What's New in Viigo

We’re thrilled to announce today that TIM Brasil, a subsidiary of Telecom Italia group, one of the industry leaders in Europe, will feature a co-branded version of Viigo for BlackBerry as a virtual preload (VPL) across its entire line of BlackBerry devices.

“In our first decade in business we have focused on introducing innovation and quality to provide our customers with the best possible mobile experience,” said Rogerio Takayanagi, Chief Marketing Officer for TIM Brasil. “Viigo embodies these same characteristics making it an excellent choice for us to include as a default application on all our BlackBerry devices.”

The Company has a national reach to approximately 93% of the urban population and offers services to mobile and fixed telephony, data transmission and high speed Internet access, providing the convergence of services for its customers.

The Viigo application offered by TIM Brasil features Brazilian content, a custom channel library, and supports the Brazilian Portuguese language. This is in addition to the standard customizable news feeds, weather reports, sports information, financial intelligence, the facility to make purchases, participate in social networks, read books, track their flights and more that has made Viigo one of the most recognized applications for BlackBerry smartphones.

“Viigo is continuing to gain significant international presence through the partnerships we have developed with carriers around the world,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “We are pleased to be working with TIM Brasil and supporting their initiative to provide their customers with the best smartphone experience possible.”

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Olá mundo

We’re thrilled to announce that UBS has selected Viigo Enterprise to distribute Financial News and Information across its entire corporate BlackBerry user community.

UBS elected to make Viigo available to all corporate BlackBerry smartphones in an effort to ensure its employees have real time access to the critical news and information that might impact their day, wherever they are.

In addition to customized content, UBS users will be given access to the wide range of additional features offered by Viigo including audio podcasts, stock quotes, currency exchange rates, flight searches & status, restaurant bookings and weather. The range of functionality offered by Viigo is anticipated to dramatically increase the value the firm derives from its existing BlackBerry deployment.

“Having Viigo Enterprise selected by UBS for such a broad based deployment is an exciting achievement,” said Mark Ruddock, CEO, Viigo. “For the past year, Viigo has been working hard on a powerful range of enterprise features that deliver a compelling value proposition to businesses, including the ability to rapidly distribute a wide range of internal and external information securely to their mobile workforce with little or no additional investment.”

Find out what we can do for you … contact sales@viigo.com.

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Information Equals Advantage

Viigo is thrilled to announce that OppenheimerFunds, one of the largest and most respected investment management companies in the United States, has selected Viigo’s enterprise product to deliver corporate intelligence across the organization.

The application, which is driven by OppenheimerFunds’ intranet content, provides OppenheimerFunds’ workforce with mobile access to OppenhiemerFunds’ fund performance and rankings, fund updates, manager and team updates, news, corporate communications, fulfillment and more.

“With the adoption of Viigo, OppenheimerFunds has made gaining access to our information easier and more readily available for our staff using their corporate BlackBerry smartphones,” said Lucy Zachman, VP, Director of Customer Experience and Creative, eBusiness, OppenheimerFunds. “Viigo demonstrated a unique ability to support the requirements we had set out and proved to be an excellent partner to work with.”

Viigo has been integrated with OppenheimerFunds’ in house BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) infrastructure and backend content management systems. Benefits to this include the ability to leverage the end-to-end security provided by the BES and the facilitation of distribution and management of the application across the enterprise. As a result of this integration, access to corporate data is now delivered in a compelling manner on mobile devices.

OppenheimerFunds, Inc. is one of the nation’s largest and most respected investment management companies. The Oppenheimer funds managed by OppenheimerFunds, Inc. and a subsidiary have nearly 6 million shareholder accounts.

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What’s Powering Your Organization?

Viigo has just completed a record breaking year, and it’s largely thanks to you.

In 2009, millions of you downloaded Viigo for the first time … in fact, this year alone, we experienced more than 3 times the number of downloads than we’d seen cumulatively across the entire 4 year lifetime of the company.

Once people started to play with Viigo, they dove right in, driving well over 1 billion impressions across hundreds of thousands of discrete feeds (a great example of the phenomenon of the long tail).

Our servers seemed constantly under ever increasing pressure, but held up very well thanks to the foresight and hard work of our Server team. In fact, our new server architecture, which was rolled out recently and which will power all future clients, will help us deliver significantly more users per unit of infrastructure than ever before, in addition to delivering much faster overall performance. This is important as we expect growth to continue to accelerate in 2010 as rates of smartphone adoption increase, as additional partners pre-load Viigo on their devices, and as we expand to new smartphone platforms for the first time.

I am happy to say that downloads and user activity haven’t been the only bright spots however. We delivered record year over year revenue growth this year, and that growth continued to accelerate towards the end of the year thanks to a record month in December and a record quarter in Q4 across all measures (record bookings, record advertising revenue, record eCPM rates and most exciting perhaps, record enterprise revenue).

What’s in store for 2010? Well, it all starts with a fundamental focus on the product. As many of you have noticed, we’ve had fewer product and service releases recently (down from the blistering pace set early in the year by our Handset and Services teams). This is quite deliberate. Based on your feedback, we knew we had lots of work to do. Furthermore, as we looked at the rapid changes occurring in the smartphone marketplace we decided it was time to make some fundamental changes to our product architecture in order to provide us with a winning platform for the future. In fact, over the past few months, we’ve had a number of important R&D projects underway that will help to change the face of Viigo as you know it.

We promise you that the wait will be worthwhile … our target is for lighter weight, faster clients … augmented by new server-side intelligence … delivered across a wider variety of smartphone platforms … and all designed to provide you with the best way of discovering and consuming content on mobile devices.

Of course none of this happens without the wonderful team here at Viigo … and my profound thanks goes out to them for all their hard work. They’re an amazing group of people to work with.

Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Mark Ruddock
CEO Viigo

p.s. I’m happy to connect on Twitter any time … you can find me at @RuddockMH … corporate announcements can be found at @Viigo

Attention NBA and NHL enthusiasts, Viigo has just launched a very rich stats pack for your favorite sport.  And you don’t need a software update to get them… simply head into the Sports folder and click ‘Add Sports’.

Select Basketball (or Hockey).

Select Stats.  Then you’ll see a huge list of statistics that will surely interest you… points, assists, rebounds etc.  Select as many as you’d like (by clicking on them), and when you’re finished, click ‘back’.

Head back into your Sports module where you’ll see all of your new subscriptions.

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