Mobile Content Russia

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Between December 6th and 8th in Paris there was held Game Connection 2011 Conference – a great business event which brought together game developers, service providers and publishers aiming to expand their network and to find the right business partners worldwide. SmsCoin project, which provides technology solutions for SMS payments implementation in over 90 countries worldwide performed as an outstanding exhibitor in this international marketplace.

A leading provider of game industry happenings, Connection Events, is best known for organizing Game Connection conference, which brings together publishers, service and technology providers, IP owners, investors, and independent developers from across the world to meet, pitch, and sign deals. Many exciting conferences, workshops and master classes covering business, technology and game design took place throughout Game Connection Europe-2011 that attracted over 250 exhibitors and more than 1000 visitors globally. One of the unique features unveiled by Game Connection was its online meeting application that presented the companies with the chance to conduct up to 50 meetings in three days, which along with an impressive number of exhibitors and attendees makes Game Connection one of the important B2B events in the games industry calendar.

MobiWorld Media, the owner of the SPB TV brand, outlines that the mobile TV business division, developing the world's famous SPB TV solution, was not involved into the Yandex and SPB Software acquisition deal.

"We welcome the news of the Yandex's acquisition of SPB Software, which should benefit both companies." said Kirill Filippov, CEO of MobiWorld Media. "MobiWorld Media has its own strategy to develop SPB TV solution, and as a fully independent company will not be affected by this acquisition."

The largest Russian mobile Ad network WapStart and the leading Israeli mobile monetization exchange inneractive are announcing a new partnership. The purpose of this international project is to grant access to the Russian speaking inneractive audience for the Russian advertisers and agencies.

WapStart was the initiator of this integration to continue its push to bring as much Russian and CIS traffic under one roof as possible — the strategy company has followed since early 2010.

Today is the 5th anniversary of SmsCoin project – the most successful SMS payments provider which became one of the leaders in SMS billing industry based on the quantity of ready-to-use solutions for different websites, as well as on the number of countries connected over this period and the amount of rates offered within each and every country.

Highly regarded speakers from mobile operators and MVNO such as Banglalink, Bina Indonusa, China Mobile Research Institute, Chunghwa Telecom, Dialog Axiata, Essar Telecom Group, Grameephone, Idea Cellular, PT Bakrie Telecom, PT Indosat, Reliance Communications and True Digital Contents & Media will present case studies on their experience in launching Mobile Value Added Services at Mobile VAS World Summit 2011 which will be held from 12 to 13 September 2011 in Singapore.

VimpelCom (which operates under the Beeline trademark) announced that its current Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), Alexander V. Izosimov, has decided to step down as of June 30, 2011 and that the Company’s Supervisory Board has unanimously decided to appoint its current Chairman, Jo O. Lunder, as the new CEO of VimpelCom.

The Company’s Supervisory Board has unanimously proposed Augie K. Fabela II (Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of VimpelCom) to serve as the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board (subject to the election of the nominees to the Supervisory Board at the upcoming general meeting of shareholders (“AGM”) and the subsequent appointment by the Supervisory Board).

A VII international conference «Mobile content - MoCo2011» – one of the key events in mobile content industry - will take place between July 9th and 10th in Moscow. During 7 years, the Forum brings together leading companies from Russia, CIS countries, EU countries, Middle East and USA. SmsCoin project, which provides a complete platform for SMS payments implementation across almost 90 countries worldwide, performs as a sponsor of «Mobile commerce» session.

During the session the participants will discuss the expectations of mobile commerce participants regarding industry development, the characteristics of cooperation between the companies that offer mobile commerce services, legislation issues, target audience of mobile commerce services and consumption patterns, latest wireless technologies and employment perspectives within the mobile commerce industry.

The largest Russian mobile Ad network Plus1 WapStart has introduced a unique and innovative ability to perform a detailed geographic and behavioral targeting for the advertisers.

The geographic targeting will now be done with an increased accuracy and up to the small town level within the Russia and CIS countries. Additionally, the new functionality allows to anonymously "track" mobile audience when they move between geographic locations temporarily, such as vacation or business travel. For example, if some one from Moscow visits St. Petersburg he will be able to see advertisement for both locations broadening the relevant audience for the advertisers. This is the foundation for the behavioral targeting which WapStart is planning to actively developer this year.

HeroСraft expands its award-winning game Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim with a bonus mission.

All customers who have already purchased Majesty from the Android Market or HeroCraft wap-site are able to update and receive the bonus mission with new enemies and features for free.

HeroCraft plans to release another add-on to this game which would enable new difficulty levels within a month. Another update with skirmish mode is also scheduled for the near future.