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G-cluster: Capital and Business Alliance with OrangeTOKYO --(Business Wire)-- G-cluster Global Corporation (GCG) announced today that Orange (News - Alert) S.A. (Orange) has invested in GCG through a private placement of shares to become a minority shareholder. At the same time, GCG renewed its commercial agreement with Orange for the purpose of enhancing G-cluster technology, and promoting overseas business development. GCG has been providing Orange TV an IPTV (News - Alert) service by Orange, with a cloud gaming service since October 2012. The current transaction will further strengthen the ties between the two companies, facilitating technical development, increased game content, and faster global business development.
Erik Piehl, President and Representative Director of GCG said:
Elie Girard, Executive Vice President of Group Strategy and Development
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Vivek Badrinath, Deputy CEO in charge of Innovation, Marketing and
Techologies , said: About G-cluster Global Corporation Founded in 2000, G-cluster is the first and largest cloud gaming platform. G-cluster provides a full-featured white label service that offers casual and AAA games to be playable over broadband networks, regardless of the device used to access the service. The company's client base includes Broadmedia Corporation, NTT Plala, SFR and Orange, and content partnerships with leading game studios such as Disney (News - Alert) and Ubisoft. G-cluster is headquartered in Tokyo, with offices in Espoo, Finland, Paris, France, and Pittsburgh, PA. About Orange Orange is one of the world's leading telecommunications operators with sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2012 and had 166,000 employees worldwide at 30 September 2013, including 102,000 employees in France. Present in 32 countries, the Group had a total customer base of more than 232 million customers at 30 September 2013, including 175 million mobile customers and 15 million fixed broadband customers worldwide. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies, under the brand Orange Business Services (News - Alert). Orange is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN). For more information : www.orange.com, www.orange-business.com and on Twitter (News - Alert) : @orange, @presseorange, @orangebusiness. * G-cluster technology G-cluster is the name of the technology owned by G-cluster Global Corporation. The technology allows for streaming interactive content to various client devices without the need to install software. The video/audio output is streamed to a client device while all programs are executed at the server side. As the client device only needs to decode streamed data, the technology enables reliable and high quality services to be offered for all devices. All company and product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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