近期，社交网站Friendster宣布为亚洲音乐和社交游戏爱好者开发了几款社交媒介门户网站。此举是继去年12月Friendster被亚洲主流网络支付公司MOL Global（www.molglobal.net）收购后的最新投资活动。

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Friendster公司行政总裁兼MOL Global集团首席执行官Ganesh Kumar Bangah表示，Friendster作为一款社交网站，凭借自身充分的经验为亚洲游戏开发商、音乐家及其爱好者们发布了Friendster Music和Friendster Games两款门户网站。Friendster在亚洲具有很高的市场占有率，现在作为MOL Global公司的一个组成部分，具有足够的实力与亚洲各游戏开发商和音乐家开展合作，向游戏和音乐爱好者们宣传各种游戏和音乐产品，并有效地帮助游戏开发商和音乐家们提高盈利。

音乐门户网站Friendster Music(music.friendster.com) 希望能引领亚洲音乐潮流，为亚洲音乐爱好者发掘更多新音乐，提供音乐领域的各种相关内容和信息。该音乐门户网站会向音乐爱好者提供各种音乐新动态和演唱会信息，推荐音乐家们的新作品，并在网上免费发售演唱会门票等。

另外，随着社交游戏的日渐盛行，Friendster同期发售了一款游戏门户网站——Friendster Games(friendster.com/games)。该门户网站专为Friendster用户提供各种简便、有趣、具有地方风格的大型多人在线游戏。目前该网站中更新了BoomZ, War2, 3Kingdom, Sushido和Lady Popular等新款浏览器游戏。

同时，Friendster Games门户网站中还会开展各种网络在线或实地活动，最近菲律宾知名广播人物Mr. FU官方资料的成功发售引起了许多Friendster用户的强烈兴趣。

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最后，Friendster还宣布MOL Internet café 在马来西亚备受玩家欢迎的MOL Internet café现在被重命名为Friendster iCafe。这家位于马拉西亚Berjaya时代广场商城9楼，配有80台高配置个人电脑的iCafe将为Friendster Games游戏网站开展一场宣传活动。

Friendster has announced that it is launching social media portals for music and social gaming fans in Asia. The portals are the latest ventures from Friendster which was acquired in December last year by MOL Global (www.molglobal.net), one of Asia’s leading online payment companies.

“As a social networking site, Friendster has tremendous experience to make the Friendster Music and Friendster Games as socially connected portals for developers, artists and their fans. Friendster has a strong physical presence in Asia and now that it is part of MOL Global, we see huge opportunities to partner with developers and independent musicians to aid them in new ways of delivering and monetising their content to their fans,” said Ganesh Kumar Bangah, Friendster’s CEO and Group CEO for MOL Global.

Friendster Music (music.friendster.com) looks to champion independent music from around the region, aiding the discovery of new music and catered towards the Asian consumer by providing content and information that are useful and relevant to this region. The music portal provides the latest information on music news, updates and concerts happening around the region, featuring new music from independent artists as well as running online contests for free giveaways of merchandise, concert tickets and more.
As social games become increasingly popular among online users, Friendster recently launched a new gaming portal. Friendster Games (friendster.com/games) is designed to deliver easier-to-access, entertaining, locally flavoured and highly immersive MMO (massively multiplayer online) web games to Friendster users. Currently, the portal features new games such as BoomZ, War2, 3Kingdom, Sushido and Lady Popular played right within the browser. The new portals are complemented by various online and on-the-ground activities in the region such as the recent successful official profile launch of Philippines’ radio personality Mr. FU (http://profiles.friendster.com/dearmrfu) which has reignited interest among users on Friendster.

Friendster also announced that MOL Internet café which is already highly popular for its gaming customers in Malaysia has now been renamed to Friendster iCafe. The iCafe, located on the 9th floor of Malaysia’s Berjaya Times Square mall and equipped with 80 high performance PCs, has started to run promotions of Friendster Games.（source：Adoimagazine）