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Saturday
Jan022010

Shiningworks, new start or damage limitation?

A few days ago I received the following email from Shiningworks Marketing Director, Mark Cui.

"Hi Glyn,

I am Mark Cui, Marketing Director of Shiningworks. 

Shiningworks is a startup company with management team in US and China.  We have been merging a series of companies in app development field in Asia, including Molinker, recently. 

We are taking over Molinker’s app products on Apple App Store and its photo processing technology from the company behind it, Asmartvision, who decided to switch their business focus away from iphone platform.

Shiningworks believes the future of mobile internet and mobile app, we will do our best to develop better products, and will be do our best to contribute on building a healthy developer community. 

The take-over process is going on and will be finished this week, we will keep public informed. 

Best Regards,

Mark Cui

Marketing Director, Shiningworks"


I replied to Mark asking him if it was OK to publish his email, and he replied with the following email, saying yes.

"Hi Glyn,

Thank you for your quick response.  It would be a great help if you could make it public.

We are working hard on team building, product roadmap planning, as well as product reviewing.  We believe we could present much more attractive apps for app users in the coming new year,  and we are determined to do our best to turn Shiningworks be a strong brand in mobile app market.

Happy New Year!

Mark Cui

Marketing Director, Shiningworks"


Now on the face of it, it would appear that Shinningworks [Molinker] are trying to mend its ways by being taken over by Shiningworks, but as has already been pointed out by Patrick and other readers, Shiningworks apps has already been spotted with what appear to be bogus reviews and ratings.

So is this a new start or damage limitation by Shiningworks? At the moment I am sat on the fence waiting to see just what Shiningworks will do next with the Molinker merger and their apps, and I will be watching their app reviews and ratings, so if you see anything that looks suspicious from this developer, then please let me know, and we will investigate.

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