WThe Dura Lube Corporation was formed in 1986, originally intended as an engine additive for heavy duty trucks. The company gained wide exposure in the mid-1990s through infomercials and wide retail distribution of its engine and fuel additives.
WThe Freedom 251 is a smartphone that was initially offered for sale in India at the promotional price of ₹251. Sold by Ringing Bells Private Limited, and marketed as the world's cheapest smartphone.
WGardenscapes is a casual match-3 game, which was released first in Playrix's Scapes series in 2016 for Android and iOS devices and also on Facebook.
WThe GeForce 900 series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce 700 series and serving as the high-end introduction to the Maxwell microarchitecture, named after James Clerk Maxwell. They are produced with TSMC's 28 nm process.
WHomescapes is a casual free-to-play puzzle game. It was developed and launched by Playrix in 2017 as a successor to their 2016 match-3 game, Gardenscapes. The storyline narrates about attempts of the game’s protagonist, Austin the Butler, to restore his childhood home. The game is available on Apple's App Store and MacOS, also on Android.
WPlayrix Holding Ltd., also known as Playrix Entertainment and Playrix Games, is a developer of free-to-play mobile games behind titles such as Township, Fishdom and Gardenscapes. The company was founded by Dmitry Bukhman and Igor Bukhman in 2004 in Vologda, Russia. Playrix has been headquartered in Dublin since 2013.
WPower Balance is the original brand of hologram bracelets claimed by its manufacturers and vendors to use "holographic technology" to "resonate with and respond to the natural energy field of the body", and increase sporting ability. Numerous independent studies of the device have found it to be no more effective than placebo for enhancing athletic performance, and the manufacturer was forced by the ACCC to retract any previous claims in 2010.
WScareware is a form of malware which uses social engineering to cause shock, anxiety, or the perception of a threat in order to manipulate users into buying unwanted software. Scareware is part of a class of malicious software that includes rogue security software, ransomware and other scam software that tricks users into believing their computer is infected with a virus, then suggests that they download and pay for fake antivirus software to remove it. Usually the virus is fictional and the software is non-functional or malware itself. According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, the number of scareware packages in circulation rose from 2,850 to 9,287 in the second half of 2008. In the first half of 2009, the APWG identified a 585% increase in scareware programs.
WTownship is a casual farming and city-building game developed and launched on multiple platforms by Playrix. The object is to develop a starter town by building factories, harvesting crops, and creating goods. Township was originally available as an Adobe Flash application on WhatsApp Social and later on was released on the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon Appstore.