Archive for February, 2010
Allopass announces New Mobile Payment Solution in France
Feb 18th
Hi-media Payments is pleased to announce that a new French mobile payment solution called MPME is now live on the Allopass platform. We are the first to offer this new mobile option in addition to premium SMS.
MPME – Micro Payment Mobile Enablers – is a one-shot WAP payment available on all 3 carriers in France: Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom. Advantages to this new solution include:
- the ability to charge higher price points: up to 8EUR for a one-shot payment
- more price points available than with pSMS
- weekly and monthly subscriptions
- better payouts
For the French speakers, you can see a quick video demonstration here : http://vimeo.com/9202765 and get detailed information on our Allopass website.
Stay connected, more payment options will be announced soon!
Hi-media’s Allopass Payment Service Further Expands in the US
Feb 4th
We’re excited to announce that we’ve established a San Francisco office to bring our Allopass micropayments platform to the North American market. The micropayments space is certainly crowded, but we’ve got more opportunities for merchants than ever before!
- We offer a platform that can not only bill to a mobile phone but credit cards, ISPs, home phones, prepaid cards and more.
- We’ve also got nearly ten years behind us in the space, currently processing more than 8 million transactions a month globally.
- We’re the only payments provider that offers merchant payments within 7-10 days of a transaction.
- We are the only company that can provide online advertising reach and mobile payments under one roof – through synergistic opportunities with other Hi-media businesses.
Some of our initial US customers that we announced today include: Artix Entertainment, Boomerang Networks, Gambit, gWallet, Merscom Games, OLX, Peanut Labs, Quepasa, Sometrics, Sonico, TheBroth, Viwawa, Viximo, and Wadja. Check out our blog for many more partners to be announced soon!
You can read the full release here and be sure to check the News coverage of our US launch as well!
Engage Expo: Online Games – Virtual Worlds Track & Virtual Goods Conference
Feb 4th
Allopass’s US team will be at Engage Expo in two weeks on Feb 16-17, in NYC! We would love to meet with you so feel free to contact Chris Simamora at csimamora@allopass.us to schedule a meeting.
The Online Games & Virtual Worlds track will be dedicated to user acquisition, engagement and retention, as well as monetization strategies for all types of online games and virtual worlds. Check out the “Monetization Strategies: What’s Working Today” session to learn more about successful engagement and monetization models. Subscriptions, virtual goods, premium services, advertising, and microtransactions will be discussed.
For those who want to focus on virtual goods and virtual economies, the Virtual Goods Conference will host discussions around how to best implement and manage a virtual economy, in both online and mobile platforms.
We look forward to hearing from you and sharing experiences, best practices and what to avoid regarding monetizing games, social networks and virtual worlds. To continue the discussion, please check out the upcoming case studies section of this blog to see how some of our customers have already successfully monetized their online property.
More details about Engage Expo on the Engage Website
Hi-media revenues up 27% in 2009
Feb 4th
Our parent company Hi-media recently published their revenue for the past year. The Group reported 172.1M euros in sales for 2009, which is a 27% increase from 2008.
Hi-media payments, the Group’s micropayment business grew strongly in 2009, up 30% compared with the previous year. For the fourth quarter, organic growth remained strong at 18% year on year.
“ Hi-media unique position in Europe and our advertising and payments technological know-how make us confident about 2010 in our effort to continue our development worldwide” Cyril Zimmermann, Hi-media CEO, said.
You can read and download the complete press release on the Hi-media PR website section
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