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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
     
þ   QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Quarterly Period Ended June 30, 2011
OR
     
o   TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Transition Period from                      to                     
Commission File Number 001-33368
Glu Mobile Inc.
(Exact name of the Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
     
Delaware   91-2143667
(State or Other Jurisdiction of   (I.R.S. Employer
Incorporation or Organization)   Identification No.)
45 Fremont Street, Suite 2800
San Francisco, California 94105

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including Zip Code)
(415) 800-6100
(Registrant’s Telephone number, including Area Code)
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes þ No o
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes þ No o
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
             
Large accelerated filer o   Accelerated filer o   Non-accelerated filer þ   Smaller reporting company o
        (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)    
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o No þ
Shares of Glu Mobile Inc. common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, outstanding as of August 5, 2011: 63,160,690
 
 

 

 


 

GLU MOBILE INC.
FORM 10-Q
Quarterly Period Ended June 30, 2011
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1.  
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
GLU MOBILE INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Unaudited)
(in thousands, except per share data)
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2011     2010  
ASSETS
               
Current assets:
               
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 26,400     $ 12,863  
Accounts receivable, net
    12,365       10,660  
Prepaid royalties
    734       2,468  
Prepaid expenses and other
    2,450       2,557  
 
           
Total current assets
    41,949       28,548  
Property and equipment, net
    2,812       2,134  
Other long-term assets
    542       574  
Intangible assets, net
    7,374       8,794  
Goodwill
    4,875       4,766  
 
           
Total assets
  $ 57,552     $ 44,816  
 
           
 
               
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
               
Current liabilities:
               
Accounts payable
  $ 7,117     $ 5,666  
Accrued liabilities
    926       939  
Accrued compensation
    4,053       4,414  
Accrued royalties
    4,871       7,234  
Accrued restructuring
    1,291       1,689  
Deferred revenues
    1,811       842  
Current portion of long-term debt
          2,288  
 
           
Total current liabilities
    20,069       23,072  
Other long-term liabilities
    7,591       7,859  
 
           
Total liabilities
    27,660       30,931  
 
           
 
               
Commitments and contingencies (Note 5)
               
 
               
Stockholders’ equity:
               
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 5,000 shares authorized at June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010; no shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010
           
Common stock, $0.0001 par value: 250,000 shares authorized at June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010; 55,978 and 44,585 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively
    6       4  
Additional paid-in capital
    224,727       203,464  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    825       1,159  
Accumulated deficit
    (195,666 )     (190,742 )
 
           
Total stockholders’ equity
    29,892       13,885  
 
           
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
  $ 57,552     $ 44,816  
 
           
The accompanying Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

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GLU MOBILE INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited)
(in thousands, except per share data)
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
Revenues
  $ 17,680     $ 15,952     $ 34,106     $ 33,241  
Cost of revenues:
                               
Royalties and impairment of prepaid royalties and guarantees
    3,121       4,943       6,961       9,634  
Amortization of intangible assets
    703       1,006       1,520       2,234  
 
                       
Total cost of revenues
    3,824       5,949       8,481       11,868  
 
                       
Gross profit
    13,856       10,003       25,625       21,373  
 
                       
Operating expenses:
                               
Research and development
    8,439       6,229       15,605       12,890  
Sales and marketing
    3,344       2,437       7,101       5,408  
General and administrative
    3,506       3,052       6,440       6,865  
Amortization of intangible assets
          52             107  
Restructuring charge
    147       693       637       1,287  
 
                       
Total operating expenses
    15,436       12,463       29,783       26,557  
 
                       
Loss from operations
    (1,580 )     (2,460 )     (4,158 )     (5,184 )
Interest and other income/(expense), net:
                               
Interest income
    7       6       29       13  
Interest expense
    (32 )     (137 )     (72 )     (441 )
Other income/(expense), net
    354       (429 )     552       (763 )
 
                       
Interest and other income/(expense), net
    329       (560 )     509       (1,191 )
 
                       
Loss before income taxes
    (1,251 )     (3,020 )     (3,649 )     (6,375 )
Income tax provision
    (501 )     (198 )     (1,275 )     (499 )
 
                       
Net loss
  $ (1,752 )   $ (3,218 )   $ (4,924 )   $ (6,874 )
 
                       
 
                               
Net loss per common share — basic and diluted:
  $ (0.03 )   $ (0.10 )   $ (0.09 )   $ (0.22 )
 
                               
Weighted average common shares outstanding — basic and diluted
    54,587       30,676       53,318       30,567  
 
                               
The accompanying Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

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GLU MOBILE INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
(in thousands)
                 
    Six Months Ended June 30,  
    2011     2010  
Cash flows from operating activities:
               
Net loss
  $ (4,924 )   $ (6,874 )
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash (used in)/provided by operating activities:
               
Depreciation and accretion
    833       1,111  
Amortization of intangible assets
    1,520       2,341  
Stock-based compensation
    902       873  
Interest expense on debt
    2       356  
Amortization of loan agreement costs
    70       85  
Non-cash foreign currency remeasurement (gain)/loss
    (561 )     761  
Impairment of prepaid royalties and guarantees
    371       663  
Changes in allowance for doubtful accounts
    90       155  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
               
Accounts receivable
    (1,730 )     4,174  
Prepaid royalties
    1,367       1,797  
Prepaid expenses and other assets
    275       (213 )
Accounts payable
    1,388       (616 )
Other accrued liabilities
    (28 )     (715 )
Accrued compensation
    338       1,095  
Accrued royalties
    (2,454 )     (2,517 )
Deferred revenues
    969       180  
Accrued restructuring charge
    (858 )     (562 )
Other long-term liabilities
    (148 )     86  
 
           
Net cash (used in)/provided by operating activities
    (2,578 )     2,180  
 
           
 
               
Cash flows from investing activities:
               
Purchase of property and equipment
    (1,353 )     (244 )
 
           
Net cash used in investing activities
    (1,353 )     (244 )
 
           
 
               
Cash flows from financing activities:
               
Proceeds from line of credit
          22,867  
Payments on line of credit
    (2,288 )     (24,733 )
Net proceeds from Public Offering
    15,661        
MIG loan payments
    (698 )     (4,458 )
Proceeds from exercise of warrants and issuance of common stock
    3,167        
Proceeds from exercise of stock options and ESPP
    1,351       349  
 
           
Net cash provided by/(used in) in financing activities
    17,193       (5,975 )
 
           
 
               
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash
    275       (319 )
 
           
Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
    13,537       (4,358 )
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
    12,863       10,510  
 
           
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
  $ 26,400     $ 6,152  
 
           
The accompanying Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

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GLU MOBILE INC.
NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands, except per share data)
Note 1 — The Company, Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Glu Mobile Inc. (the “Company” or “Glu”) was incorporated in Nevada in May 2001 and reincorporated in the state of Delaware in March 2007. The Company creates mobile games and related applications based on its own original intellectual property, as well as third-party licensed brands and other intellectual property.
The Company has incurred recurring losses from operations since inception and had an accumulated deficit of $195,666 as of June 30, 2011. For the three months ended June 30, 2011, the Company incurred a net loss from operations of $1,752. For the six months ended June 30, 2011, the Company incurred a net loss from operations of $4,924. The Company may incur additional operating losses and negative cash flows in the future. Failure to generate sufficient revenues, reduce spending or raise additional capital could adversely affect the Company’s ability to achieve profitability and its intended business objectives.
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regarding interim financial reporting. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for complete financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 filed with the SEC on March 21, 2011. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements contain all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, which the Company believes are necessary for a fair statement of the Company’s financial position as of June 30, 2011 and its results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively. These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the entire year. The unaudited consolidated balance sheet presented as of December 31, 2010 has been derived from the audited consolidated financial statements as of that date, and the consolidated balance sheet presented as of June 30, 2011 has been derived from the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of that date.
Basis of Consolidation
The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All material intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to a concentration of credit risk consist of cash, cash equivalents and accounts receivable.
The Company derives its accounts receivable from revenues earned from customers located in the United States and locations outside of the United States. The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers’ financial condition and currently does not require any collateral from its customers. The Company bases its allowance for doubtful accounts on management’s best estimate of the amount of probable credit losses in the Company’s existing accounts receivable. The Company reviews past due balances over a specified amount individually for collectability on a monthly basis and all other balances quarterly. The Company writes off accounts receivable balances against the allowance when it determines that the amount will not be recovered.

 

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The following table summarizes the revenues from customers that accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s revenues for the periods indicated:
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
Apple
    19.3 %     * %     17.6 %     * %
Tapjoy
    20.6       *       15.2       *  
Verizon Wireless
    *       15.7       *       16.9  
 
     
*  
Revenues from the customer were less than 10% during the period.
At June 30, 2011, Apple accounted for 15.5%, Tapjoy accounted for 13.1%, Telecomunicaciones Movilnet accounted for 12.5% and China Mobile accounted for 11.1% of total accounts receivable. At December 31, 2010, Verizon Wireless accounted for 18.3% and Telecomunicaciones Movilnet accounted for 14.8% of total accounts receivable. No other carrier represented more than 10% of the Company’s total accounts receivable as of these dates.
Net Loss Per Share
The Company computes basic net loss per share attributable to common stockholders by dividing its net loss for the period by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding.
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
Net loss
  $ (1,752 )   $ (3,218 )   $ (4,924 )   $ (6,874 )
 
                       
Basic and diluted shares:
                               
Weighted average common shares outstanding
    54,622       30,676       53,335       30,567  
Weighted average unvested common shares subject to restrictions
    (35 )           (17 )      
 
                       
Weighted average shares used to compute basic and diluted net loss per share
    54,587       30,676       53,318       30,567  
 
                       
Net loss per share — basic and diluted
  $ (0.03 )   $ (0.10 )   $ (0.09 )   $ (0.22 )
The following weighted average options to purchase common stock, warrants to purchase common stock and unvested shares of common stock subject to restrictions have been excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share of common stock for the periods presented because including them would have had an anti-dilutive effect:
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
Warrants to purchase common stock
    5,769       106       6,231       106  
Unvested common shares subject to restrictions
    35             17        
Options to purchase common stock
    7,810       6,329       7,403       6,032  
 
                       
 
    13,614       6,435       13,651       6,138  
 
                       
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In December 2010, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASC ASU 2010-28, When to Perform Step 2 of the Goodwill Impairment Test for Reporting Units with Zero or Negative Carrying Amounts (Topic 350) — Intangibles — Goodwill and Other (“ASU 2010-28”). ASU 2010-28 amends the criteria for performing Step 2 of the goodwill impairment test for reporting units with zero or negative carrying amounts and requires performing Step 2 if qualitative factors indicate that it is more likely than not that a goodwill impairment exists. The amendments to this update were effective for us in the first quarter of 2011. The adoption of ASU 2010-28 did not have a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.
In May 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-04, Fair Value Measurements (Topic 820): Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRSs, (“ASU 2011-04”). ASU 2011-04 changes the wording used to describe many of the requirements in U.S. GAAP for measuring fair value and for disclosing information about fair value measurements to ensure consistency between U.S. GAAP and IFRS. ASU 2011-04 also expands the disclosures for fair value measurements that are estimated using significant unobservable (Level 3) inputs. This new guidance is to be applied prospectively for reporting periods beginning on or after December 15, 2011. The Company anticipates that the adoption of this standard will not materially impact the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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In June 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-05, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Presentation of Comprehensive Income, (“ASU 2011-05”). ASU 2011-05 eliminates the option to report other comprehensive income and its components in the statement of changes in equity. ASU 2011-05 requires that all nonowner changes in stockholders’ equity be presented in either a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements. This new guidance is to be applied retrospectively for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011. The Company anticipates that the adoption of this standard will not materially impact the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
Note 2 — Fair Value Measurements
Fair Value Measurements
ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (“ASC 820”), defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. Fair value is defined under ASC 820 as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. Valuation techniques used to measure fair value under ASC 820 must maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. The standard describes a fair value hierarchy based on three levels of inputs, of which the first two are considered observable and the last unobservable, that may be used to measure fair value which are the following:
   
Level 1 — Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
   
Level 2 — Inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
   
Level 3 — Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.
Effective January 1, 2010, the Company adopted ASU 2010-06, which amended ASC 820 to require new disclosures for transfers of financial assets and liabilities into and out of Levels 1 and 2 in the fair value hierarchy and for activity in Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. The adoption of the amended disclosure requirements for fair value measurements did not affect the disclosures because the Company did not transfer financial assets or liabilities between levels in the fair value hierarchy. The Company’s cash and investment instruments are classified within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy because they are valued using quoted market prices, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency. The types of instruments valued based on quoted market prices in active markets include most U.S. government and agency securities, sovereign government obligations, and money market securities. Such instruments are generally classified within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy. As of June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, the Company had $26,400 and $12,863 in cash and cash equivalents.
Note 3 — Balance Sheet Components
Accounts Receivable
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2011     2010  
Accounts receivable
  $ 12,959     $ 11,164  
Less: Allowance for doubtful accounts
    (594 )     (504 )
 
           
 
  $ 12,365     $ 10,660  
 
           
Accounts receivable includes amounts billed and unbilled as of the respective balance sheet dates. The Company had no significant write-offs or recoveries during the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010.

 

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Property and Equipment
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2011     2010  
Computer equipment
  $ 5,486     $ 4,974  
Furniture and fixtures
    532       487  
Software
    3,808       2,919  
Leasehold improvements
    2,530       2,392  
 
           
 
    12,356       10,772  
Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization
    (9,544 )     (8,638 )
 
           
 
  $ 2,812     $ 2,134  
 
           
Depreciation expense for the three months ended June 30, 2011 and June 30, 2010 was $406 and $548, respectively. Depreciation expense for the six months ended June 30, 2011 and June 30, 2010 was $833 and $1,111, respectively.
Other Long-Term Liabilities
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2011     2010  
Uncertain tax position obligations
    5,064       4,991  
Deferred income tax liability
    1,197       1,170  
Restructuring
    313       773  
Other
    1,017       925  
 
           
 
  $ 7,591       7,859  
 
           
Note 4 — Goodwill and Intangible Assets
The Company’s intangible assets were acquired in connection with the acquisitions of Macrospace in 2004, iFone in 2006, MIG in 2007 and Superscape in 2008. The carrying amounts and accumulated amortization expense of the acquired intangible assets, including the impact of foreign currency exchange translation, at June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010 were as follows:
                                                     
        June 30, 2011     December 31, 2010  
                Accumulated                     Accumulated        
                Amortization                     Amortization        
                Expense                     Expense        
                (Including                     (Including        
    Estimated   Gross     Impact of     Net     Gross     Impact of     Net  
    Useful   Carrying     Foreign     Carrying     Carrying     Foreign     Carrying  
    Life   Value     Exchange)     Value     Value     Exchange)     Value  
Intangible assets amortized to cost of revenues:
                                                   
Titles, content and technology
  2.5 yrs   $ 8,644     $ (8,644 )   $     $ 13,545     $ (13,545 )   $  
Catalogs
  1 yr     1,246       (1,246 )           1,203       (1,203 )      
ProvisionX Technology
  6 yrs     205       (205 )           198       (198 )      
Carrier contract and related relationships
  5 yrs     19,095       (11,997 )     7,098       18,832       (10,352 )     8,480  
Licensed content
  5 yrs     2,891       (2,891 )           2,829       (2,810 )     19  
Service provider license
  9 yrs     456       (180 )     276       446       (151 )     295  
Trademarks
  3 yrs     221       (221 )           547       (547 )      
 
                                       
 
        32,758       (25,384 )     7,374       37,600       (28,806 )     8,794  
 
                                       
Other intangible assets amortized to operating expenses:
                                                   
Emux Technology
  6 yrs     1,329       (1,329 )           1,283       (1,283 )      
Noncompete agreement
  2 yrs     581       (581 )           562       (562 )      
 
                                       
 
        1,910       (1,910 )           1,845       (1,845 )      
 
                                       
Total intangibles assets
      $ 34,668     $ (27,294 )   $ 7,374     $ 39,445     $ (30,651 )   $ 8,794  
 
                                       
The Company has included amortization of acquired intangible assets directly attributable to revenue-generating activities in cost of revenues. During the second quarter of 2011, the Company wrote off $5,330 of its Superscape intangible assets and accumulated amortization relating to trademarks, titles and technology, all of which were fully amortized. The Company has included amortization of acquired intangible assets not directly attributable to revenue-generating activities in operating expenses. During the three months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, the Company recorded amortization expense in the amounts of $703 and $1,006 respectively, in cost of revenues. During the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, the Company recorded amortization expense in the amounts of $1,520 and $2,234 respectively, in cost of revenues. During the three months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, the Company recorded amortization expense in the amounts of zero and $52, respectively, in operating expenses. During the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, the Company recorded amortization expense in the amounts of zero and $107, respectively, in operating expenses.

 

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As of June 30, 2011, the total expected future amortization related to intangible assets was as follows:
         
    Amortization  
    Included in  
    Cost of  
Year Ending December 31,   Revenues  
2011 (remaining six months)
  $ 1,415  
2012
    2,829  
2013
    2,758  
2014
    273  
2015 and thereafter
    99  
 
     
 
  $ 7,374  
 
     
Goodwill
The Company attributes all of the goodwill resulting from the Macrospace acquisition to its Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) reporting unit. The goodwill resulting from the iFone acquisition is evenly attributed to the Americas and EMEA reporting units. The Company attributes all of the goodwill resulting from the MIG acquisition to its Asia and Pacific (“APAC”) reporting unit and all of the goodwill resulting from the Superscape acquisition to the Americas reporting unit. The goodwill allocated to the Americas reporting unit is denominated in U.S. Dollars (“USD”), the goodwill allocated to the EMEA reporting unit is denominated in Pounds Sterling (“GBP”) and the goodwill allocated to the APAC reporting unit is denominated in Chinese Renminbi (“RMB”). As a result, the goodwill attributed to the EMEA and APAC reporting units are subject to foreign currency fluctuations.
Goodwill by geographic region for the periods indicated was as follows:
                                                                 
    June 30, 2011     December 31, 2010  
    Americas     EMEA     APAC     Total     Americas     EMEA     APAC     Total  
Balance as of January 1
                                                               
Goodwill
  $ 24,871     $ 25,354     $ 24,039     $ 74,264     $ 24,871     $ 25,354     $ 23,881     $ 74,106  
Accumulated Impairment Losses
    (24,871 )     (25,354 )     (19,273 )     (69,498 )     (24,871 )     (25,354 )     (19,273 )     (69,498 )
 
                                               
 
                4,766       4,766                   4,608       4,608  
Goodwill Acquired during the year
                                               
Effects of Foreign Currency Exchange
                109       109                   158       158  
 
                                               
Balance as of period ended:
                4,875       4,875                   4,766       4,766  
Goodwill
    24,871       25,354       24,148       74,373       24,871       25,354       24,039       74,264  
Accumulated Impairment Losses
    (24,871 )     (25,354 )     (19,273 )     (69,498 )     (24,871 )     (25,354 )     (19,273 )     (69,498 )
 
                                               
 
  $     $     $ 4,875     $ 4,875     $     $     $ 4,766     $ 4,766  
 
                                               
In accordance with ASC 350, Intangibles — Goodwill and Other (“ASC 350”) the Company’s goodwill is not amortized but is tested for impairment on an annual basis or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of these assets may not be recoverable. Under ASC 350, the Company performs the annual impairment review of its goodwill balance as of September 30 or more frequently if triggering events occur.
ASC 350 requires a two-step approach to testing goodwill for impairment for each reporting unit annually, or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the fair value of a reporting unit is below its carrying amount. The first step measures for impairment by applying the fair value-based tests at the reporting unit level. The second step (if necessary) measures the amount of impairment by applying the fair value-based tests to individual assets and liabilities within each reporting unit. The fair value of the reporting units is estimated using a combination of the market approach, which utilizes comparable companies’ data, and/or the income approach, which uses discounted cash flows.

 

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The Company has three geographic segments comprised of the 1) Americas, 2) EMEA and 3) APAC regions. As of June 30, 2011, the Company had goodwill attributable to the APAC reporting unit. The Company performed an annual impairment review as of September 30, 2010 as prescribed in ASC 350 and concluded that it was not at risk of failing the first step, as the fair value of the APAC reporting unit exceeded its carrying value and thus no adjustment to the carrying value of goodwill was necessary. As a result, the Company was not required to perform the second step. In order to determine the fair value of the Company’s reporting units, the Company utilizes the discounted cash flow method and market methods. The Company has consistently utilized both methods in its goodwill impairment tests and weights both results equally. The Company uses both methods in its goodwill impairment tests as it believes both, in conjunction with each other, provide a reasonable estimate of the determination of fair value of the reporting unit — the discounted cash flow method being specific to anticipated future results of the reporting unit and the market method, which is based on the Company’s market sector including its competitors. The assumptions supporting the discounted cash flow method were determined using the Company’s best estimates as of the date of the impairment review.
Note 5 — Commitments and Contingencies
Leases
The Company leases office space under non-cancelable operating facility leases with various expiration dates through November 2013. Rent expense for the three months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 was $530 and $602, respectively. Rent expense for the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 was $1,092 and $1,267, respectively. The terms of the facility leases provide for rental payments on a graduated scale. The Company recognizes rent expense on a straight-line basis over the lease period, and has accrued for rent expense incurred but not paid. The deferred rent balance was $285 and $379 at June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively, and was included within other long-term liabilities
At June 30, 2011, future minimum lease payments under non-cancelable operating leases were as follows:
                         
    Minimum                
    Operating             Net  
    Lease     Sub-lease     Lease  
Year Ending December 31,   Payments     Income     Payments  
2011 (remaining six months)
  $ 1,860     $ 428     $ 1,432  
2012
    2,802       391       2,411  
2013
    1,069             1,069  
 
                 
 
  $ 5,731     $ 819     $ 4,912  
 
                 
Minimum Guaranteed Royalties and Developer Commitments
The Company has entered into license and development agreements with various owners of brands and other intellectual property to develop and publish games for mobile handsets. Pursuant to some of these agreements, the Company is required to pay minimum royalties over the term of the agreements regardless of actual game sales. The Company also has contracts with various external software developers (“third-party developers”) to design and develop games as part of its “Glu Partners” initiative. The Company advances funds to these third-party developers, in installments, payable upon the completion of specified development milestones.
Future minimum royalty payments and developer commitments for those agreements as of June 30, 2011 were as follows:
                         
    Minimum              
    Guaranteed     Developer        
Year Ending December 31,   Royalties     Commitments     Total  
2011 (remaining six months)
  $ 159     $ 2,333     $ 2,492  
2012 and thereafter
          250       250  
 
                 
 
  $ 159     $ 2,583     $ 2,742  
 
                 
These minimum guaranteed royalty payments are included in current prepaid and accrued royalties. The developer commitments reflected in the above table are the Company’s minimum cash obligations but do not necessarily represent the periods in which they will be expensed. The Company expenses developer commitments as services are provided, as payment is contingent upon performance by the developer.

 

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Income Taxes
As of June 30, 2011, unrecognized tax benefits and potential interest and penalties are classified within “Other long-term liabilities” on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets. As of June 30, 2011, the settlement of the Company’s income tax liabilities could not be determined; however, the liabilities are not expected to become due within the next 12 months.
Indemnification Agreements
The Company has entered into agreements under which it indemnifies each of its officers and directors during his or her lifetime for certain events or occurrences while the officer or director is or was serving at the Company’s request in that capacity. The maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could be required to make under these indemnification agreements is unlimited; however, the Company has a director and officer insurance policy that limits its exposure and enables the Company to recover a portion of any future amounts paid. As a result of its insurance policy coverage, the Company believes the estimated fair value of these indemnification agreements is minimal. Accordingly, the Company had recorded no liabilities for these agreements as of June 30, 2011 or December 31, 2010.
In the ordinary course of its business, the Company includes standard indemnification provisions in most of its license agreements with carriers and other distributors. Pursuant to these provisions, the Company generally indemnifies these parties for losses suffered or incurred in connection with its games, including as a result of intellectual property infringement and viruses, worms and other malicious software. The term of these indemnity provisions is generally perpetual after execution of the corresponding license agreement, and the maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could be required to make under these indemnification provisions is generally unlimited. To date, the Company has not incurred costs to defend lawsuits or settle indemnified claims of these types. As a result, the Company believes the estimated fair value of these indemnity provisions is minimal. Accordingly, the Company had recorded no liabilities for these provisions as of June 30, 2011 or December 31, 2010.
Contingencies
From time to time, the Company is subject to various claims, complaints and legal actions in the normal course of business. The Company assesses its potential liability by analyzing specific litigation and regulatory matters using available information. The Company’s estimate of losses is developed in consultation with inside and outside council, which involves a subjective analysis of potential results and outcomes, assuming various combinations of appropriate litigation and settlement strategies. After taking all of the above factors into account, the Company determines whether an estimated loss from a contingency should be accrued by assessing whether a loss is deemed reasonable probable and can be reasonable estimated. The Company further determines whether an estimated loss from a contingency should be disclosed by assessing whether a loss is deemed reasonably possible. Such disclosure will include an estimate of the additional loss or range of loss or will state that an estimate cannot be made.
The Company does not believe it is party to any currently pending litigation, the outcome of which will have a material adverse effect on its operations, financial position or liquidity. However, the ultimate outcome of any litigation is uncertain and, regardless of outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on the Company because of defense costs, potential negative publicity, diversion of management resources and other factors.
Note 6 — Debt
MIG Notes
In December 2007, the Company acquired MIG to accelerate its presence in China. In December 2008, the Company amended the MIG merger agreement to acknowledge the full achievement of the earnout milestones and at the same time entered into secured promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of $20,000 payable to the former MIG shareholders (the “Earnout Notes”) as full satisfaction of the MIG earnout. The Earnout Notes required that the Company pay off the remaining principal and interest in installments. In December 2008, the Company also entered into secured promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of $5,000 payable to two former shareholders of MIG (the “Special Bonus Notes”) as full satisfaction of the special bonus provisions of their employment agreements. In January 2011, the Company paid $698 of taxes that had been withheld on the December 31, 2010 Special Bonus Notes payment made to the former MIG shareholders in China. As of June 30, 2011, the Company had fully repaid both the Earnout Notes and Special Bonus Notes.

 

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Credit Facility
In December 2008, the Company entered into a revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”), which amended and superseded the Loan and Security Agreement that the Company had previously entered into with the lender in February 2007, as amended. On August 24, 2009 and February 10, 2010, the Company and the lender entered into amendments to the Credit Facility, which reduced certain of the minimum targets specified in the EBITDA-related covenant contained in the Credit Facility. The February 10, 2010 amendment also changed the measurement period for the EBITDA covenant from a rolling six month calculation to a quarterly calculation. On March 18, 2010, the Company and the lender entered into a third amendment to the agreement which extended the maturity date of the Credit Facility from December 22, 2010 until June 30, 2011 and increased the interest rate for borrowings under the Credit Facility by 0.75% to the lender’s prime rate, plus 1.75%, but no less than 5.0%. On February 2, 2011, the Company and the lender entered into a fourth amendment which waived the Company’s default in maintaining minimum levels of EBITDA specified in the Credit Facility for the period beginning October 1, 2010 and ending December 31, 2010. Prior to this date, the Company was in compliance with all covenants under the Credit Facility. This amendment also removed the EBITDA financial covenant from the Credit Facility in its entirety and replaced this covenant with a net cash covenant, which requires the Company to maintain at least $10,000 in unrestricted cash at the lender or an affiliate of the lender, net of any indebtedness that is owed to the lender under the Credit Facility.
The Credit Facility provides for borrowings of up to $8,000, subject to a borrowing base equal to 80% of the Company’s eligible accounts receivable. The Company’s obligations under the Credit Facility are guaranteed by certain of the Company’s domestic and foreign subsidiaries and are secured by substantially all of the Company’s assets, including all of the capital stock of certain of the Company’s domestic subsidiaries and 65% of the capital stock of certain of its foreign subsidiaries.
Interest is due monthly, with all outstanding obligations due at maturity. The Company must also pay the lender a monthly unused revolving line facility fee of 0.35% on the unused portion of the $8,000 commitment. In addition, the Company paid the lender a non-refundable commitment fee of $55 in December 2008 and paid an additional fee of $55 during December 2009. The Credit Facility limits the Company and certain of its subsidiaries’ ability to, among other things, dispose of assets, make acquisitions, incur additional indebtedness, incur liens, pay dividends and make other distributions, and make investments. The Credit Facility requires the Company to establish a separate account at the lender for collection of its accounts receivables. All deposits into this account are automatically applied by the lender to the Company’s outstanding obligations under the Credit Facility.
The Company’s failure to comply with the financial or operating covenants in the Credit Facility would not only prohibit the Company from borrowing under the facility, but would also constitute a default, permitting the lender to, among other things, declare any outstanding borrowings, including all accrued interest and unpaid fees, becoming immediately due and payable. A change in control of the Company (as defined in the Credit Facility) also constitutes an event of default, permitting the lender to accelerate the indebtedness and terminate the Credit Facility.
The Credit Facility also includes a “material adverse change” clause. As a result, if a material adverse change occurs with respect to the Company’s business, operations or financial condition, then that change could constitute an event of default under the terms of the Credit Facility. When an event of default occurs, the lender can, among other things, declare all obligations immediately due and payable, could stop advancing money or extending credit under the Credit Facility and could terminate the Credit Facility. The Company’s believes that the risk of a material adverse change occurring with respect to its business, operations or financial condition and the lender requesting immediate repayment of amounts already borrowed, stopping advancing the remaining credit or terminating the Credit Facility is remote.
The Credit Facility matured on June 30, 2011. The Company was in compliance with all covenants and had no borrowings outstanding under the Credit Facility as of June 30, 2011.
Note 7 — Stockholders’ Equity
Public Offering
In January 2011, the Company sold in an underwritten public offering an aggregate of 8,415 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $2.05 per share for net cash proceeds of approximately $15,661 after underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses. The underwriters of this offering were Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Merriman Capital, Inc. and Northland Capital Markets.

 

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Shelf Registration Statement
In December 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission declared effective the Company’s shelf registration statement which allows the Company to issue various types of debt and equity instruments, including common stock, preferred stock and warrants. Issuances under the shelf registration will require the filing of a prospectus supplement identifying the amount and terms of the securities to be issued. The ability to issue debt and equity is subject to market conditions and other factors impacting the Company’s borrowing capacity. The Company has a $30,000 limit on the amount securities that can be issued under this shelf registration statement and has utilized $17,250 of this amount as of June 30, 2011 pursuant to the public offering in January 2011 described above.
Private Placement
On August 2010, the Company completed a private placement of its common stock (the “2010 Private Placement”) in which it issued to its investors (i) an aggregate of 13,495 shares of the Company’s common stock at $1.00 per share and (ii) warrants initially exercisable to purchase up to 6,748 shares of the Company’s common stock at $1.50 per share (the “Warrants”), for initial proceeds of approximately $13,218 net of issuance costs (excluding any proceeds the Company may receive upon exercise of the Warrants). Of this amount, $2,198 was allocated to the value of the Warrants and $11,020 was allocated to the common stock. All amounts are recorded within stockholders’ equity. In March 2011, one of the investors fully exercised its warrant to purchase 500 shares of the Company’s common stock, and the Company received gross proceeds of $750 in connection with such exercise. During the second quarter of 2011, three of the investors fully exercised their warrants to purchase 1,600 shares of the Company’s common stock, and the Company received gross proceeds of $2,400 in connection with these exercises.
Warrants to Purchase Common Stock
The Warrants issued in connection with the 2010 Private Placement have an initial exercise price of $1.50 per share of common stock, can be exercised immediately, have a five-year term and provide for weighted-average anti-dilution protection in addition to customary adjustment for dividends, reorganization and other common stock events.
Warrants outstanding as of June 30, 2011 were as follows:
                         
                    Number  
            Exercise     of Shares  
            Price     Outstanding  
    Term     per     Under  
Issue Date   (Years)     Share     Warrant  
May 2006
    7       9.03       106  
August 2010
    5     $ 1.50       4,648  
 
                     
 
                    4,754  
 
                     
Comprehensive Loss
Comprehensive loss consists of two components, net loss and other comprehensive income/(loss). Other comprehensive income/(loss) refers to revenue, expenses, gains, and losses that under GAAP are recorded as an element of stockholders’ equity but are excluded from net income. The Company’s other comprehensive income/(loss) consists of foreign currency translation adjustments from those subsidiaries not using the U.S. dollar as their functional currency. Comprehensive loss for the three months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 was $2,064 and $3,231, respectively. Comprehensive loss for the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 was $5,257 and $6,729, respectively.
Note 8 — Stock Option and Other Benefit Plans
2007 Equity Incentive Plan
In January 2007, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted, and in March 2007 the Company’s stockholders approved, the 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2007 Plan”). At the time of adoption, there were 1,766 shares of common stock authorized for issuance under the 2007 Plan plus 195 shares of common stock from the Company’s 2001 Stock Option Plan (the “2001 Plan”) that were unissued. In addition, shares that were not issued or subject to outstanding grants under the 2001 Plan on the date of adoption of the 2007 Plan and any shares issued under the 2001 Plan that are forfeited or repurchased by the Company or that are issuable upon exercise of options that expire or become unexercisable for any reason without having been exercised in full, will be available for grant and issuance under the 2007 Plan. On June 3, 2010, at the Company’s 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the 2007 Plan to increase the aggregate number of shares of common stock authorized for issuance under the 2007 Plan by 3,000 shares. Furthermore, the number of shares available for grant and issuance under the 2007 Plan was increased automatically on January 1 of each of 2008 through 2011 by an amount equal to 3% of the Company’s shares outstanding on the immediately preceding December 31.

 

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The Company may grant options under the 2007 Plan at prices no less than 85% of the estimated fair value of the shares on the date of grant as determined by its Board of Directors, provided, however, that (i) the exercise price of an incentive stock option (“ISO”) or non-qualified stock options (“NSO”) may not be less than 100% or 85%, respectively, of the estimated fair value of the underlying shares of common stock on the grant date, and (ii) the exercise price of an ISO or NSO granted to a 10% stockholder may not be less than 110% of the estimated fair value of the shares on the grant date. Prior to the Company’s IPO, the Board determined the fair value of common stock in good faith based on the best information available to the Board and Company’s management at the time of the grant. Following the IPO, the fair value of the Company’s common stock is determined by the last sale price of such stock on the NASDAQ Global Market on the date of determination. The stock options granted to employees generally vest with respect to 25% of the underlying shares one year from the vesting commencement date and with respect to an additional 1/48 of the underlying shares per month thereafter. Stock options granted during 2007 prior to October 25, 2007 have a contractual term of ten years and stock options granted on or after October 25, 2007 have a contractual term of six years.
The 2007 Plan also provides the Board of Directors the ability to grant restricted stock awards, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock units, performance shares and stock bonuses. As of June 30, 2011, 3,882 shares were available for future grants under the 2007 Plan.
2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
In January 2007, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted, and in March 2007 the Company’s stockholders approved, the 2007 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2007 Purchase Plan”). The Company initially reserved 667 shares of its common stock for issuance under the 2007 Purchase Plan. On each January 1 for the first eight calendar years after the first offering date, the aggregate number of shares of the Company’s common stock reserved for issuance under the 2007 Purchase Plan will be increased automatically by the number of shares equal to 1% of the total number of outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock on the immediately preceding December 31, provided that the Board of Directors may reduce the amount of the increase in any particular year and provided further that the aggregate number of shares issued over the term of this plan may not exceed 5,333. The 2007 Purchase Plan permits eligible employees to purchase common stock at a discount through payroll deductions during defined offering periods. The price at which the stock is purchased is equal to the lower of 85% of the fair market value of the common stock at the beginning of an offering period or after a purchase period ends.
In January 2009, the 2007 Purchase Plan was amended to provide that the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors may fix a maximum number of shares that may be purchased in the aggregate by all participants during any single offering period (the “Maximum Offering Period Share Amount”). The Committee may later raise or lower the Maximum Offering Period Share Amount. The Committee established the Maximum Offering Period Share Amount of 500 shares for the offering period that commenced on February 15, 2009 and ended on August 14, 2009, and a Maximum Offering Period Share Amount of 200 shares for each offering period thereafter.
As of June 30, 2011, 693 shares were available for issuance under the 2007 Purchase Plan.
2008 Equity Inducement Plan
In March 2008, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted the 2008 Equity Inducement Plan (the “Inducement Plan”) to augment the shares available under its existing 2007 Plan. The Inducement Plan did not require the approval of the Company’s stockholders. The Company initially reserved 600 shares of its common stock for grant and issuance under the Inducement Plan. On December 28, 2009, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Niccolo de Masi as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer and the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors awarded him a non-qualified stock option to purchase 1,250 shares of the Company’s common stock, which was issued on January 4, 2010 under the Inducement Plan. Immediately prior to the grant of this award, the Compensation Committee amended the Inducement Plan to increase the number of shares available for grant under the plan by 819 shares to 1,250 shares. The Company may only grant NSOs under the Inducement Plan. Grants under the Inducement Plan may only be made to persons not previously an employee or director of the Company, or following a bona fide period of non-employment, as an inducement material to such individual’s entering into employment with the Company and to provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the Company’s success. The Company may grant NSOs under the Inducement Plan at prices less than 100% of the fair value of the shares on the date of grant, at the discretion of its Board of Directors. The fair value of the Company’s common stock is determined by the last sale price of such stock on the NASDAQ Global Market on the date of determination.

 

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As of June 30, 2011, 66 shares were reserved for future grants under the Inducement Plan.
Stock Option Activity
The following table summarizes the Company’s stock option activity for the three months ended June 30, 2011:
                                         
            Options Outstanding              
                    Weighted     Weighted        
            Number     Average     Average     Aggregate  
    Shares     of     Exercise     Contractual     Intrinsic  
    Available     Shares     Price     Term (Years)     Value  
Balances at December 31, 2010
    4,148       6,928     $ 2.02                  
Increase in authorized shares
    1,338                                  
Options granted
    (2,088 )     2,088       3.76                  
Options canceled
    550       (550 )     1.60                  
Options exercised
          (659 )     1.80                  
 
                                   
Balances at June 30, 2011
    3,948       7,807     $ 2.54       4.78     $ 22,970  
 
                                   
 
                                       
Options vested and expected to vest at June 30, 2011
            6,312     $ 2.60       4.68     $ 18,499  
Options exercisable at June 30, 2011
            2,121     $ 3.37       3.84     $ 5,625  
The aggregate intrinsic value in the preceding table is calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the underlying awards and the quoted closing price of the Company’s common stock of $5.27 per share as of June 30, 2011. Consolidated net cash proceeds from option exercises were $1,185 and $349 for the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively. The Company realized no significant income tax benefit from stock option exercises during the six months ended June 30, 2011 or 2010. As required, the Company presents excess tax benefits from the exercise of stock options, if any, as financing cash flows rather than operating cash flows.
The Company applies the fair value provisions of ASC 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation (“ASC 718”). Under ASC 718, the Company estimated the fair value of each option award on the grant date using the Black-Scholes option valuation model and the weighted average assumptions noted in the following table.
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
Dividend yield
    %     %     %     %
Risk-free interest rate
    1.46 %     1.38 %     1.50 %     1.37 %
Expected volatility
    63.9 %     77.2 %     63.8 %     76.5 %
Expected term (years)
    4.00       3.05       4.00       3.13  
The Company based its expected volatility on its own historic volatility and the historical volatility of a peer group of publicly traded entities. The expected term of options gave consideration to early exercises, post-vesting cancellations and the options’ contractual term, which was extended for all options granted subsequent to September 12, 2005 but prior to October 25, 2007 from five to ten years. Stock options granted on or after October 25, 2007 have a contractual term of six years. The risk-free interest rate for the expected term of the option is based on the U.S. Treasury Constant Maturity Rate as of the date of grant. The weighted-average fair value of stock options granted during the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 was $1.85 and $0.61, respectively.
The Company calculated employee stock-based compensation expense recognized in the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 based on awards ultimately expected to vest and reduced it for estimated forfeitures. ASC 718 requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates.

 

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The following table summarizes the consolidated stock-based compensation expense by line items in the consolidated statement of operations:
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
Research and development
  $ 131     $ 116     $ 231     $ 280  
Sales and marketing
    94       40       160       113  
General and administrative
    280       193       511       480  
 
                       
Total stock-based compensation expense
  $ 505     $ 349     $ 902     $ 873  
 
                       
As of June 30, 2011, the Company had $4,285 of total unrecognized compensation expense under ASC 718, net of estimated forfeitures, which will be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.96 years. As permitted by ASC 718, the Company has deferred the recognition of its excess tax benefit from non-qualified stock option exercises.
Note 9 — Income Taxes
The Company recorded an income tax provision of $501 and $198 for the three months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively, related to foreign withholding taxes and income taxes. The Company recorded an income tax provision of $1,275 and $499 for the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively, also related to foreign withholding taxes and income taxes. The income tax rates vary from the Federal and State statutory rates due to the valuation allowances on the Company’s net operating losses, foreign tax rate differences, and withholding taxes.
The Company estimates its annual effective tax rate at the end of each quarterly period, and records the tax effect of certain discrete items, which are unusual or occur infrequently, in the interim period in which they occur. In addition, jurisdictions with a projected loss for the year or a year-to-date loss where no tax benefit can be recognized and jurisdictions where a reliable estimate of ordinary income cannot be made are excluded from the estimated annual effective tax rate. The impact of such an exclusion could result in a higher or lower effective tax rate during a particular quarter depending on the mix and timing of actual earnings versus annual projections. The Company’s ability to use its net operating loss carryforwards and federal and state tax credit carryforwards to offset future taxable income and future taxes, respectively, may be subject to restrictions attributable to equity transactions that result in changes in ownership as defined by Internal Revenue Code Section 382.
The Company accounts for uncertain tax positions in accordance with ASC 740, Income Taxes (“ASC 740”). As of June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, the total amount of unrecognized tax benefits was $3,275 and $3,326, respectively. As of June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, approximately $19 and $73, respectively, of unrecognized tax benefits, if recognized, would impact the Company’s effective tax rate. The remaining balance, if recognized, would adjust the Company’s goodwill from acquisitions or would adjust the Company’s deferred tax assets which are subject to a valuation allowance.
The Company’s policy is to recognize interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in income tax expense. The Company recorded $61 and $58 of interest on uncertain tax positions during the three months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively. The Company recorded $122 and $115 of interest on uncertain tax positions during the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively. As of June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, the Company had a liability of $3,754 and $3,630, respectively, related to interest and penalties for uncertain tax positions.
One of the Company’s subsidiaries in China has received the High & New Technology Enterprise qualification from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and also the Software Enterprise Qualification from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. During the third quarter of 2010, the State Administration of Taxation approved the Company’s application to apply the favorable tax benefits to operations beginning January 1, 2009. The Company has revalued certain deferred tax assets and liabilities during the fourth quarter of 2010, and certain taxes that were expensed in 2009 were refunded in 2010, and the tax benefit was recognized. These qualifications are reviewed annually, and in the event that circumstances change and the Company no longer meets the requirements of the original qualification, the Company would need to revalue certain deferred tax assets and liabilities.
The Company is subject to taxation in the United States and various foreign jurisdictions. The material jurisdictions subject to examination by tax authorities are primarily the State of California, United States, United Kingdom and China. The Company’s federal tax return is open by statute for tax years 2001 and forward and could be subject to examination by the tax authorities. The Company’s California income tax returns are open by statute for tax years 2001 and forward. The statute of limitations for the Company’s 2008 filed tax return in the United Kingdom will begin to expire (close) in 2011. The Company’s China income tax returns are open by statute for tax years 2005 and forward. In practice, a tax audit, examination or tax assessment notice issued by the Chinese tax authorities does not represent finalization or closure of a tax year.

 

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Note 10 — Segment Reporting
ASC 280, Segment Reporting (“ASC 280”), establishes standards for reporting information about operating segments. It defines operating segments as components of an enterprise about which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision-maker, or decision-making group, in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. The Company’s chief operating decision-maker is its Chief Executive Officer. The Company’s Chief Executive Officer reviews financial information on a geographic basis, however these are included within one operating segment for purposes of allocating resources and evaluating financial performance.
Accordingly, the Company reports as a single operating segment — mobile games. It attributes revenues to geographic areas based on the country in which the carrier’s principal operations are located.
A breakdown of the Company’s total sales to customers in the feature phone and smartphone markets is shown below:
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
    (in thousands)     (in thousands)  
Feature phone
  $ 8,253     $ 13,707     $ 18,731     $ 28,813  
Smartphone
    9,427       2,245       15,375       4,428  
 
                       
Revenues
  $ 17,680     $ 15,952     $ 34,106     $ 33,241  
 
                       
The Company generates its revenues in the following geographic regions:
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
United States of America
  $ 9,218     $ 7,341     $ 16,493     $ 15,590  
China
    885       1,155       2,312       2,755  
Americas, excluding the USA
    1,455       2,232       3,371       4,408  
EMEA
    4,989       4,478       10,060       9,140  
Other
    1,133       746       1,870       1,348  
 
                       
 
  $ 17,680     $ 15,952     $ 34,106     $ 33,241  
 
                       
The Company attributes its long-lived assets, which primarily consist of property and equipment, to a country primarily based on the physical location of the assets. Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization, summarized by geographic location was as follows:
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2011     2010  
Americas
  $ 1,909     $ 1,013  
EMEA
    511       714  
Other
    392       407  
 
           
 
  $ 2,812     $ 2,134  
 
           

 

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Note 11 — Restructuring
Restructuring information as of June 30, 2011 was as follows:
                                                                 
    Restructuring  
    2011     2010     2009        
            Facilities             Facilities             Facilities     Superscape        
    Workforce     Related     Workforce     Related     Workforce     Related     Plan     Total  
Balance as of January 1, 2010
  $     $     $     $     $ 629     $ 737     $ 40     $ 1,406  
Charges to operations
                1,540       1,854             235             3,629  
Non Cash Adjustments
                      (269 )                 (3 )     (272 )
Charges settled in cash
                (1,244 )           (629 )     (414 )     (14 )     (2,301 )
 
                                               
Balance as of December 31, 2010
                296       1,585             558       23       2,462  
Charges to operations
    500       96       41                               637  
Non Cash Adjustments
          (86 )                             (4 )     (90 )
Charges settled in cash
    (500 )     (10 )     (220 )     (504 )           (171 )           (1,405 )
 
                                               
Balance as of June 30, 2011
  $     $     $ 117     $ 1,081     $     $ 387     $ 19     $ 1,604  
 
                                               
During 2009, 2010 and the first two quarters of 2011, the Company’s management approved restructuring plans to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of its operating model and reduce operating expenses around the world. The 2011 restructuring plan included $500 of restructuring charges relating to employee termination costs in the Company’s APAC, Latin America, Russia and United Kingdom offices. The remaining restructuring charge of $96 related primarily to facility related charges resulting from vacating a portion of the Company’s Moscow offices, which includes an $86 non-cash adjustment relating to a write off of leasehold improvements. Since the inception of the 2010 restructuring plan through June 30, 2011, the Company incurred $1,581 of restructuring charges relating to employee termination costs in the Company’s United States, APAC, Latin America and United Kingdom offices. The remaining restructuring charge of $1,854 related primarily to facility related charges resulting from the relocation of the Company’s corporate headquarters to San Francisco, which includes a $269 non-cash adjustment, primarily relating to a write off in fixed assets. Since the inception of the 2009 restructuring plan through June 30, 2011, the Company incurred $2,111 in restructuring charges. These charges included $1,009 of workforce related charges, comprised of severance and termination benefits of $657 associated with the departure of the Company’s former Chief Executive Officer, and $352 relating to employee termination costs in the Company’s United States and United Kingdom offices. The remaining restructuring charge included $1,102 of facility related charges, comprised of $944 of charges associated with changes in the sublease probability assumption for the vacated office space in the Company’s United States headquarters and an additional restructuring charge of $158 net of sublease income, resulting from vacating a portion of the Company’s EMEA headquarters based in the United Kingdom. The Company does not expect to incur any additional charges under the 2009 restructuring plan.
As of June 30, 2011, the Company’s remaining restructuring liability of $1,604 was comprised of $117 of severance and benefits payments due to a former executive, which are due to be paid during 2011, and $1,487 of facility related costs that are expected to be paid over the remainder of the lease terms of one to two years. As of June 30, 2011, approximately $313 of facility costs included in the above table were classified as other long-term liabilities. As of December 31, 2010, the Company’s remaining restructuring liability of $2,462 was comprised of $296 of severance and benefits payments due to former executives, of which $179 were paid in the first two quarters of 2011, and $2,166 of facility related costs, which included $773 of facility costs that were classified as other long-term liabilities. The Company paid $675 of these facility costs during the first two quarters of 2011.
Note 12 — Subsequent Events
Acquisition of Blammo Games
On August 1, 2011, the Company completed the acquisition of Blammo Games Inc., a company organized under the laws of Ontario (“Blammo”), by entering into a Share Purchase Agreement (the “Share Purchase Agreement”) by and among the Company, Blammo and each of the owners of the outstanding share capital of Blammo (the “Sellers”). Blammo is a developer of freemium games for the iOS platform located in Toronto, Canada.
Pursuant to the terms of the Share Purchase Agreement, the Company purchased from the Sellers all of the issued and outstanding share capital of Blammo (the “Share Purchase”), and in exchange for such Blammo share capital, the Company (i) issued to the Sellers, in the aggregate, 1,000 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Initial Shares”), which resulted in initial consideration of $5,070 and (ii) agreed to issue to the Sellers, in the aggregate, up to an additional 3,313 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Additional Shares”) if Blammo achieves certain net revenue targets during the years ending March 31, 2013, March 31, 2014 and March 31, 2015, as more fully described below. 100 of the Initial Shares will be held in escrow for 12 months to satisfy indemnification claims under the Share Purchase Agreement.

 

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The Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers if, and to the extent that, Blammo achieves certain Net Revenue (as such term is defined in the Share Purchase Agreement) performance targets as follows: (i) for fiscal 2013 (April 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013), (a) 227 Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers if, and only in the event that, Blammo meets its Baseline Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year, and (b) up to an additional 682 Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers to the extent that Blammo exceeds its Baseline Net Revenue goal and meets its Upside Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year, (ii) for fiscal 2014 (April 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014), (a) 417 Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers if, and only in the event that, Blammo meets its Baseline Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year, and (b) up to an additional 833 Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers to the extent that Blammo exceeds its Baseline Net Revenue goal and meets its Upside Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year, and (iii) for fiscal 2015 (April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2015), (a) no Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers if Blammo does not meet its Baseline Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year and (b) up to 1,154 Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers to the extent that Blammo exceeds its Baseline Net Revenue goal and meets its Upside Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year. To the extent that Blammo meets its Baseline Net Revenue goal for a fiscal year but does not meet its Upside Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year, Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers on a straight-line basis based on the amount by which Blammo exceeded the Baseline Net Revenue goal. Blammo’s Baseline and Upside Net Revenue goals for fiscal 2013, 2014 and 2015 are as follows:
                 
Fiscal Year   Baseline Net Revenue     Upside Net Revenue  
 
Fiscal 2013
  US$ 3,500     US$ 5,000  
 
Fiscal 2014
  US$ 5,500     US$ 10,000  
 
Fiscal 2015
  US$ 8,500     US$ 15,000  
In addition, under the terms of the Share Purchase Agreement, the Company has agreed to file a shelf registration statement with the SEC within 20 days after the closing of the Share Purchase to register all of the Initial Shares.
Acquisition of Griptonite
On August 2, 2011, the Company completed the acquisition of Griptonite, Inc., a Washington corporation (“Griptonite”) and formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Foundation 9 Entertainment, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Foundation 9”), pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) by and among the Company, Granite Acquisition Corp., a Washington corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Sub”), Foundation 9 and Griptonite. Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, Sub merged with and into Griptonite in a statutory reverse triangular merger (the “Merger”), with Griptonite surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. Griptonite, which is based in Kirkland, WA, is a developer of games for the Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PSP and iPhone platforms.
In connection with the Merger, the Company issued to Foundation 9, as Griptonite’s sole shareholder, in exchange for all of the issued and outstanding shares of Griptonite capital stock, a total of 6,106 shares of the Company’s common stock, for consideration of approximately $29,564; 600 shares will be held in escrow for 15 months to satisfy indemnification claims under the Merger Agreement. In addition, the Company may be required to issue additional shares (not to exceed, when aggregated with the 6,106 shares issued at the closing of the Merger, more than 19.99% of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares immediately prior to the closing of the Merger) (i) in satisfaction of indemnification obligations in the case of breaches of its representations, warranties and covenants or (ii) pursuant to a working capital adjustment that may take place after the Company files an amendment to the Current Report on Form 8-K it filed to report the Merger to file required financial statements of Griptonite.
The Company has agreed to file a shelf registration statement with the SEC within 20 days after the closing of the Merger to register all of the shares of the Company’s common stock issuable to Foundation 9 under the Merger Agreement.
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Assumption of Griptonite Lease
In connection with the Merger, the Company agreed to assume the obligations of Griptonite under that certain lease dated as of November 5, 2007, by and among Foundation 9, Griptonite and Marymoor Warehouse Associates, LLC, as a successor in interest to Mastro Willows 2, LLC, with respect to the premises located at 12421 Willows Road NE, Kirkland, Washington (the “Griptonite Lease”). The Griptonite Lease covers approximately 54 rentable square feet and has a term that commenced on April 1, 2008 and terminates on September 30, 2015. The lease currently provides for monthly base rent of $84, with the monthly base rent increasing by $2 every 12 months such that the monthly rent under the Griptonite Lease for the final 12 months of the lease will be $93.
Amendment to 2008 Equity Inducement Plan
In connection with the Merger and the Share Purchase, the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors increased the number of shares reserved for issuance under the Company’s 2008 Equity Inducement Plan by 1,050 shares. Glu utilized these additional shares in order to grant stock options to certain of the new non-executive employees of Griptonite and Blammo to purchase a total of 1,033 shares of Glu’s common stock.
Departure of Executive Officer
On July 28, 2011, the Company terminated the employment of Giancarlo Mori, its Chief Creative Officer, effective as of August 2, 2011.

 

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ITEM 2.  
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The information in this discussion and elsewhere in this report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements are based upon current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. For example, the words “may,” “will,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “expect,” “intend,” “could,” “estimate,” “continue” and similar expressions or variations are intended to identify forward-looking statements. In this report, forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the following:
our expectations and beliefs regarding the future conduct and growth of our business;
our expectations regarding competition and our ability to compete effectively;
our expectations regarding the development of future products, including those for smartphones and tablets;
our expectation that we will release 15 to 20 social, freemium games during 2011, of which approximately one-fourth will be developed by third parties pursuant to our Glu Partners program;
our intention to focus our development efforts on social, freemium games and continue our use of in-game advertising, offers, micro-transactions and other monetization techniques with respect to the games we develop for smartphones and tablets;
our expectation that the substantial majority of the social, freemium games that we are developing for smartphones will be based on our own intellectual property, which we believe will significantly enhance our margins and long-term value;
our expectations regarding our revenues, including the expected decline in revenues from games we develop for feature phones in our traditional carrier-based business and our belief that with our smartphone revenues having surpassed our feature phone revenues in the second quarter of 2011 we are positioned to return to overall revenue growth in the longer term;
our expectations regarding our operating expenses, including anticipated increased spending on sales and marketing and research and development initiatives during 2011 compared with 2010, as well as the anticipated impact that our recent Blammo and Griptonite acquisitions will have on our operating expenses;
our expectation that the Blammo and Griptonite acquisitions will approximately double our studio capacity;
our expectation that our first title created by Blammo will be released in the first quarter of 2012, while the first title created by our Griptonite studio should be launched by the second quarter of 2012;
our assumptions regarding the impact of Recent Accounting Pronouncements applicable to us;
our assessments and estimates that determine our effective tax rate and valuation allowance; and
our belief that our cash and cash equivalents and cash flows from operations, if any, will be sufficient to meet our cash needs for at least the next 12 months.
Our actual results and the timing of certain events may differ significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, those discussed in “Risk Factors” elsewhere in this report. All forward-looking statements in this document are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes contained elsewhere in this report. Our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”) includes the following sections:
 
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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates that we believe are important to understanding the assumptions and judgments underlying our financial statements;
 
Recent Accounting Pronouncements;
 
Results of Operations, including a more detailed discussion of our revenues and expenses; and
 
Liquidity and Capital Resources, which discusses key aspects of our statements of cash flows, changes in our balance sheets and our financial commitments.
Overview
This overview provides a high-level discussion of our operating results and some of the trends that affect our business. We believe that an understanding of these trends is important to understand our financial results for the first and second quarters of 2011, as well as our future prospects. This summary is not intended to be exhaustive, nor is it intended to be a substitute for the detailed discussion and analysis provided elsewhere in this report, including our unaudited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes.
Financial Results and Trends
Revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2011 were $17.7 million, an 11% increase compared to the three months ended June 30, 2010, in which we reported revenues of $16.0 million. Revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2011 were $34.1 million, a 3% increase compared to the six months ended June 30, 2010, in which we reported revenues of $33.2 million. These increases in revenues were primarily due to a significant increase in our revenues that we generated from games for smartphones, such as Apple’s iPhone and mobile phones utilizing Google’s Android operating system. We believe that the migration of users from feature phones to smartphone devices, which offer enhanced functionality, will continue to accelerate for the remainder of 2011 and for the foreseeable future as consumers increasingly upgrade their mobile phones. Accordingly, we have shifted our product development focus towards developing new titles for smartphones and tablet devices, such as Apple’s iPad, and intend to release fewer games for feature phones in future periods.
For us to succeed in 2011 and beyond, we believe that we must increasingly publish mobile games that are widely accepted and commercially successful on smartphone and tablet digital storefronts, which include Apple’s App Store, Google’s Android Market, Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Palm’s App Catalog. Our smartphone revenue accounted for approximately 45% and 13% of our revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2011 and June 30, 2010, respectively and 53% and 14% of our revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2011 and June 30, 2010, respectively. Our strategy for increasing our revenues from smartphones and tablets involves becoming the leading publisher of social, mobile “freemium” games — games that are downloadable without an initial charge, but which enable a variety of additional features to be accessed for a fee or otherwise monetized through various advertising and offer techniques. Our social, freemium games are generally designed to be persistent through regular content updates. We believe this approach will enable us to build and grow a longer lasting and more direct relationship with our customers, which will assist us in our future sales and marketing efforts. We intend to have the substantial majority of our social, freemium games be based upon our own intellectual property, which we believe will significantly enhance our margins and long-term value.
Our smartphone revenues surpassed our feature phone revenues for the first time in the second quarter of 2011, and we believe that this transition will position us to return to overall revenue growth in the longer term. However, significantly growing our revenues from smartphones and tablets may be challenging for us for several reasons, including: (1) our inability since the middle of the second quarter of 2011 to include certain types of offers in our games sold on the Apple App Store, which offers accounted for approximately one-third of our smartphone revenues during the three and six months ended June 30, 2011; (2) the open nature of many of the smartphone and tablet storefronts substantially increases the number of our competitors and competitive products; (3) we have only relatively recently concentrated our efforts on developing and marketing social, freemium games; (4) our relatively limited experience with respect to creating games that include micro-transaction capabilities, advertizing and offers have caused us, and may continue to cause us, to have difficulty optimizing the monetization of our social, freemium games; (5) we historically have had more limited success in generating significant revenues from games based on our own intellectual property rather than licensed brands; and (6) our social, freemium games may not be widely downloaded by consumers for a variety of reasons, including poor consumer reviews or other negative publicity, ineffective or insufficient marketing efforts or a failure to achieve prominent storefront featuring for such games.

 

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In addition, our revenues will continue to depend significantly on growth in the mobile games market, our ability to continue to attract new end users in that market and the overall strength of the economy, particularly in the United States. Our revenues may also be adversely impacted by decisions by digital storefront owners or our carriers to alter their terms related to the distribution of our games. For example, during the quarter ended June 30, 2011, Apple stopped permitting publishers to include certain types of offers in games sold through the Apple App Store, and, this change in Apple policy has negatively impacted our smartphone revenues. Our revenues depend on a variety of other factors, including our relationships with digital storefront owners, carriers and our licensors. The loss of any key relationships with our digital storefront owners, carriers, other distributors or licensors could adversely impact our revenues in the future.
Our net loss in the three months ended June 30, 2011 was $1.8 million versus a net loss of $3.2 million in the three months ended June 30, 2010. This decrease was driven primarily by a decrease in costs of revenues of $2.1 million due to a decrease in royalty-burdened revenues and impairments of advanced royalties, a $1.7 million increase in revenues related to higher smartphone revenues and a decrease in other income and expenses of $889,000 related primarily to lower interest charges as the MIG promissory notes were fully repaid and favorable foreign exchange revaluations in the second quarter of 2011 compared to same period in the prior year. These decreases were partially offset by a $3.0 million increase in operating expenses and a $303,000 increase in the tax provision. The increase in our operating expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2011 compared with the three months ended June 30, 2010 was primarily due to increased research and development and sales and marketing expenses associated with the launch and development of our freemium titles. Our net loss in the six months ended June 30, 2011 was $5.0 million versus a net loss of $6.9 million in the six months ended June 30, 2010. This decrease was driven primarily by a decrease in costs of revenues of $3.4 million due to a decrease in royalty-burdened revenues and impairments of advanced royalties, a decrease in other income and expenses of $1.7 million related primarily to lower interest charges as the MIG promissory notes were fully repaid and favorable foreign exchange revaluations in the first and second quarters of 2011 compared to same periods in the prior year and a $865,000 increase in revenues related to higher smartphone revenues. These decreases were partially offset by a $3.2 million increase in operating expenses and a $776,000 increase in the tax provision. The increase in our operating expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2011 compared with the six months ended June 30, 2010 was primarily due to increased research and development and sales and marketing expenses associated with the launch of our freemium titles. Our operating results are also affected by fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates of the currencies in which we incur meaningful operating expenses (principally the British Pound Sterling, Chinese Renminbi, Brazilian Real and Russian Ruble), and our customers’ reporting currencies, as we transact business in more than 70 countries in more than 20 different currencies, and these currencies fluctuated significantly in 2010 and the first six months of 2011.
We significantly increased our spending on sales and marketing initiatives in the first half of 2011 in connection with the launch and promotion of our initial social, freemium titles, and we expect our sales and marketing expenditures to remain at least at this increased level during the remainder 2011. We also expect that our expenses to develop and port games for advanced platforms and smartphones will increase as we enhance our existing titles and develop new titles to take advantage of the additional functionality offered by these platforms, including through our external development relationships as part of our Glu Partners program. In addition, we expect our overall operating expenses, particularly our research and development expenses, to significantly increase in the third quarter of 2011 and beyond due to our recently completed acquisitions of Griptonite, Inc. (“Griptonite”), a developer of games for the Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PSP and iPhone platforms and formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Foundation 9 Entertainment, Inc. (“Foundation 9”), and Blammo Games Inc. (“Blammo”), a developer of freemium games for the iOS platform located in Toronto, Canada. As a result of these acquisitions and the increased spending on sales and marketing and research and development initiatives, we expect to use a significant amount of cash in operations as we seek to grow our business. Our ability to attain profitability will be affected by our ability to grow our revenues, including our ability to integrate these acquisitions and begin deriving significant revenues from the efforts of the acquired companies, particularly Griptonite, and the extent to which we must incur additional expenses to expand our sales, marketing, development, and general and administrative capabilities to grow our business. The largest component of our recurring expenses is personnel costs, which consist of salaries, benefits and incentive compensation, including bonuses and stock-based compensation, for our employees. We expect that the restructuring measures we implemented during 2010 and first and second quarters of 2011, which primarily consisted of headcount reductions, will have a beneficial effect on our overall operating expenses, but will not fully offset the expected increases in our operating expenses. Our business has historically been impacted by seasonality, as many new mobile handset models are released in the fourth calendar quarter to coincide with the holiday shopping season. Because many end users download our games soon after they purchase new mobile phones and tablets, we generally experience seasonal sales increases based on the holiday selling period. However, due to the time between mobile phone and tablet purchases and game purchases, some of this holiday impact occurs for us in our first calendar quarter. We expect these seasonal trends to continue in the future.

 

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Cash and cash equivalents at June 30, 2011 totaled $26.4 million, an increase of $13.5 million from the balance at December 31, 2010. This increase was primarily due to $15.7 million of net proceeds we received from the underwritten public offering of common stock that we completed in January 2011 (the “2011 Public Offering”), and $4.5 million of proceeds received from warrant exercises, option exercises and purchases under our employee stock purchase program. These inflows were partially offset by $2.3 million paid under our credit facility, $2.6 million of cash used in operations, $1.4 million of capital expenditures and $698,000 of taxes that had been withheld on the December 31, 2010 Special Bonus Notes payment made to the former MIG shareholders. In addition, in August 2011, we acquired approximately $10.2 million in cash in connection with our acquisition of Griptonite. We believe our cash and cash equivalents and cash flows from operations, if any, will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for at least the next 12 months.
Significant Transactions
Acquisition of Blammo
On August 1, 2011, we completed the acquisition of Blammo by entering into a Share Purchase Agreement (the “Share Purchase Agreement”) by and among Glu, Blammo and each of the owners of the outstanding share capital of Blammo (the “Sellers”).
Pursuant to the terms of the Share Purchase Agreement, we purchased from the Sellers all of the issued and outstanding share capital of Blammo (the “Share Purchase”), and in exchange for such Blammo share capital, we (i) issued to the Sellers, in the aggregate, 1,000,000 shares of our common stock (the “Initial Shares”) and (ii) agreed to issue to the Sellers, in the aggregate, up to an additional 3,312,937 shares of our common stock (the “Additional Shares”) if Blammo achieves certain net revenue targets during the years ending March 31, 2013, March 31, 2014 and March 31, 2015, as more fully described below. 100,000 of the Initial Shares will be held in escrow for 12 months to satisfy indemnification claims under the Share Purchase Agreement.
The Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers if, and to the extent that, Blammo achieves certain Net Revenue (as such term is defined in the Share Purchase Agreement) performance targets as follows: (i) for fiscal 2013 (April 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013), (a) 227,273 Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers if, and only in the event that, Blammo meets its Baseline Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year, and (b) up to an additional 681,818 Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers to the extent that Blammo exceeds its Baseline Net Revenue goal and meets its Upside Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year, (ii) for fiscal 2014 (April 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014), (a) 416,667 Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers if, and only in the event that, Blammo meets its Baseline Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year, and (b) up to an additional 833,333 Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers to the extent that Blammo exceeds its Baseline Net Revenue goal and meets its Upside Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year, and (iii) for fiscal 2015 (April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2015), (a) no Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers if Blammo does not meet its Baseline Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year and (b) up to 1,153,846 Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers to the extent that Blammo exceeds its Baseline Net Revenue goal and meets its Upside Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year. To the extent that Blammo meets its Baseline Net Revenue goal for a fiscal year but does not meet its Upside Net Revenue goal for such fiscal year, Additional Shares will be issued to the Sellers on a straight-line basis based on the amount by which Blammo exceeded the Baseline Net Revenue goal. Blammo’s Baseline and Upside Net Revenue goals for fiscal 2013, 2014 and 2015 are as follows:
                 
Fiscal Year   Baseline Net Revenue     Upside Net Revenue  
 
Fiscal 2013
  US$ 3,500,000     US$ 5,000,000  
 
Fiscal 2014
  US$ 5,500,000     US$ 10,000,000  
 
Fiscal 2015
  US$ 8,500,000     US$ 15,000,000  
Acquisition of Griptonite
On August 2, 2011, we completed the acquisition of Griptonite pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) by and among Glu, Granite Acquisition Corp., a Washington corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Glu (“Sub”), Foundation 9 and Griptonite. Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, Sub merged with and into Griptonite in a statutory reverse triangular merger (the “Merger”), with Griptonite surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Glu.

 

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In connection with the Merger, we issued to Foundation 9, as Griptonite’s sole shareholder, in exchange for all of the issued and outstanding shares of Griptonite capital stock, a total of 6,106,015 shares of our common stock, of which 600,000 shares will be held in escrow for 15 months to satisfy indemnification claims under the Merger Agreement. In addition, we may be required to issue additional shares (not to exceed, when aggregated with the 6,106,015 shares issued at the closing of the Merger, more than 19.99% of our issued and outstanding shares immediately prior to the closing of the Merger) (i) in satisfaction of indemnification obligations in the case of breaches of its representations, warranties and covenants or (ii) pursuant to a working capital adjustment that may take place after we file an amendment to the Current Report on Form 8-K it filed to report the Merger to file required financial statements of Griptonite.
We expect the Blammo and Griptonite acquisitions will approximately double our studio capacity. We anticipate that our first title created by Blammo will be released in the first quarter of 2012, while the first title created by our Griptonite studio should be launched by the second quarter of 2012.
Public Offering
In January 2011, we completed the 2011 Public Offering in which we sold an aggregate of 8,414,635 shares of our common stock at a price to the public of $2.05 per share for net proceeds of approximately $15.7 million after underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses. The underwriters of the 2011 Public Offering were Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Merriman Capital, Inc. and Northland Capital Markets.
Private Placement
In August 2010, we completed a private placement of our common stock (the “2010 Private Placement”) in which we issued and sold to certain investors an aggregate of 13,495,000 shares of common stock at $1.00 per share and warrants exercisable to purchase up to 6,747,500 shares of common stock at $1.50 per share for initial gross proceeds of approximately $13.5 million (excluding any proceeds we may receive upon exercise of the warrants).
Amendment of Credit Facility
In December 2008, we renegotiated and extended our credit facility, and also amended the terms of the credit facility in August 2009, February 2010, March 2010 and February 2011. The credit facility, as last amended, provided for borrowings of up to $8.0 million, subject to a borrowing base equal to 80% of our eligible accounts receivable. The most recent fourth amendment to the credit facility that we entered into in February 2011 waived our default in maintaining minimum levels of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) specified in the credit facility for the period beginning October 1, 2010 and ending December 31, 2010. This fourth amendment also removed the EBITDA financial covenant from the credit facility in its entirety and replaced this covenant with a net cash covenant, which required us to maintain at least $10.0 million in unrestricted cash at the lender or an affiliate of the lender, net of any indebtedness that we owe to the lender under the credit facility. The credit facility expired on June 30, 2011 and, as of that date, we had no outstanding borrowings under it.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
There were no significant changes in our Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates during the six months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates disclosed in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Information with respect to Recent Accounting Pronouncements may be found in Note 1 of Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in this report, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Results of Operations
Comparison of the Three Months Ended June 30, 2011 and 2010
Revenues
                 
    Three Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
    (in thousands)  
Feature phone
  $ 8,253     $ 13,707  
Smartphone
    9,427       2,245  
 
           
Revenues
  $ 17,680     $ 15,952  
 
           
Our revenues increased $1.7 million, or 10.8%, from $16.0 million for the three months ended June 30, 2010 to $17.7 million for the three months ended June 30, 2011, due to a $7.2 million increase in smartphone revenues resulting from increased sales growth on Apple’s iOS-based devices and Android devices related primarily to micro-transactions, offers and advertisements. This was partially offset by a $5.5 million decline in feature phone revenue primarily due to the continued migration of users from feature phones to smartphones and our shift in our product development focus towards developing new titles for smartphone devices. International revenues (defined as revenues generated from carriers whose principal operations are located outside the United States) decreased by $149,000, from $8.6 million in the three months ended June 30, 2010 to $8.5 million in the three months ended June 30, 2011. This was primarily related to a $777,000 decrease in our Americas, excluding the United States, revenues, primarily related to declining feature phone revenues. This decrease was partially offset by a $511,000 increase in our EMEA revenues, primarily related to increased revenues from certain OEM relationships, partially offset by continued declines in our carrier-based business. Our smartphone revenues surpassed our feature phone revenues for the first time in the second quarter of 2011, and we believe that this transition will position us to return to overall revenue growth in the longer term. We have experienced significant growth with respect to the revenues that we derive from micro-transactions in our freemium games, and expect to experience additional growth during the remainder of 2011. However, our ability to grow smartphone revenue throughout the rest of 2011 will be negatively impacted by declining offer revenues resulting from our inability since the middle of the second quarter of 2011 to include certain types of offers in our games sold on the Apple App Store.
Cost of Revenues
                 
    Three Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
    (in thousands)  
Cost of revenues:
               
Royalties and impairment of prepaid royalties and guarantees
  $ 3,121     $ 4,943  
Amortization of intangible assets
    703       1,006  
 
           
Total cost of revenues
  $ 3,824     $ 5,949  
 
           
Revenues
  $ 17,680     $ 15,952  
 
           
Gross margin
    78.4 %     62.7 %
Our cost of revenues decreased $2.1 million, or 35.7%, from $5.9 million in the three months ended June 30, 2010 to $3.8 million in the three months ended June 30, 2011. This decrease was primarily due to a $1.8 million decrease in royalties associated with a decline in royalty-burdened revenue, impairments and recoupments of previously impaired titles. Our amortization of intangible assets decreased $303,000 due to certain intangible assets relating to our MIG, Macrospace and Superscape acquisitions being fully amortized during 2010. Revenues attributable to games based upon branded intellectual property decreased as a percentage of revenues from 80.6% in the three months ended June 30, 2010 to 52.9% in the three months ended June 30, 2011, primarily due to our focus on developing freemium games for smartphones that are based on our own intellectual property. Revenues attributable to games based upon original intellectual property were 47.1% of our total revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2011, primarily related to U.S. titles. The average royalty rate that we paid on games based on licensed intellectual property, excluding royalty impairments, increased from 33.3% in the three months ended June 30, 2010 to 33.4% in the three months ended June 30, 2011. Overall royalties, including impairment of prepaid royalties and guarantees, as a percentage of total revenues decreased from 31.0% in the three months ended June 30, 2010 to 17.7% in the three months ended June 30, 2011.

 

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Research and Development Expenses
                 
    Three Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
    (in thousands)  
Research and development expenses
  $ 8,439     $ 6,229  
Percentage of revenues
    47.7 %     39.0 %
Our research and development expenses increased $2.2 million, or 35.5%, from $6.2 million in the three months ended June 30, 2010 to $8.4 million in the three months ended June 30, 2011. The increase in research and development costs was primarily due to an increase in outside service costs of $1.0 million associated with the development of new freemium smartphone games by external developers as part of our Glu Partners program. The increase was also due to a $654,000 increase in variable compensation paid to our employees under our bonus plans and a $628,000 increase in salaries and benefits, despite a decrease in our research and development staff from 352 employees at June 30, 2010 to 292 as of June 30, 2011. This increase in salaries and benefits was primarily the result of salary mix as we hired additional senior headcount to work in our U.S. studio during 2011 which was partially offset by cost savings associated with the restructuring of our Brazil, China and U.K. studios during 2010. These increased costs were partially offset by a $306,000 decrease in allocated facilities and overhead costs. As a percentage of revenues, research and development expenses increased from 39.0% for the three months ended June 30, 2010 compared to 47.7% for the three months ended June 30, 2011. Research and development expenses included $131,000 of stock-based compensation expense in the three months ended June 30, 2011 and $116,000 in the three months ended June 30, 2010. We anticipate that our research and development expenses will continue to increase during the remainder of 2011, primarily due to the Griptonite and Blammo acquisitions, which will increase headcount by approximately 200, and our expected release of 15 to 20 new social, freemium titles during 2011, approximately one-fourth of which will be developed by external developers as part of our Glu Partners program and which will require significant upfront cash payment to such developers.
Sales and Marketing Expenses
                 
    Three Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
    (in thousands)  
Sales and marketing expenses
  $ 3,344     $ 2,437  
Percentage of revenues
    18.9 %     15.3 %
Our sales and marketing expenses increased $907,000, or 37.2%, from $2.4 million in the three months ended June 30, 2010 to $3.3 million in the three months ended June 30, 2011. The increase was primarily due to an $813,000 increase in marketing promotions associated with the launch of our new social, freemium game titles during the first and second quarters of 2011 and an $83,000 increase in consulting fees associated with converting our Latin America sales and marketing to third-party distribution agents as discussed below. The increase was also due to a $121,000 increase in variable compensation related to our sales bonus, which was partially offset by a $105,000 decrease in salaries and benefits costs as we reduced our sales and marketing headcount from 51 at June 30, 2010 to 30 at June 30, 2011, which was partially the result of converting our Latin America sales and marketing team from our employees to employees of a third party distribution agent in the second quarter of 2010 and headcount reductions to our MIG sales and marketing team. As a percentage of revenues, sales and marketing expenses increased from 15.3% in the three months ended June 30, 2010 to 18.9% in the three months ended June 30, 2011. Sales and marketing expenses included $94,000 of stock-based compensation expense in the three months ended June 30, 2011 and $40,000 in the three months ended June 30, 2010. We significantly increased our spending on sales and marketing initiatives in the first and second quarters of 2011 in connection with the launch of our social, freemium titles, and we expect our sales and marketing expenditures to remain at least at this increased level during the remainder of 2011.

 

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General and Administrative Expenses
                 
    Three Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
    (in thousands)  
General and administrative expenses
  $ 3,506     $ 3,052  
Percentage of revenues
    19.8 %     19.1 %
Our general and administrative expenses increased $454,000, or 14.9%, from $3.1 million in the three months ended June 30, 2010 to $3.5 million in the three months ended June 30, 2011. The increase in general and administrative expenses was primarily due to a $356,000 increase in salaries, benefits and variable compensation. The main component of which included a $328,000 increase in variable compensation under our bonus plan which offset any cost savings from reducing headcount from 58 at June 30, 2010 to 57 at June 30, 2011. We also had an increase of $169,000 in outside service costs, which was partially offset by an $111,000 decrease in allocated facility and overhead costs. As a percentage of revenues, general and administrative expenses increased from 19.1% in the three months ended June 30, 2010 to 19.8% in the three months ended June 30, 2011. General and administrative expenses included $280,000 of stock-based compensation expense in the three months ended June 30, 2011 and $193,000 in the three months ended June 30, 2010. We anticipate that our general and administrative expenses will increase during the remainder of 2011 due to the Griptonite and Blammo acquisitions
Restructuring
Our restructuring charge decreased from $693,000 in the three months ended June 30, 2010 to $147,000 in the three months ended June 30, 2011. Our restructuring charges for the three months ended June 30, 2011 were comprised of $147,000 of restructuring charges relating primarily to employee termination costs in our Italian sales office.
Interest and Other Income/(Expense), Net
Interest and other income/(expense), net, decreased from a net expense of $560,000 during the three months ended June 30, 2010 to net income of $329,000 in the three months ended June 30, 2011. This change was primarily due to an increase in foreign currency gains of $792,000 related to the revaluation of certain assets and liabilities including accounts payable and accounts receivable and a $106,000 decrease in net interest expense related to the lower balances outstanding on the MIG notes and borrowings under our credit facility. We expect a decrease in net interest expense due to having fully repaid the MIG notes at the end of 2010 and due to the expiration of our credit facility at June 30, 2011.
Income Tax Provision
Income tax provision increased from a tax provision of $198,000 in the three months ended June 30, 2010 to $501,000 in the three months ended June 30, 2011 primarily as a result of changes in the jurisdictions included in the anticipated effective tax rate computation and changes in pre-tax income in certain foreign entities year over year. We expect our effective tax rate in 2011 to fluctuate on a quarterly basis. The effective tax rate could be affected by changes in the valuation of our deferred tax assets, changes in actual results versus our estimates, or by changes in tax laws, regulations, accounting principles, or interpretations thereof.
Comparison of the Six Months Ended June 30, 2011 and 2010
Revenues
                 
    Six Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
    (in thousands)  
Feature phone
  $ 18,731     $ 28,813  
Smartphone
    15,375       4,428  
 
           
Revenues
  $ 34,106     $ 33,241  
 
           

 

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Our revenues increased $865,000, or 2.6%, from $33.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2010 to $34.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2011, due to a $10.9 million increase in smartphone revenues resulting from increased sales growth on Apple’s iOS-based devices and Android devices related primarily to micro-transactions, offers and advertisements. This was partially offset by a $10.1 million decline in feature phone revenue primarily due to the continued migration of users from feature phones to smartphones and our shift in our product development focus exclusively towards developing new titles for smartphone devices. International revenues (defined as revenues generated from carriers whose principal operations are located outside the United States) was flat for the six months ended June 30, 2010 compared with the six months ended June 30, 2011. This was primarily related to a $1.0 million decrease in our Americas, excluding the United States, revenues, primarily related to declining feature phone revenues. This decrease was partially offset by a $920,000 increase in our EMEA revenues, primarily related to increased revenues from certain OEM relationships, partially offset by continued declines in our carrier-based business.
Cost of Revenues
                 
    Six Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
    (in thousands)  
Cost of revenues:
               
Royalties
  $ 6,961     $ 9,634  
Amortization of intangible assets
    1,520       2,234  
 
           
Total cost of revenues
  $ 8,481     $ 11,868  
 
           
Revenues
  $ 34,106     $ 33,241  
 
           
Gross margin
    75.1 %     64.3 %
Our cost of revenues decreased $3.4 million, or 28.5%, from $11.9 million in the six months ended June 30, 2010 to $8.5 million in the six months ended June 30, 2011. This decrease was primarily due to a $2.7 million decrease in royalties associated with a decline in royalty-burdened revenue, impairments and recoupments of previously impaired titles. Our amortization of intangible assets decreased $714,000 due to certain intangible assets relating to our MIG, Macrospace and Superscape acquisitions being fully amortized during 2010. Revenues attributable to games based upon branded intellectual property decreased as a percentage of revenues from 80.2% in the six months ended June 30, 2010 to 59.7% in the six months ended June 30, 2011, primarily due to our focus on developing freemium games for smartphones that are based on our own intellectual property. Revenues attributable to games based upon original intellectual property were 40.3% of our total revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2011, primarily related to U.S. titles. The average royalty rate that we paid on games based on licensed intellectual property, excluding royalty impairments, decreased from 33.7% in the six months ended June 30, 2010 to 32.4% in the six months ended June 30, 2011 due to decreased sales of titles with higher royalty rates. Overall royalties, including impairment of prepaid royalties and guarantees, as a percentage of total revenues decreased from 29.0% in the six months ended June 30, 2010 to 20.4% in the six months ended June 30, 2011.
Research and Development Expenses
                 
    Six Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
    (in thousands)  
Research and development expenses
  $ 15,605     $ 12,890  
Percentage of revenues
    45.8 %     38.8 %
Our research and development expenses increased $2.7 million, or 21.1%, from $12.9 million in the six months ended June 30, 2010 to $15.6 million in the six months ended June 30, 2011. The increase in research and development costs was primarily due to an increase in outside service costs of $1.6 million associated with the development of new freemium smartphone games by external developers as part of our Glu Partners program. The increase was also due to a $952,000 increase in variable compensation paid to our employees under our bonus plans and an increase of $477,000 in salaries and benefits, despite a decrease in our research and development staff from 352 employees at June 30, 2010 to 292 as of June 30, 2011. This increase in salaries and benefits was primarily the result of salary mix as we hired additional senior headcount to work in our U.S. studio during 2011 which was partially offset by cost savings associated with the restructuring of our Brazil, China and U.K. studios during 2010. We also had a $186,000 increase in travel and entertainment expenses associated with increased travel from our regional offices to our U.S. headquarters during 2011 for training as part of our Glu University initiative. These amounts were partially offset by a $585,000 decrease in allocated facilities and overhead costs as a result of lower headcount. As a percentage of revenues, research and development expenses increased from 38.8% for the six months ended June 30, 2010 compared to 45.8% for the six months ended June 30, 2011. Research and development expenses included $231,000 of stock-based compensation expense in the six months ended June 30, 2011 and $280,000 in the six months ended June 30, 2010.

 

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Sales and Marketing Expenses
                 
    Six Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
    (in thousands)  
Sales and marketing expenses
  $ 7,101     $ 5,408  
Percentage of revenues
    20.8 %     16.3 %
Our sales and marketing expenses increased $1.7 million, or 31.3%, from $5.4 million in the six months ended June 30, 2010 to $7.1 million in the six months ended June 30, 2011. The increase was primarily due to a $1.8 million increase in marketing promotions associated with the launch of our new social, freemium game titles during the first and second quarters of 2011 and a $299,000 increase in consulting fees associated with converting our Latin America sales and marketing to third-party distribution agents as discussed below. These amounts were partially offset by a $306,000 decrease in salaries, benefits, variable compensation and expatriate costs as we reduced our sales and marketing headcount from 51 at June 30, 2010 to 30 at June 30, 2011, which was partially the result of converting our Latin America sales and marketing team from our employees to employees of a third party distribution agent in the second quarter of 2010 and headcount reductions to our MIG sales and marketing team. As a percentage of revenues, sales and marketing expenses increased from 16.3% in the six months ended June 30, 2010 to 20.8% in the six months ended June 30, 2011. Sales and marketing expenses included $160,000 of stock-based compensation expense in the six months ended June 30, 2011 and $113,000 in the six months ended June 30, 2010.
General and Administrative Expenses
                 
    Six Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
    (in thousands)  
General and administrative expenses
  $ 6,440     $ 6,865  
Percentage of revenues
    18.9 %     20.7 %
Our general and administrative expenses decreased $425,000, or 6.2%, from $6.9 million in the six months ended June 30, 2010 to $6.4 million in the six months ended June 30, 2011. The decrease in general and administrative expenses was primarily due to a $482,000 decrease in professional and consulting fees associated with lower accounting, tax and legal fees and a $250,000 decrease in allocated facility and overhead costs. These decreases were partially offset by a $198,000 increase in salaries, benefits and variable compensation, due primarily to a $427,000 increase in variable compensation under our bonus plans, despite the fact that we reduced headcount from 58 at June 30, 2010 to 57 at June 30, 2011. As a percentage of revenues, general and administrative expenses decreased from 20.7% in the six months ended June 30, 2010 to 18.9% in the six months ended June 30, 2011. General and administrative expenses included $511,000 of stock-based compensation expense in the six months ended June 30, 2011 and $480,000 in the six months ended June 30, 2010.
Restructuring
Our restructuring charge decreased from $1.3 million in the six months ended June 30, 2010 to $637,000 in the six months ended June 30, 2011. Our restructuring charges for the six months ended June 30, 2011 were comprised of $541,000 of restructuring charges relating to employee termination costs in our United States, China, Brazil, Italy and United Kingdom offices and $96,000 related primarily to facility related charges resulting from vacating a portion of our Moscow office.

 

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Interest and Other Income/(Expense), Net
Interest and other income/(expense), net, decreased from a net expense of $1.2 million during the six months ended June 30, 2010 to net income of $509,000 in the six months ended June 30, 2011. This change was primarily due to an increase in foreign currency gains of $1.3 million related to the revaluation of certain assets and liabilities including accounts payable and accounts receivable and a $385,000 decrease in net interest expense related to the lower balances outstanding on the MIG notes and borrowings under our credit facility.
Income Tax Provision
Income tax provision increased from a tax provision of $499,000 in the six months ended June 30, 2010 to $1.3 million in the six months ended June 30, 2011 primarily as a result of changes in the jurisdictions included in the anticipated effective tax rate computation and changes in pre-tax income in certain foreign entities year over year.

 

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Liquidity and Capital Resources
                 
    Six Months Ended June 30,  
    2011     2010  
    (in thousands)  
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows Data:
               
Depreciation and amortization
  $ 2,353     $ 3,452  
Cash flows (used in)/provided by operating activities
    (2,578 )     2,180  
Cash flows used in investing activities
    (1,353 )     (244 )
Cash flows provided by/(used in) in financing activities
    17,193       (5,975 )
Since our inception, we have incurred recurring losses and negative annual cash flows from operating activities, and we had an accumulated deficit of $195.7 million as of June 30, 2011.
Operating Activities
For the six months ended June 30, 2011, net cash used in operating activities was $2.6 million, primarily due to a net loss of $5.0 million, a decrease in accrued royalties of $2.5 million and an increase in accounts receivable of $1.7 million due to timing of cash collections. These amounts were partially offset by an increase in accounts payable of $1.4 million, a decrease in prepaid royalties of $1.4 million and an increase in deferred revenues of $969,000. In addition, we had adjustments for non-cash items, including amortization expense, of $1.5 million, stock-based compensation expense of $902,000 and depreciation expense of $833,000.
We may decide to enter into new or renew existing licensing arrangements that may require us to make royalty payments at the outset of the agreement or to enter into new development agreements that may require us to make payments at the outset of the agreement. If we do sign these agreements, this could significantly increase our future use of cash in operating activities.
Investing Activities
In the six months ended June 30, 2011, we used $1.4 million of cash for investing activities resulting primarily from purchases of computer, server and networking equipment to support our freemium games, purchases of software and the making of leasehold improvements.
In the six months ended June 30, 2010, we used $244,000 of cash for investing activities resulting primarily from purchases of computer and networking equipment, software and the making of leasehold improvements.
Financing Activities
In the six months ended June 30, 2011, net cash provided by financing activities was $17.2 million due primarily to $15.7 million of net proceeds received from the 2011 Public Offering and $4.5 million of proceeds received from option exercises, warrant exercises and purchases under our employee stock purchase plan. These inflows were partially offset by $2.3 million that we repaid under our credit facility and a payment of $698,000 relating to taxes that had been withheld on the December 31, 2010 Special Bonus Notes payment made to the former MIG shareholders.
In the six months ended June 30, 2010, net cash used in financing activities was $6.0 million due primarily to $4.5 million of payments made on the MIG notes and bonuses and net payments of $1.9 million under our credit facility, which was partially offset by proceeds from option exercises and purchases under our employee stock purchase plan of $349,000.

 

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Sufficiency of Current Cash and Cash Equivalents
Our cash and cash equivalents were $26.4 million as of June 30, 2011, which includes the $15.7 million in net proceeds that we received from the 2011 Public Offering. In addition, in August 2011, we acquired approximately $10.2 million in cash in connection with our acquisition of Griptonite. We expect to fund our operations and satisfy our contractual obligations for 2011 primarily through our cash and cash equivalents and cash flows from operations, if any. However, as a result of the acquisitions of Griptonite and Blammo, as well as our plans to increase our spending on sales and marketing and research and development initiatives in connection with our new social, freemium games that we will continue to release in 2011, we expect to use a significant amount of cash in our operations during 2011 as we seek to grow our business. We believe our cash and cash equivalents and cash flows from operations, if any, will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for at least the next 12 months. However, our cash requirements for the next 12 months may be greater than we anticipate due to, among other reasons, the impact of foreign currency rate changes, revenues that are lower than we currently anticipate, greater than expected operating expenses, particularly with respect to our research and development and sales and marketing initiatives, usage of cash to fund our foreign operations, unanticipated limitations or timing restrictions on our ability to access funds that are held in our non-U.S. subsidiaries or any investments or acquisitions that we may decide to pursue.
Our $8.0 million credit facility expired on June 30, 2011. We may seek to enter into a new credit facility, but we cannot assure you that we will be able to enter into a new facility on terms favorable to us or at all. Our credit facility contained financial covenants and restrictions that limited our ability to draw down the entire $8.0 million, a summary of which are set forth below.
Our credit facility initially required us to maintain, on a consolidated basis, a minimum level of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) measured as of specified periods. On August 24, 2009, we entered into an amendment to our credit facility, which reduced certain of the minimum targets contained in the credit facility’s EBITDA-related covenant. On February 10, 2010 we entered into a second amendment to the credit facility. The second amendment changed the measurement period for the EBITDA covenant from a rolling six month calculation to a quarterly calculation. On March 18, 2010, we entered into a third amendment to the credit facility which (1) extended the maturity date of the credit facility from December 22, 2010 until June 30, 2011, (2) increased the interest rate for borrowings under the credit facility by 0.75% to the lender’s prime rate, plus 1.75%, but no less than 5.0%, and (3) requires us to maintain, measured on a consolidated basis at the end of each periods a minimum amount of EBITDA. On February 2, 2011, we entered into a fourth amendment to our credit facility which waived our default in maintaining minimum levels of EBITDA specified in the credit facility for the period beginning October 1, 2010 and ending December 31, 2010. The fourth amendment also removed the EBITDA financial covenant from the credit facility in its entirety and replaced this covenant with a net cash covenant, which required us to maintain at least $10.0 million in unrestricted cash at the lender or an affiliate of the lender, net of any indebtedness that we owe to the lender under the credit facility.
The credit facility also included a “material adverse change” clause. As a result, if a material adverse change occurred with respect to our business, operations or financial condition, then that change could have constituted an event of default under the terms of our credit facility. If an event of default had occurred, the lender could have, among other things, declared all obligations immediately due and payable, could have stopped advancing money or extending credit under the credit facility and could have terminated the credit facility.
Our credit facility was collateralized by eligible customer accounts receivable balances, as defined by the lender. In addition, among other things, the credit facility limited our ability to dispose of certain assets, make acquisitions, incur additional indebtedness, incur liens, pay dividends and make other distributions, and make investments. Further, the credit facility required us to maintain a separate account with the lender for collection of our accounts receivables. All deposits into this account were automatically applied by the lender to our outstanding obligations under the credit facility.
The credit facility matured on June 30, 2011. As of June 30, 2011, we were in compliance with the covenants contained in the credit facility and had no outstanding borrowings.
Of the $26.4 million of cash and cash equivalents that we held at June 30, 2011, approximately $716,000 was held in accounts in China. To fund our operations and repay our debt obligations, we repatriated $1.3 million of available funds from China to the United States in 2010. This amount was subject to withholding taxes of 5%. We do not anticipate repatriating any additional funds from China for the foreseeable future, as changes in our revenue share arrangement with China Mobile has significantly impacted our ability to generate meaningful cash from our China operations. In addition, given the current global economic environment and other potential developments outside of our control, we may be unable to utilize the funds that we hold in all of our non-U.S. accounts, which funds include cash and marketable securities, since the funds may be frozen by additional international regulatory actions, the accounts may become illiquid for an indeterminate period of time or there may be other such circumstances that we are unable to predict.

 

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If our cash sources are insufficient to satisfy our cash requirements, we may seek to raise additional capital by selling convertible debt, preferred stock (convertible into common stock or unconvertible) or common stock, potentially pursuant to our effective universal shelf registration statement, procuring a new credit facility and/or selling some of our assets. We may be unable to raise additional capital through the sale of securities, or to do so on terms that are favorable to us, particularly given current capital market and overall economic conditions. Any sale of convertible debt securities or additional equity securities could result in substantial dilution to our stockholders as was the case with the 2010 Private Placement and the 2011 Public Offering. The holders of new securities may also receive rights, preferences or privileges that are senior to those of existing holders of our common stock. Additionally, we may be unable to procure a new credit facility, or to do so on terms that are acceptable to us, particularly in light of the current credit market conditions.
Contractual Obligations
The following table is a summary of our contractual obligations as of June 30, 2011:
                                         
    Payments Due by Period  
    Total     1 Year*     1-3 Years     3-5 Years     Thereafter  
    (in thousands)  
Operating lease obligations, net of sublease income
  $ 4,912     $ 1,432     $ 3,480     $     $  
Guaranteed royalties(1)
    159       159                    
Developer commitments(2)
    2,583       2,333       250              
Uncertain tax position obligations, including interest and penalties(3)
    5,064                         5,064  
Total contractual obligations
  $ 12,718     $ 3,924     $ 3,730     $     $ 5,064  
 
     
*  
Represents the remaining six months of 2011
 
(1)  
We have entered into license and development arrangements with various owners of brands and other intellectual property so that we can create and publish games for mobile devices based on that intellectual property. A significant portion of these agreements require us to pay guaranteed royalties over the term of the contracts regardless of actual game sales.
 
(2)  
We have contracts with various third-party developers to design and develop games as part of our Glu Partners initiative. These contracts require us to advance funds to these third-party developers, in installments, payable upon the completion of specified development milestones.
 
(3)  
As of June 30, 2011, unrecognized tax benefits and potential interest and penalties were classified within “Other long-term liabilities” on our consolidated balance sheets. As of June 30, 2011, the settlement of our income tax liabilities cannot be determined; however, the liabilities are not expected to become due within the next 12 months.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
At June 30, 2011, we did not have any significant off-balance sheet arrangements, as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of Regulation S-K.
ITEM 3.  
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
The information in this section should be read in connection with the information on financial market risk related to changes in interest rates and non-U.S. currency exchange rates in Part II, Item 7A, “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk,” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010. Our market risk profile has not changed significantly during the first six months of 2011.
Interest Rate and Credit Risk
Our exposure to interest rate risk relates primarily to our investment portfolio and the potential losses arising from changes in interest rates.
We are potentially exposed to the impact of changes in interest rates as they affect interest earned on our investment portfolio. As of June 30, 2011, we had no short-term investments and substantially all $26.4 million of our cash and cash equivalents was held in operating bank accounts earning nominal interest. Accordingly, we do not believe that a 10% change in interest rates would have a significant impact on our interest income, operating results or liquidity related to these amounts.

 

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The primary objectives of our investment activities are, in order of importance, to preserve principal, provide liquidity and maximize income without significantly increasing risk. We do not currently use or plan to use derivative financial instruments in our investment portfolio.
As of June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, our cash and cash equivalents were maintained by financial institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, China, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Russia and Spain and our current deposits are likely in excess of insured limits.
Our accounts receivable primarily relate to revenues earned from domestic and international wireless carriers. We perform ongoing credit evaluations of our carriers’ financial condition but generally require no collateral from them. At June 30, 2011, Apple accounted for 15.5%, Tapjoy accounted for 13.1%, Telecomunicaciones Movilnet accounted for 12.5% and China Mobile accounted for 11.1% of total accounts receivable. At December 31, 2010, Verizon Wireless accounted for 18.3% and Telecomunicaciones Movilnet accounted for 14.8% of total accounts receivable. No other carrier represented more than 10% of our total accounts receivable as of these dates.
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
We transact business in more than 70 countries in more than 20 different currencies, and in 2010 and in the first six months of 2011, some of these currencies fluctuated by up to 40%. Our revenues are usually denominated in the functional currency of the carrier while the operating expenses of our operations outside of the United States are maintained in their local currency, with the significant operating currencies consisting of British Pound Sterling (“GBP”), Chinese Renminbi, Brazilian Real and Russian Ruble. Although recording operating expenses in the local currency of our foreign operations mitigates some of the exposure of foreign currency fluctuations, variances among the currencies of our customers and our foreign operations relative to the United States Dollar (“USD”) could have and have had a material impact on our results of operations.
Our foreign currency exchange gains and losses have been generated primarily from fluctuations in GBP versus the USD and in the Euro versus GBP. At month-end, foreign currency-denominated accounts receivable and intercompany balances are marked to market and unrealized gains and losses are included in other income (expense), net. Translation adjustments arising from the use of differing exchange rates are included in accumulated other comprehensive income in stockholders’ equity. We have in the past experienced, and in the future expect to experience, foreign currency exchange gains and losses on our accounts receivable and intercompany receivables and payables. Foreign currency exchange gains and losses could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.
There is also additional risk if the currency is not freely or actively traded. Some currencies, such as the Chinese Renminbi, in which our Chinese operations principally transact business, are subject to limitations on conversion into other currencies, which can limit our ability to react to foreign currency devaluations.
To date, we have not engaged in exchange rate hedging activities, and we do not expect to do so in the foreseeable future.
Inflation
We do not believe that inflation has had a material effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. If our costs were to become subject to significant inflationary pressures, we might not be able to offset these higher costs fully through price increases. Our inability or failure to do so could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.

 

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ITEM 4.  
CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Based upon an evaluation of the effectiveness of disclosure controls and procedures, our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) have concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined under Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e), were effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in our Exchange Act reports is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by the SEC and is accumulated and communicated to management, including the CEO and CFO, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the six months ended June 30, 2011 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1.  
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
We do not believe we are party to any currently pending litigation, the outcome of which will have a material adverse effect on our operations, financial position or liquidity. However, the ultimate outcome of any litigation is uncertain and, regardless of outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on us because of defense costs, potential negative publicity, diversion of management resources and other factors.
ITEM 1A.  
RISK FACTORS
Our business is subject to many risks and uncertainties, which may affect our future financial performance. If any of the events or circumstances described below occurs, our business and financial performance could be harmed, our actual results could differ materially from our expectations and the market value of our stock could decline. The risks and uncertainties discussed below are not the only ones we face. There may be additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently do not believe are material that may harm our business and financial performance. Because of the risks and uncertainties discussed below, as well as other variables affecting our operating results, past financial performance should not be considered as a reliable indicator of future performance and investors should not use historical trends to anticipate results or trends in future periods.
We have a history of net losses, may incur substantial net losses in the future and may not achieve profitability.
We have incurred significant losses since inception, including a net loss of $18.2 million in 2009, a net loss of $13.4 million in 2010 and a net loss of $5.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2011. As of June 30, 2011, we had an accumulated deficit of $195.7 million. We expect to incur increased costs in order to implement additional initiatives designed to increase revenues, such as increased research and development and sales and marketing expenses related to our new games, particularly those designed for smartphones and tablets, such as Apple’s iPhone and iPad and devices based on Google’s Android operating system. In addition, we will incur significantly increased costs in connection with our acquisitions of Blammo and Griptonite due to the addition of approximately 200 employees. If our revenues do not increase to offset these additional expenses, if we experience unexpected increases in operating expenses or if we are required to take additional charges related to impairments or restructurings, we will continue to incur significant losses and will not become profitable. In addition, our revenues declined in each of 2009 and 2010 from the preceding year, and we expect that our revenues will likely only increase slightly in 2011 from 2010 levels. If we are not able to significantly increase our revenues, we will likely not be able to achieve profitability in the future. Furthermore, during 2009, we incurred aggregate charges of approximately $8.5 million for royalty impairments and restructuring activities, during 2010, we incurred aggregate charges of approximately $4.3 million for royalty impairments and restructuring activities and in the six months ended June 30, 2011, we incurred aggregate charges of approximately $1.0 million for royalty impairments and restructuring activities. As of June 30, 2011, an additional $734,000 of prepaid royalties remained on our balance sheet that are potentially subject to future impairment. If we continue to incur these charges, it will continue to negatively affect our operating results and our ability to achieve profitability.
Our financial results could vary significantly from quarter to quarter and are difficult to predict, particularly in light of the current economic environment, which in turn could cause volatility in our stock price.
Our revenues and operating results could vary significantly from quarter to quarter because of a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control. As a result, comparing our operating results on a period-to-period basis may not be meaningful. In addition, we may not be able to predict our future revenues or results of operations. We base our current and future expense levels on our internal operating plans and sales forecasts, and our operating costs are to a large extent fixed. As a result, we may not be able to reduce our costs sufficiently to compensate for an unexpected shortfall in revenues, and even a small shortfall in revenues could disproportionately and adversely affect financial results for that quarter. This will be particularly true for 2011, as we implemented significant cost-reduction measures in 2009 and 2010 and the first half of 2011, making it more difficult for us to further reduce our operating expenses without a material adverse impact on our prospects in future periods. We intend to only selectively enter into new licensing arrangements in 2011, if any, which we expect will contribute to the anticipated reduction in our revenues from feature phones and which may adversely impact our revenues from smartphones and tablets to the extent that our games based on original intellectual property are not successful. With respect to our games based on licensed intellectual property, we may incur impairments of prepaid royalty guarantees if our forecasts for these games are lower than we anticipated at the time we entered into the agreements. For example, in 2009, 2010 and the first six months of 2011 we impaired $6.6 million, $663,000 and $371,000 respectively, of certain prepaid royalties and royalty guarantees primarily due to several distribution arrangements in our Europe, Middle East and Africa region and other global development and distribution arrangements that we entered into in 2007 and 2008. In addition, some payments from carriers that we recognize as revenue on a cash basis may be delayed unpredictably.

 

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We are also subject to macroeconomic fluctuations in the United States and global economies, including those that impact discretionary consumer spending, which have deteriorated significantly in many countries and regions, including the United States, and may remain depressed for the foreseeable future. Some of the factors that could influence the level of consumer spending include continuing conditions in the residential real estate and mortgage markets, labor and healthcare costs, access to credit, consumer confidence and other macroeconomic factors affecting consumer spending. These issues can also cause foreign currency rates to fluctuate, which can have an adverse impact on our business since we transact business in more than 70 countries in more than 20 different currencies. In 2009, some of these currencies fluctuated by up to 40%, and we experienced continued significant fluctuations in 2010 and in the first six months of 2011. These issues may continue to negatively impact the economy and our growth. If these issues persist, or if the economy enters a prolonged period of decelerating growth or recession, our results of operations may be harmed. As a result of these and other factors, our operating results may not meet the expectations of investors or public market analysts who choose to follow our company. Our failure to meet market expectations would likely result in a decline in the trading price of our common stock.
In addition to other risk factors discussed in this section, factors that may contribute to the variability of our quarterly results include:
   
the number of new games released by us and our competitors;
   
the timing of release of new games by us and our competitors, particularly those that may represent a significant portion of revenues in a period;
   
the popularity of new games and games released in prior periods;
   
changes in the prominence of storefront featuring or deck placement for our leading games and those of our competitors;
   
fluctuations in the size and rate of growth of overall consumer demand for mobile handsets, tablets, games and related content;
   
the rate at which consumers continue to migrate from traditional feature phones to smartphones, as well as the rate of adoption of tablet devices;
   
our success in developing and monetizing social, freemium games for smartphones and tablets;
   
our ability to increase the daily and monthly active users of our social, freemium games that we develop for smartphones and tablets, as well as the level of engagement of these users and the length of time these users continue to play our games;
   
our ability to include certain types of offers and other monetization techniques in our games sold through online storefronts, such as Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market;
   
changes in accounting rules, such as those governing recognition of revenue, including the period of time over which we recognize revenue for in-app purchases of virtual currency and goods within certain of our games;
   
the expiration of existing content licenses for particular games;
   
the amount and timing of charges related to impairments of goodwill, intangible assets, prepaid royalties and guarantees;
   
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changes in pricing policies by our carriers related to downloading content, such as our games, which pricing policies could be influenced by the lower average prices for content on smartphones;
   
changes in the mix of original intellectual property and licensed-content games, which have varying gross margins;
   
the timing of successful mobile device launches;
   
the timeliness and accuracy of reporting from carriers;
   
the seasonality of our industry;
   
strategic decisions by us or our competitors, such as acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, strategic investments or changes in business strategy;
   
our ability to successfully migrate talent acquired through our Griptonite transaction to creating freemium/social titles;
   
our ability to retain key game design, development, production and art talent;
   
the timing of compensation expense associated with equity compensation grants; and
   
decisions by us to incur additional expenses, such as increases in marketing or research and development.
Our strategy to grow our business includes developing a significant number of new titles for smartphones and tablets rather than for feature phones, which has historically comprised a significant majority of our revenues. If we do not succeed in generating considerable revenues and gross margins from smartphones and tablets, our revenues, financial position and operating results may suffer.
As a result of the expected continued migration of users from traditional feature phones to smartphones, we expect our feature phone revenues, which represented a significant majority of our revenues in 2010, to continue to decrease in 2011. For us to succeed in 2011 and beyond, we believe that we must increasingly publish mobile games that are widely accepted and commercially successful on the smartphone and tablet digital storefronts (such as Apple’s App Store, Google’s Android Market, Palm’s App Catalog and Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace for Mobile), as well as significantly increase our marketing-related expenditures in connection with the launch of our new games on these digital storefronts. Our efforts to significantly increase our revenues derived from games for smartphones and tablets may prove unsuccessful or, even if successful, it may take us longer to achieve significant revenue than anticipated because, among others reasons:
   
changes in digital storefront and carrier policies that limit our ability to use certain types of offers and other monetization techniques in our games;
   
the open nature of many of these digital storefronts increases substantially the number of our competitors and competitive products and makes it more difficult for us to achieve prominent placement or featuring for our games;
   
the billing and provisioning capabilities of some smartphones are currently not optimized to enable users to purchase games or make in-app purchases, which could make it difficult for users of these smartphones to purchase our games or make in-app purchases and could reduce our addressable market, at least in the short term;
   
competitors may have substantially greater resources available to invest in developing and publishing products for smartphones and tablets;
   
these digital storefronts are relatively new markets, for which we are less able to forecast with accuracy revenue levels, required marketing and developments expenses, and net income or loss;
   
we have less experience with open storefront distribution channels than with carrier-based distribution;
   
the pricing and revenue models for titles on these digital storefronts are rapidly evolving (for example, the introduction of in-app purchasing capabilities and the potential introduction of usage-based pricing for games), and have resulted, and may continue to result, in significantly lower average selling prices for our premium games developed for smartphones as compared to games developed for feature phones, and a lower than expected return on investment for these games;

 

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the competitive advantage of our porting capabilities may be reduced as smartphones become more widely adopted;
   
many of our key licenses do not grant us the rights to develop games for the iPhone and certain other smartphones and tablets; and
   
many OEMs and carriers are developing their own storefronts and it may be difficult for us to predict which ones will be successful, and we may expend time and resources developing games for storefronts that ultimately do not succeed.
If we do not succeed in generating considerable revenues and gross margins from smartphones and tablets, our revenues, financial position and operating results will suffer.
If we do not achieve a sufficient return on our investment with respect to our efforts to develop social, freemium games for smartphones and tablets, it could negatively affect our operating results.
We expect that a significant portion of our development activities for smartphones and tablets in 2011 and beyond will be focused on social, freemium games — games that are downloadable without an initial charge, but which enable a variety of additional features to be accessed for a fee or otherwise monetized through various advertising and offer techniques. Our efforts to develop social, freemium games for smartphones and tablets may prove unsuccessful or, even if successful, may take us longer to achieve significant revenue than anticipated because, among other reasons:
   
we have limited experience in successfully developing and marketing social, freemium games;
   
our relatively limited experience with respect to creating games that include micro-transaction capabilities, advertizing and offers may cause us to have difficulty optimizing the monetization of our freemium games;
   
changes in digital storefront and carrier policies that limit our ability to use certain types of offers and other monetization techniques in our games;
   
some of our competitors have released a significant number of social, freemium games on smartphones, and this competition will make it more difficult for us to differentiate our games and derive significant revenues from them;
   
some of our competitors have substantially greater resources available to invest in the developing and publishing of social, freemium games;
   
we intend to continue to develop the significant majority of our social, freemium games based upon our own intellectual property rather than well-known licensed brands, and, as a result, we may encounter difficulties in generating sufficient consumer interest in our games, particularly since we historically have had limited success in generating significant revenues from games based on our own intellectual property;
   
social, freemium games currently represent a minority of the games available on smartphones and tablets and have a limited history, and it is unclear how popular this style of game will become or remain or its revenue potential;
   
our strategy with respect to developing social, freemium games for smartphones assumes that a large number of consumers will download our games because they are free and that we will subsequently be able to effectively monetize these games via in-app purchases, offers and advertisements; however, some smartphones charge users a fee for downloading content, and users of these smartphones may be reluctant to download our freemium games because of these fees, which would reduce the effectiveness of our product strategy;
   
our social, freemium games may otherwise not be widely downloaded by consumers for a variety of reasons, including poor consumer reviews or other negative publicity, ineffective or insufficient marketing efforts or a failure to achieve prominent storefront featuring for such games;

 

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even if our social, freemium games are widely downloaded, we may fail to retain users of these games or optimize the monetization of these games for a variety of reasons, including poor game design or quality, gameplay issues such as game unavailability, long load times or an unexpected termination of the game due to data server or other technical issues or our failure to effectively respond and adapt to changing user preferences through updates to our games;
   
we have encountered difficulties in keeping users engaged in our social, freemium games for a significant amount of time subsequent to their initial download of the games, in large part due to the limited social features currently contained in our games, and we may have difficulty increasing consumer retention in our games;
   
we expect that approximately one-fourth of the social, freemium games that we intend to release during 2011 will be produced by third parties with which we have a strategic relationship, which will reduce our control over the development process and may result in product delays and games that do not meet our and consumer expectations regarding quality;
   
the Federal Trade Commission has indicated that it intends to review issues related to in-app purchases, particularly with respect to games that are marketed primarily to minors (a recent class action lawsuit has been filed relating to this issue; we have not been named as a party to this lawsuit) and the Federal Trade Commission might issue rules significantly restricting or even prohibiting in-app purchases or we could potentially be named as a defendant in a future class action lawsuit; and
   
because these are effectively new products for us, we are less able to forecast with accuracy revenue levels, required marketing and development expenses, and net income or loss.
If we do not achieve a sufficient return on our investment with respect to developing and selling social, freemium games, it will negatively affect our operating results and may require us to formulate a new business strategy.
The markets in which we operate are highly competitive, and many of our competitors have significantly greater resources than we do.
The development, distribution and sale of mobile games is a highly competitive business, characterized by frequent product introductions and rapidly emerging new platforms, technologies and storefronts. For end users, we compete primarily on the basis of game quality, brand, customer reviews and, with respect to our premium products, price. We compete for promotional and deck placement based on these factors, as well as the relationship with the digital storefront owner or wireless carrier, historical performance, perception of sales potential and relationships with licensors of brands and other intellectual property. For content and brand licensors, we compete based on royalty and other economic terms, perceptions of development quality, porting abilities, speed of execution, distribution breadth and relationships with carriers. We also compete for experienced and talented employees.
Our primary competitors have historically been Electronic Arts (EA Mobile) and Gameloft, with Electronic Arts having the largest market share of any company in the mobile games market. With respect to our social, freemium games that we publish for smartphones and tablets, we also compete with a number of other companies, including DeNA, which became a more formidable competitor through its acquisition of ngmoco, Zynga and Storm 8/Team Lava. In addition, given the open nature of the development and distribution for smartphones and tablets, we also compete or will compete with a vast number of small companies and individuals who are able to create and launch games and other content for these mobile devices utilizing limited resources and with limited start-up time or expertise. Many of these smaller developers are able to offer their games at no cost or substantially reduce their prices to levels at which we may be unable to respond competitively and still achieve profitability given their low overhead. As an example of the competition that we face, it has been estimated that more than 70,000 active games were available on the Apple App Store as of July 31, 2011. The proliferation of titles in these open developer channels makes it difficult for us to differentiate ourselves from other developers and to compete for end users who purchase content for their smartphones and tablets without substantially increasing spending to market our products or increasing our development costs.
Some of our competitors’ and our potential competitors’ advantages over us, either globally or in particular geographic markets, include the following:
   
significantly greater revenues and financial resources;
   
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greater experience with the social, freemium games business model;
   
the capacity to leverage their marketing expenditures across a broader portfolio of mobile and non-mobile products;
   
larger installed customer bases from related platforms such as console gaming or social networking websites to which they can market and sell mobile games;
   
more substantial intellectual property of their own from which they can develop games without having to pay royalties;
   
lower labor and development costs and better overall economies of scale;
   
greater resources to make acquisitions;
   
greater platform-specific focus, experience and expertise; and
   
broader global distribution and presence.
If we are unable to compete effectively or we are not as successful as our competitors in our target markets, our sales could decline, our margins could decline and we could lose market share, any of which would materially harm our business, operating results and financial condition.
End user tastes are continually changing and are often unpredictable; if we fail to develop and publish new mobile games that achieve market acceptance, our sales would suffer.
Our business depends on developing and publishing mobile games that digital storefront owners will prominently feature or wireless carriers will place on their decks and that end users will buy. We must continue to invest significant resources in research and development, analytics and marketing to enhance our offering of games and introduce new games, and we must make decisions about these matters well in advance of product release to timely implement them. Our success depends, in part, on unpredictable and volatile factors beyond our control, including end-user preferences, competing games, new mobile platforms and the availability of other entertainment activities. If our games and related applications do not respond to the requirements of digital storefront owners and carriers and the entertainment preferences of end users, or they are not brought to market in a timely and effective manner, our business, operating results and financial condition would be harmed. For example, although we have enjoyed success with respect to a number of our action/adventure freemium games, such as Gun Bros, Contract Killer and Big Time Gangsta, we have had more limited success with respect to our casual titles, with only Bug Village generating significant revenues. If we fail to develop casual titles that achieve broad market acceptance, it will limit our potential revenue growth and harm our operating results. Even if our games are successfully introduced and initially adopted, a subsequent shift in the entertainment preferences of end users could cause a decline in our games’ popularity that could materially reduce our revenues and harm our business, operating results and financial condition.
If we are unsuccessful in establishing and increasing awareness of our brand and recognition of our games or if we incur excessive expenses promoting and maintaining our brand or our games, our potential revenues could be limited, our costs could increase and our operating results and financial condition could be harmed.
We believe that establishing and maintaining our brand is critical to establishing a direct relationship with end users who purchase our products from direct-to-consumer channels, such as the Apple App Store and Google’s Android Market, and maintaining our existing relationships with wireless carriers and content licensors, as well as potentially developing new such relationships. Increasing awareness of our brand and recognition of our games will be particularly important in connection with our strategic focus of developing social, freemium games based on our own intellectual property. Our ability to promote the Glu brand depends on our success in providing high-quality mobile games. Similarly, recognition of our games by end users depends on our ability to develop engaging games of high quality with attractive titles. However, our success also depends, in part, on the services and efforts of third parties, over which we have little or no control. For instance, if digital storefront owners or wireless carriers fail to provide high levels of service, our end users’ ability to access our games may be interrupted or end users may not receive the virtual currency or goods for which they have paid, which may adversely affect our brand. If end users, digital storefront owners, branded content owners and wireless carriers do not perceive our existing games as high-quality or if we introduce new games that are not favorably received by our end users, digital storefront owners and wireless carriers, then we may not succeed in building brand recognition and brand loyalty in the marketplace. In addition, globalizing and extending our brand and recognition of our games will be costly and will involve extensive management time to execute successfully, particularly as we expand our efforts to increase awareness of our brand and games among international consumers. Moreover, if a game is introduced with defects, errors or failures or unauthorized objectionable content or if a game has playability issues such as game unavailability, long load times or a unexpected termination of the game due to data server or other technical issues, we could experience damage to our reputation and brand, and our attractiveness to digital storefront owners, wireless carriers, licensors, and end users might be reduced. In addition, although we have significantly increased our sales and marketing-related expenditures in connection with the launch of our new social, freemium games, these efforts may not succeed in increasing awareness of our brand and new games. If we fail to increase and maintain brand awareness and consumer recognition of our games, our potential revenues could be limited, our costs could increase and our business, operating results and financial condition could suffer.

 

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Inferior storefront featuring or deck placement would likely adversely impact our revenues and thus our operating results and financial condition.
The open nature of the digital storefronts, such as the Apple App Store and Google’s Android Market, substantially increases the number of our competitors and competitive products, which makes it more difficult for us to achieve prominent placement or featuring for our games. Our failure to achieve prominent placement or featuring for our games on the smartphone storefronts could result in our games not generating significant sales. It may also require us to expend significantly increased amounts to generate substantial revenues on these platforms, reducing or eliminating the profitability of publishing games for them. We believe that a number of factors may influence the featuring or placement of a game in these digital storefronts, including:
   
the perceived attractiveness of the title or brand;
   
the past critical or commercial success of the game or of other games previously introduced by a publisher;
   
the publisher’s relationship with the applicable digital storefront owner and future pipeline of quality titles for it; and
   
the current market share of the publisher.
Conversely, wireless carriers provide a limited selection of games that are accessible to their subscribers through a deck on their mobile handsets. The inherent limitation on the number of games available on the deck is a function of the limited screen size of handsets and carriers’ perceptions of the depth of menus and numbers of choices end users will generally utilize. Carriers typically provide one or more top-level menus highlighting games that are recent top sellers, that the carrier believes will become top sellers or that the carrier otherwise chooses to feature, in addition to a link to a menu of additional games sorted by genre. We believe that deck placement on the top-level or featured menu or toward the top of genre-specific or other menus, rather than lower down or in sub-menus, is likely to result in higher game sales. If carriers choose to give our games less favorable deck placement, our games may be less successful than we anticipate, our revenues may decline and our business, operating results and financial condition may be materially harmed.
Acquisitions could result in operating difficulties, dilution and other harmful consequences.
We recently completed the acquisitions of Griptonite and Blammo, and expect to continue to evaluate and consider a wide array of potential strategic transactions, including business combinations, joint ventures, strategic development and distribution arrangements and acquisitions of technologies, services, products and other assets. At any given time, we may be engaged in discussions or negotiations with respect to one or more of these types of transactions. Any of these transactions could be material to our financial condition and results of operations. The process of integrating any acquired business, including Griptonite and Blammo, may create unforeseen operating difficulties and expenditures and is itself risky. The areas where we may face difficulties include:
   
diversion of management time and a shift of focus from operating the businesses to issues related to integration and administration;
   
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the need to integrate each acquired company’s accounting, management, information, human resource and other administrative systems to permit effective management, and the lack of control if such integration is delayed or not implemented;
   
the need to implement controls, procedures and policies appropriate for a larger public company that the acquired companies lacked prior to acquisition;
   
in the case of foreign acquisitions, the need to integrate operations across different cultures and languages and to address the particular economic, currency, political and regulatory risks associated with specific countries; and
   
liability for activities of the acquired companies before the acquisition, including violations of laws, rules and regulations, commercial disputes, tax liabilities and other known and unknown liabilities.
If the anticipated benefits of any future acquisitions do not materialize, we experience difficulties integrating businesses acquired in the future, or other unanticipated problems arise, our business, operating results and financial condition may be harmed.
The integration of Griptonite may prove particularly challenging due to its size, as Griptonite has approximately 200 employees compared with approximately 400 employees at Glu prior to the Blammo and Griptonite acquisitions, as well as the fact that Griptonite has historically built premium games for non-smartphone platforms such as the Xbox 360, Wii, DS and PSP. We will need to invest considerable management time and resources in order to educate the Griptonite studio personnel with respect to the development of freemium games for smartphone platforms, and if we are not successful in these efforts, it will significantly harm our operating results given the significant increase in our operating expenses that will result from such acquisition.
In addition, a significant portion of the purchase price of companies we acquire may be allocated to acquired goodwill and other intangible assets, which must be assessed for impairment at least annually. In the future, if our acquisitions do not yield expected returns, we may be required to take charges to our earnings based on this impairment assessment process, which could harm our operating results. For example, during 2008 we incurred an aggregate goodwill impairment charge related to write-downs in the third and fourth quarters of 2008 of $69.5 million as the fair values of our three reporting units were determined to be below their carrying values.
Moreover, the terms of acquisitions may require that we make future cash or stock payments to shareholders of the acquired company, which may strain our cash resources or cause substantial dilution to our existing stockholders at the time the payments are required to be made. For example, our Blammo acquisition agreement provides that the former Blammo shareholders may earn up to 3,312,937 shares of our common stock if Blammo achieves certain net revenue targets during the years ending March 31, 2013, March 31, 2014 and March 31, 2015. In addition, our merger agreement with Griptonite provides that, in the event we breach specified representations and covenants, in order to satisfy potential indemnification obligations we may be required to issue additional shares of our common stock based on the then current market price for our common stock, subject to specified limitations. Further, pursuant to our merger agreement with MIG, we were required to make $25.0 million in future cash and stock payments to the former MIG shareholders, which payments we renegotiated in December 2008. Had we paid the MIG earnout and bonus payments on their original terms, we could have experienced cash shortfall related to the cash payments and our stockholders could have experienced substantial dilution related to the stock payments.
Third parties are developing some of our social, freemium games, and to the extent that they do not timely deliver high-quality games that meet our and consumer expectations, our business will suffer.
Recently, we initiated our Glu Partners program, which provides for the external development of some of our games; we currently expect that approximately one-fourth of the social, freemium games that we intend to release during 2011 will be produced by third parties with which we have a strategic relationship. We have historically created and developed all of our games in our internal studios, and we have limited experience in outsourcing and managing the production of our game concepts by external developers. Because we have no direct supervision and reduced control of this external development process, it could result in development delays and games of lesser quality and that are more costly to develop than those produced by our internal studios. This may particularly be the case to the extent that we do not provide our external developers with sufficiently detailed game development documentation, which could result in us providing them with a number of change orders that would delay development and increase our production costs.

 

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We have agreed to pay these external developers significant development fees and, in some cases, bonuses based on consumer reviews of the published games, and to the extent that these games are not commercially successful, we may not generate sufficient revenues to recoup our development costs or produce a sufficient return on investment, which would adversely affect our operating results. In addition, we may lose the services of one of our external developers for a number of reasons, including that a competitor acquires its business or signs the developer to an exclusive development arrangement. In addition, the developer might encounter financial or other difficulties that cause it to go out of business, potentially prior to completing production of our games, or otherwise render it unable to fulfill its obligations under the development agreement, and we may be unable to recoup our upfront payment to the developer under such circumstances. There is also significant demand for the services of external developers which may cause our developers to work for a competitor in the future or to renegotiate agreements with us on terms less favorable for us.
If sales of feature phones in our carrier-based business or the average selling prices of our games sold through wireless carriers decline more rapidly than we currently expect, it could have a material adverse impact on our revenues, financial position and results of operations.
We currently derive nearly half of our revenues from sales of our games on feature phones through wireless carriers. Our revenues for each of 2009 and 2010 declined from the prior year due to a decrease in sales in our carrier-based business, resulting primarily from the continuing migration of consumers from feature phones to smartphones that enable the download of applications from sources other than a carrier’s branded e-commerce service, such as the Apple App Store and Google’s Android Market. We believe that the decline in the sales of feature phones and the transition of consumers to smartphones will continue to accelerate. In addition, due to the accelerating decline in the sales of feature phones, we intend to release significantly fewer games for feature phones in future periods, which will further reduce our revenues that we derive from feature phones. Our ability to significantly grow our revenues derived from smartphones and tablets is uncertain. In addition, games sold on smartphones typically have lower average prices than our games sold on feature phones, and to the extent consumers continue to migrate to smartphones, it could result in lower average prices for our games sold on feature phones. Any unexpected acceleration in the slowdown in sales of feature phones, or any reduction in the average prices of our games sold through our wireless carriers, could have a material adverse impact on our revenues, financial position and results of operations.
Changes in foreign exchange rates and limitations on the convertibility of foreign currencies could adversely affect our business and operating results.
Although we currently transact approximately one-half of our business in U.S. Dollars, we also transact approximately one-fourth of our business in Pounds Sterling and Euros and the remaining portion of our business in other currencies. Conducting business in currencies other than U.S. Dollars subjects us to fluctuations in currency exchange rates that could have a negative impact on our reported operating results. Fluctuations in the value of the U.S. Dollar relative to other currencies impact our revenues, cost of revenues and operating margins and result in foreign currency exchange gains and losses. To date, we have not engaged in exchange rate hedging activities, and we do not expect to do so in the foreseeable future. Even if we were to implement hedging strategies to mitigate this risk, these strategies might not eliminate our exposure to foreign exchange rate fluctuations and would involve costs and risks of their own, such as cash expenditures, ongoing management time and expertise, external costs to implement the strategies and potential accounting implications.
We face additional risk if a currency is not freely or actively traded. Some currencies, such as the Chinese Renminbi, in which our Chinese operations principally transact business, are subject to limitations on conversion into other currencies, which can limit our ability to react to rapid foreign currency devaluations and to repatriate funds to the United States should we require additional working capital.
We have depended on a small number of games for a significant portion of our revenues in recent fiscal periods. If these games do not continue to succeed or we do not release highly successful new games, our revenues would decline.
In our industry, new games are frequently introduced, but a relatively small number of games account for a significant portion of industry sales. Similarly, a significant portion of our revenues comes from a limited number of mobile games, although the games in that group have shifted over time. For example, in 2010 and 2009, we generated approximately 41.6% and 35.0% of our revenues, respectively, from our top ten games, but no individual game represented more than 10% of our revenues in any of those periods. However, we are seeing increased concentration in our top games, and expect that Gun Bros will exceed 10% of our revenues for 2011. If our new games are not successful, our revenues could be limited and our business and operating results would suffer in both the year of release and thereafter.

 

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We might elect not, or may be unable, to renew our existing brand and content licenses when they expire and might not choose to obtain additional licenses, which would negatively impact our feature phone revenues and might negatively impact our smartphone revenues to the extent that we do not create successful games based on our own intellectual property.
Revenues derived from mobile games and other applications based on or incorporating brands or other intellectual property licensed from third parties accounted for 78.1% and 77.5% of our revenues in 2010 and 2009, respectively. In 2010, revenues derived under various licenses from our five largest licensors, Activision, Atari, Caesar’s, Freemantle Media and 2waytraffic, together accounted for approximately 45.0% of our revenues. Creating games based on well-known, licensed brands has historically been critical to the success of our feature phone business, as this helped us achieve more prominent placement on our wireless carriers’ decks and contributed to greater commercial success with feature phone consumers. In addition, the majority of our premium games that we initially released for smartphones were based on licensed brands. However, we have determined to shift our business strategy towards becoming the leading publisher of social, mobile freemium games, and we intend to have the substantial majority of these social, freemium games be based upon our own intellectual property. As a result, we have allocated a significantly smaller amount of our operating budget to licensing deals and might elect not to renew our existing brand and content licenses when they expire. In addition, we intend to only selectively enter into new licensing arrangements, if any, in future periods. Our existing licenses expire at various times during the next several years, and our feature phone revenues will be negatively impacted to the extent that we lose the right to distribute games based on licensed content. For example, our right to publish our World Series of Poker game for smartphones and tablets will expire on December 31, 2011, which will negatively impact our smartphone revenues. The expected decline in the revenues we derive from games based on licensed brands could have an unexpectedly greater impact on our overall revenues and operating results to the extent that we are not successful in significantly increasing our revenues from games developed for smartphones and tablets based on our own intellectual property.
System or network failures could reduce our sales, increase costs or result in a loss of revenues or end users of our games.
We rely on digital storefronts’, wireless carriers’ and other third-party networks to deliver games to end users and on their or other third parties’ billing systems to track and account for the downloading of our games. We also rely on our own servers and third party infrastructure to operate our new social, freemium games that are delivered as a live service, to maintain and provide our analytics data and to deliver games on demand to end users through our carriers’ networks. In particular, a significant portion of our social, freemium game traffic is hosted by Amazon Web Services, which service uses multiple locations, and we expect to continue utilizing Amazon for a significant portion of our hosting services for the foreseeable future. In addition, certain of our subscription-based games, require access over the mobile Internet to our servers to enable certain features. Any technical problem with storefronts’, carriers’, third parties’ or our billing, delivery or information systems, servers or communications networks could result in the inability of end users to download or play our games, prevent the completion of billing for a game or result in the loss of users’ virtual currency or other in-app purchases or our analytics data, or interfere with access to some aspects of our games. For example, in connection with the release of our Gun Bros game on the Apple App Store in the fourth quarter of 2010, we experienced issues with our data servers that resulted in gameplay issues and the loss of some users’ virtual assets they acquired through in-app purchases. In the event of a loss of virtual assets, we may be required to issue refunds, we may receive negative publicity and game ratings, and we may lose users of our games, any of which would negatively affect our business. In addition, during the fourth quarter of 2010 and first half of 2011, we lost some of our analytics data, including data with respect to our daily and monthly average users. Furthermore, from time to time, our carriers have experienced failures with their billing and delivery systems and communication networks, including gateway failures that reduced the provisioning capacity of their branded e-commerce system. Any such technical problems could cause us to lose end users or revenues or incur substantial repair costs and distract management from operating our business.
We currently rely primarily on wireless carriers to market and distribute our games for feature phones and thus to generate a significant portion of our revenues. The loss of or a change in any significant carrier relationship, including their credit worthiness, could materially reduce our revenues and adversely impact our cash position.
A significant portion of our revenues is derived from a limited number of carriers. In 2010, we derived approximately 44.1% of our revenues from relationships with five carriers, including Verizon Wireless, which accounted for 15.2% of our revenues. We expect that we will continue to generate a significant portion of our revenues through distribution relationships with fewer than 20 carriers in 2011. If any of our carriers decides not to market or distribute our games or decides to terminate, not renew or modify the terms of its agreement with us or if there is consolidation among carriers generally, we may be unable to replace the affected agreement with acceptable alternatives, causing us to lose access to that carrier’s subscribers and the revenues they afford us. In addition, having a significant portion of our revenues concentrated among a limited number of carriers also creates a credit concentration risk for us, and in the event that any significant carrier were unable to fulfill its payment obligations to us, our operating results and cash position would suffer. If any of these eventualities come to pass, it could materially reduce our revenues and otherwise harm our business.

 

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Changes made by wireless carriers and other distributors to their policies regarding pricing, revenue sharing, supplier status, billing and collections could adversely affect our business and operating results.
Wireless carriers generally control the price charged for our mobile games either by approving or establishing the price of the games charged to their subscribers. Some of our carrier agreements also restrict our ability to change prices. In cases where carrier approval is required, approvals may not be granted in a timely manner or at all. A failure or delay in obtaining these approvals, the prices established by the carriers for our games, or changes in these prices could adversely affect market acceptance of those games. Similarly, for some of our carriers, including Verizon Wireless, when we make changes to a pricing plan (the wholesale price and the corresponding suggested retail price based on our negotiated revenue-sharing arrangement), adjustments to the actual retail price charged to end users may not be made in a timely manner or at all (even though our wholesale price was reduced). A failure or delay by these carriers in adjusting the retail price for our games, could adversely affect sales volume and our revenues for those games.
In addition, wireless carriers have the ability to change their pricing policy with their customers for downloading content, such as our games. For example, Verizon Wireless began imposing a data surcharge to download content on those of its customers who had not otherwise subscribed to a data plan. Such charges have, and could in the future, deter end users from purchasing our content. In addition, wireless carriers could renegotiate the revenue sharing arrangement that we have in place with them to our detriment. For example in the first quarter of 2010, China Mobile, the largest carrier in China, reduced the revenue share that we receive from our games sold on the mBox platform in approximately 15 provinces in China, which has begun, and will likely continue, to negatively impact our revenues in China. Furthermore, a portion of our revenues is derived from subscriptions. Our wireless carriers have the ability to discontinue offering subscription pricing, without our approval.
In China, sales to wireless carriers such as China Mobile may only be made by service providers, which are companies who have been licensed by the government to operate and publish mobile games. China Mobile has designated four classes of licenses for service providers with respect to mobile gaming, with a Class A license being the highest designation. We had held, through our Chinese subsidiaries, one of the three Class A licenses that had been awarded by China Mobile; however, we lost this Class A license in the first quarter of 2011 and now hold a Class B license. We expect the loss of the Class A license to cause our revenues in China to decline in future periods unless we are able to regain our Class A license or replace this lost revenue with alternative revenue streams.
Carriers and other distributors also control billings and collections for our games, either directly or through third-party service providers. If our carriers or their third-party service providers cause material inaccuracies when providing billing and collection services to us, our revenues may be less than anticipated or may be subject to refund at the discretion of the carrier. Our market is experiencing a growth in adoption of smartphones, such as the Apple iPhone and devices based on Google’s Android operating system. For many of our wireless carriers, these smartphones are not yet directly integrated into the carrier’s provisioning infrastructure that would allow them to sell games directly to consumers, and games are instead sold through third parties, which is a more cumbersome process for consumers and results in a smaller revenue share for us. These factors could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.
A shift of technology platform by wireless carriers and mobile handset manufacturers could lengthen the development period for our games, increase our costs and cause our games to be of lower quality or to be published later than anticipated.
End users of games must have a mobile handset with multimedia capabilities enabled by technologies capable of running third-party games and related applications such as ours. Our development resources are concentrated in the Apple iPhone, Google Android, Blackberry, HTML5, i-mode, Mophun, Palm, Symbian, Windows Mobile, BREW and Java platforms. It is likely that one or more of these technologies will fall out of favor with handset manufacturers and wireless carriers, as transitions to different technologies and technology platforms have happened in the past and will occur in the future. If there is a rapid shift to a different technology platform, such as Adobe Flash or Flash Lite, or a new technology where we do not have development experience or resources, the development period for our games may be lengthened, increasing our costs, and the resulting games may be of lower quality, and may be published later than anticipated. In such an event, our reputation, business, operating results and financial condition might suffer.

 

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We face added business, political, regulatory, operational, financial and economic risks as a result of our international operations and distribution, any of which could increase our costs and adversely affect our operating results.
International sales represented approximately 55.1% and 52.2% of our revenues in 2010 and 2009, respectively. In addition, as part of our international efforts, we acquired U.K.-based Macrospace in December 2004, UK-based iFone in March 2006, China-based MIG in December 2007 and Superscape, which had a significant presence in Russia, in March 2008. We have international offices located in a number of foreign countries including Brazil, Canada, China, England and Russia. We expect to maintain our international presence, and we expect international sales will continue to be an important component of our revenues. Risks affecting our international operations include:
   
challenges caused by distance, language and cultural differences;
   
multiple and conflicting laws and regulations, including complications due to unexpected changes in these laws and regulations;
   
foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations;
   
difficulties in staffing and managing international operations;
   
potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, particularly in certain emerging countries in East Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America;
   
greater fluctuations in sales to end users and through carriers in developing countries, including longer payment cycles and greater difficulty collecting accounts receivable;
   
protectionist laws and business practices that favor local businesses in some countries;
   
regulations that could potentially affect the content of our products and their distribution, particularly in China;
   
potential adverse foreign tax consequences;
   
foreign exchange controls that might prevent us from repatriating income earned in countries outside the United States, particularly China;
   
price controls;
   
the servicing of regions by many different carriers;
   
imposition of public sector controls;
   
political, economic and social instability;
   
restrictions on the export or import of technology;
   
trade and tariff restrictions and variations in tariffs, quotas, taxes and other market barriers; and
   
difficulties in enforcing intellectual property rights in certain countries.
In addition, developing user interfaces that are compatible with other languages or cultures can be expensive. As a result, our ongoing international operations may be more costly than we expect. As a result of our international operations in Asia, Europe and Latin America, we must pay income tax in numerous foreign jurisdictions with complex and evolving tax laws. If we become subject to increased taxes or new forms of taxation imposed by governmental authorities, our results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

 

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These risks could harm our international operations, which, in turn, could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.
If we fail to deliver our games at the same time as new mobile handset models and tablets are commercially introduced, our sales may suffer.
Our business depends, in part, on the commercial introduction of new handset models and tablets with enhanced features, including larger, higher resolution color screens, improved audio quality, and greater processing power, memory, battery life and storage. For example, some companies have launched new smartphones or tablets, including Apple’s iPhone and iPad and devices based on the Google’s Android operating system. In addition, consumers generally purchase the majority of content, such as our games, for a new handset or tablet within a few months of purchasing the handset or tablet. We do not control the timing of these handset and tablet launches. Some new handsets are sold by carriers with one or more games or other applications pre-loaded, and many end users who download our games do so after they purchase their new handsets to experience the new features of those handsets. Some handset and tablet manufacturers give us access to their handsets prior to commercial release. If one or more major handset or tablet manufacturers were to cease to provide us access to new handset models prior to commercial release, we might be unable to introduce compatible versions of our games for those handsets or tablets in coordination with their commercial release, and we might not be able to make compatible versions for a substantial period following their commercial release. If, because we do not adequately build into our title plan the demand for games for a particular handset or tablet or experience game launch delays, we miss the opportunity to sell games when new handsets or tablets are shipped or our end users upgrade to a new handset or tablet, our revenues would likely decline and our business, operating results and financial condition would likely suffer.
If a substantial number of the end users that purchase our games by subscription change mobile handsets or if wireless carriers switch to subscription plans that require active monthly renewal by subscribers or change or cease offering subscription plans, our sales could suffer.
Subscriptions represent a significant portion of our feature phone revenues. As handset development continues, over time an increasing percentage of end users who already own one or more of our subscription games will likely upgrade from their existing handsets. With some wireless carriers, end users are not able to transfer their existing subscriptions from one handset to another. In addition, carriers may switch to subscription billing systems that require end users to actively renew, or opt-in, each month from current systems that passively renew unless end users take some action to opt-out of their subscriptions, or change or cease offering subscription plans altogether. If our subscription revenues decrease significantly for these or other reasons, our sales would suffer and this could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.
If we fail to maintain and enhance our capabilities for porting games to a broad array of mobile handsets, our attractiveness to wireless carriers and branded content owners will be impaired, and our sales and financial results could suffer.
To reach large numbers of wireless subscribers, mobile entertainment publishers like us must support numerous mobile handsets and technologies. Once developed, a mobile game designed for feature phones may be required to be ported to, or converted into separate versions for, more than 1,000 different handset models, many with different technological requirements. These include handsets with various combinations of underlying technologies, user interfaces, keypad layouts, screen resolutions, sound capabilities and other carrier-specific customizations. If we fail to maintain or enhance our porting capabilities, our sales could suffer, branded content owners might choose not to grant us licenses and carriers might choose to give our games less desirable deck placement or not to give our games placement on their decks at all.
Changes to our game design and development processes to address new features or functions of handsets or networks might cause inefficiencies in our porting process or might result in more labor intensive porting processes. In addition, in the future we will be required to port existing and new games to a broader array of handsets and develop versions specific to new smartphones. If we utilize more labor-intensive porting processes, our margins could be significantly reduced and it may take us longer to port games to an equivalent number of handsets. For example, the time required to develop and port games to some of the new smartphones and tablets, including the iPhone and iPad and those based on the Android operating system, is longer and thus developing and porting for the advanced platforms is more costly than developing and porting for games for feature phones. Since the majority of our revenues are currently derived from the sale of games for feature phones in our carrier-based business, it is important that we maintain and enhance our porting capabilities. However, as additional smartphone digital storefronts are developed and gain market prominence, our porting capabilities represent less of a business advantage for us, yet we could be required to invest considerable resource in this area to support our existing business. These additional costs could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.

 

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Our industry is subject to risks generally associated with the entertainment industry, any of which could significantly harm our operating results.
Our business is subject to risks that are generally associated with the entertainment industry, many of which are beyond our control. These risks could negatively impact our operating results and include: the popularity, price and timing of release of games and mobile handsets on which they are played; the commercial success of any movies upon which one of more of our games are based; economic conditions that adversely affect discretionary consumer spending; changes in consumer demographics; the availability and popularity of other forms of entertainment; and critical reviews and public tastes and preferences, which may change rapidly and cannot necessarily be predicted.
If one or more of our games were found to contain hidden, objectionable content, our reputation and operating results could suffer.
Historically, many video games have been designed to include hidden content and gameplay features that are accessible through the use of in-game cheat codes or other technological means that are intended to enhance the gameplay experience. For example, our Super K.O. Boxing game released for feature phones includes additional characters and game modes that are available with a code (usually provided to a player after accomplishing a certain level of achievement in the game). These features have been common in console and computer games. However, in several cases, hidden content or features have been included in other publishers’ products by an employee who was not authorized to do so or by an outside developer without the knowledge of the publisher. From time to time, some of this hidden content and these hidden features have contained profanity, graphic violence and sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable material. If a game we published were found to contain hidden, objectionable content, our wireless carriers and other distributors of our games could refuse to sell it, consumers could refuse to buy it or demand a refund of their money, and, if the game was based on licensed content, the licensor could demand that we incur significant expense to remove the objectionable content from the game and all ported versions of the game. This could have a materially negative impact on our business, operating results and financial condition.
Our business and growth may suffer if we are unable to hire and retain key personnel.
Our future success will depend, to a significant extent, on our ability to retain and motivate our key personnel, namely our management team and experienced sales and engineering personnel, including those at Blammo and Griptonite who may be experiencing uncertainty due to our acquisition of their companies. In addition, in order to grow our business, succeed on our new business initiatives, such as developing social, freemium titles for smartphones and tablets, and replace departing employees, we must be able to identify and hire qualified personnel. Competition for qualified management, sales, engineering and other personnel can be intense, and we may not be successful in attracting and retaining such personnel. This may be particularly the case for us to the extent our stock price remains at a relatively depressed level, as individuals may elect to seek employment with other companies that they believe have better long-term prospects. Competitors have in the past and may in the future attempt to recruit our employees, and our management and key employees are not bound by agreements that could prevent them from terminating their employment at any time. We may also experience difficulty assimilating our newly hired personnel, including those at Blammo and Griptonite, and they may be less effective or productive than we anticipated, which may adversely affect our business. In addition, we do not maintain a key-person life insurance policy on any of our officers. Our business and growth may suffer if we are unable to hire and retain key personnel.
We may need to raise additional capital or borrow funds to grow our business, and we may not be able to raise capital or borrow funds on terms acceptable to us or at all.
The operation of our business, and our efforts to grow our business, requires significant cash outlays and commitments. As of June 30, 2011, we had $26.4 million of cash and cash equivalents, $716,000 of which was held in our China subsidiaries. In addition, in August 2011, we acquired approximately $10.2 million in cash in connection with our acquisition of Griptonite. To the extent we require additional working capital in our U.S. or other non-Chinese operations, it could be very difficult to repatriate money held in our China subsidiaries due to our declining operating profits in China, and such repatriation would be subject to taxation, potentially at high rates.

 

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As a result of our Blammo and Griptonite acquisitions, as well as our plans to increase our spending on sales and marketing and research and development initiatives in connection with our new social, freemium games that we will release in 2011, we expect to use a significant amount of cash in our operations in 2011 as we seek to grow our business. If our cash and cash equivalents are insufficient to meet our cash requirements we will either need to seek additional capital, potentially through an additional debt or equity financing (potentially pursuant to our effective universal shelf registration statement), procuring a new debt facility or selling some of our assets. We may not be able to raise needed cash on terms acceptable to us or at all. Financings, if available, may be on terms that are dilutive or potentially dilutive to our stockholders, such was the case with respect to the 2010 Private Placement and the 2011 Public Offering, particularly given our current stock price. The holders of new securities may also receive rights, preferences or privileges that are senior to those of existing holders of our common stock. Additionally, our $8 million credit facility expired on June 30, 2011, and, if we wish to enter into a new facility, we may be unable to procure one on terms that are acceptable to us, particularly in light of the current credit market conditions. If new sources of financing are required but are insufficient or unavailable, we would be required to modify our growth and operating plans to the extent of available funding, which would harm our ability to grow our business.
Our business is subject to increasing regulation of content, consumer privacy, distribution and online hosting and delivery in the key territories in which we conduct business. If we do not successfully respond to these regulations, our business may suffer.
Legislation is continually being introduced that may affect both the content of our products and their distribution. For example, data and consumer protection laws in the United States and Europe impose various restrictions on our business, which will be increasingly important to our business as we continue to market our products directly to end users and to the extent we obtain personal information about our customers. We currently collect certain personally identifiable information regarding our customers, including the unique device identifiers (UDIDs) of our customers’ smartphones and tablets and may in the future collect additional personally identifiable information regarding our customers. Any concerns about our practices with regard to the collection, use, disclosure, or security of personal information or other privacy related matters, even if unfounded, could damage our reputation and operating results. The rules regarding data and consumer protection laws vary by territory although the Internet recognizes no geographical boundaries. In the United States, for example, numerous federal and state laws have been introduced which attempt to restrict the content or distribution of games. Legislation has been adopted in several states, and proposed at the federal level, that prohibits the sale of certain games to minors. If such legislation is adopted and enforced, it could harm our business by limiting the games we are able to offer to our customers or by limiting the size of the potential market for our games. We may also be required to modify certain games or alter our marketing strategies to comply with new and possibly inconsistent regulations, which could be costly or delay the release of our games. The Federal Trade Commission has also indicated that it intends to review issues related to in-app purchases, particularly with respect to games that are marketed primarily to minors. If the Federal Trade Commission issues rules significantly restricting or even prohibiting in-app purchases, it would significantly impact our business strategy. In addition, two self-regulatory bodies in the United States (the Entertainment Software Rating Board) and the European Union (Pan European Game Information) provide consumers with rating information on various products such as entertainment software similar to our products based on the content (for example, violence, sexually explicit content, language). Furthermore, the Chinese government has adopted measures designed to eliminate violent or obscene content in games. In response to these measures, some Chinese telecommunications operators have suspended billing their customers for certain mobile gaming platform services, including those services that do not contain offensive or unauthorized content, which could negatively impact our revenues in China. Any one or more of these factors could harm our business by limiting the products we are able to offer to our customers, by limiting the size of the potential market for our products, or by requiring costly additional differentiation between products for different territories to address varying regulations.
If we do not adequately protect our intellectual property rights, it may be possible for third parties to obtain and improperly use our intellectual property and our business and operating results may be harmed.
Our intellectual property is an essential element of our business. We rely on a combination of copyright, trademark, trade secret and other intellectual property laws and restrictions on disclosure to protect our intellectual property rights. To date, we have not sought patent protection. Consequently, we will not be able to protect our technologies from independent invention by third parties. Despite our efforts to protect our intellectual property rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy or otherwise to obtain and use our technology and games. Monitoring unauthorized use of our games is difficult and costly, and we cannot be certain that the steps we have taken will prevent piracy and other unauthorized distribution and use of our technology and games, particularly internationally where the laws may not protect our intellectual property rights as fully as in the United States. In the future, we may have to resort to litigation to enforce our intellectual property rights, which could result in substantial costs and divert our management’s attention and our resources. In addition, some of our competitors have in the past released games that are nearly identical to successful games released by their competitors in an effort to confuse the market and divert users from the competitor’s game to the copycat game. To the extent that these tactics are employed with respect to any of our games, it could reduce our revenues that we generate from these games.
In addition, although we require our third-party developers to sign agreements not to disclose or improperly use our trade secrets and acknowledging that all inventions, trade secrets, works of authorship, developments and other processes generated by them on our behalf are our property and to assign to us any ownership they may have in those works, it may still be possible for third parties to obtain and improperly use our intellectual properties without our consent. This could harm our brand, business, operating results and financial condition.

 

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Third parties may sue us, including for intellectual property infringement, which, if successful, may disrupt our business and could require us to pay significant damage awards.
Third parties may sue us, including for intellectual property infringement, or initiate proceedings to invalidate our intellectual property, which, if successful, could disrupt the conduct of our business, cause us to pay significant damage awards or require us to pay licensing fees. For example, in a dispute that we settled in July 2010, Skinit, Inc. filed a complaint against us and other defendants in which it sought unspecified damages, plus attorney’s fees and costs. In the event of a future successful claim against us, we might be enjoined from using our or our licensed intellectual property, we might incur significant licensing fees and we might be forced to develop alternative technologies. Our failure or inability to develop non-infringing technology or games or to license the infringed or similar technology or games on a timely basis could force us to withdraw games from the market or prevent us from introducing new games. In addition, even if we are able to license the infringed or similar technology or games, license fees could be substantial and the terms of these licenses could be burdensome, which might adversely affect our operating results. We might also incur substantial expenses in defending against third-party disputes, litigation or infringement claims, regardless of their merit. Successful claims against us might result in substantial monetary liabilities, an injunction against us and might materially disrupt the conduct of our business and harm our financial results.
Our reported financial results could be adversely affected by changes in financial accounting standards or by the application of existing or future accounting standards to our business as it evolves.
Our reported financial results are impacted by the accounting policies promulgated by the SEC and national accounting standards bodies and the methods, estimates, and judgments that we use in applying our accounting policies. Due to recent economic events, the frequency of accounting policy changes may accelerate, including conversion to unified international accounting standards. Policies affecting software revenue recognition have and could further significantly affect the way we account for revenue related to our products and services. For example, we are developing and selling games for smartphones and tablets, including social, freemium games that we began to release in the fourth quarter of 2010, and the accounting for revenue derived from these platforms and games, particularly with regard to micro-transactions, is still evolving and, in some cases, uncertain. We currently defer revenues related to micro-transactions over the estimated lives of the transactions. For these types of transactions we have considered the average period that game players typically play our games to arrive at our best estimates for the useful life. While we believe our estimates to be reasonable based on available game player information, we may revise such estimates in the future as our games’ operation periods change. Any adjustments arising from changes in the estimates of the lives of these virtual items would be applied prospectively on the basis that such changes are caused by new information indicating a change in the game player behavior patterns. Any changes in our estimates of useful lives of these virtual items may result in our revenues being recognized on a basis different from prior periods’ and may cause our operating results to fluctuate. As we enhance, expand and diversify our business and product offerings, the application of existing or future financial accounting standards, particularly those relating to the way we account for revenue, could have a significant adverse effect on our reported results although not necessarily on our cash flows.
If we fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls, we might not be able to report our financial results accurately or prevent fraud; in that case, our stockholders could lose confidence in our financial reporting, which could negatively impact the price of our stock.
Effective internal controls are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and prevent fraud. In addition, Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires us to evaluate and report on our internal control over financial reporting. We have incurred, and expect to continue to incur, substantial accounting and auditing expenses and expend significant management time in complying with the requirements of Section 404. Even if we conclude that our internal control over financial reporting provides reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect fraud or misstatements. Failure to implement required new or improved controls, or difficulties encountered in their implementation, could harm our operating results or cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations. If we or our independent registered public accounting firm discover a material weakness or a significant deficiency in our internal control, the disclosure of that fact, even if quickly remedied, could reduce the market’s confidence in our financial statements and harm our stock price. In addition, a delay in compliance with Section 404 could subject us to a variety of administrative sanctions, including ineligibility for short form resale registration, action by the SEC, the suspension or delisting of our common stock from the NASDAQ Global Market and the inability of registered broker-dealers to make a market in our common stock, which would further reduce our stock price and could harm our business.

 

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Maintaining and improving our financial controls and the requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, divert management’s attention and affect our ability to attract and retain qualified members for our board of directors.
As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the rules and regulations of the NASDAQ Stock Market. The requirements of these rules and regulations has significantly increased our legal, accounting and financial compliance costs, makes some activities more difficult, time-consuming and costly and may also place undue strain on our personnel, systems and resources.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting. This can be difficult to do. For example, we depend on the reports of wireless carriers for information regarding the amount of sales of our games and related applications and to determine the amount of royalties we owe branded content licensors and the amount of our revenues. These reports may not be timely, and in the past they have contained, and in the future they may contain, errors.
To maintain and improve the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting, we expend significant resources and provide significant management oversight to implement appropriate processes, document our system of internal control over relevant processes, assess their design, remediate any deficiencies identified and test their operation. As a result, management’s attention may be diverted from other business concerns, which could harm our business, operating results and financial condition. These efforts also involve substantial accounting-related costs. In addition, if we are unable to continue to meet these requirements, we may not be able to remain listed on the NASDAQ Global Market.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the rules and regulations of the NASDAQ Stock Market make it more difficult and more expensive for us to maintain directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced coverage or incur substantially higher costs to maintain coverage. If we are unable to maintain adequate directors’ and officers’ insurance, our ability to recruit and retain qualified directors, especially those directors who may be considered independent for purposes of the NASDAQ Stock Market rules, and officers will be significantly curtailed.
Changes in our tax rates or exposure to additional tax liabilities could adversely affect our earnings and financial condition.
We are subject to income taxes in the United States and in various foreign jurisdictions. Significant judgment is required in determining our worldwide provision for income taxes, and, in the ordinary course of our business, there are many transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain.
We are also required to estimate what our tax obligations will be in the future. Although we believe our tax estimates are reasonable, the estimation process and applicable laws are inherently uncertain, and our estimates are not binding on tax authorities. The tax laws’ treatment of software and internet-based transactions is particularly uncertain and in some cases currently applicable tax laws are ill-suited to address these kinds of transactions. Apart from an adverse resolution of these uncertainties, our effective tax rate could also be adversely affected by our profit level, by changes in our business or changes in our structure, changes in the mix of earnings in countries with differing statutory tax rates, changes in the elections we make, changes in applicable tax laws (in the United States or foreign jurisdictions), or changes in the valuation allowance for deferred tax assets, as well as other factors. For example, the current administration has made public statements indicating that it has made international tax reform a priority, and key members of the U.S. Congress have conducted hearings and proposed new legislation. Recent changes to U.S. tax laws, including limitations on the ability of taxpayers to claim and utilize foreign tax credits and the deferral of certain tax deductions until earnings outside of the United States are repatriated to the United States, as well as changes to U.S. tax laws that may be enacted in the future, could impact the tax treatment of our foreign earnings.
Further, our tax determinations are subject to audit by tax authorities which could adversely affect our income tax provision. Should our ultimate tax liability exceed our estimates, our income tax provision and net income or loss could be materially affected.

 

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We incur certain tax expenses that do not decline proportionately with declines in our consolidated pre-tax income or loss. As a result, in absolute dollar terms, our tax expense will have a greater influence on our effective tax rate at lower levels of pre-tax income or loss than at higher levels. In addition, at lower levels of pre-tax income or loss, our effective tax rate will be more volatile.
We are also required to pay taxes other than income taxes, such as payroll, value-added, net worth, property and goods and services taxes, in both the United States and foreign jurisdictions. We are subject to examination by tax authorities with respect to these non-income taxes. There can be no assurance that the outcomes from examinations, changes in our business or changes in applicable tax rules will not have an adverse effect on our earnings and financial condition. In addition, we do not collect sales and use taxes since we do not make taxable sales in jurisdictions where we have employees and/or property or we do not have nexus in the state. If tax authorities assert that we have taxable nexus in the state, those authorities might seek to impose past as well as future liability for taxes and/or penalties. Such impositions could also impose significant administrative burdens and decrease our future sales. Moreover, state and federal legislatures have been considering various initiatives that could change our position regarding sales and use taxes.
Furthermore, as we change our international operations, adopt new products and new distribution models, implement changes to our operating structure or undertake intercompany transactions in light of changing tax laws, acquisitions and our current and anticipated business and operational requirements, our tax expense could increase.
Our stock price has fluctuated and declined significantly since our initial public offering in March 2007, and may continue to fluctuate, may not rise and may decline further.
The trading price of our common stock has fluctuated in the past and is expected to continue to fluctuate in the future, as a result of a number of factors, many of which are outside our control, such as:
   
price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market, including as a result of trends in the economy as a whole, such as due to the recent downgrading of the credit rating of the United States by Standard & Poor’s and the continuing unprecedented volatility in the financial markets;
   
changes in the operating performance and stock market valuations of other technology companies generally, or those in our industry in particular;
   
actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results;
   
the financial projections we may provide to the public, any changes in these projections or our failure to meet these projections;
   
failure of securities analysts to initiate or maintain coverage of us, changes in financial estimates by any securities analysts who follow our company or our industry, our failure to meet these estimates or failure of those analysts to initiate or maintain coverage of our stock;
   
ratings or other changes by any securities analysts who follow our company or our industry;
   
announcements by us or our competitors of significant technical innovations, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, capital raising activities or capital commitments;
   
the public’s response to our press releases or other public announcements, including our filings with the SEC;
   
any significant sales of our stock by our directors, executive officers or large stockholders, including the investors in the 2010 Private Placement whose shares have been registered for resale under the Securities Act and may be freely sold at any time, or by the former stockholders of Blammo and Griptonite, whose shares we are required to register for resale under the Securities Act as soon as is reasonably practicable;
   
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In addition, the stock markets, including the NASDAQ Global Market on which our common stock is listed, have recently and in the past, experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected the market prices of many companies, some of which appear to be unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of these companies. These broad market fluctuations could adversely affect the market price of our common stock. In the past, following periods of volatility in the market price of a particular company’s securities, securities class action litigation has often been brought against that company. Securities class action litigation against us could result in substantial costs and divert our management’s attention and resources.
Some provisions in our certificate of incorporation, bylaws and the terms of some of our licensing and distribution agreements may deter third parties from seeking to acquire us.
Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws contain provisions that may make the acquisition of our company more difficult without the approval of our board of directors, including the following:
   
our board of directors is classified into three classes of directors with staggered three-year terms;
   
only our chairman of the board, our lead independent director, our chief executive officer, our president or a majority of our board of directors is authorized to call a special meeting of stockholders;
   
our stockholders are able to take action only at a meeting of stockholders and not by written consent;
   
only our board of directors and not our stockholders is able to fill vacancies on our board of directors;
   
our certificate of incorporation authorizes undesignated preferred stock, the terms of which may be established and shares of which may be issued without stockholder approval; and
   
advance notice procedures apply for stockholders to nominate candidates for election as directors or to bring matters before a meeting of stockholders.
In addition, the terms of a number of our agreements with branded content owners and wireless carriers effectively provide that, if we undergo a change of control, the applicable content owner or carrier will be entitled to terminate the relevant agreement. Individually or collectively, these matters may deter third parties from seeking to acquire us.
ITEM 2.  
UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
On April 28, 2011, in connection with our entry into a Development and Distribution Agreement with Full Fathom Five, LLC we issued Full Fathom Five, LLC 51,020 shares of our unregistered and restricted common stock, representing aggregate consideration of $200,000 based on the $3.92 closing price for our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Market on April 28, 2011, as a minimum guarantee against future revenue sharing payments. The shares issued to Full Fathom Five, LLC are subject to vesting restrictions that lapse over two years. The sale of the common stock was deemed exempt from registration under the Securities Act in reliance on Section 4(2) of the Securities Act or Regulation D promulgated thereunder.
ITEM 3.  
DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
None.
ITEM 4.  
RESERVED
None.
ITEM 5.  
OTHER INFORMATION
None.
ITEM 6.  
EXHIBITS
The exhibits listed on the Exhibit Index (following the Signatures section of this report) are incorporated by reference into this Item 6.

 

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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
         
  GLU MOBILE INC.
 
 
Date: August 15, 2011  By:   /s/ Niccolo M. de Masi    
    Niccolo M. de Masi   
    President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)   
     
Date: August 15, 2011  By:   /s/ Eric R. Ludwig    
    Eric R. Ludwig   
    Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer
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EXHIBIT INDEX
                                 
Exhibit           Incorporated by Reference     Filing   Filed
Number   Exhibit Description   Form   File No.   Exhibit     Date   Herewith
       
 
                       
  10.01    
Glu Mobile Inc. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended and restated.
  8-K   001-33368   99.01     06/07/11    
       
 
                       
  31.01    
Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a).
                      X
       
 
                       
  31.02    
Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(a) /15d-14(a).
                      X
       
 
                       
  32.01    
Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 and Securities Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(b).*
                      X
       
 
                       
  32.02    
Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 and Securities Exchange Act Rule 13a-14(b).*
                      X
 
     
*  
This certification is not deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section. Such certification will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except to the extent that Glu Mobile Inc. specifically incorporates it by reference.

 

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