Archive for 'The Borg. News about EA'

EA Execs Dumping Stock. Insider Trading or … what?

EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown says “it’s diversification!” In a recent report by Mercury News — see MercuryNews.com | 02/28/2005 | Burst of selling by EA executives — it appears that 7 EA execs have unloaded stock positions ranging from 1 million to 10 million dollars US. A coincidence? Are they all [...]

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Jeff Brown: “Video games are taking over the universe!”

EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown JB was back in the news yesterday, this time on NPR’s Morning Edition, Jan. 25. The story was about EA and Take 2 buying up rights to sports trademarks for their video games, but clearly the highlight was Jeff saying “We see video games taking over the [...]

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The Borg Back in the News

EA’s Corporate Headquarters EA has been back in the news this month, most recently in this article in the Chicago Tribune, which talks about recent acquisitions and even quotes Ubisoft representatives as calling EA’s purchase of its shares “hostile.” Of course the big news this month is the purchase of the ESPN name – EA [...]

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EA buys 20% of Ubisoft

EA’s Corporate Headquarters According to TheStreet.com and NewsFactor, EA has purchased approximately 20% of the French software company Ubisoft — makers of Myst, Tom Clancey’s Splinter Cell, and Star Wars Trilogy. EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown, told NewsFactor that “”This does not represent a consolidation in the game industry,” … “This is [...]

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Jeff Brown vs. Jeff Brown

EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown, and the other Jeff Brown (aka ButteredNinja) Turns out there is another Jeff Brown with ideas about the game industry and he is not all that happy to share the name of EA’s corporate spokesperson (“to be honest, it makes ME look bad when someone who shares [...]

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Picture says it all.

Thanks to Evangeline for the pointer.

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EA to employ 500 in China. Jeff Brown: “it isn”t outsourcing”

EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown According to this article in the Mercury News, EA is expanding its operations in China and may hire as many as “500 artists, developers, and programmers by the end of the decade.” In the face of all the recent whining from EA employees and their spouses about [...]

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In the Belly of the Beast

CMU Researcher Randy Pausch Academic Randy Pausch has provided a rare look into the workings of EA Corporation in a recent paper entitled “An Academic’s Field Guide to Electronic Arts“. The paper is based on Pausch’s residency at EA and is intended as a sympathetic portrait — designed specificially to help academic institutions to build [...]

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Jeff Brown: We aren’t the Only Sweat Shop!

EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown Just a few days ago, when we blogged the heartbreaking post from EA Spouse, we predicted that Jeff Brown would weigh in with some suitably unhelpful comments. And now he has! While the post from EA spouse has now received some 3000 comments (including many stories that [...]

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Free Speech for Avatars! And?like?Now!

Ludlow blasts Stratics. In a Session at The State of Play entitled Avatar Rights, Virtual Liberty, and Free Expression in Virtual Worlds, Peter Ludlow blasted the organized censorship policies of Stratics, while Fred Schauer of Harvard University suggested that the possibilities for free expression in virtual worlds should be used to explore alternative models of [...]

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