Boonty - Corporate History

Corporate History

  • Boonty was launched in Paris, France in 2001 by brothers Mathieu and Romain Nouzareth. Prior to establishing Boonty, the brothers founded WebConcept, one of the first e-business consulting companies in France, which they sold to Sweden’s IconMedialab (Euronext: icon) in 1999.

The company started as a pioneer in digital distribution of video games.

The Boonty Digital Platform was rapidly used by the biggest ISP and media sites in the world and the company opened various offices in the world:

  • July 2004: Opening of Boonty Inc., based in New York
  • September 2004: Opening of Boonty Asia Pte Ltd, based in Singapore
  • February 2006: Opening of Boonty Japan PTD in Tokyo

After discovering the Asian gaming market, the company decided to launch its own gaming destination website based on free to play and micro-transaction.

  • May 2007: Boonty acquires the Chinese Game Studio GameHub and open Boonty China
  • June 2007: Boonty acquires domain name cafe.com and start to operate the online game web site
  • October 2008: Boonty launches Facebook app iscool
  • December 2008: The company decides to sells its Digital Distribution Platform and the Name Boonty to Gilles Ridel of Nexway, the leader of digital distribution of software and video games.
  • January 2009: Boonty changes name to Cafe.com
  • February 2009: The founder brothers are leaving the company
  • June 2010: Cafe.com enters the NYSE Euronext and changes its name to Weka-Entertainment

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