Digital River Manages Online Store for PowerHouse Technologies, Creators of Migo Software
MINNEAPOLIS, August 2, 2005-Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced it is providing e-commerce support for PowerHouse Technologies Group (OTCBB:PWHT), a provider of mobile computing software. Digital River is helping PowerHouse expand the online marketing and sales of its award-winning Migo™ Software, which is available for USB drives, memory cards, USB Smart Watches and the iPod® mobile digital device. As part of the company’s e-commerce agreement, Digital River is providing end-to-end e-commerce services that offer a user-friendly online shopping experience for PowerHouse’s customers. PowerHouse’s e-commerce site, which was built and recently launched by Digital River, is located at www.pwhtgroup.com.
“By working with more than 40,000 clients during the past 10 years, we’ve developed the e-commerce best practices and acquired the expertise that companies look for in an outsourcing partner,” said Dave Alampi, Digital River’s vice president of marketing. “We essentially act as their e-commerce department and focus our efforts on running a successful e-commerce operation. While we take care of their online store, our clients can focus their time on developing superior products and catering to the customer experience.”
Consumers shopping on the PowerHouse-branded e-commerce store can purchase the company’s products by selecting any of the Buy Now buttons located throughout the site. Digital River is hosting this site as well as managing orders and transactions, offering physical product fulfillment and digital delivery of upgrades, providing fraud prevention screening and 24X7 customer service, and implementing a variety of e-marketing programs to proactively drive online sales.
Based on the e-commerce agreement, PowerHouse plans to further expand the visibility of its products by adding them to Digital River’s industry leading catalog of downloadable software products. This catalog is available for sale through more than one thousand online retail, content and portal sites in the Digital River oneNetwork™ sales channel. The company’s oneNetwork provides Digital River clients an opportunity to generate incremental revenue through indirect online sales channels.
“By capitalizing on Digital River’s outsourcing value proposition, we can concentrate on customer satisfaction and focus on developing top-of-the-line products,” said Randy Hagin, vice president, worldwide sales, PowerHouse Technologies Group. “Through its oneNetwork and e-commerce infrastructure, Digital River offered us a variety of avenues for opening new online markets and generating new revenue opportunities.”
About PowerHouse Technologies Group
PowerHouse Technologies Group, Inc. (www.pwhtgroup.com), headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., is a leading provider of mobile computing software. The company’s award-winning software product line, Migo™, revolutionizes business and personal computing portability. Migo’s patented technology offers an information management solution for Windows® and Outlook® based systems. For more information on the full line of Migo products please visit www.pwhtgroup.com.
About Digital River, Inc.
Digital River, Inc., a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, builds and manages online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.
Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. and European cities. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call 952-253-1234.
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