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In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
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| Type | Private |
| Industry | Mobile game & Mobile application development |
| Founded | Hong Kong (1998) |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong |
| Key people | Yat Siu, CEO Yusuf Goolamabbas, CTO Rita Kong, CFO |
| Products | Apps and games including Pretty Pet Salon |
| Website | www.outblaze.com |
Outblaze is a technology company that develops and provides digital media products and services including smartphone games and other apps, social media applications, computer and video games, online transaction systems, and web communication software. Although it started out as an application service provider of hosted Web applications, the company gradually transitioned to the video game industry. In 2009 Outblaze sold its messaging business unit in order to focus primarily on digital entertainment.
Outblaze was founded in 1998 in Hong Kong and received considerable media attention around the time of the dot-com bubble.[1] At the peak of its activity in the messaging sector, Outblaze was reported to provide services to over 75 million users around the world, with 40 million email accounts[2] operated by Outblaze plus at least 35 million[3] protected by Outblaze's anti-spam solution. In 2009 Outblaze sold its messaging assets to IBM, which incorporated them in LotusLive.[4][5] Since then Outblaze has focused its attention on video and online gaming, smartphone apps, and social network applications.[6]
Outblaze's various smartphone game apps have been downloaded about 30 million times for iOS and Android devices as of September 2011.[7]
Outblaze has engaged in a number of policy discussions, primarily via consultation and position papers authored by Outblaze executives.
In 2004 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) asked Outblaze Head of Anti-Spam Operations Suresh Ramasubramanian to assist the OECD task force on spam. The result was the 25 May 2005 report Spam Issues in Developing Countries,[8] which alerted governments and organizations to the specific dangers that spam poses to countries with underdeveloped Internet infrastructure. Suresh has further written a paper on botnet mitigation[9] for the ITU.
The Office of the Telecom Authority (OFTA) of Hong Kong put out a consultation paper in June 2004 requesting comments on Proposals to contain the problem of unsolicited electronic messages.[10] The Outblaze response encouraged the government to adopt a range of measures to effectively combat spam, among them: opt-in standards, prompt removal of spammers and hacked or insecure systems, adoption of authenticated email schemes, unequivocal anti-spam legislation, rapid response times at ISPs, and diffusion of better email marketing management techniques.[11] The response was approved and endorsed by the Asia-Pacific chapter of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE).
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Outblaze is a technology company that develops and provides digital media products and services including smartphone games and other apps, social media applications, computer and video games, online transaction systems, and web communication software. Although it started out as an application service provider of hosted Web applications, the company gradually transitioned to the video game industry. In 2009 Outblaze sold its messaging business unit in order to focus primarily on digital entertainment.
Tuzki (Chinese: 兔斯基; Korean: 투즈키; Japanese: ツヅキ) is a popular illustrated bunny character created by animator Momo Wang when she was an undergraduate at the Communication University of China (CUC). Featured in a variety of emoticons, her character has become popular with QQ and MSN users. Nowadays, Tuzki has extended his emoticon popularity to different major messaging app platforms including WeChat, KakaoTalk, Facebook and VNG Corporation's Zalo. According to the official website, Tuzki was born on 6 September 2006. Tuzki is currently managed by TurnOut Ventures, a joint venture between Turner Broadcasting and Outblaze established in Hong Kong in 2008. According to a post on Tuzki's official Facebook page, there are over 20 million sends of Tuzki stickers worldwide every day.
Earth Eternal was a free-to-play browser-based fantasy MMORPG, developed by American studio Outblaze (formerly Turnout Ventures) and published by SparkPlay Media. First announced on January 10, 2007, it was released for Open Beta on Oct. 7, 2009. On August 8, 2010, SparkPlay Media announced it was likely going into bankruptcy and that it was actively holding an auction for Earth Eternal. The credit system was shut down and many of its items were made freely available. SparkPlay Media's CEO stated that unless a buyer was forthcoming, Earth Eternal would end when its webhost shut down the server for non-payment. However, on August 18, 2010, Earth Eternal was bought off in an auction. On August 31, 2010, Earth Eternal and the website would shut down in North America, with the game being acquired by Japanese online game company Sankando Corporation. On July 21, 2011, the Earth Eternal website was reopened in Japan and the game was scheduled to be released in North America in Summer 2011. Since November 24, 2011 at 9 PM EST, the game was cancelled indefinitely. After all official servers closed, private servers such as "Terra Aeterna" were created, allowing the game to still be played.
Typhoon Games Ltd. was founded in August 2001 in Hong Kong as a game developing and publishing company that caters mainly to the Asian market. It is the sister company of Typhoon Media International Ltd. and has strategic partnerships with Outblaze Ltd. and Dream Cortex. Typhoon Games has published several PC games including Yu-Gi-Oh! Online and Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure, and has developed games such as The Impossible Team Online Game and Hello Kitty: Roller Rescue for the PlayStation 2.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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