Cliq Digital
| Cliq Digital AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | DE000A0HHJR3 |
| founding | January 2005 |
| Seat |
Dusseldorf , Germany
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| management |
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| Number of employees | 80 ( FTE ) |
| sales | 63.1 million euros (2019) |
| Branch | Digital streaming entertainment |
| Website | cliqdigital.com |
| As of December 31, 2019 | |
The Cliq Digital AG (proper spelling CLIQ, formerly Bob Mobile AG ) is a company in the digital sector, which offers consumers streaming entertainment services worldwide. The company is based in Düsseldorf and is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Scale 30 segment).
history
The company was founded in January 2005 and was already active in the markets in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands in the year it was founded. On November 28, 2005, the company went public under the company name Bob Mobile AG .
The company hit the headlines when it released a ringtone in 2006 that alluded to the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch .
On July 1, 2009 Jarimovas GmbH, in which Executive Board Remco Westermann has a majority stake, announced that it had acquired over 50% of the shares in Bob Mobile.
At the Annual General Meeting on August 24, 2012, the name change from Bob Mobile AG to Cliq Digital AG was resolved, which took effect at the beginning of September 2012.
Products
CLIQ Digital sells licensed digital products in the areas of music, audio books, games, sports and film.
criticism
The product "Mobile Spy", which was supposed to enable a cell phone to be located by specifying the assigned number, was viewed critically. Advertising on television and on websites suggests that the user is able to “locate everyone when and where they want”. The fact that, according to the Telecommunications Act, the located person's consent is required is not mentioned here. The Mobile Spy was also marketed as SpyMigo or Mobile Spy 2.0.
In addition, there was an increasing number of reports on the Internet that Bob Mobile was using unfair means to steal subscription contracts from consumers. In the case of online contracts, for example, it was not always clear if a subscription was involved, and many users complained about costs collected via telephone bills for which no contract had been concluded. A campaign on Facebook, which Spiegel also reported on, met with a particularly strong response. In March 2010, the Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Ilse Aigner also expressed criticism in a direct inquiry about these partially illegally concluded subscriptions.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2019 (PDF), accessed on June 11, 2019.
- ^ Welt online : "Natascha in the basement" . September 29, 2006.
- ↑ Bob Mobile AG: Announcement about the notification of a majority stake in accordance with 20 para. 1 and para. 4 AktG. (PDF) (No longer available online.) July 1, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 11, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Dirk Averesch, dpa: Big Brother for everyone: Cell phone location is becoming a mass service. In: heise.de. June 7, 2006, accessed June 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Bobmobile - subscription without consent
- ↑ Konrad Lischka: Online advertising: How Facebook makes money from dubious advertising, Netzwelt. In: spiegel.de. April 16, 2009, accessed June 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Ilse Aigner - Paying for web subscriptions not ordered (Bob Mobile, Net Mobile). In: direktzu.de. January 12, 2012, accessed June 11, 2020 .