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Boonty was a global supplier of digital distribution solutions for online and PC gaming whose technology platform and brand names were acquired by digital commerce provider Nexway in January 2009.
The company's white label casual game platform was utilized by over 100 million customers worldwide at the time of the Nexway acquisition, including Internet portals, ISPs, and mobile operators.
Boontybox was actually competing with Steam for a while, and even garnered praise from steam creator Gabe Newell. In August 2006 Newell stated that "It [boontybox] has always represented a business, sorry, disness model that we have always wanted to recreate."
Boonty operated its own branded destination sites, Boonty.com which is still operated by Nexway in localized versions for the United States, France, UK, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Austria, Australia, Taiwan, Hong-Kong, Germany, Portugal, Finland, Singapore, The Netherlands, and Spain.
In October 2006, Boonty announced the acquisition of Beijing-based casual game developer Gamehub.
In February 2007, Boonty launched Cafe.com for free multiplayer social casual games.
In January 2009, Nexway acquired Boonty.