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Global Eagle Entertainment

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Global Eagle Entertainment
Type of businessPublic company (NASDAQENT)
Founded2012
HeadquartersMarina Del Rey, California
Key peopleEd Shapiro, Chairman[1]
Dave Davis, CEO[1]
IndustryAviation
Websitehttp://geemedia.com
Current statusActive

Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. (GEE) is a company that provides media content, technology, and connectivity products to the travel industry. It operates in the aviation and maritime markets.

History

GEE formed in January 2013 through the combination of three businesses:

  • Row44 [2]
  • Advanced Inflight Alliance (AIA)
  • Global Eagle Acquisition Corp [3]

Since 2013, GEE has completed the following acquisitions:

  • Post-Modern Edit LLC in July 2013 [4]
  • IFES in October 2013
  • Purple Inflight Entertainment in August 2014 [5]
  • Western Outdoor Interactive (WOI) in July 2015
  • Assets from RMG Networks in July 2015 [6]
  • Marks Systems, Inc. d/b/a Masflight in August 2015
  • Navaero Avionics AB in August 2015 [7]

Products

GEE’s products provide communications hardware and services that provide high-speed satellite-based Internet to airlines. Specific product and service lines include:

Connectivity

GEE’s connectivity products provide airlines with high-speed Internet communications services.

Content

GEE’s content business selects, procures, manages, encodes, and distributes wholly-owned and licensed media content, video and music programming, applications, digital advertising products, and games to airlines worldwide.

Digital media

GEE's digital media products include applications, games, and customer portals installed on aircraft worldwide.

Airline operations

GEE’s products for airline operations include Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) and cloud-based operational data analytics systems.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Executive Profiles". Global Eagle Entertainment. Retrieved Aug 24, 2015.
  2. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323894704578107343914705094
  3. http://investors.geemedia.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=739793
  4. http://investors.geemedia.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=739793
  5. https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/10/15/673368/10102739/en/Global-Eagle-Entertainment-Acquires-Content-Assets-From-Indian-Distributor-Purple-Media.html
  6. http://investors.geemedia.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=920376
  7. https://www.runwaygirlnetwork.com/2015/08/06/global-eagle-makes-big-data-play-with-masflight-and-navaero-buys

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