LAS VEGAS, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Thwapr, Inc. (OTCBB: THWI), a mobile video sharing company, has established an agreement with Asian tech company, Dalrus Pte Ltd. out of Singapore, to collaborate on enhancing and supporting Thwapr's aggressive plan to become a major presence in the Asian mobile community.
Dalrus is a leader in mobile technology and application development for mobile platforms. They are pioneers in the mobile content distribution and mobile community marketplace. The founding team was the first, in 1997, to introduce downloadable mobile content to Nokia phones in Asia. Dalrus currently operates a world class mobile community, Ownskin, servicing mobile phones from major brands. Ownskin currently generates on average 3 million mobile daily page views and 2 million online daily page views.
Thwapr intends to further develop its patent pending technology with Dalrus to create a new peer to peer mobile video sharing experience, with a focus to integrate Asian cultural behaviour and local brands. The Asian marketplace offers significant opportunity for the dynamic capabilities of Thwapr's proprietary mobile platform to transcend the unsupported video format problem, and make viewing and sharing mobile video a device agnostic process.
Asia accounts for more than a third of the world's mobile broadband subscriptions with over 420 million users, and is expected to double in size over the next three years. This diverse region boasts the world's largest mobile market, China, the fastest growing, India, the most advanced, Japan and South Korea as well as some of the most undeveloped. Asia will continue to dominate global mobile ad spend with an expected 33.6% share of the $20.6 billion in mobile ad revenue forecast for 2015.
"I am very pleased to be working with a team of proven experts that have a deep knowledge of not only mobile technology, but also the means of building a vibrant mobile community. Dalrus is an important part of our strategy to position our technical infrastructure for Asian expansion," said Ron Singh, CEO of Thwapr.
"I am delighted to be working with Ron and his team to value add to their existing patent pending technology and marketing thrust into Asia," said Kwek Loong, CEO of Dalrus.
About Thwapr, Inc.
Thwapr is a mobile video sharing platform company that has engineered a proprietary technology to deliver the best possible mobile video quality and user experience regardless of device, network or carrier. Thwapr's seamless device agnostic process empowers users to socialize video content, and provides a solution to monetize the mobile community. Founded by digital video pioneers from Apple, Avid and MTV, Thwapr's patent-pending technology allows brands and marketers a new visual communication channel to engage the hundreds of millions of consumers with Web-enabled mobile devices. Visit us at http://www.thwapr.com, follow us at http://www.twitter.com/thwapr or Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/thwapr
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