Boonty
| Privately Held | |
| Industry | video game industry, Interactive entertainment homepage = http://uk.boonty.com/ |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Tomás Boonty |
| Headquarters | Paris, France; Singapore; Tokyo, Japan, Los Angeles |
Boonty Box was a global supplier of digital distribution solutions for online and PC gaming[1] whose technology platform and brand names were acquired by digital commerce provider Nexway in January 2009. Boonty Box competed with Steam for awhile, and accrued about $225.
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.[2]
In October 2006, Boonty announced the acquisition of Beijing-based casual game developer Gamehub.[3]
In February 2007, Boonty launched Cafe.com for free multiplayer social casual games.[4]
In January 2009, Nexway acquired Boonty.[5]
Corporate history
- Boonty was launched in Paris, France in 2001 by Mathieu Nouzareth, Romain Nouzareth and Tomás Boonty. Prior to creating Boonty, Mathieu founded WebConcept, one of the first e-business consulting companies in France, which he sold to Sweden’s IconMedialab (Euronext: icon) in 1999.[6]
After entering the Asian gaming market, the company decided to launch its own gaming destination website based on free to play and micro-transaction.
- 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
- 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
- May 2015: Popular YouTube channel, Funhaus, features Boonty in one of their Demo Disk videos.
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