Our recent acquisition of gloops in Japan shows the kinds of opportunities we see in that market, and it also gives us the ability to expand our mobile business globally.

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The club, which claims to have more than 650 million fans, signed three new deals during the quarter, with Japanese social gaming firm Gloops, Danish financial services firm Ekspress Bank and Vietnam's BIDV.

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Then in October Nexon bought gloops, Inc.

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