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Gigya CEO to Speak at Web Ventures 2008, a Dow Jones VentureWire Conference
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PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - February 19, 2008) - Gigya, the
widget advertising and distribution
network market leader, has been invited to present at Web Ventures
2008, a Dow Jones VentureWire Conference that will be held on March 18-19,
2008 at the Sofitel San Francisco Bay in Redwood City, CA.
VentureWire has been producing well-attended conferences for technology and
health care investors, corporate development executives and emerging
companies since 1984. Web Ventures, created by the editors of VentureWire,
was held for the first time in 2007 and will explore the technologies,
business models and markets that are poised for long-term success on the
Web. The conference will discuss opportunities in social networking,
consumer tools, Web services, gaming, advertising, Enterprise 2.0, online
retail and more.
"We're thrilled that Dow Jones VentureWire has selected Gigya as one of 70
of the most promising online startups," said Eyal Magen. "I am honored to
provide VCs and entrepreneurs with Gigya's perspective on the opportunities
we see in the social web."
Gigya enables its customers and users to discover, leverage and monetize
the social web. Gigya's Wildfire technology currently installs hundreds of
thousands of widgets per day, and tracks over 2 billion widget views per
month reaching over 10 million monthly unique users on more than 400 widget
sites.
For more information on the conference, please visit
http://webventures.dowjones.com/Default.aspx?pageid=351
About Gigya
Gigya is a social marketing solutions company delivering scale and results
to publishers and advertisers. Gigya's infrastructure connects brand
advertisers, content publishers and an enormous audience of active social
media users. Gigya serves the world's largest brands with a full-service
widget advertising model covering design, development, hosting,
distribution, viral promotion and tracking. Gigya's partners include
EyeWonder, RockYou!, Webshots, Snapvine and many others. The company is
funded by Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital. To learn more or to
get started, go to: www.gigya.com
About Wildfire
Gigya's free Wildfire technology gives content publishers easy-to-use tools
for boosting and tracking widget distribution. Its unique Wildfire on Page
and Wildfire in Widget quick-post interface gives people the power to
quickly and easily grab and share the widgets they want. Currently,
Wildfire installs hundreds of thousands of widgets per day from over 400
widget sites to the top social networks and blogs, and tracks more than two
billion widget impressions per month. To learn more about Wildfire go to
www.gigya.com