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Announcing Final Speakers for 6th Annual LA Games Conference, April 24th, 2012

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 15, 2012

Digital Media Wire today announced that LA Games Conference (http://www.lagamesconference.com/) to be held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on April 24, 2012, will feature many of the most successful social game entrepreneurs shaping the gaming industry today, as it intersects with other forms of media and entertainment:

Glenn Walcott, President, Double Down Interactive

Glenn joined Double Down Interactive in November 2010 as President. He was previously the CFO of Big Fish Games and helped lead the growth of that company from $ 8 million in revenue to more than $ 100 million and from 40 to 400 employees. He was also instrumental in helping Big Fish Games raise $ 83 million in one of the largest rounds of private financing of any gaming company ever. Glenn will be featured in a case study session about IGT’s $ 500 Million acquisition of Double Down with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP’s Stuart Campbell and John Salter, Partner of The Raine Group, an investment bank specializing in media and entertainment ventures.

Lars Buttler, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Trion Worlds

Game Industry Entrepreneur Lars Buttler is Founder and CEO of Trion Worlds, the publisher and developer of games and original entertainment for the connected world. The company recently completed an $ 85 million round of strategic growth equity financing, adding to $ 100 million already raised. Trion’s first online game, RIFT™, launched worldwide on March 1, 2011, to critical and consumer acclaim and revenues have already surpassed $ 100 million with players activating over 1 million accounts. Trion’s mission is to revolutionize global entertainment by combining the best elements of online, gaming, and traditional media. Prior to founding Trion, Buttler was Vice President for Global Online at Electronic Arts, the world’s largest independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. Buttler led EA’s strategy for online games and services and ran EA’s Online Studio

Chris DeWolfe, Chief Executive Officer, SGN

Internet entrepreneur Chris DeWolfe is best known as co-founder and former CEO of MySpace, the social network that redefined the concept of socializing around shared interests. Under DeWolfe’s leadership, MySpace grew exponentially: Launched in 2003, MySpace attracted an average of 300,000 new members each day, and when he left the company in 2009 it had more than 125 million monthly active users from 29 countries around the globe. In 2010, DeWolfe staked his claim in the rapidly growing social games market. With backing from Austin Ventures, DeWolfe purchased Mindjolt, a San Francisco-based social games platform. With more than 20 million active users, Mindjolt is among the fastest growing companies in the social gaming space, already profitable through a combination of advertising and virtual goods’ sales. In 2011, Mindjolt acquired SGN, a leading developer of social mobile games and Hallpass Media, a portfolio of popular free-to-play online game sites and in 2012 the entire company rebranded itself as SGN. Chris will be interviewed on stage by Paul Bricault, a Venture Partner at Greycroft Partners in the firm’s West Coast Office.

These companies and executives join over 300 decision-makers, creatives, analysts, press and leading professional gamers. Speakers include:

Jesse Redniss, SVP, USA Network, Digital (NBC Universal)

Jack Buser, Senior Director, Playstation Digital Platforms

Matt Hulett, President, GameHouse (RealNetworks)

Mark Spenner, EVP of Games, Rumble

Baudouin Corman, Vice President of Publishing, Americas, Gameloft

Mark Friedler, Partner, Worlds and Games Consulting

Paul Bricault, Venture Partner, Greycroft Partners

Nanea Reeves, COO, Machinima

Joel Resnik, Vice President of Video Games, Redbox

Jon Estanislao, Director of Digital Distribution, Activision Publishing

Chris Donahue, Director, Global Publisher/Developer Relations, Onlive.

Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic

Ned Sherman, CEO & Publisher, Digital Media Wire

Allen DeBevoise, Chairman & CEO, Machinima.com

Lisa Marino, CEO, RockYou

Maria Casey, Senior Manager of Business Development, Arkadium

Simon Whitcombe, VP Games, CBS Interactive

Bjorn Book-Larsson, CEO, K2/Gamersfirst

Peter Levin, CEO, Nerdist

Chris Early, VP, Digital Publishing, Ubisoft Entertainment

Davin Miyoshi, VP Social Games, GSN

Andrew Pedersen, Vice President & General Manager, Social Games, Tagged

Gordon Bellamy, Executive Director, IGDA

Michael Maher, Director, Business Development at American Express, Enterprise Growth, Sometrics / American Expresss

Jim Greer, Founder, Kongregate

Lisa Hanson, Managing Partner and Founder, Niko Partners

Dale Strang, CEO, Viximo

Nick Bhardwaj, VP of Monetization and User Acquisition, NaturalMotion

Mara Winokur, SVP Digital Media and Business Development, Starz Digital Media

Karl Mehta, Founder, PlaySpan

Marc Rochman, Founder and CEO, Openbucks

Laura Naviaux, SVP of Global Sales & Marketing, Sony Online Entertainment

Christian Petersen, VP Community, CloudMade

Joakim Baage, Event Director, LA Games Conference

Chris Skaggs, CTO, Soma Games

Juan Reyes, CTO, BluFocus

Kyu Lee, President, Gamevil

Peter Shiao, Founder, CEO, Orb Media Group

Michael Cai, VP, Video Games, Interpret

Jay Moore, Founder & CEO, Popzy

John Welch, President, Making Fun

Chris Petrovic, General Manager, GameStop Digital Ventures

Anthony Jacobson, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Atari

Mike Vorhaus, President, Magid Advisors

Bill Wheaton, SVP & General Manager of the Media Division, Akamai

Martin Rae, President, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

Robert Nashak, EVP, Digital Entertainment, BBC Worldwide Americas

Chris Marlowe, Editor, Digital Media Wire

Jordan Metzner, Head of Product and Partnerships, Xsolla USA Inc.

Steve Klebe, Head of Business Development for Consumer Payments, Google

Mike Goslin, General Manager, Rebel Entertainment

Chris Davis, VP of Brand Sales, TrialPay, Inc.

Mary Ku, Director of Product Management, Digital Goods, PayPal

Jo Webber, Chairman and CEO, Founder, Virtual Piggy, Inc

Margaret Wallace, CEO, Playmatics

Chris Petrovic, General Manager, GameStop Digital Ventures

William Quigley, Managing Director, Clearstone Venture Partners

Maha Ibrahim, General Partner, Canaan Partners

Alex Suh, Managing Director, California Technology Ventures

Eric Goldberg, Managing Director, Crossover Technologies

Marshall Jensen, Managing Partner, DMW Hexagon

Dave Taylor, Independent Game Producer

Shirin Salemnia, Founder and CEO, PlayWerks

Flint Dille, Writer

Jessica Abroms, Lead Experience Designer, Social Gaming Network

Phyllis Guo, Chief Strategist, The9

Greg Short, President & CEO, EEDAR

Aaron Kornblum, Sr. Director of Security Policy, Interactive Entertainment Business, Microsoft

Guy Finley, Director of Anti-Piracy Affairs, CDSA

Marcus Gners. Director, Business Development, Stardoll

Umair Khan, Chairman and CEO, SecretBuilders

Manny Anekal, COO, Kiip

Stuart Drexler, Board Advisor, Tykoon

Michael Trigg, Founder & CEO, Spitball Entertainment, Inc.

Kristafer Vale, CEO & Lead Designer, Winterkewl Games, Character TD, DreamWorks Animation

Jessica Abroms, Lead Experience Designer, Social Gaming Network

Jamison Selby, Vice President of Sales, Socialtype / Chair, IGDA Los Angeles

Panel topics Include:

The State of Games Industry
From Console to Cloud: Exploring Today’s Multiple Distribution Possibilities
KA-CHING! How To Effectively Market and Publicize Games to Increase Sales
Power of Community: Integrating Social Design in Game Development
Social Game Distribution: Facebook Is Not The Only Game In Town
Free, Pay-To-Play or Subscription: What Payment Solutions Fits Your Game The Best?
Games on the Go: Latest Trends in Games and Apps For Mobile Devices
DEBATE CLUB: You Pick The Topic!
Entertainment on Consoles: Reinventing the Media Hub of the Living Room
Delivering the Virtual Goods: How Is the Micropayments Business Evolving for Games
VC and Investor Roundtable: Where is the Smart Money Flowing and Why?
Los Angeles Game Developer Leadership Round Table
FUTURE GAMING TRENDS – Analyst Presentations, Predictions and Demos
Dealing with Piracy and Security Threats
Kids Play: The latest in Merging Online and Offline Games

Event sponsors and media partners include CEA, IGDA, CDSA, Playspan, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, boxPAY, Xsolla, CloudMade, EEDAR, PayPal, Virtual Piggy, Openbucks, Tagged, K2/Gamersfirst, Jakprints, SAG-AFTRA, EMF, Digital LA, WITI, WIGI, E3, GamesMatch, ProductionHUB, GIT LA, Mary-Margaret Network, BoogarLists, Parks Associates, Fusicology, TAG Strategic, UCLA Anderson, Terpin Communications, SocialRadius and PRWeb.

For complete agenda, registration and event details please visit:

http://lagamesconference.com/

Other prominent Digital Media Wire events include NY Games Conference, Future of Television Forum, Digital Music Forum East & West, Games Summit at Int’l CES, and Digital Media Conference.

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Partner Network to Bring Affordable Mobile Apps to Its Advertisers

Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 23, 2012

App Express today announced a partner agreement with TxStar Directory Company to resell its affordable mobile app builder that enables small and medium-sized businesses to engage customers and grow their businesses with powerful mobile apps. Through this agreement, TxStar will offer the App Express platform to its advertisers in the greater Abilene and Lubbock, Texas communities, to help them solve real business issues such as payments, scheduling and marketing with coupons, deals and social sharing.

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    Payments – invoice and receive payments on the go
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    Sharing – share app with friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter. Engage users to “follow” your business on Twitter and “like” your business on Facebook
    Deals – engage customers with loyalty and couponing system
    Information – provide essential contact information and menu of services
    One-page, mobile-optimized website – the most important “on-the-go” contact information to promote app discovery by directing the user to download the app
    For iOS and Android platforms

About TxStar Directory Company (http://www.txstardc.com)

Headquartered in Abilene, Texas, TxStar Directory Company is a locally owned and operated directory publisher, serving 18 counties surrounding Abilene and Lubbock, Texas. TxStar directories provide local information and attractions at the ease of their fingertips. Our affordable advertising options benefit our advertisers and the immediate needs of consumers with easy-to-find local information and attractions.

About App Express (http://www.AppExpress.com)

App Express was founded in 2011 by a team of tech-savvy small-business experts to bring the power of mobile apps to small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s affordable, do-it-yourself mobile app building solution quickly and easily creates professional, sophisticated apps that solve the hard problems SMBs encounter, such as payments, scheduling, couponing/deals and messaging. Mobile apps from App Express enable SMBs to open a direct channel of communication with customers to build loyalty, increase efficiency and grow their businesses. The start-up is backed by $ 3 million in funding from Veronis Suhler Stevenson through VSS portfolio company User Friendly Media. Visit App Express on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/theappexpress and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/TheAppExpress.

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Higher International Acceptance of FAA Parts Manufacturer Approval to Drive Growth in the World PMA Parts Market, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc

San Jose, California (PRWEB) April 20, 2012

Follow us on LinkedIn – As a combined design and production approval for parts and components in the aircraft aftermarket, the number of applications for obtaining PMA from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is steadily on the rise. Given the lucrative opportunities in the aircraft aftermarket and the growing competitiveness and emphasis on quality, components manufacturers are increasingly seeking the coveted airworthiness certification from FAA for safety and quality assurance. Growing awareness over the reliability, quality, durability and cost benefits offered by PMA parts is leading to increased acceptance of PMA parts worldwide, which in turn in generating opportunities for the international community to produce high quality, safe PMA parts. Against this backdrop, there continues to be a steady increase in the number of FAA-approved Parts Manufacturer Approval (PMA) firms in Asia. Also, increased outsourcing of MRO operations to Asia Pacific, as a result of rising economic and competitive pressures in developed nations and low cost labor in Asian countries, is helping drive the dynamics of the PMA parts market in the region.

Growth in the PMA approved parts market, in the upcoming years, will be driven by rising average life of aircrafts and the ensuing opportunities in the aftermarket created by maintenance needs. PMA engine parts in the MRO sector are poised to record the maximum gains, given that engine maintenance is evolving into a major business worldwide with spending on engine maintenance accounting for over 40% of total annual MRO spends. The increase in the number of operational aircrafts and in the average flying hours per aircraft and the ensuing rise in engine utilization will continue to generate opportunities for aircraft engine MRO with engine overhaul activities trickling down as potential sales opportunities for PMA parts. Demand for PMA parts will also increase in sync with the growing focus of airline companies on cost efficiencies. PMA parts, in this regard, are cheaper than OEM products as PMA provides better economies of scale than original manufacturing. PMA brings about substantial savings in material costs, and these savings lower the prices of PMA products for consumers and increase the profit margins for airline operators. The future will continue to witness an explosion in the number and types of PMA parts available to the consumer. With the sophistication in new generation aircraft models, comes complexly designed components, which require PMA parts to be equally scalable and reliable. Innovation in new technologies in manufacture of PMA parts will help benefit the PMA market, as managing and understanding sophisticated mechatronic systems becomes easier.

Given that aftermarket sales in the aerospace industry are closely tied to air traffic trends, aftermarket suppliers in the commercial aerospace sector in Europe currently remain nervous over the play out of the sovereign debt crisis drama. Given the yet mixed signals emanating from the handling of the region’s debt crisis, sentiments in the PMA parts market continues to swing between hope and concerns. At the pessimistic end of the spectrum, bearish market outlook indicate that in the event of an escalation in the severity of the crisis, the ensuing declines in air traffic and capacity surpluses will likely result in stringent management of inventories such as inventory destocking, and delays in implementation of maintenance, repair, and overhaul programs. This thereby would negatively impact the PMA parts market. There also exist fears over austerity measures likely to be initiated to counter the crisis, since austerity measures such as increased taxes, freeze on salaries in the public sector and lesser access to credit, will impact leisure travel. Weakening of trade in Europe could also likely result in lower load factors as exporters and importers shift to other cheaper modes of cargo transport. Limited visibility surrounding the sovereign debt woes, and the prolonged confusion over the appropriate measure to contain the damage, is expected to heighten the risk of possible reduction in both airline passenger and cargo capacity growth. This in turn will increase the number of parked aircrafts thus yielding a detrimental impact on the PMA parts market.

While no easy and immediate solutions exist for Europe’s macroeconomic imbalances, Europe remains a wildcard with the economic health of the region forecast to be the sum of the solutions adopted to resolve the crisis. While the potential outcomes of the crisis remain numerous, baseline market sentiments currently accumulate at the optimistic end of the spectrum. Current economic data that leaves room for hope include Germany’s relative resilience in handling the euro zone crisis, which is helping strengthen confidence levels. Heartening economic data such as comparatively lower levels of unemployment, better trade surplus accounts, and stable industrial output and manufacturing indices, indicate that the real German economy has not yet been impacted by the crisis as feared. Also forced austerity measures implemented in Greece to reduce the country’s widening deficits, are less likely to be adopted in relatively stronger economies with lower debt loads like in Germany, Spain and Italy. This is primarily because of the growing acceptance of the counterproductive implications of such a strategy on GDP growth in an economy. In addition, year 2011 ended on an encouraging note with tourism performance, as indicated by the level of airline bookings and hotel occupancy rates, posting encouraging growth. Airline capacity in Europe therefore increased in 2011 as was mirrored by the increase in available seat kilometers. Interestingly, political conflicts and unrest in Middle East and Northern Africa is re-channeling tourist traffic to Southern Europe. Also, the depreciation of the Euro amidst the pressures exerted by the eurozone debt drama is expected to positively benefit tourism in Europe with the number of middle class Asian tourists to the region poised to increase. Paradoxically, the weak economic climate will put PMA products in the limelight, given its inherent cost effectiveness. The PMA parts market in Europe is therefore expected to hold up in the year 2012 despite the debt crisis.

As stated by the new market research report on PMA Parts, Airframe PMA Parts represents one of the fastest growing segments trailing a projected CAGR of 9.6% over the analysis period 2009 through 2017.

Major players in the global marketplace include Able Engineering & Component Services Inc, ADpma LLC, Aircraft Spruce and Specialty Company, Belac LLC, C&D Zodiac Inc, GM Nameplate, HEICO Corporation, Jet Parts Engineering Inc, KAPCO, McFarlane Aviation Inc, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, Rapco Fleet Support Inc, Rotair Industries Inc, Triumph Group Inc., Wencor Inc., among others.

The research report titled “PMA Parts: A Global Strategic Business Report” announced by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., provides a comprehensive review of market trends, issues, drivers, company profiles, mergers, acquisitions and other strategic industry activities. The report provides market estimates and projections (in US$ Million) for major geographic markets including the United States, Europe, and Rest of World. Product segments analyzed include Airframe, Engine, Line, and Component.

For more details about this comprehensive market research report, please visit –

http://www.strategyr.com/PMA_Parts_Market_Report.asp

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Global Industry Analysts, Inc., (GIA) is a leading publisher of off-the-shelf market research. Founded in 1987, the company currently employs over 800 people worldwide. Annually, GIA publishes more than 1300 full-scale research reports and analyzes 40,000+ market and technology trends while monitoring more than 126,000 Companies worldwide. Serving over 9500 clients in 27 countries, GIA is recognized today, as one of the world’s largest and reputed market research firms.

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