airG Inc.
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| Type of business | Corporation |
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| Available in | Multilingual |
| Founded | 2000[1] |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| No. of locations | 12 |
| Founder(s) | |
| President | Michael Kader |
| CEO | Frederick Ghahramani |
| Industry | Mobile social network |
| Revenue | $1 billion+ [3] |
| Employees | 167 [4] |
| Subsidiaries | Hookt |
| Registration | Open |
| Users | 100,000,000+[3] |
| Current status | Live |
| Written in | C, C++, Objective-C, Perl, mod_perl, Python, Javascript, Node.js, Pliant, Java, J2ME |
airG Incorporated (airG), also known as airGames, is a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.[5] It runs a social networking service designed for mobile use.[6] The company was founded and incorporated on April 2000 by Frederick Ghahramani, Vincent Yen, & Bryce Pasechnik.[2] The company said it surpassed 20 million customers in 2007,[7] and in 2014, airG reported over 100 million customers,[3] and sales in over 40 countries.[8] Red Bull is an advertising client of airG.[9]
References
- ^ "airG Crunchbase" (XBRL). Crunchbase Business Graph by AOL Inc. February 1, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e "Engineers Seek Top Prize" (XBRL). Simon Fraser News. September 6, 2001.
- ^ a b c "airG Inc. Visiting company at MWC 2015" (XBRL). Government of Canada Trade Commissioner Service. February 12, 2014.
- ^ "airG Inc. LinkedIn" (XBRL). LinkedIn. February 1, 2013.
- ^ Lewis, Rob (February 8, 2011). "Vancouver's airG - the world's largest mobile social network". Tech Vibes. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^ Indvik, Lauren (April 22, 2010). "More Than Half of Mobile Internet Time Is Spent on Social Networks". Mashable. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^ "AirG Claims 20 Million Users of Mobile Social Networking Services". Cellular News. October 16, 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^ "Meet AirG, The Mobile Social Network You've Never Heard Of That's Ten Times Bigger Than Foursquare" (XBRL). Business Insider. Feb 3, 2011.
- ^ Dostal, Erin (June 14, 2012). "AirG launches ad targeting capabilities". Direct Marketing. Retrieved 6 July 2015.