Interchange Names New Vice President of Product Management
January 30 2006 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
Interchange Corp. (NASDAQ:INCX), owner of Local.com, a leading
local-search engine, today announced the appointment of Vickie
Young as the company's vice president, product management. In her
new role, Young will lead the product management initiatives
related to the company's Local.com search engine. Young brings over
15 years of product management experience to the Interchange
management team. Most recently she directed product management at
Viacore, which provides B2B online solutions. Prior to Viacore she
served as director of product management at Quest Software.
Previously, she was director of product marketing operations at
Wonderware Corp. where she helped generate a record-breaking year
for the number of device drivers released in 1998. Young has also
established and managed technical support and quality assurance
testing departments within other high-tech companies throughout her
career. "The local-search market is growing rapidly and I am
excited about the tremendous opportunities available to expand the
products and services offered on the Local.com platform," she said.
"Vickie brings a strong product management background to
Interchange, which will help us continue to expand the features
offered to Local.com users and business partners," said Bruce
Crair, Interchange's chief operating officer. "There are many
opportunities in the emerging local-search market, and Vickie's
role is to ensure that we build the necessary products and services
to take advantage of those opportunities. We welcome her to the
team." Young holds an M.B.A. in Marketing and a B.B.A. in Computer
MIS from National University, San Diego. About Interchange
Interchange Corp. (NASDAQ:INCX) owns Local.com (www.local.com), a
leading local-search engine powered by the company's proprietary
Keyword DNA(TM) and local-web indexing technologies. The company
serves local and national Internet, wireless and operator-assisted
local-search markets in the United States and Europe. Interchange
generates revenue principally from paid-search advertising. The
company has headquarters in Irvine, with European headquarters in
Stockholm, Sweden. For more information on Interchange, please
visit www.interchangeusa.com. Forward-Looking Statements: All
statements other than statements of historical fact included in
this document regarding our anticipated financial position,
business strategy and plans and objectives of our management for
future operations, are forward-looking statements. When used in
this report, words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate,"
"plans," "expect," "intend" and similar expressions, as they relate
to Interchange or our management, identify forward-looking
statements. Any forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs
of our management as well as assumptions made by and information
currently available to our management. Actual results could differ
materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking
statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not
limited to, our ability to stabilize our national paid-search
advertising business, our ability to operate, grow and monetize our
local-search engine, Local.com, and incorporate our local-search
technologies, market the Local.com domain as a destination for
consumers seeking local-search results, grow our business by
enhancing our local-search services, improve our filtering
technologies expand our Advertiser and Distribution Networks,
expand internationally, integrate the operations and effectively
utilize the technology of Inspire, a Swedish Internet and wireless
local-search technology company, which we recently acquired,
integrate the operations and effectively utilize the technology of
Inspire, develop our products and sales, marketing, finance and
administrative functions and successfully integrate our expanded
infrastructure, as well as our dependence on major advertisers,
competitive factors and pricing pressures, changes in legal and
regulatory requirements, and general economic conditions. Any
forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect
to future events and are subject to these and other risks,
uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results
of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. All subsequent
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persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their
entirety by this paragraph. Our Annual Report on Form 10-KSB,
subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-QSB, recent Current Reports
on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings
discuss the foregoing risks as well as other important risk factors
that could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect our
business, results of operations and financial condition. The
forward-looking statements in this release speak only as if the
date they are made. We undertake no obligation to revise or update
publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason.
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