October, 2002
Exent Technologies Enables Games-On-Demand Service at Metaboli (France)
Bethesda, Md., October 10, 2002 - Exent Technologies, the leading Applications-on-Demand technology provider, announced today that it has partnered with Metaboli to run its new "Téléchargement de jeux video " game portal, which became commercially available today.
Metaboli's Games-on-Demand (GoD) service is the first online subscription and rental-based service in France. It offers French users a chance to access and play a wide range of the latest PC-based games from their home computers. Metaboli plans to use its online expertise, vast content relations and Exent's secure digital delivery platform to enable broadband service providers to enjoy a quick ROI by offering an attractive value-added-service to their customer base, increasing ARPU and reducing churn.
"In launching Metaboli's Gaming on Demand service in France, we are entering an extremely promising market ", said Pierre Goubet, CEO of Metaboli. "We feel very confident that together with Exent, we will enable service providers to offer a great service for both casual and hard-core gamers ".
"Metaboli is a great addition to our worldwide partner program, using our EXEtender™ platform ", said Zvi Levgoren, Exent's CEO. "Metaboli plans to offer the first
of its kind French Games-on-Demand service as well as to partner with the leading broadband providers co-promoting a white label version, serving as a stimulus for French users to enjoy state-of-the-art services and top games for reasonable prices."
About Metaboli
Metaboli is the market leader for Games on Demand in France. Metaboli proposes a catalog of more that 60 video games, from the major Publishers : Eidos, Ubisoft, Atari, THQ, Focus Interactive, Arxel Tribe, Wanadoo Edition, Microïds, DreamCatcher and Monte-Christo.
Metaboli has built, with French broadband providers, a strong distribution network, which covers 95% of the French Broadband market (2.2 millions lines). Customized portals are operated jointly with each of these partners:
Major shareholders in the company are the founders of the company,
I-Source, Nicom Investissements and Trio MD Conseils. The company is
headquartered in Paris. For more information please see
www.metaboli.fr
About Exent Technologies
Exent is the market leader in technology solutions for secure digital delivery of gaming and application software for service providers who look to digitally distribute, manage & monetize a digital gaming & applications-on-demand service. Exent delivers products & solutions that support multiple markets – gaming, education, enterprises, ISVs and others. Exent’s technology enables various business models – purchases, subscriptions, rentals, try-before-you-buy - through full download & streamed modes, for offline and online use. Exent’s DRM solution dramatically reduces software piracy and ensures enforcement of licensing restrictions.
Exent’s major shareholders include: America Online, Bezeq (Israeli Telco), Comcast, Concord Ventures, Geyser Business Enterprise, New Enterprise Associates, Temasek Holdings and Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel). Exent has offices in Bethesda, MD and Tel-Aviv, Israel. For more information please see
www.Exent.com
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