GlobalFun Signs Partnership With CompuTel Of Germany For Internet And Wireless Entertainment Services.Business Editors GOTHENBURG, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 2000 Interactive entertainment supplier GlobalFun, a subsidiary of leading Scandinavian computer game developer UDS UDS Ustedes (Spanish: Formal Plural You) UDS Uniform Data System UDS Unscheduled DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) Synthesis UDS Unix Domain Socket UDS Urodynamics , has signed a far-reaching strategic partnership with German company CompuTel, a subsidiary of the publishing giant Springer Group. GlobalFun and CompuTel will jointly develop and supply entertainment products for the European Internet and wireless markets. The new partnership between GlobalFun and CompuTel comes into immediate effect and encompasses several strategic business initiatives. The main pillar of the new partnership is joint development of entertainment solutions and strategies in order to offer the European consumer market Internet and wireless entertainment products. Initially, the products and services will be offered to consumers in the following markets: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and Hungary. "We are most happy to announce this new partnership with one of Europe's leading telephone services companies, CompuTel," said GlobalFun's Managing Director Bertil Krumnack. "Our extensive background and knowledge in games development and telephone services, respectively, will ensure that our European consumers are offered products of the highest quality." About CompuTel In 1995 CompuTel Telefonservice GmbH became a 100% subsidiary of the Axel Springer Axel Springer (May 2, 1912, Altona, Hamburg - September 22, 1985, West Berlin), was a German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG publishing company. Springer was born as Axel Cäsar Springer in Hamburg, where his father worked as publisher. Verlag AG and is today the leading provider of telephone and fax-based value-added services in Germany. CompuTel arranges automated handling of voice and fax value-added services in local and mobile telephone networks for their customers. Within their services CompuTel is able to link telephone/fax, language computers and information technology intelligently. Direct and dialog marketing, address registration, field solutions as well as the production and marketing of contents for the local and mobile telephone networks are the chief domains of competence. CompuTel offers comprehensive know-how and a highly modern technical equipment within the range of telecommunications and IT solutions. CompuTel develops custom-made concepts for enterprises of very different industries: media, brand companies, mail order services, agencies, telecommunications as well as banks and financial service institutions. About GlobalFun and UDS GlobalFun is a fully-owned subsidiary of UDS. GlobalFun will develop and supply interactive entertainment products for the world market, e.g. via its own in "gaming community A gaming community is usually a group of like minded individuals working towards a goal (such as promoting fair play and team work) or supporting each other within games (usually online video games such as MMORPG's or FPS's) RTS(real time strategy) games are developing larger " on the Internet. GlobalFun will also market UDS-developed games for digital TV and cellular phones. UDS, Unique Development Studios AB, was founded in 1997 and is today Scandinavia's leading and most profitable developer of computer-, video- and console games. UDS has more than 90 employees at its headquarters in Norrkoping and in Britain. UDS is owned by its founders and employees, and by Slottsbacken Venture Capital, Nordico Invest and Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. . UDS recently acquired the British game developer King Of the Jungle Ltd with approx. 12 employees. The acquisition signals the start of UDS' international expansion and was paid for with the company's own stock. UDS has well established partnerships with many of the leading publishing companies in the world, and the company has received several large orders for computer and video games This article is about the British magazine covering computer and video games. For the American magazine, see Computer Games Magazine. Computer And Video Games (CVG lately. In June, UDS received its largest order ever by being commissioned to develop a computer game for French publishing giant Infogrames based on the popular European comics European comics is a generalized terms for comics produced in Continental Europe. Though technically European, British comics are for historical and cultural reasons considered separate from European comics due to the existence of a well-established domestic market and traditions and cartoon series A cartoon series is a set of regularly presented animated television programs created or adapted for television broadcast with a common series title, usually related to one another. Asterix & Co. In May, a deal was signed with the listed company listed company n → compañía cotizable listed company n → société cotée en Bourse listed company list n → Enlight Interactive to develop a 3D computer game based on the famous children's character Mulle Meck. UDS has also recently received an order from the American entertainment giant Fox Interactive for developing a game based on Fox's successful "World's Scariest Police Chases" television series. Other important orders have been signed with Crave Entertainment Crave Entertainment is an American video game company. It was founded in 1997 by Nima Taghavi. Its headquarters is in Newport Beach, California. It is a division of Handleman Corporation, which acquired the company in 2005. (Snow Cross, a game based on snowmobile snowmobile, vehicle designed to travel over snow, ice, and similar surfaces that offer limited traction and weight-supporting capability. As the performance of the vehicle depends to a large extent on keeping its weight as low as possible, there is no enclosure for racing) and the world's largest toy manufacturer Mattel (a car racing game A racing game is any game that involves competing in races through a surrogate playing piece or vehicle, either getting it from one point to another or completing a number of circuits in the shortest time. ). UDS recently announced the acquisitions of rights to develop computer, video and consol Consol A government bond with no maturity . Popular in Great Britain. The formula for valuing these bonds is simple. The consol payment divided by yield to maturity is the price of the bond. games based on the American animated TV series Futurama. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/12/08/20001208BIT00260/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/12/08/20001208BIT00260/bit0002.pdf |
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