) March 13, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the leading widget platform, today announced that together with Widgets.com it has relaunched the Widgets.com site as a resource for anyone looking to learn more about widgets. The Widgets.com site provides a widget gallery for end-users looking for great widgets for their social network profile page, personal web page or blog. It also provides widget definitions, articles, research and other resources on widgets for web publishers and advertisers looking to use widgets to further their businesses. Gigya and Widgets.com will continue to enrich the site over time.

) October 15, 2008 --

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) November 3, 2008 -- Gigya, Inc., the largest widget and content sharing platform for the social web, today announced that it has created a widget for the Interactive Advertising Bureau The IAB widget was designed to provides easy access to the latest IAB news, upcoming events, standards and guidelines, and a feed of the IABlog, a recognized industry news blog featuring commentary from IAB President and CEO Randall Rothenberg

IAB Widget by Gigya

) June 22, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., for the standard for connecting content and users with the social web, today announced growth figures that show Gigya's network now reaches nearly one-third of all web users worldwide. According to comScore's Extended Measures Report, Gigya now reaches 258.3 million unique users worldwide and 85.8 million unique users in the U.S. This represents a 27 percent increase since Q1 2009, and an 82 percent increase since June 2008.

) October 1, 2008 -- Gigya today announced that it closed an $11MM series C funding round led by DAG Ventures. Gigya's technologies enable publishers and advertisers to distribute their content across the web to the places their target audiences are spending time, and empowers people to share that content with each other. Gigya has gained considerable momentum since its Series B round, led by Mayfield Fund with participation from Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital in March of this year, nearly doubling the size of its network and surpassing revenue goals. According to comScore, Gigya is the largest content sharing platform, reaching more than 158 million unique persons monthly.

) April 17, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the leading widget and content sharing platform for the social web, today announced that its executives will appear on stage at four key conferences in the next three weeks. From sharing effective advertising strategies for social applications to addressing new ways to monetize entertainment content on social networks, the information shared at these events is a "must-see" this quarter for marketers interested in using social technologies to achieve their goals.

) October 27, 2008 -- Gigya, Inc., the largest widget and content sharing platform for the social web, announced today that David Yovanno is joining as Chief Executive Officer. Gigya is ranked by comScore as the largest widget company worldwide with global reach of over 174 million unique users. Yovanno, who was also appointed to the board of directors, joins to take Gigya into the next phase of its growth and will be responsible for day-to-day operations and business strategy. Co-founder and former CEO Eyal Magen will take on the role of Chief Strategy Officer and continue overseeing Israeli operations as General Manager.

David A. Yovanno

) June 29, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the leading technology for connecting content and consumers with the social web, today announced that its Socialize technology is now available as a plug-in for WordPress. WordPress, the largest self-hosted blogging and OpenSource toolset in the world, has quickly become a favorite among developers seeking rich functionality and ease of use.

) March 20, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the standard for connecting content with the social web, today released the results of a study comparing campaign performance data for the two primary types of brand advertiser widgets: "Social" and "Utility." The study found that as a group, Social widgets outperformed Utility widgets, when installed by users on Social Network pages, in the categories of User Interaction, Widget Longevity, and Widget Virality

) September 8, 2008 -- Gigya, the leading social technologies company, today announced its Levis® widget campaign, co-created with Avenue A|Razorfish, has been named by the Interactive Advertising Bureau as a finalist for the 2008 MIXX Awards in the category "Widget Marketing Campaign." Avenue A| Razorfish and Gigya partnered to conceptualize, design, and execute this widget advertising campaign for Levi Strauss & Co®. The final Gold, Silver and Bronze winners will be announced at the MIXX Awards Gala on the evening of September 23, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Times Square Hotel in New York City.

) September 23, 2008 -- Gigya, the leading widget distribution network, and The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc. (TWCi) today announced they have partnered to create a news/breaking weather widget. This small application can be easily grabbed, shared and installed on social network profile pages, personalized home pages, and blogs to monitor news and breaking weather conditions including tropical storms, tornado outbreaks, flooding, and winter weather.

) September 16, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the leading technology for connecting content and consumers with the social web, today announced it is speaking at three major conferences in September 2009. On the heels of a host of successful implementations of Gigya's social technologies including Turner Sports for recent NBA, PGA and NASCAR events, and CBS for Electronic Arts' Madden 2010 interactive ad campaign, Gigya executives will be at IAB MIXX, OMMA Global, and Shop.org's Annual conference in Las Vegas to talk about how social technologies are helping both publishers and advertisers improve performance.

) July 16, 2009 -- Gigya today announced that it has been selected to the 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250 List. The AlwaysOn Global 250 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets. Gigya was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

) April 17, 2009 -- Gigya today announced that it has been selected to the 2009 OnHollywood 100 List. The OnHollywood 100 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies in the media and entertainment industries. Gigya was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

) January 27, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., the leading widget and content sharing platform for the social web, today announced that it is taking part in four key conferences in the next three weeks. Touching on themes such as effective use of social media in tough economic times, using widgets to improve consumer daily life and the future of social media and experience, this series of events are a "must-see" for marketers interested in social technologies.

) January 30, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc. today announced that it has been selected for the second year in a row to the 2009 OnMedia 100 List. The OnMedia 100 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies in the advertising, publishing, marketing, branding and public relations spaces. Gigya was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

"We are very pleased to be named to the 2009 OnMedia100," said Dave Yovanno, Gigya's CEO. "This second consecutive win is a testament to our continued focus on innovation, and our team's ability to deliver measurable value to our clients."

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) September 4, 2009 -- WhereverTV today announced development of The Cowboys Network widget by Retro Films.HD for the Yahoo! Widget Engine.

) September 15, 2009 -- Tealium Incorporated, a provider of results-oriented Web analytics integration and consulting, today announced that it joined the Yahoo! Web Analytics Consultant Network (YWACN).

As a member of YWACN, Tealium will be able to offer its retained clients access to Yahoo! Web Analytics for free. Yahoo! Web Analytics is a powerful web analytics tool providing advanced analysis capabilities in real time.

"We are very proud to offer Yahoo! Web Analytics to our clients", said Olivier Silvestre, co-founder at Tealium. "By integrating web analytics best practices into Yahoo! Web Analytics deployments, we'll provide customers with time-tested solutions that are guaranteed to provide results".

) December 8, 2008 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading widget and personalized startpage platform, today announced at Le Web '08 in Paris that it has added OpenSocial compatibility to Netvibes Universal Widget API (UWA), the leading universal widget standard. Now developers can rapidly create a new generation of smart, social widgets that can easily and securely tap into users' social networks and run on virtually all widget platforms and desktops.

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) October 20, 2008 -- TxtVox continues its leadership in the burgeoning mobile messaging space with the rollout of AddToAny widget extensions. This seamless integration allows any user of the AddToAny subscription widget to instantly sign up for TxtVox blog alerts directly from within the tool.

"We are delighted to include TxtVox in our widget," commented Pat Diven II, Founder and President of AddToAny. "Our users are passionate about staying connected with their favorite blogs. The ability to easily sign up for mobile alerts should prove to be a very popular addition."

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) October 9, 2008 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading widget and personalized startpage platform, announced today at the Facebook Developer Garage in Paris that it will soon offer full integration with Facebook Connect, enabling its users to: login using their Facebook ID; integrate their Netvibes activity feeds into Facebook; and share and comment on the rich media content, articles, widgets and news in Netvibes with friends on Facebook.com. Later this month, Netvibes will become the first personalized startpage and one of the largest Web properties to officially complete full integration with Facebook Connect.

) December 10, 2008 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading widget and personalized startpage platform, today announced that it has launched the Web's first flexible, magazine style startpages and multi-view widgets. Now widgets can be resized across different columns and display rich RSS feeds in a variety of exciting new layouts. Netvibes also introduced instant widget creation tools that make it easier than ever to rapidly design and deploy fully customized and branded widgets that are compatible across all major startpage and desktop platforms.

Netvibes offers industry's first magazine style layouts for widgets

September 5, 2008 --
Provo, Utah, 09/05/08 – Gruvie, a new social network aggregator that launched (www.gruvie.com) recently in beta, has experienced large growth over its first week as users are able to aggregate their social web content into one location. Gruvie is intended to make it easier for people to manage and share their online identities. The site currently brings together social network sites Facebook, Myspace, and Linkedin along with email from Google’s Gmail and Yahoo mail in ways that no other site has yet to do. Unlike other social network aggregators, Gruvie is the first to allow users to interact with their social network sites, not just passively see activity, making Gruvie the first truly Active Social Network Aggregator.

) June 23, 2009 -- Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading personalization platform for the Web, today announced a new service to help users discover the exact content they crave and publishers deliver widgets to the right user at the right time. Netvibes Talk to Me is the first widget recommendation and distribution engine that performs on-going, intelligent analyses of users' widget behavior and the context in which widgets are used to deliver individually personalized and perfectly relevant widget recommendations. The service will be progressively rolled out to Netvibes' millions of users through the end of the week.

) December 12, 2008 -- Grouptivity, the company that made sharing news fun and easy, is back to reveal the launch of the first free Content Monetization Platform (CMP) for web publishers. By embedding advertising units from Google Adsense into the sharing process initiated by their readers, publishers' ads now become part of a viral communication channel. While most sharing tools allow readers to syndicate content to various destinations like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Digg and Google; Grouptivity's Share+ goes beyond this action and creates interactive discussions around shared content.

) July 16, 2009 -- With the rapid growth of real-time content and activity feeds from sources like Facebook and Twitter, many people are struggling to keep track of multiple friends and interests that change day-to-day. Netvibes (www.netvibes.com), the leading personalization platform for the Web, today launched a novel solution and industry first: drag-and-follow widgets. New Facebook, MySpace and Twitter widgets now enable users to instantly create new widgets to follow new interests simply by dragging and dropping any feed item to their personalized page.

) November 12, 2008 - Oshyn, Inc., a leading enterprise technology agency, announced today its successful development and launch of the new premier wellness site, Intent.com. The website, co-founded by Mallika Chopra (daughter of Deepak Chopra) and former Yahoo! Product Executive Sal Taylor Kydd, was designed to provide a unique interface that combines personalized syndicated content, social networking and blogging through an intuitive user experience, while allowing simple content management tools for Intent's editorial team.

Intent.com

) May 12, 2009 -- Plusmo, Inc., the leader in mobile widgets, applications and application store solutions, was named the global winner of Nokia's "Calling All Innovators" Hackathon for mobile application developers, held last week at the inaugural Nokia Developer Summit in Monaco. The developer contest was held to celebrate the much anticipated launch of the Nokia N97. Plusmo's Rocket mobile app, a social location widget which displays a user's nearest friends on a map, was built on-site by Plusmo developers during the 24-hour Hackathon coding competition.

) October 22, 2008 --
HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent
healthcare ratings organization, announced today that Yahoo! has
selected the company as the exclusive provider of physician and hospital
quality information for Yahoo! Health. HealthGrades’
physician quality reports and hospital ratings will be integrated into a
variety of Yahoo! Health consumer health tools, including a new Yahoo!
Health Physician Directory.

) September 18, 2009 -- Yahoo! has appointed Singapore-based Matchmove Games ("www.matchmovegames.com") as its exclusive casual games provider for its popular Yahoo! Games sites in Southeast Asia.

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) June 11, 2009 -- A group of Web companies announced today the development of a new tagging format for Web pages called Common Tag.

) November 11, 2008 -- BlogCatalog.com, a fast-growing social network for bloggers and blog search engine, has launched BC 360, an embeddable tool that allows blog readers to perform custom searches on their favorite blogs.    

"With the BC 360 widget, bloggers can now help their readers search across all of their posts and social networks," says Antony Berkman, president of BlogCatalog.com. "It not only searches for content across on their blog, but also relevant links in their Delicious accounts, the photos they've posted on Flickr, or any number of the social networking sites."

) October 22, 2008 --
The new #1 in online health, The
Everyday Health Network, which is operated by Waterfront
Media and recently merged with Steve Case’s
Revolution Health Network, has entered a content partnership with Yahoo!
Health. As part of the deal, Waterfront Media will provide Yahoo! Health

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) September 16, 2008 -- Today Graspr, the instructional video network, announced that they have appointed John Robison as CTO. Robison is an Internet veteran with extensive leadership experience, having been responsible for technology, product direction, and strategic roadmaps for both Yahoo! and Sidestep. Reporting directly to Graspr's founder and CEO Teresa Phillips, Robison will lead the technical and development teams based in both Mountain View and Mumbai, India.