NewBay Growth Drives Office Expansion in the United States
Washington State Governor, Chris Gregoire, opens NewBay’s new Americas headquarters in downtown Seattle.
SEATTLE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NewBay, the leader in digital lifestyle services, has established its Americas headquarters in downtown Seattle to accommodate its aggressive growth and hiring plans for the region.
NewBay has doubled its staff in the U.S. over the last year, and plans to add an additional 100 employees within the next 12 months. The new office will meet the company’s requirements to expand even further to better service its growing operator client base in America and to manage its global OEM business.
Commenting on the move, Timo Bauer, SVP and general manager Americas at NewBay said, "2010 has been a great year for NewBay. We launched new services for AT&T and Verizon, and continued to work closely with T-Mobile in the region. We strengthened our relationship with LG Electronics globally and built new partnerships with device manufacturers. All this was managed from our Americas headquarters."
Bauer added, "Seattle is the ‘mobile Silicon Valley’, which made it the perfect location for our new Americas headquarters. As we continue to grow our customer base, we will focus on recruiting new talent across multiple disciplines in Seattle including business development, marketing, finance, engineering, operations and professional services. It is an exciting time for NewBay and an exciting time in the industry as the battle for the ‘Content Cloud’ evolves."
Washington Governor Chris Gregoire welcomed NewBay to Seattle today at a ceremony in NewBay’s offices. She lauded the company for its global success and commitment to recruitment and business development in the area.
"We are delighted that NewBay has chosen to locate its U.S. headquarters in Seattle. This city is a world-renowned hub for technology innovation, particularly in the mobile industry. NewBay’s plan to expand in Washington is great news and we look forward to supporting and assisting them in their business growth both locally and overseas," said Gregoire.
As part of today’s ceremony, NewBay showcased its award winning LifeCache platform to customers, partners and invited dignitaries. NewBay LifeCache allows operators and device manufacturers to offer cloud-based consumer services for creating, sharing and accessing user content from any Internet connected device.
About NewBay
NewBay is the leader in digital lifestyle services, enabling subscribers to create, store, manage, view and share user content. NewBay LifeCache product suite empowers operators to deliver an integrated set of converged rich-media services across any Internet connected device such as mobile, PC and TV. NewBay's products include social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, handset and desktop clients, smart address book, notification and messaging services. NewBay LifeCache products are built on NewBay's Astra user content platform to uniquely provide telco-grade, scalable solutions.
NewBay enables operators to increase ARPU, drive messaging and data traffic, strengthen customer loyalty and build communities and social networks based on user-generated and premium content. NewBay is delivering profitable, highly successful commercial services for operators. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefónica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon, and LG Electronics. NewBay LifeCache is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator services.
NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, Palo Alto and Raleigh, USA; London, UK and Dusseldorf, Germany. NewBay was founded in 2002 and is privately held. Investors include Balderton Capital and Fidelity Growth Partners.
CONTACT:
Sterling Communications on behalf of NewBay
Chris Warfield
+1-206-388-5758
cwarfield@sterlingpr.com
or
NewBay Software
Amanda Campbell
T +353-1-635 0700
M +353-86-606-9177
acampbell@newbay.com
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