Yappn's Fotoyapp Invites Early Adopters to Its Social Engagement
Platform
TORONTO, CANADA and NEW YORK, NEW YORK--(Marketwired - Mar 25,
2014) - Intertainment Media Inc. ("Intertainment Media" or
"Company") (TSX-VENTURE:INT)(OTCQX:ITMTF)(FRANKFURT:I4T) together
with its investment portfolio company Yappn Corp. (OTCQB:YPPN), the
real-time multilingual amplification platform for brand messaging,
eCommerce and customer support is pleased to announce that Yappn
continues to expand its multilingual tool sets by offering the
ability to connect images and social content, including Twitter,
Facebook, Instagram, You Tube and other major domestic and foreign
content directly along with video and audio files through its
Fotoyapp (www.fotoyapp.com) app. The Company is now opening up
registration for Fotoyapp and will be initially making the platform
available to early adopters chosen directly by the Company and a
number of key influencers in the online social space.
Fotoyapp builds on the idea that "a picture is worth a thousand
words" by revolutionizing social engagement allowing images and
content to be linked to each other and shared instantly, in almost
any language substantiating the thought that complex ideas can be
conveyed through visualization. Fotoyapp creates the ability to
share beyond the image integrating content from web, portable and
mobile devices, allowing users to instantly connect photos and
images to almost any social content and in almost any language.
Yappn is in discussions with a number of Los Angeles and New
York talent and entertainment agencies to look at opportunities
with key Influencers across entertainment, sports and social
networking to be part of the Fotoyapp program. These influencers
have large global social audiences and Fotoyapp will provide the
opportunity for them to engage these audiences through their
existing Twitter, Facebook and Instagram networks. Fotoyapp also
embeds into web, online and mobile platforms allowing the
application to be integrated into marketing and eCommerce
programs.
Fotoyapp allows users to share socially empowered images through
any platform (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+,
Yappn Chat and many other social media platforms around the world
such as Ren Ren and Qzone), email, device or app and rewards the
viewer with a completely rich experience not found anywhere else,
creating People Powered Pics.
Interested parties who wish to qualify to be among the first to
use Fotoyapp can sign up at www.fotoyapp.com
Learn more at www.intertainmentmedia.com or www.yappn.com
About Intertainment - www.intertainmentmedia.com
Intertainment is one of Canada's leading technology incubators
and is focused on developing, nurturing and investing in both North
American and global technologies and companies that provide
technology solutions for brands and consumers alike. Intertainment
also owns and operates a number of key properties and has
investments in leading edge technologies and social media
platforms, including Magnum, Ortsbo, CapThat, theAudience,
Lexifone, Shiny Ads and Yappn Corp (www.yappn.com). For more
information on Intertainment and its properties, please visit
www.intertainmentmedia.com.
Intertainment is headquartered in the Toronto, Canada region,
with offices in New York, Los Angeles and San Mateo, CA and is
listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "INT"
(TSX-VENTURE:INT) and in the US on the OTCQX Market under the
symbol "ITMTF". Intertainment is also traded in Europe on the Open
Market (Regulated Unofficial Market) Frankfurt Exchange under the
symbol "I4T".
About Yappn Corp.
Yappn Corp. (OTCQB:YPPN) is a real-time multilingual company
that amplifies brand messaging, helps conduct commerce and provides
customer support by globalizing these experiences with its
proprietary approach to language. Through its Real Time
Multilingual Amplification platform, Yappn eliminates the language
barrier, allowing the free flow of communications in nearly 70
languages. Yappn has developed cost effective unique and
proprietary technology tools and services that create dynamic
solutions that enhance a brands messaging, media, e-commerce and
support platforms. For more information, please visit
http://corporate.yappn.com.
David Lucatch, CEO
info@intertainmentmedia.com
info@yappn.com
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David Lucatch, CEOinfo@intertainmentmedia.cominfo@yappn.com