Yoono Raises Additional US$4 Million from AGF


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

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