Glu Mobile Announces Partnership with TOM Group

Glu Mobile Inc. (Nasdaq: GLUU) and TOM Group Limited today announced a strategic partnership that will include the development of a smartphone storefront community for the Chinese market.

The partnership will combine Glu's high quality social mobile games with TOM Group's mobile internet cloud expertise and e-commerce infrastructure. Both TOM and Glu bring unique assets to the partnership which is focused on building glu.cn into a leading smartphone community portal in China.

"This partnership with TOM Group is a significant step in our global strategy and will accelerate our smartphone growth in China," said Glu President and CEO Niccolo de Masi. "glu.cn is scheduled to launch in Q4 2011 and we believe it will become quickly recognized by the Chinese gaming community as the leading destination for high quality smartphone and tablet games."