Casual Connect, a casual games conference that is hosted around the world, was held in the historic stock exchange in Amsterdam last week. Jim Perkins and I were invited to lead the Finance/ M&A track for the afternoon presenting on market trends, futurecasting along with Buyer and Seller Panels. The conference had a record turnout of over 2000 professional attendees abuzz with the latest developments and excited to showcase their new games.  

Dean Takahashi, the lead writer at VentureBeat / GamesBeat had written a quick summary found here:

http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/13/asian-companies-account-for-nine-of-the-top-ten-game-mergers-and-acquisitions/