Price Central Network, Inc.

Moby ID: 6888

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November 2003: The VirtualVegas.com website goes "temporarily offline" and remains so through 2004, when it is closed entirely.
July 8, 2003: Vivendi sells Flipside, Inc. to The Vendare Group.
October 2001: The Flipside Network reports that with nearly 13 million unique users per month, it ranks among the top 20 web properties and reaches 14.5 percent of the online audience in the U.S.
March 6, 2001: Vivendi cuts 50% of Flipside, Inc.’s workforce. 150 employees are laid off.
February 6, 2001: Flipside, Inc. acquires the internet games company Uproar, Inc. for $140 million.
October 2000: The Flipside Network reports nearly 11 million unique visitors, ranking at no. 38 of the internet’s most popular website (with Yahoo at no. 1).
March 29, 2000: Price Central Network is acquired by Havas Interactive, the interactive entertainment subsidiary of Vivendi SA. Havas merges Price Central with its own WON.net in a new company called Flipside, Inc.
December 20, 1999: The Prize Central Network reports that it is the most popular game network on the internet, according to PC Data Online, with over 2 million unique visitors per month.
May 1999: Prize Central Network, Inc. sells its blackjack.com domain for $460,000.
February 1999: Virtual Vegas, Inc. changes its name to Price Central Network, Inc. The company employs 19 persons and has offices in San Francisco and Santa Monica, California.
1998: In third quarter 1998, VirtualVegas.com reports about 265,500 unique visitors per month.
August 24, 1995: Virtual Vegas ships its two and only multimedia CD-ROM games, Turbo Blackjack and Ms. Metaverse.
August 15, 1995: Virtual Vegas and Spry/CompuServe join together to provide instant internet access to CD-ROM users via Spry’s Mosaic Direct software package.
1994: David Herschman and Hikaru Phillips found Virtual Vegas, Inc. in Venice, California. The free casino website VirtualVegas.com opens.