Spigot Inc

Spigot, Inc

Available in	English
Headquarters	Incline Village, Nevada, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Website	Spigot, Inc
Alexa rank	1,235,376 (Feb 2017)[1]

Spigot, Inc is an international digital marketing company, which operates a worldwide monetization and distribution platform. Spigot, Inc was founded in Silicon Valley in 2008. The company's headquarters is located in Incline Village, Nevada, with additional corporate offices located across the US and Europe.^[2][3]

Among other acquisitions, Spigot, Inc purchased the mobile app store GetJar in 2011.^[4] GetJar was one of the earliest players in the app market. As of July 2011, GetJar had driven over 2 billion app downloads via its platform-agnostic smartphone app store, making it the largest marketplace for free mobile apps at that time.^[5]

On September 25, 2015, Genimous Investment announced that it was acquiring a 100% interest in Spigot, Inc for US$252 million. Genimous announced that acquiring Spigot, Inc would enable Genimous to grow into an international mobile internet company integrating a portal site with an operating platform.^[6][7] On May 27, 2016, Genimous announced the completed acquisition of Spigot, Inc.^[8] Spigot, Inc now runs as a wholly owned subsidiary of Genimous.^[2]

Locations

Spigot, Inc employs over 80 people in four locations across the US and Europe. Spigot, Inc has offices in the following locations:^[9]

• Fort Myers, Florida
• Kansas City, Missouri
• Incline Village, Nevada
• Bucharest, Romania

Acquisitions

Spigot, Inc has made the following acquisitions:^[10]

• Jan, 2012: MyEmoticons
  • An Emoticon package for Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter, for both the desktop and mobile platforms. The software has occasionally been described as being "optional PUP", or "adware."^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]} The latest release of the iPhone app supports stickers for iMessage as well.^[18]
• Jul 29, 2011: GetJar Inc.
• Dec, 2010: Vuze
• Oct, 2008: FLV

See also

• Official site
• Download.com

References

1. ↑ "Spigot.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2017-02-28. 
2. 1 2 "Spigot Inc.: Private Company Information - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2017-02-28. 
3. ↑ "About Us". Spigot, Inc. Retrieved 2017-03-01. 
4. ↑ "Jul 29, 2011: Spigot Inc. / GetJar | crunchbase - Spigot Inc. acquires GetJar". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2017-03-01. 
5. ↑ Butcher, Mike. "GetJar's agnostic smartphone app store hits 2 billon downloads". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-03-01. 
6. ↑ "Genimous Investment to acquire Spigot for USD 252m". www.chinagoabroad.com. Retrieved 2017-03-01. 
7. ↑ "BRIEF-Genimous Investment revises assets acquisition plan". Reuters. 2017-03-04. Retrieved 2017-03-02. 
8. ↑ Editorial, Reuters. "${Instrument_CompanyName} ${Instrument_Ric} Key Developments | Reuters.com". Reuters. Retrieved 2017-03-02. 
9. ↑ "Locations". Spigot, Inc. Retrieved 2017-02-28. 
10. ↑ "Spigot Inc.". 
11. ↑ "Remove PUP.Optional.MyEmoticons.A". FixYourBrowser.com. 
12. ↑ "Removal instructions for Spigot Search Protection". Malwarebytes Forum. 
13. ↑ "How to remove Browser Extensions (Virus Removal Guide)". 
14. ↑ "PUP.Optional.Spigot.A and PUP.Optional.MyEmoticons.A". Malwarebytes Forum. 
15. ↑ "How to remove PUP.Optional.MyEmoticons.A (Removal Guide)". MalwareTips Blog. 
16. ↑ "How to Remove Search Protection by Spigot Inc - Spigot Search Protection Removal". MiTechMate Blog. 
17. ↑ Vuze
18. ↑ "Frequently Asked Question about MyEmoticons". www.myemoticons.com. Retrieved 2017-03-09.