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SkillPod Media launches new games into iTunes and Android Markets

June 24th, 2011 | admin

SkillPod Media, a Convergence Partners’ investee, has put a lot of recent effort into developing games for Apple iTunes and Android Market.
SkillPod’s motto is ‘Play Anywhere, Anytime, Playtime’. In the words of SkillPod CEO, Mark van Diggelen: “The name of the game is convergence. Players don’t want to be restricted as to when they play and what device they play on. We’re concentrating on making sure that players can play their favourite games wherever they are, with whatever they have in their hands.”

Tags: Android Market, APP, Apple iTunes, Casual gaming, Convergence Partners, entertainment, Facebook, games, Mark van Diggelen, Media, online, portals, SkillPod Media, social networking, websites
Posted in Media, News from the Group, Official Press Releases

Andile Ngcaba receives Fibre Optic Association Award

June 9th, 2011 | admin

The rise of YouTube, social media and other IP-based multi-media content delivery platforms globally and in Africa continues to drive the demand for broadband infrastructure. In order to meet the needs of multimedia content in the form of 3D and HD video, video conferencing, music and the social media explosion sweeping the African continent there has been a surge in the roll out of fibre optic networks.
This is according to Andile Ngcaba, founder and chairman of Convergence Partners, who spoke at a seminar arranged by Datanet Infrastructure Group in conjunction with the international Fibre Optic Association (FOA) and Triple Play Fibre Optic Solutions which provides FOA-approved fibre optic training.

SkillPod leads casual gaming awakening in South Africa

April 5th, 2011 | admin

Convergence Partners investee company SkillPod discusses growth and prospects of casual gaming industry in South Africa. Mark van Diggelen, CEO and founder of SA casual and social gaming company SkillPod, says that although game development in SA is not as big as it is internationally, local programmers are taking a keener interest in it as a career path.

Tags: Amazon, Angry Birds, Casual gaming, CityVille, Facebook, FarmVille, Independent Group, Mark van Diggelen, Media24, programmers, Rovio Mobile, Skillpod, social media, Zygna
Posted in Media, News from the Group, Official Press Releases

SkillPod’s casual gaming platform off to a cracking start!

February 7th, 2011 | admin

“If the first month of 2011 is anything to go by, then the rest of the year is going to be an incredible one” according to Mark van Diggelen – CEO of online and mobile casual gaming business, SkillPod Media, in which Convergence Partners has a strategic equity investment. “We’ve just completed a 7 month period of R&D, where we redeveloped our online and Facebook casual games platforms, adding a host of new features targeted at personalisation, customisation and monetisation.” As a result of this development the response from new and existing clients has been incredibly positive, with 20 new projects already confirmed. These include a number of new casual games portal deployments in the Middle East (these sites have been fully customised to cater for the Arabic language and the reading of content from right to left), UK, USA, Vietnam, Europe and South Africa.