stocks:


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