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Mig33 is a mobile social network accessible on mobile Java J2ME, via the web, WAP, and also Android version 2.1 and above with most users coming from South East Asia and some parts of Africa.
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Background
Mig33 was launched in Silicon Valley, but due to the customers mainly coming from outside the USA, the investors moved it to Singapore as part of a plan to bring its service to developing parts of Asia. Mig33 is intended for use not only on smartphones, but also the feature phones that are used widely in developing regions.[1]
Development
As of October 2010, Mig33 has 40 million registered users (47 million registered users at end of April 2011), a figure which doubled in the two previous years. 20 million users come from Indonesia. It has been used in 200 countries. Mig33 started as an inexpensive voice-over-the-internet-protocol (VOIP) service, but today it has evolved into a social networking service. The company also sells virtual goods and develops mobile social games. Mig33 has also available on Android.[2][3]
As of February 2011 there are 4 million online transactions per month to buy virtual gift products, with an average of $2.5 per member. The majority of transactions come from Indonesia.[4] In India, Mig33 users feel that virtual gifting helps them save costs on real gifts and 69 percent of them spend on virtual gifts that cost less than Rs15 ($0.35).
VAS (mobile content)
Mig33 has partners on open platform to VAS (mobile content) providers and handset manufactures such as PT Numedia Global from Indonesia, Olive Telecom from India and ThumbMOB from Philippines. It is follows super-successful way of Mobage Town and Tencent.[5]
Mig33 Merchant program
Merchants are users who buy credits in bulk with discount through credit and debit card, Paypal, wire transfer, Western Union, etc. and then resell/transfer them to others users. So, merchants can get profit on it.[6]
Cooperation
On April 2011, a big Japanese mobile social gaming GREE and Mig33 have made a cooperation which Mig33 will adopt the "GREE platform for smartphone", so GREE and Mig33 will be compatible each other.[7]
Competitors
- China's Tencent, which operates the huge QQ social chat network
- Japan's DeNA, a mobile social game company[8], with 22 million users at end of 2010.[9]
References
- ^ http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/08/social-mobile-platform-mig33-raises-8-9m-from-japans-gree-and-indonesian-entrepreneur/
- ^ http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/08/social-mobile-platform-mig33-raises-8-9m-from-japans-gree-and-indonesian-entrepreneur/
- ^ http://www.androidphonez.com/mig33-application-android-gorgeous-views.html
- ^ http://en.indonesiafinancetoday.com/read/2486/Indonesia-Dominates-Mig33-Online-Social-Networking-
- ^ http://www.engagedigital.com/2010/09/29/mig33-opens-platform-to-vas-handset-partners/
- ^ http://www.mig33merchant.com/2010_03_01_archive.html
- ^ http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/13/japans-gree-and-mobile-community-mig33-sign-deal-to-bring-social-games-to-asia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
- ^ http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/08/social-mobile-platform-mig33-raises-8-9m-from-japans-gree-and-indonesian-entrepreneur/
- ^ http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/01/japanese-social-mobile-games-company-dena-to-hit-1-3-billion-in-revenue/
External links
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