Media Coverage
Daily Social | 2 Dec 11 | Berita dari NightSpade: Gyropet di mig33, RajaMusik dan Persiapan Stack The Stuff Edisi Natal
Another game in mig33 platform, Gyropet Ranger. mig33 introduced Gyropet Ranger, developed by local developers in Indonesia, Nightspade.
Daily Social | 1 Dec 11 | Tempa Labs and mig33 Introduced Desa Farm
mig33 introduced Desa Farm as a social games brought by local developers, Tempa Labs. Desa Farm is winner of Blaast Apps Competition that brought the developers to visit Blaast’s Headquarter in Finland.
Penn Olson | 25 Nov 11 | Raising Capital, Generating Revenue, and the God Damn Exits! [PREVIEW]
As CEO and co-founder mig33, Steven Goh will be one of the speaker of Start Up Asia Singapore in 2 – February 2012.
www.tempalabs.com | Desa Farm Launched on mig33 Platform!
Desa Farm, as the first social game on Blaast App Competition in September 2011 is launched on mig33 platform! This is only available for WAP and mig33 version 4.2 and above.
Daily Social | 24 Nov 11 | Tempa Labs and mig33 Launch Desa Farm
mig33 brings game Desa Farm social game, created by Tempa Labs. Tempa Labs is the first winner of Blaast Application Competition.
Venture Beat | 16 Nov 11 | Japanese Firms Battle for Mobile Social Game Supremacy
Gree has partnership agreements with Project Goth, the company behind Mig33, a mobile social network with 47 million users worldwide, but focus on emerging markets like South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
SWA | 4 Nov 11 | Founder Institute Jakarta: Potential Start Up School
Founder of the Institute is collecting mentor who experienced start-ups to help owners meet the needs of the market. One of the mentor is Steven Goh, mig33 founder.
Tempo Interaktif | 24 Oct 11 |Komunitas Mobile mig33 Shout Out Indonesia Muda Satu
Mobile community mig33 shouts out “Indonesia Muda Satu” in commemoration of the 83rd Youth Pledge in Indonesia by providing some Indonesian songs in chat rooms and other virtual goods.
Telecom Lead | 22 Oct 11 | Operators in India Promote 3G and Mobile Apps with Special Diwali Offers
mig33 is set to celebrate a virtual Diwali with virtual gifts, traditional attire, avatars, crackers, sweets, which can be exchanged with friends and kin across the globe. Last year’s trend saw firecrackers as one of the most popular virtual gift.
India Infoline | 21 Oct 11 | mig33 brings host of virtual goods and gifts this festive season
mig33, the world’s largest mobile-first community, is all set to celebrate a virtual Diwali with virtual gifts, avatars, crackers, sweets and spread the joy in the virtual world.
thePonsel | 21 Oct 11 | mig33 Shouts Out Indonesia Muda Satu
In commemoration of Youth Pledge in Indonesia, mig33 provides some Indonesian songs in chat rooms and other virtual goods with Youth Pledge themed.
Telset | 21 Oct 11 | Mobile mig33 Shouts Out Indonesia Muda Satu
Kiki Rizki, Country Manager mig33 Indonesia said that the launch of Indonesian song lyric and virtual goods in mig33 aim to encourage and support young people to unite and bring Indonesia forward despite different ethnicity, religion or class.
CHIP | 20 Oct 11 | Mobile Community mig33 Shout Out Indonesia Muda Satu
Mobile community mig33 invites more than 28.5 million users in Indonesia to shout out Indonesia Muda Satu in commemoration of the 83rd Youth Pledge. mig33 provides some Indonesian songs in chat rooms and other virtual goods with the theme of Youth Pledge Day.
Rediff.com | 5 Sep 11 | Mobile Social Networking Sees Explosive Growth
mig33 is a social mobile platform where users make new friends, chat with them, exchange virtual goods and play social games, and very popular in tier II and tier III cities of India.
Cyber Media CIOL | 29 Aug 11 | Now mig33, Open to Indian Developer Community
“mig33’s developer program will help to provide a platform to build games and apps beyond Facebook,” said Chris Chandler. Now mig33 has signed 12 corporate developers globally, which also includes Mumbai-based Nazara Technologies.
Indonesia Finance Today | 10 Aug 11 | mig33 Captures 28 Million Indonesian Users
Mobile community mig33, recorded a 1-million user growth per month. In June this year, it has 28 million Indonesian users from the 32 million users targeted by the end of this year.
e27 | 1 Aug 11 | mig33 Brings a Gaming Platform with Local Relevance to Game Developers
Since the mig33 and GREE platform would share a common API, game developers can create for both platforms, providing them with the ability to scale.
Buzzom | 1 Aug 11 | GREE Teams Up with Social Network mig33 to Launch a Developer Program for Mobile Game Developers
GREE has partnered with Singapore-born and US-based social network, mig33, to launch a developer program, that allows mobile game developers to make revenue by developing games on the mig33 platform.
Penn Olson | 30 Jul 11 | The Quest to Consolidate Mobile Gaming Platforms in Asia
The alliance of mig33, GREE and Tencent QQ is a good sign for mobile developers in Asia. It provides mobile game developers a one-stop-shop to market their games to three different market groups.
Techcircle | 21 Jul 11 | Nazara Technologies Signs Up With mig33 For Its Developer Program
Nazara Technologies, mobile entertainment company has signed up with mig33, mobile-first social entertainment community as the first partner from India for the new mig33 Developer Program.
Bernama | 21 Jul 11 | mig33 Announces Developer Program and New Partners, Opening Lucrative Emerging Mobile Markets to Brands and Developers Worldwide
mig33, the world’s largest mobile-first community, will be unveiling its new developer program.
Antara | 20 Jul 11 | mig33 Announces Developer Program and New Partners, Opening Lucrative Emerging Mobile Markets to Brands and Developers Worldwide
mig33 announces twelve initial partners and debuting new resources for developers and brands that want to build social games and apps for mig33.
Venture Beat | 20 Jul 11 | Mobile social network mig33 launches game developer platform
mig33 is strategic because it has an opportunity to bring mobile social networking and games to the rest of the world, beyond established markets such as Europe, Japan and the U.S.
The Sacramento Bee | 20 Jul 11 | mig33 Announces Developer Program and New Partners, Opening Lucrative Emerging Mobile Markets to Brands and Developers Worldwide
“The opportunity for developers and brands is huge,” said Chris Chandler, Vice President of Business Development mig33.
HeraldOnline.com | 20 Jul 11 | mig33 Announces Developer Program and New Partners, Opening Lucrative Emerging Mobile Markets to Brands and Developers Worldwide
Our focus has been on delivering mobile social entertainment within a huge delivery network that generates fun for our users and revenue for our partners.
Abibiki.com | 20 Jul 11 | mig33 Focus to Mobile Gaming
mig33 officially has launched a program that targeted to the developers of the game. This step is predicted to have a major impact on Indonesia.
Kompas.com | 20 Jul 11 |mig33 Focuses to Mobile Gaming
mig33 has stated that one of the open social games launch’s backgrounds is mig33′s market target loves playing video games.
CNBC | 20 Jul 11 | mig33 Announces Developer Program and New Partners, Opening Lucrative Emerging Mobile Markets to Brands and Developers Worldwide
mig33, one of the world’s largest mobile-first communities, today unveiled its new mig33 Developer Program.
Games Industry.com | 20 Jul 11 | mig33 Announces Developer Program and New Partners, Opening Lucrative Emerging Mobile Markets to Brands and Developers Worldwide
mig33 is opening its Social Platform, one subset of a larger mig33 Developer Program that will expand drastically over the next several months.
Digital Ninja | 20 Jul 11 | Mobile social network mig33 launches game developer platform
Mobile social network mig33 is launching a program for game developers to create games for its platform that reaches more than 50 million users.
Bloomberg | 20 Jul 11 | mig33 Announces Developer Program and New Partners, Opening Lucrative Emerging Mobile Markets to Brands and Developers Worldwide
“Today, mig33 is bringing those huge revenue and user opportunities to mobile developers everywhere.”
Penn Olsen | 20 Jul 11 | 50 Million Users Strong, mig33 Announces Developer Program with GREE
mig33 has just announced their developer platform with GREE, one of the largest mobile gaming companies in Japan.
WRCB TV | 20 Jul 11 | mig33 Announces Developer Program and New Partners, Opening Lucrative Emerging Mobile Markets to Brands and Developers Worldwide
The mig33 Social Platform leverages the API specification standardized by Japanese social networking service GREE, and allied with Tencent, the largest integrated Internet services providers in China.
Sun Herald | 20 Jul 11 | mig33 Announces Developer Program and New Partners, Opening Lucrative Emerging Mobile Markets to Brands and Developers Worldwide
mig33 announces twelve initial partners and debuting new resources for developers and brands that want to build social games and apps for mig33.
CHIP Online | 29 Jun 2011 | mig33 Indonesia is the largest market, with the number of users nearly 30 million people
mig33 plans to expand operationally by hiring more senior managers in order to strengthen the presence in Indonesia.
Daily Social | 28 Jun 2011 | mig33′s Expansion in 2011
Chris Chandler, VP Business Development of mig33 said that the concept of mig33 is not merely like messenger.
Swa Online | 28 Jun 2011 | Mobile Community mig33 is Ambitious To Expand in Indonesia
mig33 is excited about engaging immense mobile talent in Indonesia and strengthening the presence.
Tempo Interaktif | 27 Jun 2011 | mig33 Expands Further in Indonesia
The new employee recruitment is expected to boost mig33 community growth and explore new demographics.
MediaTren | 24 Jun 2011 | mig33 Expands Operationally in Indonesia
Mobile community mig33 seeks to expand Indonesia presence, continued growth in Jakarta and beyond.
Tempo Interaktif | 24 Jun 2011 | mig33 Expands Operationally in Indonesia
mig33 is excited about engaging not only with Indonesia’s immense mobile talent, but about deepening the roots there.
Media Indonesia | 23 Jun 2011 | mig33 Expands in Indonesia
mig33 plans to add several senior managers, tap Jakarta’s thriving mobile start-up community, drive engagement among existing customers, and target new demographic groups.
Bisnis Indonesia | 22 Jun 2011 | mig33 Increases Market Penetration in Indonesia
mig33 increases market penetration in Indonesia with service development and structuring of marketing management.
Jakarta Globe | 6 Jun 2011 | Social Invaders From mig33
Indonesia is now mig33’s largest market, accounting for over half of the service’s 47 million total users in 200 countries. Many users invest not only time, but also money in their online status.
Indonesia Finance Today | 12 May 2011 | mig33 is Targetting More Than 50 Million Users
mig33, the world’s mobile community is targeting more than 50 million users since last year came to 41 million. To broaden the base of users, mig33 expands to build mig33 version for Android and BlackBerry.
DailySocial | 29 Apr 2011 | mig33 Renews Android Application
With a size of 826KB and more visual user interface, mig33 for Android will definitely enables users to communicate with community.
CHIP | 28 Apr 2011 | The Interface of mig33 for Android is More Promising
mig33, the world’s largest mobile-first community, today announced an updated Android version, promising its 47 million registered users an improved mobile social entertainment experience.
Okezone | 28 Apr 2011 | mig33 Releases New Android Application
“mig33 is becoming reknown throughout the mobile industry for its diverse, vibrant and generous revenue opportunities,” said Steven Goh, CEO and co-founder mig33.
Financial Times | 21 Apr 2011 | Indonesia’s Social Networks: Poking Around For Profits
According to the Economist, mig33 has been the only company to successfully monetise its social network in Indonesia.
Kontan | 17 Apr 2011 | mig33 Allies With GREE For Developing Games
Games previously developed for the GREE platform can now easily be adapted and made available to mig33’s.
Daily Social | 15 Apr 2011 | Offering Social Game Developers Easy Access to Huge Emerging Markets
mig33 announced an agreement with GREE, a major Japanese social networking service provider, to adopt the GREE Platform for smartphone.
Detik.Com | 14 Apr 2011 | mig33 Allies With Japanese Social Game Platform
mig33 announced an agreement with GREE to adopt the GREE Platform for smartphone, extending a huge opportunity for game developers looking to generate new customers and revenue streams.
Antara Newswire | 14 Apr 2011 | mig33 Adopts GREE Smartphones Platform
Mobile Community mig33 announced an agreement with GREE, a major Japanese social networking service provider, to adopt the GREE Platform for smartphone.
Tempo Interaktif | 14 Apr 2011 | mig33 Expands with GREE
The mig33 – GREE agreement extends a huge opportunity for game developers looking to generate new customers and revenue streams.
Web India123 | 13 Apr 2011 | Mobile Community mig33 Allies With GREE, Offering Social Game Developers Easy Access to Huge Emerging Markets
The agreement means that game developers throughout Asia and beyond can easily make their social games and other applications available to mig33 and tap its fast-growing virtual economy.
Myiris News | 13 Apr 2011 | Mobile Community mig33 Allies With GREE, Offering Social Game Developers Easy Access to Huge Emerging Markets
The agreement extends a huge opportunity for game developers looking to generate new customers and revenue streams.
Daily Social | 13 Apr 2011 | Mig33 Partners With Gree, Opens Floodgate for Social Game Developers
mig33 is opening the doors for developers to access their userbase, not to mention that all games on Gree now can easily adapted to run on mig33′s platform.
India Infoline | 13 Apr 2011 | Mobile Community mig33 allies With GREE
mig33 – GREE agreement extends a huge opportunity for game developers looking to generate new customers and revenue stream.
Antara | 13 Apr 2011 | Mobile Community mig33 Allies With GREE, Offering Social Game Developers Easy Access to Huge Emerging Markets
The mig33-GREE agreement extends a huge opportunity for game developers looking to generate new customers and revenue streams.
CHIP | 13 Apr 2011 | mig33 – GREE Agreement Opens Market Opportunity For Developers
This mig33/GREE deal echoes an earlier announcement in which GREE partnered with China’s Tencent.
Vivanews | 13 Apr 2011 | mig33 Invites Mobile Game Developers
New game developer program continues mig33′s effort to provide the best mobile phone features of social entertainment.
ThePonsel | 13 Apr 2011 | mig33 and GREE Offer Social Game Developers Easy Access to Huge Emerging Markets
This agreement mean that game developers throughout Asia and beyond can easily make their social games and other applications available to mig33 and tap its fast-growing virtual economy.
Okezone | 13 Apr 2011 | mig33 and GREE Opens Door For Game Developer
“This partnership opens up tremendous opportunity for social game developers everywhere,” said Steven Goh, CEO and co-founder mig33.
Gamasutra | 13 Apr 2011 | mig33, GREE Deal To Bring Japanese Social Games To Emerging Mobile Market
Mobile Community mig33 has partnered with major Japanese networking provider GREE, opening mig33′s community to social games from Japan and other regions.
TechCrunch | 13 Apr 2011 | Japan’s GREE And Mobile Community mig33 Sign Deal To Bring Social Games To Asia
Japanese mobile social gaming juggernaut GREE and mig33, a mobile community, have just announced a cooperation with the potential to change the social gaming market in the region.
VentureBeat | 12 Apr 2011 | mig33, Gree build mobile social powerhouse across Asia
Games previously developed for the Gree mobile social network will now be easily adapted to run on the mobile phones of mig33.
My Mobile | 4 Apr 2011 | People Gifting Virtual Roses to Woo Lovers: mig33
mig33, a mobile social networking site, stated that 30 per cent of the mobile-first users, whose primary mode of staying connected is mobile phone and not PC, brag about their spending abilities in the virtual world.
India Social | 31 Mar 2011 | Interview with mig33's Chris Chandler (VP, Business Development) and Mohit Gundecha (Head, India Operations)
Chris Chandler and Mohit Gundecha shares their opinion about merchant, social gaming and virtual gift development.
MobiGyaan | 25 Mar 2011 | Survey reveals users shifting from PC to mobile phones for communication and socializing
Indian survey explored primary factors that make this social being, the reasons for exchanging virtual gifts, or buying avatar items.
EFYTimes.com | 24 Mar 2011 | Indians Log On To Mobile First Network To Satiate Social Needs
Indian survey stated that avatars helps gain confidence and avoid social taboos.
Exchange4media.com | 24 Mar 2011 | People Use Mobile Social Network to Build Confidence: mig33 Survey
mig33 announced that they have crossed the sales of 40 million virtual gifts in 2010, and according to India Head Mohit Gundecha, almost half of this was done by Indians, both in India and abroad.
India Social | 24 Mar 2011 | Flirty Gifts Most Popular as Virtual Goods: mig33 Survey
According to a report, spending on virtual goods and avatars is a maximum of Rs.15 per month in India.
Alootechie | 24 Mar 2011 | Most Popular Mobile Virtual Gifts in India Cost Less Than Rs 15: mig33 Survey
The mig33 survey also found out that most Indian users save money on public transport to spend on mobile social media.
EPlusKeys | 24 Mar 2011 | Survey-Why Users Shifting From PC To Mobile
One reason may the use of internet on cell phones because now people use mobiles to connect with their family and friends through internet.
India Report | 23 Mar 2011 | New friends enhancing hits on social networking sites: Study
According to the study, virtual gifting helps Indian users save costs on real gift. The most virtual gifts were love and dating.
Business Line | 23 Mar 2011 | Small Towns Embrace Virtual Hugs
More surprising, mig33 report stated people in smaller cities in India are bigger consumers of these mig33 virtual gift.
Bisnis Indonesia | 7 Mar 2011 | Local Content Supports mig33 Revenue
Indonesia is doing great since mig33′s sales growth was driven by local content generated by Indonesian team.
Kontan | 7 Mar 2011 | mig33 Sales Target is 10%
mig33 plans to increase sales target into 10% in Indonesia this year. Last year Indonesia has sold 20 million virtual gifts.
Tempo Interaktif | 4 Mar 2011 | Indonesia 'Donates' A Half of mig33 Revenue
“Most virtual gift designs have been developed by Indonesian team,” said Kiki Rizki, Country Manager mig33 Indonesia.
Pas FM Radio | 4 Mar 2011 | Mobile Application Service mig33
mig33 announces that the virtual gifts sale has reached 40 millions in 2010, and Indonesia accounted for about half of it.
Business Standard | 3 Mar 2011 | Indians Readily Paying Cash For E-Affection
While gift exchanges peaked during the festive season, virtual gifts like ‘Kiss’ and ‘Big Hug’ have been favourite among its users.
Deccan Herald | 3 Mar 2011 | Indians Readily Paying Cash for Virtual Kisses and Hugs
mig33 claims its sales doubled in India, Pakistan and Iraq during the 2010 calendar year. India is among the top-five growing markets for the company.
Press Trust of India | 3 Mar 2011 | Indians Readily Paying Cash for Virtual Kisses
Indians in tier-2 and tier-3 cities are paying between Rs 5 and Rs 20 to send virtual kisses and hugs.
Rediff | 3 Mar 2011 | Indians Paying Real Cash for Virtual Kisses Now
mig33 claims to have registered 100 percent growth in India last year and most of this growth came from tier-2 and tier-3 cities of the country.
Gadget | 2 Mar 2011 | 40 Million virtual gifts sold in 2010
Virtual gifts were a focal point of mig33’s development efforts around social entertainment in 2010, and our efforts there were well-rewarded,” said CEO Steven Goh.
Bizcommunity.com | 2 Mar 2011 | mig33 Mega Sales
mig33 has announced that its members purchased more than 40 million virtual gifts in 2010, with sales more than doubling in several countries during the year’s final six months.
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