AUSTIN, Texas -- (Business Wire)
Perk.com Inc.(TSX:PER) (“Perk” or “the Company”), a
leading cloud-based mobile rewards platform provider, today announced
that it has appointed Roj Niyogi, the Company’s founder and President,
to the position of Chief Executive Officer of its newly acquired
subsidiary, Corona Labs Inc. (“Corona Labs”), a leader in 2D mobile game
and app development. In addition to his existing responsibilities, Mr.
Niyogi will lead this division of the Company.
Ted Hastings, Chief Executive Officer of Perk, commented, “Roj has done
exceptional work in his role as President of the Company. He helped
create Perk and is the perfect choice to lead this division. We believe
his knowledge and expertise will prove invaluable in the acceleration of
our rewards model and monetization solution through the Corona Labs
platform, and we expect to experience similar success as to the rapid
ongoing widespread adoption of our rewards model through our Perk owned
and operated mobile applications and websites.”
Mr. Niyogi, Founder and President of Perk, stated, “I’m excited to have
an opportunity to lead Corona Labs and to build upon its excellent
foundation as a leader in 2D mobile game and app development. Building
relationships with app developers from day 1 and continuing to partner
with them as they operate their businesses is a critical component to
our long term strategic plan. Rapid app building through the Corona Labs
platform is unmatched in the industry. We are excited to invest in the
platform and division and to bring more tools to developers to help
build their businesses through app monetization, which has worked
extremely well for us with our own Perk brand suite of products.”
About Corona Labs
Corona Labs is the leader in 2D game and app development and is
reinventing how the world builds apps and games for mobile, connected
TV, and desktop platforms. Corona’s flagship product, Corona SDK, is the
world’s most advanced development platform, empowering developers to
build apps faster for iOS, Android, tvOS, OS X, and Windows - all with a
single code base. Experienced by more than 300,000 developers around the
globe and with hundreds more signing up daily, apps built with the
Corona Labs platform enjoy a combined total of over 1.6 billion user
sessions each month.
About Perk.com Inc.
As a leading mobile rewards platform, Perk brings together the interests
of consumers, advertisers, and publishers by offering consumers rewards
such as Perk Points and other digital goods. Perk Points can be redeemed
for gift cards, cash, or loaded on to Perk Plastik, a re-loadable
branded debit card. Perk works with brands and publishers to reach
consumers through truly engaging and innovative formats using rewards as
a way to achieve maximum engagement of their brands and products.
Perk currently owns and operates 15 mobile applications that allow
members to earn rewards such as Perk Points and digital goods. Perk also
operates numerous websites as well as AppTrailers, a leading mobile
video rewards app. In addition to offering rewards to members through
its own mobile applications and websites, Perk launched its Perk
Platform, Appsaholic, which allows mobile and desktop publishers to
utilize rewards to engage and entice users through the publisher’s own
applications and websites. The Perk Platform was further expanded
through the acquisition of SuperRewards, a rewards and alternative
payments platform for publishers and developers.
Additional information about Perk can be found at its corporate website: ir.perk.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking
Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including with
respect to Perk’s business: Perk’s ability to grow its active consumer
base; user and advertiser engagement; Perk’s ability to establish new
marketing partnerships; Perk’s ability to expand into new markets; and
Perk’s ability to acquire and integrate new businesses and technologies.
Such forward-looking statements reflect Perk’s expectations about its
future operating results, performance and opportunities that involve
substantial risks and uncertainties. When used herein, the words
“anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “upcoming”, “plan”, “target”,
“intend” and “expect” and similar expressions, as they relate to Perk or
its management, are intended to identify such forward-looking
statements. These forward-looking statements are based on information
currently available to Perk and are subject to a number of risks,
uncertainties, and other factors that could cause Perk’s actual results,
performance, prospects, and opportunities to differ materially from
those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements,
including, but not limited to: maintenance by Perk of relationships with
advertising network providers and partners; successful development of
the “Perk” brand; Perk’s ability to keep up with rapid technology
developments in Perk’s markets; Perk’s ability to avoid defects in
products and services delivered by Perk; Perk’s ability to attract app
and website developers to its Appsaholic SDK; and Perk’s ability to
successfully enter new business areas and geographic markets, including
integration of acquired businesses; success of new products developed by
Perk and Perk’s ability to retain key members of its management team. We
do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement, except as
required by law.
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Contacts:
Perk.com Inc.
Ted Hastings
Chief
Executive Officer
ted@perk.com
or
Jeff
Collins
Chief Financial Officer
jeff@perk.com
or
INVESTOR
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Adam
Prior, 212-836-9606
Senior Vice President
aprior@equityny.com
or
Terry
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Associate
tdowns@equityny.com
Source: Perk.com Inc.
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