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    • ASX Company News: SmartTrans Technology Launches Mobile Lottery In China

    Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

    SmartTrans Technology (Beijing) Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of SmartTrans Limited (SMA), has entered into an agreement with VODOne’s Beijing Caishijie Information Technology Company Limited for the distribution of its V1 Mobile Telephone Lottery Application in China.

    Under the agreement, SmartTrans has been granted the exclusive right to provide the V1 Lottery Application to customers of the China Mobile group of companies in China and the non-exclusive right to provide that application to other subscribers in China. SmartTrans is entitled to commission on all amounts wagered by customers using the V1 Lottery Application accessed from the SmartTrans platform.

    The VODOne V1 Lottery Application to be distributed by SmartTrans will enable users to access and participate in lotteries run by the China Welfare Lottery Management Center and provide access to VODOne’s portal named “Lottery Lifestyle” which broadcasts lottery related news and information  exclusively supplied by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People’s Republic of China.

    According to VODOne, it is one of the first authorised service providers of mobile lottery betting service for mobile end users in China and mobile lottery has the advantage of surpassing other traditional lottery purchasing methods because players can make their purchasing decision whenever and wherever. VODOne also advises that, currently, the lottery betting services of VODOne Lottery View covers all nationwide welfare lotteries in China.

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    ASX Company News: MobileActive Launches New Mobile Product

    Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

    MobileActive Limited (MBA), Australia’s leading independent mobile phone content, interactive services and technology company, said its majority owned 4th Screen Advertising Australia has launched the IDEA mobile advertising industry alliance.

    Peter Birch, Managing Director of 4th Screen, said: “The alliance is designed to provide agencies and clients with complete end-to-end mobile solutions using our proven experience in other markets where we are well established, delivering advanced publishing, messaging and advertising platforms. IDEA ensures we provide agencies with valuable knowledge and technology that is relevant and effective.” 

    MobileActive’s 4th Screen proprietary mobile ad-serving platform Mpression is the driving force behind the mobile advertising offering. It has advanced targeting capabilities and rich media ad formats. “At its heart is a sophisticated but user- friendly media planning tool,” said Mr Birch.  “This enables advertisers to easily plan and create campaigns across the network of premium publisher sites, targeting segments of the publisher’s database by demographics, handset type, operator, and many other factors,” he said.

    MobileActive’s 4th Screen Advertising Australia has launched IDEA with two founding partners one of which is Ikon. Ikon is one of Australia’s largest and most successful agencies. Delivery of mobile advertising campaigns for alliance partner clients has successfully commenced.

    IDEA is an acronym for Innovation, Development and Education Alliance and is a product of the increasing demand for 4th Screen to provide industry specific mobile advertising knowledge, technology and solutions to satisfy the growing market. The 4th Screen Advertising Australia joint venture sits in MobileActive’s Business-to- Business division, Mobile Embrace, alongside the company’s Mobile Entertainment Retail (MER) and RingRing Studios (mobile content production, licensing and distribution) units. 4th Screen Advertising Australia complements the existing infrastructure Mobile Embrace offers to clients, including mobile internet and applications publishing, multichannel digital marketing solutions, M-commerce and billing, messaging solutions, interactive mobile platforms, branded mobile content and applications development, hosting and delivery, loyalty & reward and mobile membership services. 4th Screen Advertising Australia is a joint venture between MobileActive limited and 4th Screen Advertising. 4th Screen Advertising is the world’s leading premium mobile advertising agency. Ikon was founded in 1999 primarily to service the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Ikon is proudly owned by the STW Group, opening up access to the largest communication group in Australasia. Ikon has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Auckland, Wellington and New York. MobileActive Limited (MBA) is Australia’s leading independent mobile phone content, interactive services and technology company across business to consumer, business to business and production and licensing.

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    ASX Company News: MOKO.Mobi Acquires EyeVibe

    Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

    MOKO.mobi Limited (MKB)  is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement with Yospace Technologies Limited for the acquisition of the UK based “EyeVibe” mobile video community service. EyeVibe is one of the leading UK mobile video community services, represented on all the major UK carrier networks. This acquisition will result in the EyeVibe user base being migrated to the MOKO.mobi platform with MOKO.mobi replacing EyeVibe on the UK carrier portals. This will enable MOKO.mobi to be available on all the mobile operators in the UK and will provide MOKO.mobi with a significant increase in exposure and access to new users. The EyeVibe service is profitable and will be accretive to MOKO.mobi’s revenue stream. The acquisition is subject to completion of formal documentation and satisfactory due diligence by MOKO.mobi.

    “This strategic acquisition further strengthens our UK presence, in particular within the 3UK network, which has historically been our most successful market.” said Ian Rodwell, MOKO.mobi’s CEO. “We are excited about the opportunity the EyeVibe service will provide us in expanding and accelerating our reach in the UK market, which totals approximately 50 million subscribers across all carriers.”

    EyeVibe is currently owned and operated by UK’s Yospace Technologies Limited (Yospace). In 2005, Yospace developed “SeeMeTV” community in partnership with 3 UK, followed afterwards with “LookAtMe!” on O2 UK. The services, then combined into a single brand, EyeVibe, which allows UK mobile subscribers to submit video clips captured on their mobile phones into a gallery, where visitors can download the clips on a “pay-per-view” basis.

    MOKO.mobi is a global platform that enables people to Chat & Share Anywhere! People from around the world use MOKO.mobi on their mobile phone or PC to meet new people, chat in real-time with likeminded people, upload unlimited photos & video, share links, and sample & recommend music from the many MOKO.mobi Music artist profiles. MOKO.mobi is available on multiple wireless carrier portals around the world.

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    ASX Company News: Medic Vision To Acquire Mobile Pty

    Thursday, November 25th, 2010

    Medic Vision Ltd (MVH) (soon to be renamed as Motopia Limited) is delighted to announce that it has entered  into a binding Heads of Agreement to acquire all the share capital  in 2moro Mobile Pty Ltd for $2.5 million. The acquisition is to be paid for via the issue of 10,000,000 shares in the  Company (issue price  of 25c per share). 2Moro is one of the largest and the most trusted       mobile app developers in Australia. 2Moro Mobile has worked closely with major advertising agencies and brands such as Microsoft, Nova and Toyota to deliver many highly successful mobile apps, games and campaigns.

    The CEO of 2moro Mobile, Mr. Peter O’Neill, said today “ I have been involved in the Australian mobile industry for 10 years and the ‘Motopia’ story is the most exciting venture in this space that I’m ware of. ” “This is the perfect acquisition at the perfect time and will further complement our aggressive growth strategies for the   foreseeable future,enabling us to deliver the maximum possible value to our shareholders.”  Mr. Hoath concluded.

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    ASX Company News: MOKO.mobi Launces In Greece

    Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

    MOKO.mobi Limited (MKB) is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Netsmart Ltd to launch MOKO.mobi across Greece’s mobile operators with portal placement and premium billing and MMS.  MOKO.mobi will be launched with “zero-rated data” meaning that users can use MOKO.mobi free of any data charges, making it an attractive proposition.

    This is MOKO.mobi’s 4th European deal, coming on the back of KPN Netherlands, Telefonica Spain and Yoigo Spain. The Company hopes it will establish a solid base for further European carrier deployments.

    Technical and product integration is scheduled to begin during the first quarter of calendar 2011 and revenue is expected to flow by the first half of 2011.  This agreement with Netsmart also includes representation into Russia and South Africa, although those carrier negotiations are still at a very early stage.

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    ASX Company News: MGM Wireless Launches School News Text Network

    Thursday, October 14th, 2010

    AUSTRALIAN-based school communication company MGM Wireless Ltd. (MWR) announced the availability of significant, world first innovation in the delivery of SMS messaging services to Parents and School communities. The new platform, released under MGM’s School News ChannelTM brand, is specifically targeted at Parents and the wider School community, allowing these consumer groups direct on-line access to a feature rich selection of SMS messaging communications services from their school. With School News ChannelTM (SNC), Parents and other school community users, via the SNC website can request, activate and configure their SMS School SMS service anytime on-line – without the need to directly involve their School. The operation of the School News Channel service is funded by users incurring a micro-fee directly on their mobile phone account from theirservice provider, resulting in no communication costs for Schools.

    America’s largest provider of SMS mobile services with over $ 500 million in revenues says “School News Channel is one of the most exciting and breakthrough products I have seen in the mobile messaging space. It’s a very valuable service to Parents. In the US, it’s the norm for consumers to pay to receive SMS messages. There will be little consumer behaviour issues to address, and I expect School News Channel to be a big success. I look forward to assisting and playing a key role to assist MGM launch and commercialise this product in the US market.”

    School News Channel extensively utilises the company’s msgPoolTM micro billing technology – which the company announced in November 2009. The company believes it is in a strong position to be able to protect its innovation and commercial rights with msgPoolTM and School News ChannelTM.  MGM Wireless Ltd is a public company with a market capitalization of A$ 2.9 m listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (MWR). The company trades as Messageyou, LLC in the United States, with its head office in Silicon Valley at Sunnyvale, Cal. The company’s patented SMS School communication solutions empower schools to effectively communicate to parents and caregivers using  SMS text messaging in combination with culturally sensitive communication to improve attendance, student welfare, safety and parent engagement.

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    ASX Company News: Medic Vision To Acquire MConnect

    Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

    Medic Vision Limited (MVH), soon to be renamed Media3Corp, has signed a heads of agreement to purchase MConnect Pty Ltd, an international mobile marketing and content distribution company (target company). The target company has a global presence and contracts with mobile carriers around the globe for the distribution of mobile content. The target company will utilize its growing network of mobile carrier and advertising partners to grow its mobile marketing division, allowing its customers unparalleled access to distribute their own message and products/services across the world’s fastest growing advertising medium – Mobile.

    Chairman of MVH, Jitto Arulampalam, said today “This strategic acquisition will further complement the Company’s already successful media and marketing subsidiary, cBox Pty Ltd and will allow for exponential growth of leading, cutting edge digital technology.” The target company has developed a range of technological solutions that will prove to be an invaluable resource to businesses looking to target mobile users with their message or products. The target company provides a fully managed or self service mobile marketing platform solution, allowing easy set up and management of multiple mobile marketing campaigns across different countries, mobile operating systems and carriers. “The target company’s notable advanced technology solutions and already established solid distribution network in the global market will accelerate the dynamic growth and ever-growing need for effective digital marketing solutions in the Australian and International business markets” Mr Arulampalam said. The target company has a strong profit history. EBITDA for the 2010 financial year was approximately $1.8 million and the forecast EBITDA for this financial year is between $2- $3 million.

    Due to contractual sensitivities MVH and the target company have agreed that terms of the acquisition will remain confidential until completion of due diligence (approximately 4 weeks).   However, MVH can confirm that the total consideration for the acquisition is $8 million payable by $3 million cash and 100 million shares at an issue price of $0.05 per share. The vendors will also receive 10 million options at an exercise price of $0.20 per option. The acquisition is subject to a number of condition precedents, including ASX and shareholder approval pursuant to the Listing Rules and the Corporations Act. Further details regarding the terms of the acquisition will be released in due course.

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    ASX Company News: eServGlobal Increases Revenue From Soccer World Cup

    Monday, August 16th, 2010

    eServGlobal Limited (ESV), a global telecoms software vendor specializing in Mobile Money and Value-Added Services (VAS), reported increased revenue for its FlexiContent customers.

    FlexiContent, available through over a dozen operators during the 2010 soccer world cup in South Africa, allows operators to quickly capitalize on subscriber needs during popular events by providing the much sought-after information and entertainment tools.

    Including Games & Information Services, FlexiContent allowed subscribers to use Premium SMS to access world cup match progress reports and results in REALTIME. FlexiContent also includes a variety of games, such as instant lottery and betting services, where subscribers play for airtime rewards or gifts.  Revenue is created through customers’ Premium SMS transactions. More than 250,000 subscribers registered for FlexiContent services during the ‘world cup’ month alone, creating an additional revenue source for operators, leading to higher ARPU for all of eServGlobal’s clients using FlexiContent. One operator in particular, registered exceptional subscriber interest, with more than 10% of its total customer base signing-up for FlexiContent services.

    “After launching FlexiContent only four months before the world cup, we are extremely proud of its immediate success”, said COO of eServGlobal, Craig Halliday. “We are confident that its revenue-share model, quick time-to-market and immediate returns will continue to impress operators looking for a way to create higher ARPU while increasing customer satisfaction at the same time.”

    eServGlobal specializes in Mobile Money solutions and Value-Added Services (VAS), to help Telco Service Providers increase their revenue and gain and maintain customer ownership.  eServGlobal invests heavily in product development, using carrier-grade, next-generation technology and aligning with the requirements of more than 60 customers in over 45 countries. For 24 years, mobile, fixed, Internet and multiplay telco providers have used our capabilities to lead and innovate in their local markets, leveraging their core assets and their trusted agent and subscriber relationships.

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