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No. 44 Glu Mobile

San Mateo, CA

Year	2007
Industry	Media
Founded	2001
Growth	2,479.1%
2003 Revenue	$1.8 million
2006 Revenue	$46.2 million
Employees	240
Website	www.glu.com

Ranked No. 1 in the Top Companies in Media
Ranked No. 7 in the Top Companies in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

What it does: Publishes video games for mobile phones, many based on titles licensed from the likes of Atari, Hasbro, Harrah's, SEGA, and Sony.

Why it's growing: Data services are a gold mine for wireless carriers, and games and messaging provide the hook. Glu Mobile has agreements with 150 carriers around the world. Glu is a comfortable No. 3 in mobile gaming (behind industry giants Electronic Arts and Gameloft), a business in which size is increasingly an advantage. The technical challenges of getting games to work on a wide variety of handsets has knocked out many smaller game publishers.

What's noteworthy: The company went public in March.

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