Vivox to Open Boston Office 03/09/2012
Posted by Morse, Barnes-Brown Pendleton in Client News.Tags: boston, innovation district, Vivox, voice chat platform
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On March 1st MBBP client Vivox, Inc. announced the opening of a Boston office in the up-and-coming Innovation District. The expansion will include both a new space and the hiring of engineering and product development staff as part of its aggressive growth strategy resulting from an increased market and demand for Vivox’s high quality social communication services. Vivox CEO and Co-Founder, Rob Seaver, had this to say of the annoucement:
With demand for our social communication technology at an all time high, we are aggressively growing our team to support the expansion of services across all platforms and especially with apps on mobile devices and inside of social networks. Opening a Boston office puts us at the heart of some of the best talent in the country – talent that will help us shape the future direction of the social communications landscape.
Congratulations Vivox!
For more information, please see the full press release on this topic
Vivox Announces New Social Voice Partner Program 03/31/2010
Posted by Morse, Barnes-Brown Pendleton in Client News.Tags: facebook, social network, Vivox
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On March 23, MBBP client Vivox, Inc. announced they have launched a new initiative to branch into social networking websites through their new Social Voice Partner Program. This program will make it easy for developers to integrate voice to any social media application such as Facebook, Google Wave and Ning. Vivox’s chief executive Rob Seaver said:
We want to bring voice to social apps across all devices. We see just about every app becoming social.
Please visit Vivox for more information about their Social Voice Partner Program.
Massively Interviews Vivox VP Monty Sharma 03/16/2010
Posted by Morse, Barnes-Brown Pendleton in Client News.Tags: massively, MMO, Vivox
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Monty Sharma, Vice President of Product Managment and Marketing at MBBP client Vivox, Inc., was recently interviewed by video game news website Massively. In the interview, Sharma discusses Vivox’s past, present, and future company in the massively multiplayer online game (MMO) industry.
For the full interview, please visit Massively.
Vivox Partners with German Game Portal Bigpoint 02/12/2010
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A few days ago MBBP client Vivox, Inc. announced it entered into a partnership with German company Bigpoint, the largest German gaming portal and one of the top 3 gaming portals worldwide. The partnership will allow Bigpoint’s 100 million members to use Vivox’s voice chat platform by providing Vivox’s technology to their community members, advancing social networking capabilities and enhancing game play across the catalogue of Bigpoint games.
Congratulations, Vivox!
MIT Enterprise Forum NE Games SIG to Host Game Companies and the VC’s that Fund Them 01/20/2010
Posted by Morse, Barnes-Brown Pendleton in Events.Tags: new england games sig, video games, Vivox
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Registration is now open for the MITEF New England Games SIG and New England Venture Capital Association event: A Meeting of the Minds: Game Companies and the VC’s that Fund Them. The event will feature a panel of venture capitalists and executives from companies in the game industry (including MBBP client Vivox) who will discuss their perspectives on the current state of the game industry. Wade Roush, chief correspondent for Xconomy.com, will moderate the event while helping to answer a number of questions for attendees. MBBP is one of the sponsors of this event and our own Michael Cavaretta is founder and chair of the New England Games SIG.
Featured Panelists:
- Jim Crowley, President and CEO of Turbine, Inc.
- Alex Finkelstein, General Partner at Spark Capital
- Dayna Grayson, Principal of North Bridge Venture Partners
- Nabeel Hyatt, Founder and CEO of Conduit Labs
- Austin Westerling, Partner at Charles River Ventures
- Rob Seaver, Founder and CEO of Vivox, Inc.
To register for the event, please click here.
For more information on the event, please visit the NE Games SIG blog.
