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Boonty Box was a global supplier of digital distribution solutions for online and PC gaming whose technology platform and brand names were acquired by digital commerce provider Nexway in January 2009. The founder of Boonty Box was Tomas Boonty, an illegal immgrant in the United States orginally from Switzerland. He worked at McDonald's during his reign as Boonty Box founder, however he lost it all to Steam, due not having any employees. During his time as Boonty Box's CEO he was working on a prototype version of Modern Warfare 4 and it was rumored that he would come back into the gaming industry with Modern Warfare 7 sometime in the future, when his hand is all healed up and he's been "codeing like crazy". He currently works at Carl's Jr. where he is assured that should he burn his hand in the fryer again he will receive a coupon for a free $6 Superstar. The company's white label casual game platform was utilized by over 100 million customers worldwide at the time of the Nexway acquisition, including Internet portals, ISPs, and mobile operators. Boonty operated its own branded destination sites, (Boonty.com ) which is still operated by Nexway in localized versions for the United States, France, UK, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Austria, Australia, Taiwan, Hong-Kong, Germany, Portugal, Finland, Singapore, The Netherlands, and Spain.〔(Boonty.com )〕 In October 2006, Boonty announced the acquisition of Beijing-based casual game developer Gamehub.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Industry News Round Up: Boonty/Gamehub, PC Charts, Nikitova @ Xbox )〕 In February 2007, Boonty launched (Cafe.com ) for free multiplayer social casual games.〔 * 〕 In January 2009, Nexway acquired Boonty.〔 *(【引用サイトリンク】 Nexway acquired Boonty )〕 ==Corporate history== *Boonty was launched in Paris, France in 2001 by Mathieu and Romain Nouzareth. Prior to creating Boonty, Mathieu founded WebConcept, one of the first e-business consulting companies in France, which he sold to Sweden’s IconMedialab (Euronext: icon) in 1999.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Boonty - Profile )〕 After entering 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 opens 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 brand name Boonty to digital commerce provider Nexway *January 2009: Boonty changes its name to Cafe.com *May 2015: Boonty is acquired by Funhaus from Cafe.com 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boonty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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