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Type of business | Corporation |
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Available in | Multilingual |
Founded | 2000[1] |
Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
No. of locations | 12 |
Founder(s) |
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President | Michael Kader |
CEO | Frederick Ghahramani |
Industry | Mobile social network, mobile gaming |
Revenue | $1 billion+ [3] |
Employees | 167 [4] |
Subsidiaries | Hookt |
URL | www.airg.com |
Registration | Open |
Users | 100,000,000+[3] |
Current status | Live |
Written in | C, C++, Objective-C, Perl, mod_perl, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Pliant, Java, J2ME |
airG Incorporated (airG)[5] is a Canadian software company.
History[edit]
AirG was founded and incorporated in April 2000 by Frederick Ghahramani, Vincent Yen, and Bryce Pasechnik.[6][2] as a mobile entertainment content supplier[7] and was headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.[8] The company surpassed 20 million customers in 2007,[9] and in 2014 the company surpassed 100 million customers,[3] representing around 40 countries.[10] In 2010 a study determined airG's weekly media time as one of the top 10 most frequented services on mobile phones in the United States.[11]
Products[edit]
Mobile games[edit]
airG released AtomicDove, a 'persistent' and 'multiplayer' game, in November 2001.[12][13] In 2002, AtomicDove generated 100 million minutes of mobile data traffic.[14][15] The company also developed the multiplayer farming game Big Barn World.[16] Some games were marketed through private networks, while other were marketed internationally.[17]
Mobile chat[edit]
The company was one of the first mobile-only social media networks.[18] airG was the provider of the Sprint 'Games Lobby Lounge'.[19][20] airG ran Conexion Latina, which was for about one million Spanish speaking customers,[21][22] and created the Boost Hookt social network.[23]
Mobile advertising[edit]
airG sold just 2% of its 20+ billion mobile advertising impressions in 2006.[24]It then began to use interactive polls,[25][26] and engagement units specifically to customers based on their profile information. The company has also partnered with sports sponsorship companies like Red Bull.[27][28]
Recognition[edit]
In 2001, airG was awarded the BMO Bank of Montreal First Place Prize in their New Ventures B.C. competition.[29][30][31] In 2005 airG's founders won the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award from the Business Development Bank of Canada.[32][33]
References[edit]
- ^'airG Crunchbase'(XBRL). Crunchbase Business Graph by AOL Inc. February 1, 2010.
- ^ abcd'Engineers Seek Top Prize'(XBRL). Simon Fraser News. September 6, 2001.
- ^ abc'airG Inc. Visiting company at MWC 2015'. Government of Canada Trade Commissioner Service. February 12, 2014. Archived from the original(XBRL) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
- ^'airG Inc. LinkedIn'(XBRL). LinkedIn. February 1, 2013.
- ^Thomson, Clive (August 30, 2002). 'Are cellphones meant to save time -- or waste it? These days, mobiles re the new Game Boys'. The Globe & Mail. Retrieved 30 August 2002.
- ^Indvik, Lauren (April 22, 2010). 'More Than Half of Mobile Internet Time Is Spent on Social Networks'. Mashable. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^https://books.google.ca/books?id=2bJhcy7AlfUC&pg=PA1680
- ^Lewis, Rob (February 8, 2011). 'Vancouver's airG - the world's largest mobile social network'. Tech Vibes. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^'airG Claims 20 Million Users of Mobile Social Networking Services'. Cellular News. October 16, 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^'Meet airG, The Mobile Social Network You've Never Heard Of That's Ten Times Bigger Than Foursquare'(XBRL). Business Insider. Feb 3, 2011.
- ^Indvik, Lauren (April 22, 2010). 'More Than Half of Mobile Internet Time Is Spent on Social Networks [STATS]'. Mashable. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
- ^'Storm8's 'World War' RPG on iPhone/iPod Touch'(XBRL). 4th Kingdom. Jan 22, 2010.
- ^Daniels, Tiffany (Nov 30, 2001). 'Leading Edge Wireless Games'. Scoop Sci-Tech Independent News.
- ^Philip, Dmitri Echin (April 2, 2011). 'airG Research, MKTG 4960 Ecommerce & High Tech Marketing'. docstoc.com. York University Schulich School of Business. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
- ^Banks, Jay (Jul 17, 2002). 'At Last: Some Positive Telecom News!'. The Free Library.
- ^'Big Barn World'(XBRL). CNET.Com. Feb 27, 2013.
- ^https://books.google.ca/books?id=BRW9AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA21
- ^https://books.google.ca/books?id=6ZtV-kS9LyMC&pg=PA9
- ^Lee, Nicole (May 11, 2006). 'Sprint announces Game Lobby Lounge with fanfare'. CNET.
- ^Yuan, Li (April 4, 2006). 'Social Networking Goes Mobile'. Wall Street Journal.
- ^https://books.google.ca/books?id=ocxve73dUHsC&pg=PA90
- ^Marek, Sue (Feb 3, 2007). 'airG Launches Spanish-Language Community'. Wireless Week.
- ^https://books.google.ca/books?id=lZJbAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA226
- ^Tuten, Tracy (2010), Enterprise 2.0: How Technology, eCommerce, and Web 2.0 Are Transforming Business Virtually, Santa Barbara California: Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 168, retrieved July 1, 2010
- ^Dostal, Erin (June 14, 2012). 'airG launches ad targeting capabilities'. Direct Marketing. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^Fehrenbacher, Katie (August 18, 2006). 'airG, A Mobile Network Of 10 Million Users'. GigaOm.
- ^Tode, Chantal (June 1, 2012). 'Red Bull energizes event registrations with mobile, social campaign'. Mobile Marketer.
- ^Smith, Steve (June 4, 2012). 'Red Bull Campaign Shows That Social Mobile Has To Get Beyond The Banner'. Media Post.
- ^Luckow, Diane (Oct 18, 2001). 'Engineering students win $50,000'. Simon Fraser University News. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^Aberle, Katherine (Sep 6, 2001). 'SFU STUDENTS ADVANCE TO FINAL ROUND IN NEW VENTURES BC COMPETITION'. Simon Fraser University News. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^'2001 Competition Winner'(XBRL). New Ventures BC. September 27, 2001.
- ^'Frederick Ghahramani and Vincent Yen win BDC's Young Entrepreneur Award'(XBRL). BDC Bank of Canada. October 18, 2005.
- ^'BDC to honour young Canadian entrepreneurs for outstanding accomplishments'(XBRL). The Globe & Mail Globeinvestor.com. October 18, 2005.
External links[edit]
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Diamond1966, Airg is a great game but very greedy and not fair with rare items.I have been playing BBW for almost 7 years and I have never found any rare items in my plots fishing ? or anywhere else in the game. I used to spend an average of $45 a month buying credits thinking that would help me get rare items but that doesn’t work, then I started getting parts of my coins purchases and tried to call and inform them what was going on and nothing was done. I stopped purchasing credits to play for a loong time for that reason and I just started buying credits again but it’s now twos and fews because airg doesn’t care about their loyal farmers and they should be more loyal to there players because without us this game can grow dormant. So there cash ? flow would dry up like the dust bowl of the Midwest ????. Stac30, Love this Game?I’ve been playing this gave for many years! I’ve met friends years ago!
I stoped plays for a while and recently came back to it! It was so easy to pick right back up to it! You can play the game without spending money that’s what I love about this game! It is addicting I do admit☺️ but it’s lovely! I still after years away have the same farming friends and found some new ones. It’s really fun, they add new things every season to keep it interesting, so you really don’t get board and there are lots of quests to do! Nickiindbud, Changes pleaseI love the game but if we get super feed or cropulate or other stuff, instead of making some of it stackable and the rest not.
Can you make it stackable please it will take up less room in our barns and we don’t have to try to make room because our stuff ain’t stack. Also some of us are stamping twice to where others are stamping once, I don’t know how to fix it or what we are doing wrong. If you can please help with any of these that would be really awesome!