Cashlog, la soluzione di Buongiorno per i mobile payment per i merchant digitali, è stata scelta da Goodmood – uno dei principali portali di audiolibri digitali in Italia – come modalità di pagamento alternativo per l’acquisto degli oltre 500 audiolibri in catalogo. Questo è il primo caso in Italia in cui un provider di audiolibri sceglie tra le proprie modalità di acquisto una soluzione di pagamento tramite addebito su credito telefonico.

Gli audiolibri digitali di Goodmood, che hanno un costo compreso fra 2,99 e 15 euro, sono acquistabili attraverso Cashlog senza necessità di lasciare altri dati come nome, cognome o numero di carta di credito. Inoltre, i clienti di Goodmood che acquisteranno più di un audiolibro digitale alla volta, scegliendo Cashlog, potranno usufruire di uno sconto sull’acquisto.

Il mercato degli audiolibri sta vivendo una fase di forte crescita in Italia, nel 2011 le vendite hanno registrato un aumento del 20% rispetto all’anno precedente (fonte Aeda).

“C’è grande attenzione in Italia al settore degli audiolibri e il numero di audiolettori è in crescita e per questo siamo lieti di essere stati scelti d...

Buongiorno S.p.A. today finalized the sale of DioraNews S.A.S., a supplier of digital news to telephone carriers in France and certain French-speaking nations in Africa.

In accordance with the strategic refocus on B2C activity, initiated with the acquisition of Dada.net, the spin-off of the B2B activity, and the subsequent sale of Sms.at, Buongiorno has chosen to sell the news reporting business of DioraNews, as it is no longer in line with the new Group strategy.

The activity within the perimeter of sale, which registered revenues of 1.5 million Euro and EBITDA of 0.1 million Euro in 2011, has been evaluated at 750,000 Euro, net of working capital and cash. The settled closing price will be paid sequentially: 450 thousand Euro on the closing date and 300 thousand Euro in December 2012.

Hessem acted as the financial advisor to Buongiorno in the transaction.

Buongiorno was awarded the prestigious 2012 M&A Award in the category of “Italy in Italy” for the acquisition of Dada.net in 2011.

With this award, Buongiorno is further confirmed as a company that successfully confronted today’s challenging global economic environment, finding new opportunities to expand its international business while remaining within Italian borders.

“We are extremely proud to receive this recognition, which rewards our team’s dedication in finalizing this important acquisition in such a short amount of time”, commented Andrea Casalini, Buongiorno’s CEO. “With the contribution of Dada.net, we consolidated our global B2C leadership and we are ready to embrace new opportunities for growth in the reality of the mobile connected life. The integration of Buongiorno and Dada.net in fact allowed us to leverage on complementary technical skills, which position us today as the global reference point for the new trend of web apps, based on the new programming language HTML5.”

The eighth edition of the M&A awards is sponsored by KMPG and Fineurop.

Buongiorno has launched the Android-optimized version of its corporate website.

Buongiorno averages 1,000 mobile visitors to its website each day, and announced optimization for the iPhone at the end of 2011. Now that the statistics have shown the exponential growth of consultations made from Android devices — rising from 9% in January 2011 to 49.5% last December — the company is launching an optimized version for the Google operating system.

The mobile version of Buongiorno’s corporate website was conceived in HTML5 to guarantee the best user experience possible. When visitors access the website from a smartphone or tablet, they are immediately re-routed to a version optimized for that device.

“This further development confirms us as a company at the forefront at international level, particularly if one considers that only 20% of FTSE100 companies offer a mobile website, and only 35% have an auto-detection functionality ensuring that each visitor has the best user experience possible. In addition, Buongiorno is one of the very few companies listed in the STAR segment of the Milan Stock Exchange to have developed and implemented a comprehensive c...

Cashlog, Buongiorno’s mobile payments solution based on carrier billing system, today announced the company surpassed 1 million in m-payment transactions in a single month.

Successfully launched in Italy in May 2011 and rolled out in Spain, Germany and France, Cashlog in less than 9 months has been growing steadily acquiring almost 20 European digital merchants, and has been chosen by over 55,000 customers that used it to buy digital goods.

Merchants adopting Cashlog as an alternative payment method for their digital offering saw an increase in their transactions up to 5 times.

Leveraging on Buongiorno’s direct connections with almost 130 telco operators Cashlog makes the entire payment process seamless and enables the easiest possible integration; merchants can be up and running to accept m-payments in just a couple of days.

“The reach of one million transactions in one month is a first important goal for Cashlog. We have been working hard in the past 9 months to offer a flawless m-payment experience” comments Guido Mangiagalli Head of Cashlog, "We acknowledge that the mobile payment market is growing at fast pace and cus-tomers are increasingl...