AirG Inc.

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airG Incorporated
Airg Inc Corporate Logo.png
Type of businessCorporation
Available inMultilingual
Founded2000 (2000)
Headquarters Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
No. of locations12
Founder(s)
PresidentMichael Kader
CEO Frederick Ghahramani
Industry Mobile social network, mobile gaming
Revenue $1 billion+ [2]
Employees167 [3]
URL https://corp.airg.com/
RegistrationOpen
Users 100,000,000+ [2]
Current statusLive
Written in C, C++, Objective-C, Perl, mod_perl, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Pliant, Java, J2ME

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

Contents

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]

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