Mpowerplayer

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mpowerplayer was a technology-startup company based in Reston, Virginia, [1] just outside of Washington, D.C. The company offers a solution for the video game industry (game publishers and mobile operators) to enable their customers to browse and demo mobile games on their web browser before buying them. [2] Customers include Sprint-Nextel, [2] EA Mobile [3] and Sega Mobile. [3]

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Technically mpowerplayer's platform is a Java ME emulator for devices capable of running Java SE. In May 2008, the company was awarded with the Duke's Choice Award in the mobile gaming category from Sun Microsystems. [4] [5]

Funding

Following its launch from tech incubator LaunchBox Digital, [6] [7] on 11 September 2008 it was announced that mpowerplayer had raised $2.5 million in its first round of funding. [8] Funding comes from New Atlantic Ventures, the Center for Innovative Technology GAP Fund and LaunchBox Digital. [8] The company plans to use the funding to expand their presence and their widget-based mobile game catalog on more social networking sites. [9]

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References

  1. "Contact Us". mpowerplayer. 2008-09-28. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
  2. 1 2 "mpowerplayer". mpowerplayer.com. 2008-09-28. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
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