Movaya was a Seattle-based technology company that developed

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distribution and management solutions. It was formed in 2004 by John Calian, Phil Yerkes and Stanley Wang. Movaya also operated a wholly owned subsidiary in

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, China. Movaya Launches Free Trial Download Service for Mobile Games
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, Reaxion,

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, COM2US, GOSUB 60,

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and Mobliss.

History

Movaya launched PlugNPlay - a

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network - in March 2007 Movaya launched TryNBuy - a

free trial download service - in February 2008 Movaya was purchased by Digby Mobile Commerce in late 2009. Digby was itself acquired by Phunware in May 2014.

Mobile Game Title Examples in Movaya Network

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References

{{reflist Video game companies of the United States Video game development companies Video game companies established in 2004 Defunct companies based in Seattle