PARIS and SAN FRANCISCO, July 2 /PRNewswire/ --
- Yoono Comes Out Of Private Beta in Time for Release of Firefox 3
Yoono, a leader in developing solutions to simplify your Internet life and save you time, and Assurances Generales de France (AGF) announced today AGF has extended the Series A with an additional US$4 million investment. AGF originally invested US$2.5 million in Yoono in 2007. Yoono also announced the opening of its beta product to the public and support for the release of Firefox 3. Yoono socializes your browser by becoming "a platform of widgets" that helps users manage all of their social networks, discover and share new contents in a single interface. With the additional funding the company will continue to integrate some of the world's most leveraged applications, expand its marketing programs, and continue to grow its engineering teams, scale its platform and enhance its whole ecosystem.
"The future of the Internet relies on a user's ability to easily get the information, services and connections that they want. Yoono has a unique approach that puts the entire Web at the tip of your fingers without overwhelming the user," said Guillaume Latour of AGF. "Yoono has the perfect combination of vision, innovation and an experienced management team that the Web 2.0 space needs and we are excited to partner with them as they aggressively move forward."
Managing Your Digital Social Life
Timed with the recent launch of the popular browser Firefox 3, Yoono has also come out of private beta. Now anyone can download the Yoono at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1833 and begin managing their social networks. With Yoono users can integrate their social networks like Twitter and Facebook, manage multiple email platforms like Gmail and Yahoo!, and share videos and pictures through YouTube, Piczo, and Flickr all in one place.
"We've solved this growing problem of social fatigue, as we previously did with web search in our first version. And we will continue to solve problems of the social web with our coming widgets and integrations," said Pascal Josselin, Yoono's CEO and co-Founder. "We couldn't be more excited about the additional support from AGF and their understanding of our company vision. With the additional funds we hope to continue to innovate and fulfill our promise of enabling everyone to leverage the social web."
About Yoono
Yoono is a leading developer of solutions to simplify your Internet life. Our vision is to make socializing on the Internet accessible, easy and fun for everyone. Today, more than 1.3 million users are currently leveraging Yoono to manage the Internet. With Yoono, you can stop watching your digital social life stream by and instead discover new content, share it with friends in multiple networks, and have two-way conversations and status updates in real-time. Yoono brings your favorite social networks, social bookmarking, video, music, and search features together to make socializing online as natural as off-line. So Get A Life! Get Yoono and Get Social! For more information, visit us at http://www.yoono.com.
Web site: http://www.yoono.com
Kristi Kilpatrick of StrategicLee, Inc., +1-650-302-6404, kristi@strategiclee.com
