Japan Mobile social network Gree acquisition game maker OpenFeint

Beijing time April 22 Morning News, Japan Mobile social networking company Gree announced in Thursday, will spend 104 million of dollars to buy the United States mobile gaming platform company OpenFeint.　　Gree said it would spend $104 million to buy OpenFeint all of its tradable shares and inject more money into it, speeding up the development of the Burlingame platform.　　OpenFeint CEO and founder Jensen Hitron (Jason Citron) and his team will remain in office and gain long-term incentives.　　OpenFeint from Intel Capital, Kowloon City and Dena and other companies received 12 million of dollars in financial support. OpenFeint was founded two years ago and currently has 75 million users and 19,000 game developers.　　The merged company will have 100 million users worldwide. Gree and OpenFeint plans to set up offices in Beijing, Singapore and London in the near future. All two companies said they would aggressively recruit.　　OpenFeint plans to double the size of the company in 2011. Yoshikazu Tanaka, founder and CEO of Gree, said in a statement: "In Gree, we are integrating into the social wave of gaming." As America's leading mobile social network, OpenFeint is our ideal partner to help us provide the best mobile social games for a large number of users around the world. (PEI)