Archive for January, 2010
Allopass is a Silver Sponsor at Casual Connect Europe – Feb 10-12
Jan 25th
Allopass’s European team will be sponsoring and attending the upcoming Casual Connect Europe event in Hamburg, on February 10-12, 2010. Feel free to contact Gilles Tannugi, at gilles@allopass.com to schedule a meeting prior to the event.
Casual Connect is the educational component of the Casual Games Association, the international trade association for casual games professionals. Casual Connect encompasses online news, a regular magazine and yearly conference series in Europe and the US (Seattle).
Casual Connect is one of the leading conferences for the casual games industry with over 3,500 professionals attending Casual Connect Events each year.
The sessions will include panels and discussions around designing, developing, promoting and monetizing games through advertising and micropayments. A special section will be dedicated to mobile platforms.
We look forward to meeting with you there and sharing experiences around designing engaging micropayment experiences, implementing successful virtual economies and promoting your casual games on a global basis!
$1.38 Billion Invested in Virtual Goods-Related Companies Worldwide in 2009
Jan 21st
The 2009 Virtual Goods Investment Report has just been released by Engage Digital Media. The report, compiled by www.VirtualGoodsNews.com details the investments made in virtual goods related companies in 2009.
Interesting facts and figures include:
- Above $1.38 billion has been invested in 87 companies last year, which is more than three times the amount invested in 2008 ($408 million) for twice as many companies (34 in 2008).
- Acquisitions represent $398.3 million out of the $1.38 billion invested.
- The largest acquisitions were Electronic Arts’ acquisition of Playfish for $300 million and China-based KongZhong’s $80 million acquisition of China-based Dacheng.
- Russian firm Digital Sky Technologies was by far the largest investor in the space in 2009 with its investments in Zynga and Facebook.
The complete report can be found on the Engage Digital Media Website, and a comprehensive list of the individual companies, invested amounts, investors, and market segment is also available.
Join us at Mobile Monday on Jan 11!
Jan 7th
Hi-media USA is sponsoring the next Mobile Monday, on January 11 at the super cool W Hotel in San Francisco!
Register for free and join us to discuss Virtual Goods & Micropayments on Mobile and Beyond. Panelists, including executives from mobile payment platforms, game publishers and application developers, will discuss how they have successfully generated revenue with virtual goods, challenges presented by this new model for monetization, and their views on how the market will evolve in 2010.
Panel
Lex Bayer – General Manager Payments Business, Playspan
Doug Bewsher – CMO, Mig33
Mark Curtis – CEO, Flirtomatic
Steven Lurie – General Manager Mobile, Zynga
Pooj Preena – CEO, Hi-media USA
Justin Smith – Founder, Inside Network (moderator)
Roger Wood – CEO, Orca
Logistics
Location: W Hotel San Francisco
Date: January 11th at 7 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm
Cost: Free – but registration is required to attend
Cocktails: provided (and you get free drinks!)
More details here : http://www.mobilemonday.us/?p=300
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Pooj Preena speaking at CES 2010
Jan 5th
If you are attending CES 2010 in Las Vegas, you can see Hi-media USA CEO Pooj Preena speaking on the Mobile Commerce and Content panel! Details below:
Date: Thursday January 7th
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall, 2nd Floor.
Please stop by and say hello!
Greetings for the New Year!
Jan 4th
The Hi-media team is pleased to send you their best wishes for the New Year!
Hi-media is one of the largest pure play Internet companies in the world and runs the #1 micropayments business and the largest online ad network in Europe.
We’ve watched the online payment space heat up on a global scale due to the rising popularity of virtual goods in online environments – and we saw a tremendous opportunity to take our experience across the Atlantic. Pooj Preena is leading the charge as the CEO of Hi-media USA, based out of San Francisco.
2010 is going to be a monumental year for virtual currencies and online payments – and Hi-media is poised to disrupt the US payments market with its enhanced services.
We’ll be tracking the industry and bringing you our perspectives and those of our peers here on the Payments blog.
Let the fun begin!
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