HONG KONG and LOS ANGELES, May 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Artificial Life, Inc., (OTC BB: ALIFE), a leading provider of award-winning mobile technology and applications, announced today that it has signed a partnership and distribution agreement with Talkweb in the People's Republic of China to publish a wide range of its Android and Java games on an upcoming Artificial Life Brand Shop for China Mobile's app store, Mobile Market.
With 20 million users and 100 million downloads in 2010, China Mobile's Mobile Market (MM) is one of the most prominent app stores in Mainland China. One of its key success factors lies in the Brand Shops, which provide high-quality apps and games developed by prestigious interactive gaming companies.
In this collaboration, Artificial Life (ALIFE) will launch various mobile titles through its own Brand Shop in the Mobile Market, which will allow the Company to tap deeper into the thriving mobile market of Mainland China. Further information about the many mobile game titles and other products by Artificial Life can be found at the company's m-commerce portal: www.botme.com.
"We are pleased to extend our presence in China through the main app store of the world's biggest mobile phone operator, China Mobile. We will continue to explore more distribution platforms so that our games and apps can reach even more users around the world," said Eberhard Schoneburg, CEO of Artificial Life, Inc.
About Artificial Life, Inc.
Artificial Life, Inc. has been a pioneer in artificial intelligence and mobile technology since its inception in Boston in 1994. We are a public US corporation (OTC BB: ALIFE) with listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurt: AIF.F; Xetra: AIF.DE) and headquarters and production center in Hong Kong. We have additional offices in Berlin, Germany (EMEA headquarters), Tokyo, Japan, and Santa Monica, USA. Currently our main business areas are: high quality (3D) interactive (massively multiplayer) mobile games, mobile participation television, mobile business applications, our powerful mobile commerce technology platform OPUS-M™ and our green IT solutions provided by Green Cortex, Inc. We have won many industry awards for our outstanding technology and products.
About Talkweb:
Talkweb Information System Co., Ltd was founded in May 1996, at present with about 2000 staff in 29 offices located across mainland China; Company engaged mainly in the mobile internet, mobile animation, e-commerce support & operation and industry software development. We have 14 years of telecom industry experience and over 5 years of mobile internet product design, develop and mobile animation operation and marketing experience. Our company listed on Shenzhen SME board, Ticker symbol: 002261.
About China Mobile:
China Mobile Limited provides a range of mobile telecommunications services in all 31 provinces, autonomous regions and directly administered municipalities in Mainland China, as well as in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Ranked as international number one operators by revenue, the Company's total number of customers reached approximately 589.3 million.
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Forward-Looking Statements:
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Artificial Life IR and PR Contact:
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