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Viigo’s Real-Time Updates From The 2008 Beijing Olympics

Posted on Monday, August 11th, 2008 | No Comments

BRING HOME THE GOLD FOR SPORTS FANS AROUND THE WORLD

The Globe and Mail partners with Viigo to bring smartphone users
news, scores, standings and results from Olympic events in Beijing

TORONTO – August 11, 2008 – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services delivery platform for smartphones, today announced a partnership with The Globe and Mail, Canada’s leading and most read online newspaper (www.theglobeandmail.com), to provide smartphone users with mobile, interactive and real-time information from the 2008 Summer Olympics being held in Beijing, China.

This partnership creates a mobile version of Canada’s national newspaper and its associated websites, complete with comprehensive coverage of the Beijing Olympics this summer. Free to download at www.viigo.com/globeandmail or www.getviigo.com/gam from your smartphone, the Viigo mobile application delivers news and information in several categories, including News, Stocks, Travel, Local Interest, and as a special addition for this summer, the Beijing 2008 Olympic service.

“Viigo’s partnership with The Globe and Mail lets millions of Olympic fans get all the information, updates, and statistics the world games have to offer, delivered, live, to the palm of their hand,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “From the most popular events such as swimming, soccer, gymnastics and basketball to the more unique events showcased in the Olympics such as steeple-chase and slalom kayaking, no matter what sport you want to follow or what country you root for, Viigo will deliver you the information you want, wherever you are.”

Users that select Viigo’s Beijing 2008 service will be automatically subscribed to a series of mobile information channels from The Globe and Mail relating to this summer’s Olympic games, including insightful broad news coverage, breaking news stories, individual competitor and country statistics, scores, medal results, and a listing of upcoming Olympic events. Users can personalize the information they get from Viigo, and can even customize their Beijing 2008 Olympic service by selecting specific sports and events to track in real time. From daily medal counts to the latest news and results categorized by sport, Viigo users can keep their finger on the pulse of this year’s Olympic games, anywhere and at any time.

“The Viigo mobile service delivers new levels of interactivity, permitting access to exclusive online content and providing a new opportunity for our readers to stay up to date on the latest news from The Globe and Mail, while on the go,” said Roger Dunbar, VP, Digital Media and Business Development of The Globe and Mail. “This initiative serves to further The Globe and Mail’s commitment to combine the best journalism with innovation and convenience. With the expertise of The Globe’s line-up of award-winning sports writers and the worldwide interest around the Olympic games, our readers are the ultimate winners.”

The Beijing 2008 Olympics service on Viigo will be available for both BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones.

About Viigo
Viigo Inc. develops and markets one of the world’s most popular mobile content and services applications for smartphones. With over 5,000 channels and information services, Viigo’s community of subscribers enjoys up-to-the-minute access to news, weather, sports, stocks and finance, entertainment and blogs in one intuitive, simple, freely downloadable application. Founded in 2004, Viigo Inc. is a privately held company with its corporate headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

To download Viigo on your smartphone, visit www.getviigo.com/globeandmail from your mobile browser. To see a complete list of Viigo’s current partners, visit www.viigo.com/partnership/overview .

About The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper, is a division of CTVglobemedia, a dynamic multi-media company, which also owns CTV Inc., Canada’s number-one private broadcaster.

Media Contacts:
Cathy Mertl
VP, Product Marketing, Viigo
cathy.mertl@viigo.com
+1 (416) 640-9915

Teresa Pagnutti
Environics Communications
tpagnutti@environicspr.com
+1 (416) 969-2721

Viigo Named as Finalist in 8th Annual Canadian New Media Awards

Posted on Thursday, July 24th, 2008 | No Comments

The industry’s most prominent advocates and entrepreneurs to be awarded on November 18

TORONTO, Ont. – July 24, 2008– Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services delivery platform for smartphones, has been recognized as one of Canada’s new media leaders. Viigo is one of three finalists to be named Most Promising Company of the Year as part of the 2008 Canadian New Media Awards (CNMA). A Canadian celebrity host will be joined by industry supporters on November 18, 2008 to celebrate and present 14 Pixel Awards at CiRCA in Toronto.

“We’re honored to be one of the finalists,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “The CNMA’s nomination not only recognizes Viigo’s rapid emergence as the content and services platform of choice for smartphones, but it also illustrates the massive potential for our company in a space that many are calling the fastest growing application marketplace the world has ever seen. In this space, Canadian companies are world leaders.”

“The CNMA recognizes great talent and work in the Canadian digital interactive industry,” said Adam Froman, Founder of CNMA and President and CEO of Delvinia. “This year 43 finalists from across 14 award categories demonstrate the innovation and creativity driving the success of the Canadian interactive and new media industries.”
The 43 finalists hail from across Canada with 24 finalists from Ontario, 8 from BC, 8 from Quebec, 1 from Alberta, 1 from Saskatchewan, and 1 from Manitoba. More information about the 2008 finalists can be found on: http://www.cnma.ca/index_e/07finalists.html

The CNMA is also happy to announce the continued partnerships with Deloitte and RBC Royal Bank for the following award categories.
• The Company of the Year - sponsored by leading professional services firm Deloitte. Deloitte managed this award’s selection process; finalists were chosen through a confidential interview process by a panel from the consulting, legal, financial and venture communities.
• The Most Promising New Company of the Year – sponsored by RBC Royal Bank, this category continues to identify companies to watch by recognizing Canadian companies less than two years old. Each nominated company complete an interview process to qualify.

About Viigo
Viigo Inc. develops and markets one of the world’s most popular mobile content and services applications for smartphones. With over 5,000 channels and information services, Viigo’s community of subscribers enjoys up-to-the-minute access to news, weather, sports, stocks and finance, entertainment and blogs in one intuitive, simple, freely downloadable application. 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 the Canadian New Media Awards
The Canadian New Media Awards (CNMA) were established in 1999 to promote and celebrate excellence within the digital interactive industry. The Awards recognize the accomplishments and outstanding contributions made by Canadians working in this sector. Judges from across the country select 43 finalists and 14 winners from hundreds of entries submitted in featured categories that showcase the world-class skills of the new media industry’s top talent, services and products. Each year, hundreds of business and new media professionals from across Canada gather to honour the country’s top talent, services and products at the Gala Awards Ceremony. The Awards are presented in partnership with Telefilm Canada, Deloitte and RBC. For further information, visit www.cnma.ca.

About nextMEDIA: Monetizing Digital Media
nextMEDIA: Monetizing Digital Media is a digital entertainment, interactive advertising, and technology conference dedicated to connecting all sides of today’s rapidly evolving digital media marketplace. The event brings together key decision makers from advertising, broadcasting, publishing and new media to look at the many ways digital content can be monetized.

About Achilles Media
Achilles Media Ltd. is an international events management company serving the television and digital media industries. Achilles Media Ltd. events include: Canadian Innovation Exchange (April 29 – 30); nextMEDIA: The Future of Digital Content (June 6 - 8, 2008); The Banff World Television Festival (June 8-11, 2008); Just Comedy (July 17, 18th ); History Makers: International Summit of History and Current Affairs Producers (January 17 - 19, 2008); and NATPE Mobile++ (January 28, 2008).

For further information, please contact:

Tannis Wengel
Canadian New Media Awards
905-598-2544
twengel@cnma.ca

Cathy Mertl
VP, Product Marketing
Viigo Inc.
+1 (416) 640-9915
cathy.mertl@viigo.com

Viigo kicks Mobile Sports Content into high gear

Posted on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 | No Comments

Responding to beta user requests, Viigo brings NASCAR, IndyCar, Tour de France and Formula One action to smartphones

Toronto, Canada – July 16, 2008 – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services delivery platform for smartphones, is kicking its sports content into high gear by offering racing fans more mobile, interactive, and real-time information on their smartphones, just in time for the height of the hot summer racing season.

“Summer means road trips and traveling, and with many competitive bicycling or motorsports events on the horizon, fans on the road this summer will want to keep up with all the latest available information,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “We offer fans of competitive racing key information such as standings, results, money leaders, and other content they need to keep their pulse on any given race, anytime.”

Viigo responded to specific requests from its beta users to add Formula One, IndyCar, The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) and the Tour de France to the wide variety of sports information already available via Viigo.

NASCAR is the second-most popular professional sport inside the U.S. and has a huge fan-base, while both Tour de France and Formula One garner enormous worldwide audiences.

Viigo has made input from its private beta users a key criterion for new content as the company continues to grow and improve its service. With the official launch of Project Tango this September, Viigo will become available to the general public, and suggesting new services and content will be a key part of user interaction.

About Viigo
Viigo Inc. develops and markets one of the world’s most popular mobile content and services applications for smartphones. With over 5,000 channels and information services, Viigo’s community of subscribers enjoys up-to-the-minute access to news, weather, sports, stocks and finance, entertainment and blogs in one intuitive, simple, freely downloadable application.

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 the latest beta of Viigo - and all the new sports services - go to www.getviigo.com/beta from your BlackBerry or Windows Mobile browser.

Contacts

Cathy Mertl
VP, Product Marketing
Viigo Inc.
cathy.mertl@viigo.com
+1 (416) 640-9915

John Chilson
Mobility Public Relations for Viigo
viigo@mobilitypr.com
+1 (503) 343-4133

Viigo and Microsoft bring The Worldwide Partner Conference to Smartphones everywhere

Posted on Monday, July 7th, 2008 | No Comments

Stay in the loop with Viigo’s mobile content and services for smartphones.

TORONTO, ON, and Houston, TX– July 07, 2008 – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the world’s leading mobile content and services delivery platform for smartphones, announced today that it has partnered with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to deliver breaking news and conference information live from Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference to mobile devices everywhere. Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference draws nearly 10,000 people from around the globe who are looking to learn more about business opportunities and product innovation from Microsoft executives, and to network with peers across the Microsoft Partner community. With Viigo, everyone from attendees in Houston, to the technology community following the conference from afar will have live access to session schedules, product announcements, third-party commentary and blog coverage in the palms of their hands.

“Our increasingly digital generation is demanding real-time access to the content and services that have become a critical part of our day-to-day lives, wherever we are and whenever we need it,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO of Viigo. “From conference coverage, breaking news, market data, audio podcasts, weather and real-time sports scores, to features we’ll be enabling in the future such as live discussion forums, flight schedules and flight status, Viigo’s ability to provide an always-on, always-connected experience, regardless of location, is a key part of this revolution.”

People downloading the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference edition of Viigo will be among the first in the world to experience Viigo’s new platform (Project Tango) on Microsoft Windows Mobile devices.
For more information on the Worldwide Partner Conference edition of Viigo, visit www.viigo.com/wpc or, to download the free application directly from your smartphone, visit www.getviigo.com/wpc from your mobile browser.

About Viigo
Viigo Inc. develops and markets one of the world’s most popular mobile content and services applications for smartphones. With over 5,000 channels and information services, Viigo’s community of subscribers enjoys up-to-the-minute access to news, weather, sports, stocks and finance, entertainment and blogs in one intuitive, simple, freely downloadable application. 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.

Contacts:

Cathy Mertl
VP, Product Marketing
Viigo Inc.
cathy.mertl@viigo.com
+1 (416) 640-9915

Viigo and the CFL bring the game to BlackBerry - For Free

Posted on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 | No Comments

Stay onside with the CFL’s edition of Viigo’s mobile content service for smartphones.

TORONTO, Ont. – June 23, 2008 – The Canadian Football League (CFL) today announced that the league has partnered with Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com) to deliver CFL fans a mobile, interactive and real-time information service that will dramatically enhance the fan experience. The CFL now offers a free, branded version of Viigo to fans, giving them one-click access to tickets, schedules, news, scores and real-time stats from their BlackBerry smartphones.

“Today people expect instant access to information they want, and that is especially true in sports,” said CFL Commissioner Mark Cohon. “The CFL employs the latest technologies that allow us to interact with our fans, but Viigo lets us establish a more personal connection between fans and the league than any other medium we have used. The CFL has been looking for ways to further engage with our fans and Viigo lets us do so in real time. Now fans can follow games in progress wherever they are, whenever they want, and can get detailed information to make the games more exciting and meaningful.”

Fans can use Viigo to get up to the minute details about games underway and to follow their team’s progress as they compete to play in the Grey Cup. But the CFL-branded version of Viigo does more than just provide fans with one-click access to a wealth of information and activities to enhance their enjoyment of football. SinceViigo delivers customized and real-time access to breaking news, sports, entertainment, weather, stock markets, games, traffic alerts, blogs posts and much more all from their smartphones, fans can enjoy games without missing or acting upon important information.

“A new generation of football fans is demanding new ways of staying connected to the sport they love,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO of Viigo. “In fact, this always connected, digital generation is looking at their relationship with their favorite sports and sports teams in revolutionary new ways. From real-time scores and fantasy stats, to features we’ll be enabling in the future such as live discussion forums, Viigo’s ability to provide an always on, always connected experience, wherever people are, is a key part of that revolution.”

For more information on the CFL edition of Viigo, visit www.cfl.ca/wireless or, to download now, visit www.getviigo.com/cfl from your mobile browser.

About the Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League is our league. It’s built on a tradition as proud, staged on a field as broad, and played at a pace as exciting as the country we are proud to call home. Our championship game, the Grey Cup, is the biggest single annual sporting event in Canada. And the 96th edition will be played on November 23, 2008 in Montreal, QC. For additional information, visit www.CFL.ca.

About Viigo
Viigo Inc. develops and markets one of the world’s most popular mobile content and services applications for smartphones. With over 5,000 channels and information services, Viigo’s community of subscribers enjoys up-to-the-minute access to news, weather, sports, stocks and finance, entertainment and blogs in one intuitive, simple, freely downloadable application. 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.

Contacts:

Cathy Mertl
VP, Product Marketing
Viigo Inc.
cathy.mertl@viigo.com
+1 (416) 640-9915

John Chilson
Mobility Public Relations for Viigo
viigo@mobilitypr.com
+1 (503) 343-4133

Two Popular Canadian Publications Go Mobile With Viigo

Posted on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 | No Comments

Exclaim! Magazine and The Walrus will offer readers original, fresh and exciting news via their smartphones

Toronto, Canada – June 12, 2008 – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services delivery platform for smartphones, announced today that two of Canada’s most popular magazines will use Viigo to distribute content to their readers.

Exclaim! Magazine (www.exclaim.ca) and The Walrus (www.walrusmagazine.com) will now offer a free, branded version of the Viigo smartphone software to give readers one-click access to a wealth of information including real-time breaking news, sports, entertainment, weather, stock market performance, traffic alerts, blogs posts and much more.

Exclaim! and The Walrus represent two very different types of publications. While Exclaim! focuses on entertainment and music, the non-profit The Walrus explores important local issues with a international eye,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO of Viigo. “Viigo is helping publishers of all types - across multiple geographies, languages and genres - deliver the world’s most compelling content directly to their readers, wherever they are and whenever they wish to access it. We like to call it living life untethered.”

Last fall, Viigo partnered with the National Post, one of Canada’s National Newspapers (www.nationalpost.com) and launched the Post’s mobile presence with great success. More recently, Viigo partnered with La Tercera, one of South America’s largest media organizations, elevating their partnerships to an international level.

“Viigo gives us an immediate way to expand our readership and have a broader presence with existing readers,” said Ian Danzig, president, Exclaim! Media. “By using Viigo we can easily take our existing, daily updated content from exclaim.ca and push it out to current readers and to new readers who want the benefit of reading interviews, reviews and breaking news about their favorite bands or artists anywhere, anytime.”

About Viigo
Viigo Inc. develops and markets one of the world’s most popular mobile content and services applications for smartphones. With over 5,000 channels and information services, Viigo customers around the world enjoy up to the minute access to news, weather, sports, market performance, entertainment, and blogs in one intuitive, simple, freely downloadable application.

To download Viigo on your mobile device, visit www.getviigo.com . To find out how to take advantage of Viigo’s partner program benefits, visit http://viigo.com/partnership .

Contacts
Cathy Mertl
VP, Product Marketing
Viigo Inc.
cathy.mertl@viigo.com
+1 (416) 640-9915

John Chilson
Mobility Public Relations for Viigo
viigo@mobilitypr.com
+1 (503) 343-4133

Viigo Announces Expansion of Partner Community

Posted on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

Viigo offers media organizations, blogs and web-based communities a powerful global mobile platform

TORONTO, CANADA – June 3, 2008 – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services delivery platform for smartphones, announced today that three influential Smartphone communities have selected Viigo to mobilize their content.

Viigo provides media organizations, online communities and bloggers with the quickest and easiest way to deliver compelling, real time and interactive mobile content to their readers. It also provides an immediate opportunity for these groups to monetize their content through Viigo’s integrated advertising platform.

“Viigo’s partner community has grown rapidly in the past six months” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “Web communities, portals, bloggers and even traditional media organizations have all discovered that Viigo offers an unparalleled solution for rapidly mobilizing and monetizing their content.”

The recent Viigo partners include:

  • BB Geeks (www.bbgeeks.com), which provides BlackBerry smartphone users industry news, how-to guides, interviews and articles. BBGeeks.com also publishes information on Blackberry cell phone services, plans and top carriers in the United States and Canada.
  • BerryReview (www.berryreview.com), which is dedicated to helping BlackBerry users find the latest news and information on how to get the most from their BlackBerry smartphones.
  • Coolsmartphone.com (www.coolsmartphone.com), which is based in the UK, and covers news and developments on the Windows Mobile platform.

“Viigo lets us generate new sources of advertising revenue from the mobile space while eliminating the cost of deploying our content to a mobile audience,” said Ronen Halevy from BerryReview.com, a popular online destination for BlackBerry news and information. “Viigo also lets us easily leverage their content distribution system and reach new subscribers on the extended Viigo network.”

Some of Viigo other partners include carriers such as Rogers, newspapers such as Canada’s The National Post and Chile’s La Tercera, on-line communities such as Pinstack and popular blogging sites such as BlackBerryCool.com and CrackBerry.com.

In the words of Jonathan Harris, vice-president of digital media at the National Post, “Viigo allows the National Post to quickly and seamlessly mobilize its breaking news content with literally no capital or technical investment. It is a natural complement to our online strategy and gives our clients a unique new way to reach a targeted and desirable audience.”

About ViigoViigo Inc. develops and markets one of the world’s most popular mobile content and services applications for smartphones. With thousands of channels and information services, all one click away, Viigo users around the world enjoy up to the minute access to news, weather, sports, market performance, entertainment, and blogs in one intuitive, simple, freely downloadable application.

To download Viigo on your Windows Mobile or BlackBerry smartphone, visit www.getviigo.com . To see a complete list of Viigo’s current partners, visit http://viigo.com/partnership/overview .

Contacts
Cathy Mertl
VP, Product Marketing
Viigo Inc.
+1 (416) 640-9915
cathy.mertl@viigo.com

Viigo Partners With Leading South American Newspaper

Posted on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 | No Comments

Toronto, Canada & Orlando, Fla. – May 13, 2008 – Viigo Inc. (www.viigo.com), developer of the popular mobile content and services delivery platform for smartphones, announced today that Chilean newspaper publisher La Tercera (www.tercera.cl), one of South America’s largest media organizations, will use Viigo to distribute content to their readers. La Tercera is now offering a free, branded version of Viigo to its readers, giving them one-click access to a wealth of information including breaking news, sports, entertainment, weather, stock market performance, traffic alerts, blogs posts and much more while on the go.“By mobilizing content in an incredibly compelling way, Viigo provides a unique opportunity for media companies to create new revenue streams while providing value to subscribers in ways not possible before,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO of Viigo. “Many traditional news outlets are starting to look to Viigo to more effectively mobilize their content, reach new readers and bolster ad revenue.”

La Tercera’s co-branded version of Viigo will be offered to readers through a major media campaign across La Tercera’s media channels. People can download the La Tercera version of Viigo at www.latercera.cl and www.GetViigo.com/LaTercera.

“Viigo gives La Tercera an important new way to extend our brand that is consistent with our mission of delivering readers news and fresh content that matches their interest,” said Manuela Chicharro Vargas, product manager for mobility from La Tercera. “The Viigo service lets readers stay in touch with a range of valuable information while on the go, in a form that they can easily navigate and read on their smartphones.”

Viigo continues to aggressively grow its international partnerships. Although La Tercera represents Viigo’s first agreement with a major media organization in South America, working with media companies around the globe has allowed Viigo to exponentially grow its user base while providing tremendous value to its partners.

One such partner is the National Post, one of Canada’s National Newspapers (www.nationalpost.com). Last fall Viigo launched the National Post’s mobile presence with great success.

“Viigo allows the National Post to quickly and seamlessly mobilize its breaking news content with literally no capital or technical investment,” says Jonathan Harris, the National Post’s vice president of digital media. “Viigo delivers the news to mobile devices fast. And it’s easy to download. It is a natural complement to our online strategy and gives our clients a unique new way to reach a targeted and desirable audience.”

About Viigo
Viigo Inc. develops and markets one of the world’s most popular mobile content and services applications for smartphones. With over 5,000 channels and information services, Viigo customers around the world enjoy up to the minute access to news, weather, sports, market performance, entertainment and blogs in one intuitive, simple, freely downloadable application.
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 get Viigo on your device today, go to www.getviigo.com from your mobile browser.

Viigo Puts WES In the Palm Of Your Hand

Posted on Monday, May 12th, 2008 | No Comments

Special feed available over Viigo delivers up-to-date information from world’s largest BlackBerry smartphone conference

Viigo Inc.(www.viigo.com), developer of the world’s leading mobile content and services delivery platform for smartphones, announced today that people following the Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) will be able to receive up-to-date conference information via a special feed available on their BlackBerry smartphones. Everyone watching WES, the largest gathering of BlackBerry customers and industry members in the world, can receive live daily, conference news, product announcements, blog posts, event information and customized alerts using the easy-to-use Viigo application, available for free at www.viigo.com/wes.

“Regardless of where BlackBerry smartphone users are, either at the show, or at work on the other side of the country, we will offer them the ability to follow and received detailed information about all of the exciting developments at WES, live, in the palm of their hand,” says Cathy Mertl, Vice President of Product Marketing at Viigo.

WES attendees will also have a very special opportunity to obtain Viigo’s exciting new Enterprise Lite application at absolutely no charge.

“We’re prepared to give away Viigo’s Enterprise Lite to the 20 companies who come to us with the most compelling stories of how they’d leverage and create value by deploying Viigo” said Mark Ruddock, CEO Viigo, “These companies will be able to roll out Viigo across their entire mobile workforce, easily, quickly, and with no infrastructure investment or integration effort.”

Successful companies will receive a free, hosted, version of Viigo with their company’s logo displayed, their choice of default feeds and the ability to add their own customized content, in addition to having access to Viigo’s existing 5,000+ channel library. At any time in the future, these companies will have the option of upgrading to the full enterprise version where they can deploy secure, behind-the-firewall content.

Visit Viigo at booth 231 at WES or join Viigo in a breakout session titled: Viigo – The One BlackBerry Application You Won’t Want To Live Without on May 14th at 4:15.

About Viigo

Viigo Inc. develops and markets one of the world’s most popular mobile content and services applications for smartphones. With over 5,000 channels and information services, Viigo customers around the world enjoy up to the minute access to news, weather, sports, market performance, entertainment, and blogs in one intuitive, simple, freely downloadable application.

To download Viigo on your BlackBerry smartphone visit www.getviigo.com .

Contact:

Alex de Bold

VP Web Marketing

Viigo

alex.debold@viigo.com

+1 (416) 646-6539

Viigo Secures Addition to First Round of Venture Capital Financing

Posted on Friday, May 9th, 2008 | No Comments

Toronto, Ontario – May 9, 2008 – Viigo, the software company behind a revolutionary way to publish, discover and consume content on mobile devices, today announced RBC Venture Partners has made a $1.5 million follow-on investment to Viigo’s first round of venture capital funding. To date the company has raised $7.9 million in angel and institutional investment.

“RBC Venture Partners understands that as consumers around the world rapidly adopt smartphones, they are demanding that useful, interactive content be delivered in a practical and compelling way,” said Mark Ruddock, President and CEO of Viigo. “We’re excited to be working with the team from RBC to leverage both their insights and their relationships in the mobile space.”

The investment will allow Viigo to further accelerate the release of Project Tango, Viigo’s new product offering, scheduled for public Beta in June of this year, and advance the company’s global sales and marketing activities.

Viigo’s software - designed to humanize the mobile experience – lets users stay on top of breaking news, locate the best restaurants, find out about local attractions, monitor the performance of stocks, check the weather, lookup flight schedules, track the status of flights, and receive real-time sports scores, all through one simple, made-for-mobile interface smartphone users won’t want to be without.

With this follow-on to the first round of funding, David Unsworth, Director at RBC Venture Partners, will join Viigo’s board of directors. “As consumers across the globe are driving smartphone adoption and demanding more meaningful content, Viigo’s technology leadership can have a strong impact on the way a new generation of business users and consumers interact with mobile devices,” said Unsworth. “We’re excited to work with the Viigo team to help drive this vision forward.”

Headquartered in Toronto, Viigo was founded in 2004 with the objective to create compelling and useful solutions for the mobile industry. Company founders Tas Tsonis, Brian Goldberg, and Jay Steele are experienced veterans of the mobile software industry, having spearheaded wireless startup Plazmic Inc. which was acquired in 2001 by BlackBerry® developer and manufacturer, Research in Motion.

Viigo’s highly-reviewed debut application is currently featured by Research In Motion (RIM) on their BlackBerry mobile page, is showcased in the RIM Built for BlackBerry campaign and is also the “featured app” on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Owners Circle. Viigo has also been selected as the official mobile conference application for BlackBerry’s upcoming Wireless Enterprise Symposium.

About Viigo

Viigo Inc. develops and markets one of the world’s most popular mobile content and services applications for smartphones. With over 5,000 channels and information services, Viigo customers around the world enjoy up-to-the-minute access to news, weather, sports, market performance, entertainment, and blogs in one intuitive, simple, freely downloadable application.

For more information, visit www.viigo.com. To get the current version of Viigo on your device today, go to www.getviigo.com from your mobile browser.

About RBC Venture Partners

Established in 1997 and headquartered in Toronto, RBC Venture Partners is the venture capital investment arm of RBC (RY on the TSX and NYSE) with over C$300 million under management. RBC Venture Partners invests directly in early and growth stage software, technology and services companies targeting the financial services and other vertical markets. For more information visit rbc.com/vp.

Contact:

Alex de Bold

VP Web Marketing

Viigo Inc.

+1 (416) 646-6539

alex.debold@viigo.com

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