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December 2011 - In December, Oriboo will do a PR and marketing tour in Stockholm. Meet us at Sollentuna Centrum - December 1-4; at Kista Galleria - December 10; at Täby Centrum - December 16-17; at Nacka Forum - December 22-23. Order your Oriboo Limited Edition now and receive 20% OFF! Only 795:- SEK incl tax, Oriboo hat and free shipping. December 1, 2011 - Oriboo receives high scores in Prylportalen's gadget test. November 30, 2011 - Movinto Fun demos Oriboo and lectures on game design and game development at Konst for tjejer / Art for Gals in Östersund. The visit resulted in press coverage in both ÖP and Länstidningen. November 3-6, 2011 - Movinto Fun and Oriboo are exhibiting at Gamex - the Nordic region's largest entertainment show. Watch the Oriboo report from the show at TV4 Play, and at Svd web TV. October 21, 2011 - Movinto Fun is featured in today's Computer Sweden and at IT24. Now we are looking forward to launch Oriboo in December! October 11, 2011 - Oriboo and Movinto Fun is featured in today's DN Ekonomi. Download pdf. September 23, 2011 - Oriboo inventor and Movinto Fun CEO and founder Jin Moen is featured on the front page of the Swedish business magazine Entreprenör, and presented as one of the New Heros of Sweden. Download the magazine as pdf here. August 16-19, 2011 - Oriboo challenges the youths of Stockholm at the Ung08 Festival in Kungsträdgården, Stockholm. See all the winners here! June 16-17, 2011 - Oriboo and Movinto Fun are selected participants in the Creative Sweden exhibition at the 56th ICSB (International Council for Small Business) World Conference in Stockholm. May 6, 2011 - Movinto Fun and Oriboo are featured as Tomorrow's IT stars. March 31, 2011 - Movinto Fun and Oriboo is featured in the Finnish business magazine Forum för ekonomi och teknik. March 24, 2011 - Oriboo is featured in SkidExpressen. March 8, 2011 - The new Oriboo website is now up and running - pre-book your Oriboo now! February 26, 2011 - Movinto Fun and Oriboo is featured in today's printed version of Dagens Industri. Download pdf. February, 2011 - During Spring 2011 Movinto Fun's motion- based and portable game console takes the step from prototype to commercialized product and has therefore got a new name: Oriboo. Follow our launch activites on Facebook! February 22, 2011 - Movinto Fun CEO and founder Jin Moen is featured as "Alumnus of the Month" at KTH. January 12, 2011 - Movinto Fun's head quarter is now up and running in Åre. We are located at Årevägen 138 (former VM-huset) together with Peak Innovation. We also welcome Sandra and Karl-Petter to the Movinto Fun team! See you in Åre! 2010 November 24, 2010 - Jin Moen, Movinto Fun's CEO and founder is awarded Årets Uppstickare ("Rookie of the Year") by Beautiful Business. Pressrelease in Swedish. October, 2010 - Job openings @ Movinto Fun in Åre! We now seek two new team members to our new head offices in Åre: A Marketing/ Event Director and a C-Programmer/ Game Developer. More info in Swedish. Download add. October 6, 2010 - Movinto Fun has recently closed a round of funding that takes BodyBug to the market during Spring 2011. Movinto Fun will also move its head quarter to Åre, Jämtland. Read pressrelease (in Swedish). Download pressrelease (pdf). September 29, 2010 - Movinto Fun and BodyBug® gives a talk on research, product development and entrepreneurship at Think Global School, currently residing in Nacka. September 23, 2010 - Dr. Jin Moen participates in research seminar at School of computer science and communication at KTH together with choreographer and PhD student Rasmus Ölme. May 5, 2010 - Inaguration of the DAC (Digital Art Center) in Kista where Movinto Fun is one of the partners. Press release in Swedish. March 12, 2010 - Movinto Fun and BodyBug@ participates at Future Friday in Kista. Come and try out our new games! February, 2010 - We welcome Elena Marquez as new Movinto Fun team member. Elena has received a grant from the Spanish organization FARO Global, to do a seven months internship at Movinto Fun and working on the BodyBug® development. 2009 December 9, 2009 - Movinto Fun receives funding from VINNOVA's program "Var Dags IT" (Everyday IT)! Press release in Swedish. November 30, 2009 - Movinto Fun's game designer Åsa Roos discusses female vs male heros in video games, on Tendens, Swedish Radio P1. Listen here (in Swedish). November, 2009 - BodyBug® is finally on Facebook! Become a fan! November 13, 2009 - Movinto Fun pitches and demos BodyBug® at the entrepreneur conference Good Morning 2009, at Grand Hotel, Stockholm. October 21, 2009 - BodyBug® and Jin Moen are featured in Metro Teknik. "The ball that makes you dance!" (paper version, pdf) - "She has created a robot dance partner" (web version). (In Swedish.) October 14, 2009 - Movinto Fun's CEO Jin Moen gives a talk on the topic "5 learnings from hardware development in Sweden - Navigating between accelerometers, design processes and fund raising" at Geek Girl Meetup in Stockholm, October 24-25. Geek Girl Meetup is a forum attracting more than 100 females with interest in and passion for web, programming, social media, design and entrepreneurship. October 5, 2009 - Movinto Fun has been selected for Nordic Venture 50, as one of the most promising start-ups within the Nordic region. Nordic Venture Forum takes place in Copenhagen October 19th. September, 2009 - We welcome Anders Andersson - software developer, and Hanna Sandström - design intern, as new members of the Movinto Fun team! August, 2009 - We welcome Madeleine Johansson - game design intern, and Marc Larue - web developer, as new members of the Movinto Fun team! June 10, 2009 - Movinto Fun's team makes the world move by participating in Blodomloppet - a running/ jogging/ walking race of 5 or 10 km of choice. May 19-20, 2009 - Movinto Fun attends the Nordic Game conference in Malmö. May 13, 2009 - Movinto Fun has received 100 000 € in Interactive Work (game) development grant from the EU program MEDIA. See press release in Swedish. May 11, 2009 - Movinto Fun and CEO Jin Moen is featured in DN Webb-TVs report on entrepreneurs that start businesses despite financial crisises (in Swedish). May 6, 2009 - Movinto Fun exhibits at Innovation & Technology at Kistamässan. April 22, 2009 - Movinto Fun game designer Åsa Roos gives a talk and presents BodyBug® Movement Companion™ at an inspiration event for women interested in the gaming industry at Futuregames Academy at Berghs School of Communication. April 10-13, 2009 - Movinto Fun software developer Johan Bodin participates at Breakpoint 2009 in Germany, the world's biggest pure demoscene event. April 6, 2009 - Movinto Fun has been selected as one of Sweden's top 26 most promising technology startups by STING and is nominated for Innovation & Technology Award 2009. Movinto Fun will exhibit its product prototype BodyBug® Movement Companion™ at the event in Kista, May 6. For more info, see press release from STING and Ny Teknik article (in Swedish). March 26, 2009 - Press release: Movinto Fun invited to VC panel at Red Herring 100 Europe in Berlin, March 31-April 2. Read more (in Swedish). March 23, 2009- Movinto Fun exhibits at Future Friday in Kista, March 27. "Future Friday is a first step in a multi-annual programme aimed at increasing interest for education and work in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)." |
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January 6-9, 2009- Movinto Fun attends the CES show in Las Vegas.
January 7, 2009 - We wish you all a happy new year and we welcome Jonas Nilsson to the Movinto Fun team! Jonas will work as software and game developer.
2008
December 3, 2008 - Press release:
STING Capital investerar 4 miljoner i unik databackup och spelkonsol som stimulerar till rörelse. (STING Capital invests 4 million in unique data backup and in game console that encourages movement.)
December 2, 2008 - Movinto Fun is the headline at Ny Teknik's web site. Nineteen success stories despite the financial crisis. (Här är nitton ljuslimtar i finansmörkret.)
December 1, 2008 - We welcome Åsa Roos to the Movinto Fun team! Åsa will work as Game Designer and has previously been working at Avalanche Studios among others.
October 31, 2008 - Press release: "Svensk forskare och entreprenör i expertpanel med världsledande tänkare och företagsledare" (Swedish researcher and entrepreneur in expert panel with worldleading thinkers and business leaders). Dr. Jin Moen, CEO of Movinto Fun, participates in the expert panel at the McGill Integrative Health Challenge Think Tank in Montreal, Canada, November 5-7. More information about the conference and live broadcasts can be found at the conference web page.
Octber 23, 2008 - The new BodyBug website is up and running. Go have a look and buy the cool BodyBug t-shirt!
October 22, 2008 - Dr. Jin Moen gives a talk on BodyBug and the research behind the concept at MoSiS Forum 2008 in Skövde.
October 19, 2008 - Dr. Jin Moen and BodyBug participates in the Robotic Artefact workshop at the academic conference NordiCHI 2008 in Lund, Sweden.
October 16, 2008 - Dr. Jin Moen gives a talk on Design för nutid at the seminar Digital kompetens - vad innebär det? arranged by Datorn i utbildningen and Sveriges kommuner och landsting.
August, 2008 - We welcome two new members to the Movinto Fun team! Anna Tollsner - intern/controller and Johan Bodin - software developer.
June 18, 2008 - "Jin Moen spelar på männens planhalva" ("Jin Moen acts among the men") - Interview with Movinto Fun's CEO and the inventor of BodyBug®, in "Kvinnligt entreprenörskap" (Women's entepreneurship), Dagens Industri.
May 21, 2008 - "Hon har skapat nästa spelfluga. Svensk tamagotchi bjuder upp till dans" ("She has created the next gaming hit. Swedish tamagotchi invites you to dance") front page photo and article on BodyBug® and Movinto Fun in Ny Teknik (21/2008).
May, 2008 - "Can movement be virtual?" - Article by Dr. Jin Moen published in Keho - the Peach enzine. Peach is a three year FP6 Coordination Action (CA) on Presence (research project). For more information please visit the Peach project's website.
May 8, 2008 - Movinto Fun exhibits at Innovation & Technology, Kista. See press info from the organiser Stockholm Innovation and Growth (STING).
April 23, 2008 - Movinto Fun is awarded the honorary price Most Likely to Succeed at Piazza CONNECT at CONNECT Östra's annual meeting. The price is awarded to the CONNECT-company having the highest growth potential according to the Connect Östra Privat Investors' Network. Their motivation is: "The company develops an interesting product with a large market potential. Both customers and other interested parties have shown great interest in the product. With its credible founders the company has already attracted investors and is therefore selected as the company most likely to succeed."
April 22, 2008 - Movinto Fun presents their business case at CONNECT Östra's Investeringslunch (Investment lunch).
April 8, 2008 - Dr. Jin Moen, CEO of Movinto Fun, is invited as an Issue Expert to the 2008 McGill Health Challenge Think Tank to talk about her research on dance and human-computer interaction that resultet in the wearable movement-based interaction concept BodyBug. The event is taking place in Montreal, Canada in November 2008.
April 9, 2008 - Movinto Fun is selected as one of 30 promising Swedish technology start ups to exhibit at Innovation & Technology, Kista, and thus participates in the Innovation and Technology Award. Download press release (in swedish). See also articles in Ny Teknik and Dagens Industri.
March 26, 2008 - Dr. Jin Moen, CEO of Movinto Fun, is by the Swedish government appointed as ambassador for women-lead businesses. Read more at the Swedish government web page (in Swedish).
February 7-9, 2008 - Movinto Fun visits Spielwarenmesse International Toyfair Nürnberg.
2007
September, 2007 - Movinto Fun signs movie contract with Warner Bros. for BodyBug to appear in the movie Get Smarter: Bruce and Lloyd out of control (working title) . The movie is starring the Heroes TV-star Masi Oka, among others. Get Smarter releases directly on DVD on July 1st, 2008, and is a sequel to the Warner Bros. movie Get Smart starring Steve Carrel and Anne Hathaway.
September 20-23, 2007 - Movinto Fun visits Tokyo Game Show.
September 13-16, 2007 - Movinto Fun exhibits BodyBug® at Wired NextFest in Los Angeles.
June, 2007 - Movinto Fun receives 950.000 SEK in soft loan from Innovationsbron.
March, 2007 - Movinto Fun AB is founded by Dr. Jin Moen and Mrs. Marie Persson Björkman.
