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Boonty

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Type
  
Privately Held

Headquarters
  
Paris, France

Parent organization
  
Nexway

Founded
  
11 September 2001

Industry
  
video game industry, Interactive entertainment

Founder
  
Adam Kovic, James Willems, Bruce Greene

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Boonty is a global supplier of digital distribution solutions for online and PC gaming whose technology platform and brand names were acquired by digital commerce provider Nexway in January 2009.

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The company's white label casual game platform was utilized by over 100 million customers worldwide at the time of the Nexway acquisition, including Internet portals, ISPs, and mobile operators.

Boonty operated its own branded destination sites, Boonty.com which is still operated by Nexway in localized versions for the United States, France, UK, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Austria, Australia, Taiwan, Hong-Kong, Germany, Portugal, Finland, Singapore, The Netherlands, and Spain.

In October 2006, Boonty announced the acquisition of Beijing-based casual game developer Gamehub.

In February 2007, Boonty launched Cafe.com for free multiplayer social casual games.

In January 2009, Nexway acquired Boonty.

Corporate history

  • Boonty was launched in Paris, France in 2001.
  • May 2007: Boonty acquires the Chinese Game Studio GameHub and opens Boonty China.
  • June 2007: Boonty acquires domain name cafe.com and start to operate the online game web site.
  • October 2008: Boonty launches Facebook app iscool.
  • November 2008: Boonty hits its peak of success upon launching the game on Facebook
  • December 2008: The company decides to sells its Digital Distribution Platform and the brand name Boonty to digital commerce provider Nexway.
  • January 2009: Boonty changes its name to Cafe.com.
  • 2009: Cafe.com is listed on NYSE Euronext.
  • References

    Boonty Wikipedia