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iTouch was founded in 1995 and recently acquired by
Buongiorno, multinational leader in the mobile
entertainment market worldwide. With the acquisition
of iTouch, BUONGIORNO has become the world's
No. 1 company in mobile entertainment, with 38
offices, business in 53 countries, direct connections to
more than 100 telephone carriers throughout the
world, and access to over 2 billion mobile users. It
also ranks among the first three companies in 8 of the
largest markets.
iTouch's business model is based on providing a broad
range of consumer information and interactive
applications both directly to users through SMS, WAP,
MMS and voice applications, as well as through
partnerships with numerous distribution channels
including media companies, mobile carriers, web
portals and handset manufacturers. Buongiorno's
iTouch operates three divisions:
Business-2-Operator
iTouch is one of the most experienced mobile value
added service providers to mobile carriers around the world. Its B2O
division provides
carriers a broad portfolio of fully outsourced solutions, including
full track music downloads, mobile games store fronts with web and WAP
interfaces, prepaid airtime recharge facilities, corporate messaging
solutions, full WAP portals and content aggregation, production and
management. iTouch has a blue chip client base of some of Europe's and
Australia’s top tier mobile carriers such as SFR, Orange,
Vodafone, Proximus,
Mobistar, Telstra, Meteor and Optus. The business is truly
international with
clients in over a dozen countries and the ability for the company to
deliver
solutions to any carrier in the world.
Business-2-Business
iTouch provides leading broadcasters, media companies, handset
manufacturers and consumer brands a full service provider model for all
their interactivity needs, all of
which can be fully customised to meet the requirements of individual
clients. At the heart of iTouch’s success is its proven
technological
experience, strong degree of customer orientation and pioneering
innovation. Solutions provided to clients such as Channel 4 UK, Antenna
3 Spain, Channel 5 UK, SBS Scandinavia, Nike France and Motorola
Australia include end-to-end Call TV programs produced at dedicated
facilities, high scale mobile and voice voting applications, mobile
marketing campaigns, mobile content downloads, chat and dating
solutions, streaming mobile TV, SMS or MMS to TV applications with own
rendering engine and the transformation of any existing web page to a
mobile internet site.
Busines-2-Consumer
iTouch is an established market leader in the distribution of innovative
mobile content and entertainment products to the mobile user community.
iTouch markets its products directly to consumers through its own
brands leveraging print, internet and TV mediums. Additionally, iTouch operates a consumer portal offering that offers
consumers a ¨shop window¨ of iTouch's full portfolio of mobile
entertainment products and services, including a wide range of
community features such as chat rooms, discussion boards, multi-player
games and messaging services.
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