American Greetings Interactive Selects AgentArts, Inc. to Add Recommendations, Personalization for Online, Web And Instant Messaging Channels.WASHINGTON -- AgentArts Inc. (www.agentarts.com), a leading provider of recommendation solutions for entertainment content, announced it has licensed its Content Recommendations System to AG Interactive, the Internet and wireless business unit of American Greetings American Greetings Corporation, Inc. NYSE: AM is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Cleveland, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products (such as wrapping papers and decorations), and electronic . AG Interactive will use AgentArts patented recommendations solution to deploy recommendations and personalization features across multiple online, mobile and instant messaging products including AmericanGreetings.com, BlueMountain.com, SI Swimsuit BREW Wallpaper application, MIDIRingtones Web and Kiwee-MSN Messenger Store Fronts. "We are delighted to be working with AG Interactive to help their customers quickly and easily find and discover valued content via the Web, mobile and IM channels," said AgentArts CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Andrew Coates. "Recommendation and personalization features are a proven means of increasing commerce conversion, customer retention and repeat visit rates. AG Interactive is working to provide their customers with the best user experience possible and we look forward to working with them to deliver on this promise." "We are excited about the opportunities offered by AgentArts technology to help expose relevant content to our customers," said AG Interactive's CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and Sr. Vice President of Kiwee, Rajiv Jain. "With content recommendations we hope to increase the ease in which our customers find the most relevant content from our huge catalogue selection, and also stimulate additional customer activity from our millions of subscribers across our online cards and our Kiwee brand products." About AgentArts, Inc. AgentArts is a leading provider of recommendation and personalization solutions for music, video, games and mobile entertainment. AgentArts offers a range of recommendation, personalization, datamining and community recommendation products to help our clients deliver a more effective and targeted entertainment experience to their customers. AgentArts clients include Infospace Mobile, Verizon Wireless, AG Interactive, Telstra Big Pond, Telstra Mobile, MoConDi, 3 Italy, and Legion Interactive. AgentArts holds full USPTO USPTO abbr. United States Patent and Trademark Office patents for profile-based recommendations (US Patent 6,438,579) and content relationship generation (US Patent 6,763,354). The company was founded in January 1999, and has offices in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] , Washington, DC, and Melbourne, Australia. About AG Interactive AG Interactive (AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) A machine intelligence that resembles that of a human being. Considered impossible by many, most artificial intelligence (AI) research, projects and products deal with specific applications such as industrial robots, playing chess, ) is a global leader in licensing and creating original self and social expression products for online, instant messaging and mobile platforms. To create its premier content, the company leverages one of the world's largest creative studios and digital library of award-winning expressive content as well as an extensive international distribution capability. AGI attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month in eighteen countries to its popular websites AmericanGreetings.com, BlueMountain.com, & Egreetings.com. It also serves premium content through Instant Messaging or online partnerships with AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). , and Yahoo! and mobile content with its applications and partnerships with over 40 carriers around the world under the Kiwee name. The company has one of the largest online subscription services with over 2.6 million paying subscribers. AG Interactive is a subsidiary of American Greetings Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AM), one of the world's leading manufacturers of social expression products generating annual net sales Net Sales The amount a seller receives from the buyer after costs associated with the sale are deducted. Notes: This amount is calculated by subtracting the following items from gross sales: merchandise returned for credit, allowances for damaged or missing goods, freight of approximately $1.9 billion. For more information, please visit www.aginteractive.com. BREW is a registered trademark of QUALCOMM Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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