The Bmo Capital Markets 18 Annual Digital
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THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE 4mm Games (Private) www.4mmgames.com 4mm Games ("4 millimeter games") was established by co-founders of Rockstar Games and a handful of leading entrepreneurs and visionaries from games, media, music, and advertising. The company is developing online worlds that will define social gaming. 4mm Games is headquartered in NYC with offices in London, England. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE Activision Blizzard (ATVI) www.activisionblizzard.com Activision Blizzard is a leading publisher, developer and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure software for multiple platforms including the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, and the PC. The company’s products span a wide range of genres and target markets. The company owns several hit brands, including World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Call of Duty, and Guitar Hero. Activision Blizzard is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE Adknowledge (Private) www.adknowledge.com Adknowledge, Inc. provides Web-based solutions for managing Internet advertising campaigns for marketers and advertising agencies. The company offers AdKnowledge System, which is used for planning, buying, trafficking, targeting, serving, and reporting online campaigns; and AdKnowledge eAnalytics, a suite of data analysis and data mining services that allow marketers and agencies to obtain insight into consumer behavior and brand awareness. It also provides Web marketing management services. The company was formerly known as ClickOver, Inc. and changed its name to Adknowledge, Inc. in February 1998. Adknowledge was incorporated in 1996 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in New York. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE AOL (AOL) www.aol.com AOL is a leading web services company that operates numerous content sites and consumer applications, including AOL.com, Moviefone, DailyFinance, Engadget, MapQuest, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). The company’s businesses span the Internet with content, products, and services for consumers, publishers, and advertisers. The Company markets its advertising offerings on both AOL's owned and operated properties and third-party websites. AOL also operates a subscription-based access service in the United States. The company became an independent public company after a spin-off from Time Warner in December 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (Private) www.bdmifund.com Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments is the venture capital arm of Bertelsmann AG specializing in seed and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital media technologies, products, and distribution channels including broadcast television, book and magazine publishing, media services, music, and direct marketing. It prefers to invest in companies based in the United States and Germany. The firm seeks to take minority stake in its portfolio companies. Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Guetersloh, Germany. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE BOKU (Private) www.boku.com BOKU is creating the standard for online payments using your mobile phone, making it easy to pay for digital goods and social experiences across the web. With a strong focus on reliability and security, BOKU's goal is to bring bank-grade payments technology and mobile users together on the web, creating a trusted, viable and accessible market for consumers, publishers and carriers alike. Based in San Francisco with offices in Europe, Asia and Latin America, BOKU reaches over 1.8 billion consumers worldwide, and is funded by leading Silicon Valley and European entrepreneurs and venture capitalists including Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, DAG Ventures and Andreesen Horowit. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE Boxee (Private) www.boxee.tv Boxee TV, Ltd. develops media center software. The company’s software enables its users to control media programs stored in the PC or the internet domain, and brings them to the television. It enables its users to view, rate, and recommend content to their friends through social networking features, as well as its social component, which allows sharing with friends. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE Brightcove (Private) www.brightcove.com Brightcove provides internet television services in the areas of action, educational, family, films and shorts, food and drink, funny gaming, health, living, mature, music, motor sports, news, outdoors, sexy, sports, travel, television faves, and underground. It operates Brightcove, an online video platform for video distribution, monetization, and custom online video applications, as well as offers Brightcove TV Everywhere Solution Pack, which allows TV programmers to operate branded and authenticated TV Everywhere- compatible catch-up TV services. The company also provides Brightcove Mobile Experience for AdobeR FlashR Player 10.1, a solution that enables organizations to deliver an optimized video viewing experience across smartphone platforms running Flash Player 10.1, as well as offers consulting, strategy, design, and development services. It offers its services by using a software-as-a- service model. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE Ecast (Private) www.ecastnetwork.com Ecast is the leader in place-based interactive media. Our hospitality network delivers digital music, games, entertainment, information and interactive advertising to more than 10,000 bars and nightclubs across the United States. Leveraging the personal impact of touch combined with the interactivity and targeting of the Internet, Ecast brings unsurpassed consumer engagement to out-of-home markets and is redefining the way consumers are entertained, informed and engaged. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE Electronic Arts (ERTS) www.ea.com Electronic Arts is a developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment software for all major console and handheld platforms, as well as for the PC and mobile phones. The company operates under three different labels – EA Sports, EA Games, and EA Play. The company’s brands include Madden NFL, NBA Live, FIFA Soccer, The Sims, Need for Speed, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield. Electronic Arts is increasingly focused on the growing digital gaming market, having already acquired several online and mobile gaming companies that include Playfish, Jamdat, and Pogo. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE Epic Games (Private) www.epicgames.com Established in 1991, Epic Games develops cutting-edge games and cross-platform game engine technology. The company has created multiple million-selling, award-winning titles in its Unreal series, including Unreal Tournament 3 for PC, PLAYSTATION®3 and Xbox 360®. Epic’s Gears of War won over 30 Game of the Year awards, and the sales of Gears of War and Gears of War 2 have eclipsed 12 million units. Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 is the four-time winner of and Hall of Fame inductee for Game Developer magazine’s Best Engine Front Line Award. Unreal Engine 3 has also been recognized as the number one game engine by Develop magazine. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE F+W Media (Private) www.fwmedia.com F+W Media strives to offer the highest quality content in a wide variety of formats—from print to digital to video—to highly passionate enthusiast communities with the goal of offering community, content, and connectivity to these focused markets. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE FlyCast (appMobi) (Private) www.flycast.fm FlyCast is the mobile broadcast network that allows customers to choose what they want from the best music in all genres, talk radio, sports, and hundreds of the best terrestrial radio stations from around the country, delivered to the smartphone that's already in their pocket. FlyCast works with the top smartphones – iPhone and iPod Touch, Android phones like the Droid and G1, BlackBerry Bold, Storm, Curve, Tour, even works with the iPad. FlyCast also works on a desktop PC or Mac, and the basic service is completely free. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE Gameloft (GFT) www.gameloft.com Gameloft is a leading international publisher and developer of downloaded video games for mobile phones and devices powered by Android, BREW, iOS, Java, and Symbian. The company develops hundreds of SKUs for each game release so that they can be played across numerous handheld devices. Gameloft has a long standing partnership with Ubisoft given that both companies were founded by the Guillemot Brothers. The company is headquartered in Paris, France. THE BMO CAPITAL MARKETS 18th ANNUAL DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CONFERENCE GameStop (GME) www.gamestop.com GameStop is the world’s largest game retailer focusing on video game software, hardware, and accessories. The company currently has over 6,500 retail locations worldwide and is also the leading seller of pre-played