Viigo News

Powered by Gazaro, Viigo now offers the latest and hottest deals with the ability to shop by store or by product category

Toronto, ON (June 24, 2009) – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services platform for smartphones, and Gazaro (www.gazaro.com), a personal sales flyer that uses artificial intelligence to identify the best sales and discounts on products, today announced a partnership to bring deals and sales on computers and electronics to smartphones.

Integrating Gazaro into the new deals module, Viigo users can now browse sales flyers and track prices on products they want directly from their smartphones. By subscribing to the Gazaro channel, users can pull down a live feed of the hottest deals in consumer electronics, and subscribe directly to feeds from their favorites stores like Wal-mart, Amazon, and BestBuy, among several others.

Price trending, a popular feature visible on Gazaro.com (see chart for example: http://www.gazaro.com/deal/best-buy-sony-bravia-46-1080p-flat-panel-lcd-hdtv-190256) is also included enabling Viigo users to make instant and informed buying decisions. Future releases of Gazaro on Viigo will include the ability to search for specific products and sign in directly to Gazaro using Viigo.

“Gazaro is excited by the opportunity of extending the value of our service to the mobile community”, said Sam Zaid, CEO, Gazaro. “People are increasingly looking for the best sale prices and value for their money while on the move, so making it easy for consumers to access deals using Viigo on their smartphone is an ideal solution.”

With the introduction of the Gazaro service Viigo has added a new module, Deals, to compliment its wide range of offerings including News, Weather, Sports, Stock & Finance, Audio & Podcasts, Local Interest, Shopping, Social Networks, Entertainment, Flights & Travel and Politics.

“Viigo is constantly looking for ways to add value for our users,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “With the addition of Gazaro’s deal service, people can not only monitor and identify the best deals on the things they want, they can make those purchases directly from their smartphone any time they want.”

ABOUT GAZARO
Gazaro is a shopping service that tracks prices and classifies sales found in flyers, catalogues, and websites in real-time using a patent-pending Artificial Intelligence system. Gazaro delivers on the promise of the Semantic Web and enables users to create unique and personalized flyers of the biggest sales in their local area on things that match their shopping interests. When a new sale is discovered, Gazaro alerts users through a number of electronic mechanisms including email, RSS, and even Twitter. For more information, visit http://www.gazaro.com/

Conference schedules, delegate information, photos, live reports as well as industry news will be published to smartphones via the Viigo platform

(June 4, 2009) – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services platform for smartphones, announced today that both nextMEDIA, being held June 5 – 7, and the Banff World Television Festival, taking place June 7-10 in Banff Alberta, will be using Viigo to deliver conference information including; delegate information, schedules, industry news, photos and reports on what’s hot at the event, to delegates on their smartphones.

The Banff World Television Festival hosts International broadcasters, producers, writers, directors, distributors and industry executives from over 25 countries. A core feature of the festival is the prestigious Banff World Television Awards (“The Rockies”), which includes finalists from over 30 countries in the 23 categories. nextMEDIA Banff is where the world’s leading edge content creators, aggregators, broadcasters, agencies, advertisers, and solution-providers meet to develop key business relationships.

Further to the conference specific services, the application provides access to standard Viigo modules including News & RSS, Weather, Sports, Stocks & Finance, Local Interest, Shopping, Social Networks, Entertainment, Flights & Travel, Audio & Podcasts and Politics.

“Viigo makes it easy for conference organizers to deliver a range of real-time content and event information to the smartphones of their delegates,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “We’re pleased our application has been selected as the official mobile app for both the Banff World Television Festival and nextMEDIA Banff and look forward supporting these two great events.”

ABOUT BANFF WORLD TELEVISION FESTIVAL AND NEXTMEDIA
The Banff World Television Festival is a not-for-profit event produced by Achilles Media Ltd., an international events management company serving the television and digital media industries. nextMEDIA is owned and produced by Achilles Media Ltd. with the help and support of an international advisory board from the digital media industry. Achilles Media Ltd. events include: History Makers: International Summit of History & Current Affairs Producers, nextMEDIA World, and Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX). For more information, visit http://www.banff2009.com/ and http://www.nextmediaevents.com/banff/index.php

Baystreet.ca turns to Viigo to publish its content focused on the Canadian capital markets on smartphones

(June 2, 2009) – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services platform for smartphones, and Baystreet.ca, a leading online Canadian publisher of original, timely and insightful commentary; analysis and opinion aimed at helping Canadian investors make informed investment decisions, today announced the launch of a co-branded version of the award-winning Viigo platform.

Baystreet.ca is now able to present its content, ranging from breaking news to analysis of penny stocks, from global market roundups to economic commentary, in a way that is effortless for people to access, easy to read and always up-to-date, on smartphones.

“Today people wish to access the financial information they want, wherever they are and whenever they need it,” said, Aaron Bodnar, Founder and President, Baystreet.ca Media Corp. “Because of this, it was strategically important for us to make our content available in a compelling way to people on their smartphones. By leveraging Viigo’s platform we were able to advance this initiative quickly and cost-effectively, allowing us to meet the needs of our audience in the most effective way possible.”

In addition to the Baystreet.ca content people will receive by downloading the application at http://getviigo.com/baystreet, the entire catalog of standard Viigo modules, News & RSS, Weather, Sports, Stocks & Finance, Local Interest, Shopping, Social Networks, Entertainment and Flights & Travel, are also included. Batstreet.ca content will also be available to the entire Viigo user community.

“We strive to offer a rich and diverse portfolio of useful and insightful content to our users.” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “The partnership with Baystreet.ca will allow augment our Stocks and Finance offering with some of the most compelling financial analysis available anywhere.”

ABOUT VIIGO
Viigo™ is revolutionizing the way users access information on their smart phone. Every day, people around the world rely on Viigo as their gateway to a vast array of up-to-the-minute content and useful services, wherever they are and whenever they need it. In one simple, fully customizable application, Viigo delivers news, weather, flight schedules and status, real-time sports scores, stock quotes and market data, entertainment, hotel and restaurant reviews, blogs, and much more. Viigo is the one application smart phone users cannot be without.

Founded in 2004, Viigo Inc. is a privately held company with its corporate headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For more information, visit www.viigo.com. To download Viigo onto your device, go to www.getviigo.com from your mobile browser.

ABOUT BAYSTREET.CA
BayStreet.ca Media Corp, founded in May 1998 is a leading online Canadian publisher of original, timely and insightful commentary; analysis and opinion aimed at helping Canadian investors make informed investment decisions.

Viigo recognized as being the best available choice for quality, performance, design, service and value by leading technology influencers

(May 7, 2009) – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services platform for smartphones, today announced that it has received Editors’ Choice Awards from both CNET and PC Magazine’s for its Viigo for BlackBerry product.

CNET Editors’ Choice winners are recognized as top software products in their respective technology categories, and contribute to the standard by which all future software products are judged. A key selection requirement is that it must also change the competitive landscape of its market, whether through innovative features, exceptional value for the price, remarkable ease of use, or a demonstrable boost to the lives of its users.

“Viigo has certainly matured since its early days. While it now grabs weather, financial news, flight status, and sports scores in addition to your news and blog feeds, it’s still at its core the fastest, most complete RSS reader for BlackBerry,” said Jessica Dolcourt, associate editor at CNET. “To users’ eternal benefit, Viigo makes finding, subscribing to, and adding your own newsfeeds extremely simple with a long list of presets, browsable categories, and a way to add favorite RSS URLs, even from aggregators.”

To view the CNET review, please visit http://tinyurl.com/d3z7sm.

Viigo also received the Editors’ Choice Award from PC Magazine, earning 4.5 stars, “Very Good” rating, in a 5 star rating system.

“RSS readers are nothing new, but Viigo has raised the category to an art form on mobile devices,” said Jamie Lendino, Contributing Editor of PC Magazine. “This app is good enough to make me a convert, especially on mobile devices—and that’s saying something.”

To view the PC Magazine review, please visit http://tinyurl.com/c76lpk.

“Viigo is incredibly proud to have been recognized as the premium application in our market,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “Positive evaluations from influential organizations such as CNET and PC Magazine are a result of the tremendous effort put forth by the amazing team we have here at Viigo. We continuously and rapidly innovate, driven by the feedback of our fast growing user community, in order to ensure that our application will always be at the leading edge.”

Vodafone’s exclusive partner in Singapore, M1, has now made Viigo available on all their BlackBerry Storm smartphones via a dedicated portal

(May 6, 2009) – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services platform for smartphones, announced today that its award-winning application has been selected as a Featured App by M1, a leading mobile communications provider in Singapore.

Under the terms of this partnership, Viigo will immediately be available via the M1 Portal, and will automatically appear on the home screen of all M1 BlackBerry devices going forward.

“M1 has chosen to feature Viigo as it has proven to be one of the most popular BlackBerry applications available today,” said, P. Subramaniam, Chief Marketing Officer at M1. “By pre-loading Viigo we are providing our customers with one-click access to News, Weather, Entertainment, Live Sports Scores and Schedules, Markets, Stock Portfolios, Flight Schedules/Status and more … delivered quickly, efficiently and intuitively in a format specially designed for their BlackBerry.”

Viigo is the ultimate Mobile Information Concierge. Users tell it what they are interested in, and it keeps itself up to date automatically, so their information is available immediately, wherever they are and whenever they need it. No waiting for the browser to load, no typing URLs … just the information they care about, instantly available, one click away. People often call Viigo “the most highly used application after eMail on my BlackBerry”, and influential blogs such as CrackBerry.com describe it as “the best way to consume content on a mobile device”.

“We’re thrilled that M1 has chosen Viigo as a featured application for their BlackBerry devices,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “We are committed to serving the needs of carriers around the world, providing their subscribers with a compelling reason to switch to the latest generation of smartphones.”

ABOUT M1
M1, Singapore’s most exciting and innovative mobile, broadband and IDD service provider, was launched in April 1997. Since then, it has made significant inroads into the local mobile communications market, gaining considerable brand presence and market share. M1 aims to be the leader in personal voice, business and data communications, focusing on value, quality and customer service. More information on M1 is available at www.m1.com.sg.