The Fubra Blog
Clear Books gets a new front cover
A few weeks ago work started on updating and restructuring the design of Clear Books, an online accounting software product to free your time.
The beta version was launched back in December last year (2008) and since then the software has shed it’s beta label (July ’09) and evolved rapidly, boasting a number of great features and reasons to use Clear Books.
Fubra investment grows traffic to 100,000 users per day
Renegade Games Limited, the investment Fubra made in Febuary 2009 has just acquired four more websites, all in the gaming industry. All four websites are “top lists”, websites that rank games according to votes that their players send in, thereby creating a ranking page of which games are popular.
The websites were bought after tough negotiations with the old owner, however a deal both were happy with was reached eventually.
The four new websites are:
These websites will complement the games already owned by Renegade Games, including the game that is newly being developed from scratch, codenamed SimRepublic.
The websites give a great platform for games to advertise, as the websites now owned by Renegade Games top 100,000 users per day. This is good progress after about 8 months of building websites.
Bytewire Launches Street Crime Game
Back in February, we here at Bytewire Ltd received investment from Fubra to design and produce online games. After many months of hard work, grit and determination last Thursday (24/09/2009) we launched our first title. Street Crime is an online browser based MMORPG its free to play and requires no downloading, you can play it from the convenience of your web browser.
Street Crime Gangster Game - Homepage
Street Crime challenges you to immerse yourself, compete and battle in the cruel unforgiving streets of murder, money and politics. It is also full of action packed features including petty crimes, grand theft autos (gta), jobs, organised crimes, getaways, missions and lots more. Work your way up from the rank of a lowly Hobo all the way to a Godfather, earning respect along the way by contributing to the community.
There is also a character building tool, can you model your character on yourself? Try your luck to increase your wealth at the casino which includes all the favourite gaming tables Blackjack, Roulette, Keno and Yahtzee. Manage your own plot of land and build buildings from brothels, nightclubs, lead factories and many others to help your criminal empire flourish.
Can you and your crew take control of the Streets? Will you take power and demand respect? Or will you lurk in the shadows? Find out now!
NHS Patient Survey Service – PatientPulse
A new patient satisfaction survey system from Niggle Limited
Niggle is a business focused on feedback. Back at the beginning of 2009, when Fubra took an early stage investment in Niggle, we were working exclusively with independent restaurants. Through a process of product evolution, this week sees the launch of PatientPulse, a complete feedback system designed to continuously monitor patient satisfaction in GP surgeries, clinics, health centres and hospital departments.
The NHS has put patient satisfaction centre stage in recent years. In May 2009 the Department of Heath issued guidelines encouraging GP practices and Primary Care Trusts to use their own methods to measure patient satisfaction and capture real time feedback. More recently, the government has signaled that patient satisfaction will become a key metric in determining funding across the NHS.
PatientPulse uses web and mobile technology to track patient opinions across key areas of heath care provision. Using our trademark MicroSurvey format – which breaks traditional surveys down into bite sized chunks – we can increase both the number and the demographic of patients participating. And unlike traditional surveys, results are analysed and available immediately – ready for action to be taken without unnecessary delays.
The system is currently operating in 8 NHS heath centres across the UK , with more to follow in the next few weeks. To read more about our new service, and patient satisfaction in the heath care sector, visit our website at PatientPulse.co.uk
Progress of Renegade Games Investment
After about 7 months of starting the joint venture with Fubra, it is going very well. It was a great advantage working in their office initially, and being able to talk to the directors, as they were able to help me in the hardest part of starting a business, the very beginning. They helped me avoid many mistakes, and also suggested a lot of things that I could do.
The experience they have definitely shows. After almost 10 years of being an “internet business”, Fubra have a very good sense of how to build good websites, and make money on the internet. And they are not afraid to share this information with their investments.
