airG Incorporated
Type of businessCorporation
Available inMultilingual
Founded2000 (2000)
HeadquartersVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
No. of locations12
Founder(s)
PresidentMichael Kader
CEOFrederick Ghahramani
IndustryMobile social network, mobile gaming
Revenue$1 billion+ [2]
Employees167 [3]
URLhttps://corp.airg.com/
RegistrationOpen
Users100,000,000+[2]
Current statusLive
Written inC, C++, Objective-C, Perl, mod_perl, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Pliant, Java, J2ME

airG Incorporated (airG)[4] is a Canadian software company.

History

AirG was founded and incorporated in April 2000 by Frederick Ghahramani, Vincent Yen, and Bryce Pasechnik.[5][1] as a mobile entertainment content supplier[6] and was headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.[7] The company surpassed 20 million customers in 2007,[8] and in 2014 the company surpassed 100 million customers,[2] representing around 40 countries.[9] 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.[10]

Products

Mobile games

airG released AtomicDove, a 'persistent' and 'multiplayer' game, in November 2001.[11][12] In 2002, AtomicDove generated 100 million minutes of mobile data traffic.[13][14] The company also developed the multiplayer farming game Big Barn World.[15] Some games were marketed through private networks, while other were marketed internationally.[16]

Mobile chat

The company was one of the first mobile-only social media networks.[17] airG was the provider of the Sprint 'Games Lobby Lounge'.[18][19] airG ran Conexion Latina, which was for about one million Spanish speaking customers,[20][21] and created the Boost Hookt social network.[22]

Mobile advertising

airG sold just 2% of its 20+ billion mobile advertising impressions in 2006.[23] It then began to use interactive polls,[24][25] and engagement units specifically to customers based on their profile information. The company has also partnered with sports sponsorship companies like Red Bull.[26][27]

Recognition

In 2001, airG was awarded the BMO Bank of Montreal First Place Prize in their New Ventures B.C. competition.[28][29][30] In 2005 airG's founders won the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award from the Business Development Bank of Canada.[31][32]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Engineers Seek Top Prize" (XBRL). Simon Fraser News. September 6, 2001.
  2. 1 2 3 "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.
  3. ↑ "airG Inc. LinkedIn" (XBRL). LinkedIn. February 1, 2013.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Indvik, Lauren (April 22, 2010). "More Than Half of Mobile Internet Time Is Spent on Social Networks". Mashable. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Taniar, David (30 November 2008). Mobile Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. ISBN 9781605660554.
  7. ↑ Lewis, Rob (February 8, 2011). "Vancouver's airG - the world's largest mobile social network". Tech Vibes. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "airG Claims 20 Million Users of Mobile Social Networking Services". Cellular News. October 16, 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  9. ↑ "Meet airG, The Mobile Social Network You've Never Heard Of That's Ten Times Bigger Than Foursquare" (XBRL). Business Insider. Feb 3, 2011.
  10. ↑ Indvik, Lauren (April 22, 2010). "More Than Half of Mobile Internet Time Is Spent on Social Networks [STATS]". Mashable. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
  11. ↑ "Storm8's "World War" RPG on iPhone/iPod Touch" (XBRL). 4th Kingdom. Jan 22, 2010.
  12. ↑ Daniels, Tiffany (Nov 30, 2001). "Leading Edge Wireless Games". Scoop Sci-Tech Independent News.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ Banks, Jay (Jul 17, 2002). "At Last: Some Positive Telecom News!". The Free Library.
  15. ↑ "Big Barn World" (XBRL). CNET.Com. Feb 27, 2013.
  16. ↑ Dholakia, Nikhilesh; Rask, Morten; Dholakia, Ruby Roy (31 March 2006). M-Commerce: Global Experiences and Perspectives: Global Experiences and Perspectives. ISBN 9781591403173.
  17. ↑ Dixit, Sudhir; Prasad, Ramjee (14 December 2007). Technologies for Home Networking. ISBN 9780470196526.
  18. ↑ Lee, Nicole (May 11, 2006). "Sprint announces Game Lobby Lounge with fanfare". CNET.
  19. ↑ Yuan, Li (April 4, 2006). "Social Networking Goes Mobile". Wall Street Journal.
  20. ↑ Baloun, Karel M. (2007). Inside Facebook: Life, Work and Visions of Greatness. ISBN 9781425113001.
  21. ↑ Marek, Sue (Feb 3, 2007). "airG Launches Spanish-Language Community". Wireless Week.
  22. ↑ Mobile Commerce. 22 August 2013. ISBN 9788120348059.
  23. ↑ 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, ISBN 9780313372407, retrieved July 1, 2010
  24. ↑ Dostal, Erin (June 14, 2012). "airG launches ad targeting capabilities". Direct Marketing. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  25. ↑ Fehrenbacher, Katie (August 18, 2006). "airG, A Mobile Network Of 10 Million Users". GigaOm.
  26. ↑ Tode, Chantal (June 1, 2012). "Red Bull energizes event registrations with mobile, social campaign". Mobile Marketer.
  27. ↑ Smith, Steve (June 4, 2012). "Red Bull Campaign Shows That Social Mobile Has To Get Beyond The Banner". Media Post.
  28. ↑ Luckow, Diane (Oct 18, 2001). "Engineering students win $50,000". Simon Fraser University News. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  29. ↑ Aberle, Katherine (Sep 6, 2001). "SFU STUDENTS ADVANCE TO FINAL ROUND IN NEW VENTURES BC COMPETITION". Simon Fraser University News. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  30. ↑ "2001 Competition Winner" (XBRL). New Ventures BC. September 27, 2001.
  31. ↑ "Frederick Ghahramani and Vincent Yen win BDC's Young Entrepreneur Award" (XBRL). BDC Bank of Canada. October 18, 2005.
  32. ↑ "BDC to honour young Canadian entrepreneurs for outstanding accomplishments" (XBRL). The Globe & Mail Globeinvestor.com. October 18, 2005.
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