Press release

Yoowalk gets the support of Microsoft to strengthen its development

Paris, December 8th, 2008

On its booth at the LeWeb08 Internet show, Microsoft will be putting forward 12 startup companies spotted amongst the most innovative in the world.
Yoowalk is proud to announce that it has been selected by Microsoft to be part of this event.

On December 9th and 10th, during the LeWeb08 show, Internet professionals of the whole world will be able to participate in Yoowalk’s demonstrations, the virtual world that offers a new way to browse the web, graphical, fun and lively. Thus, website editors will be shown how to build within minutes a 3D version of their websites and how to interact live with their visitors.

In order to accelerate its development, Yoowalk has joined in November 2008 Microsoft’s BizSpark program. Thanks to it, Yoowalk will have access to Microsoft’s technologies and support to handle its fast-growing requirements of scalability and quality of service for its one-of-a-kind virtual world.

In particular, Yoowalk will be one of the pioneer users of Azure, the cloud computing service by Microsoft. Thanks to this global mutualized hosting service, Yoowalk will have the opportunity to rely on an innovative and powerful infrastructure for its international deployment and the management of its exponential growth.

Xavier Marvaldi, CEO of the company, is enthusiastic about this partnership: “At a critical step of our development where Yoowalk’s audience is growing at a tremendous pace, Microsoft’s support will help us to industrialize our service deployment. We will be able to focus on Yoowalk new features and the animation of the virtual world. This recognition by Microsoft strengthens our ambition to make of Yoowalk the European leader of virtual worlds in a 2 year time.”

About Yoowalk
Founded by Xavier MARVALDI, the former CEO of M6web, Yoowalk is an innovative startup that is developing a revolutionary virtual world. Selected at the international web conference LeWeb3 as one of the most promising start-ups of 2007, Yoowalk was financed by CITA Gestion, one of the most successful Venture Capitalists in France, and business angels, notably Alexis CAUDE, founder of Newsweb, a French leading internet news provider. It has also received funding from OSEO and is a member of Cap Digital, two French government organizations supporting innovation. Yoowalk is supported by MICROSOFT through its BizSpark program.

Contacts:
Xavier Marvaldi
Tel :   +33 (0)1 71 19 40 10
Mail : press@yoowalk.com

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