Mon BRANCHEZ-VOUS! : A personalized news web site for French-speaking Canadians
Montréal, October 29, 2007 -- Montreal, October 29, 2007 - BRANCHEZ-VOUS! (TSX Venture : BZV) launches today the "Mon BRANCHEZ-VOUS!" personalized news service at http://mon.branchez-vous.com . This service, which offers an alternative to the default home page of the BRANCHEZ-VOUS.com portal, allows all users to choose their news sources from over 35,000 pre-screened sources, in French and in English, and to organize them in a starting page perfectly matching their interests."Contrary to personalization services of large portals, Mon BRANCHEZ-VOUS! does not limit users' choice to BRANCHEZ-VOUS! contents", says Carl Charest, BRANCHEZ-VOUS! content director. "BRANCHEZ-VOUS.com has always been a wide open door to the best of the Internet. In addition to our team's editorial choices, Mon BRANCHEZ-VOUS! now gives users the freedom to select quickly and easily the news sources they prefer - coming form a newspaper, a magazine, a television channel or a pure Internet media. Mon BRANCHEZ-VOUS! is an ideal starting page for all Internet users who want to follow current events from several points of view. This service perfectly corresponds to the 100% independent credo of the BRANCHEZ-VOUS.com information portal"
Totally free for users, Mon BRANCHEZ-VOUS! benefits from an exclusive partnership with the US-based Itsmynews.com service. BRANCHEZ-VOUS! contributed to implementing a French-language version of the service and adapting it to Canada an Quebec.
About BRANCHEZ-VOUS! inc.
BRANCHEZ-VOUS! inc. is a leading Montreal-based Internet media company. It owns and operates the BRANCHEZ-VOUS.com portal and the BRANCHEZ-VOUS! Network.
BRANCHEZ-VOUS.com is the largest independent portal in Quebec. With a news, business and technology focus, it primarily targets an audience of active adults working in and/or interested by technology and reaches over 500,000 users each month. Its technology content is promoted on the Sympatico-MSN and AOL Canada portals.
The BRANCHEZ-VOUS! Network is the largest French-language Internet advertising network, comprised of over 50 web sites for which BRANCHEZ-VOUS! sells national advertising. It reaches approximately 3 million French Canadians every month and includes such sites as LeDevoir.com, JeuxVideo.com and the French version of Canada411.
BRANCHEZ-VOUS! is listed on the TSX Venture exchange under the symbol BZV and has approximately 29.3 million shares outstanding. Additional information on the Corporation can be obtained on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) and at www.branchez-vous.com/inc/english
About Itsmynews
Itsmynews LLC (IMN) is a new digital media company with offices in Las Vegas (Nevada) and New York (NY). It provides news and information services to consumers and businesses based on RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology.
The main consumer service is itsmynews.com. It is an online personalized news service and community that allows users to easily aggregate -- in one place -- all of their favorite news and information sources. These sources are updated automatically all day, every day. Once registered, the user can access his personalized page from any computer in the world.
Itsmynews also licenses the itsmynews technology to provide personalization services to businesses.
The TSX Venture exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release.
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Contact:
For BRANCHEZ-VOUS! :
Patrick Pierra
President and CEO
Phone: 514-842-3838 ext. 249
Nicholas Powell
Investment Relations consultant
Phone: 514-904-0084
http://www.branchez-vous.com/contacts/
For Itsmynews :
Nancy Wang
CEO and co-founder
nwang@itsmynews.com
Phone: 917-940-1749
Jeff Mignon
Chief creative officer, head of business development and co-founder
jfm@itsmynews.com
Phone: 646-256-7994
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