Bangkok--6 May--Marketwire
Getfugu Inc. (OTCBB: GFGU), the next generation mobile search tool, has today announced that fashion designer and international haute couturier Lloyd Klein is the first content provider to utilize Getfugu's unique set of mobile search and ecommerce tools across his upcoming entertainment and fashion ventures.
Lloyd Klein is one of the hottest and most coveted fashion designers today, dressing everyone from icons to ing?nues such as Faye Dunaway and AnnaLynne McCord to Paris Hilton, Eva Longoria, Pink and Paula Abdul. He works with a who's who of society from Paris to London and New York with clients including Ivana Trump and Middle Eastern royalty. Klein will make the move and integrate Getfugu's mobile services across his new reality TV show, his website (www.lloydklein.com), inside his Beverly Hills store and in new short form webisodes allowing users to access all of the content from their mobile phones. He will incorporate the four Getfugu mobile services --- See It (ARL), Say It (VRL), Find It (GRL) and Get It (Hot-Spotting) -- into his daily life, demonstrating to fans and clients worldwide the benefits Getfugu offers.
The Getfugu Hot-Spotting service will be featured across Klein's entertainment vehicles. Hot-Spotting allows users who are watching content on their mobile -- TV shows, movies, commercials, trailers, magazines --- to click on an item they want to purchase and be immediately transferred to a purchase point. This Fall, Lloyd Klein's TV show will premier the Hot-Spotting technology, it will be the first TV show to be fully 'Hot-Spotted' and will demonstrate the revolutionary ecommerce tool.
"I was immediately impressed by the capabilities that Getfugu can offer to me and my clients. I want my clients to be able to get whatever they want, wherever they want, when they want and through Getfugu's Hot-Spotting feature, we can now do that anywhere in the world from Europe to Japan," said Lloyd Klein. "I'm thrilled to be premiering this amazing new feature to my clients and viewers worldwide."
Bernard Stolar, the CEO of Getfugu, stated, "It's great to have Lloyd Klein as a supporter of Getfugu. He will provide a large audience of fans and celebrity clients with access to our applications and establish a greater understanding of what Getfugu can offer. This is a visionary move for Lloyd that we believe will excite and attract many other content providers who will be eager to share our services with their personal audience."
Getfugu is currently in negotiations with several content providers of reality and entertainment TV, news shows, publishing houses and major feature film studios to integrate Getfugu's Hot-Spotting feature and value added technology to its advertisers.
Led by CEO Bernard Stolar, former Game Evangelist at Google Inc., Getfugu is set to launch in Fall 2009. Phones with Getfugu installed will provide consumers with a completely new experience in web browsing and e-commerce. Offering four unique services --- See It (ARL), Say It (VRL), Find It (GRL) and Get It (Hot-Spotting), Getfugu offers the simplest and most convenient means to get the information you need and make the purchases you need right from the palm of your hand.
About Getfugu:
Getfugu Inc. is the first technology architect to provide a carrier agnostic, platform agnostic mobile search platform. Getfugu will change the way people access the web with their mobile phones. It is designed to encourage use of its applications by simply integrating the mobile phones core strengths (image recognition, voice recognition, location recognition) into a single customizable application. Additionally, Getfugu offers the only mobile hot-spotting ecommerce platform available worldwide today. The Getfugu platform will be available for 97% of the mobile phones available (over 3.3 billion handsets) worldwide.
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