In other words, DeNA is not done investing and purchasing U.S. mobile and social game companies.
DeNA has also made some big moves in its home turf in Japan in the past year.
DeNA's Mobage platform started offering games for Android in July 2011 and on Apple's iOS in March.
The big Asian players such as RenRen, Tencent, DeNA, Gree and others are investing significantly in the US markets.
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Last month, DeNA bought iPhone game developers Astro Ape and GameView Studios.
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When Dena Drews, cofounder of the small Amalie Robert winery in Dallas, Ore.
Recently DeNA teamed up with the National Football League and NFL Players Inc. to launch a mobile social card game.
Tomoko Namba, founder of DeNA, did not know how big the online auction startup she founded in 1999 would be.
The park's "small, nimble" rats use the park's trash containers as lunch boxes, said Dena Libner, a spokeswoman for the conservancy.
All this obsession comes courtesy of the Mobage social games platform, run by DeNA, which is on a mission of global domination.
Last October, Aurora Feint raised its initial round of funding of several million dollars from Japanese mobile internet and games company DeNa.
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DeNA said that its success comes from combining social networking with gaming.
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In the past 12 months alone, DeNA has acquired or invested in four U.S. companies (including Astro Ape) in social and mobile gaming.
With her own money, she produced and released her first album, Introducing Dena DeRose, which was quickly obtained and re-released by Sharp Nine Records.
Strong growth on local turf has given DeNA the financial leverage to go on an aggressive buying spree here in the U.S. this year.
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Gree and DeNA argue they can provide marketing and distribution support to help a game stand out among the hundreds of thousands of other games.
DeNA has nearly 25 million SN users on Mobage and Yahoo!
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DeNA is a name you need to know in 2011.
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DeNA wants to become the largest mobile social games company in the world and a household name in the U.S., says its chief executive Tomoko Namba.
Dena Libner, a spokeswoman for the Central Park Conservancy, said the workers found the munitions after removing a concrete plug from the mouth of the cannon.
DeNA says the company is part of its strategy to become a well-known game developer in the U.S., so it must see something in the company beyond a one-hit wonder.
They also prefer local networks to global ones: Facebook has stagnated in Japan, while gaming and blogging services provided by the likes of DeNa, GREE and Mixi continue to dominate.
DeNA is rumored to have outbid Zynga for ngmoco.
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In early May, stocks of Gree and DeNA fell more than 20% after the nation's Consumer Affairs Agency said it was considering whether a sales method called "complete gacha" violates the law.
The piece, it turns out, was composed by Dena El Saffar, a Chicago-born Iraqi-American who has spent years learning to play the august classical music of her ancestors, the style known as maqam.
Will DeNA be on your radar in 2011?
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When Dena Drews, cofounder of the small Amalie Robert winery in Dallas, Oregon, looks out over her sloped vineyard 60 miles southwest of Portland, one small portion of it appears silver rather than lush green.
Dena Davis, a law and ethics professor at Cleveland State University and the legal consultant on the AAP's policy review, says that she personally favours considering a symbolic cut, because of the potential for harm reduction.
At the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive annual festival in Austin, Texas in March, DeNA showcased new games on the Mobage platform like Transformers: Legends (part of the Transformers franchise) and did the schmoozing necessary to generate product buzz.
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