Glu Mobile's collection of games.
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Glu reloads its war chest for mobile game acquisitions

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 15 min

Glu Mobile has grown into a big mobile game publisher through both acquisitions and home-grown titles. But as the world changes around the company, Glu is changing with the times.

Back in June, the San Francisco-based company raised $151.8 million in a secondary public offering. That gave it a war chest to pursue new acquisitions. Making good use of that money will be the job of Chris Akhavan, a Glu SVP.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.