Yappn Corp. Retains Merriman Capital as Capital Markets Advisor (Thomson Reuters ONE via COMTEX) -- SAN FRANCISCO - August 14, 2013 - Merriman Capital, Inc. ("Merriman"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (otcqx:MERR), announced today that it has been retained as Capital Markets Advisor to Yappn Corp. (the "Company" or "Yappn") YPPN-12.08% . Merriman will advise Yappn management on various strategic initiatives focused on increasing shareholder value and assist the company with its involvement with shareholders and capital markets participants. Merriman provides its advisory clients with Corporate Services and Capital Markets advice on the effective engagement of a potentially broader institutional shareholder base, financing solutions, and strategies for organizing their capital structure while helping to increase trading liquidity. Merriman's Capital Markets Advisory Group clients also benefit from access to unique capital solutions and the implementation of various capital markets initiatives.
Yappn is a topic and interest focused online multi-lingual social community where people, brands and fans can meet, chat, engage, and consume media. Communication about current events, celebrities, technology, sports, entertainment and other popular areas of content is possible across nearly 70 languages allowing real-time multiple language conversations to co-exist without the fracturing that comes as a result of many people posting in multiple languages to a single chat area or splintering the audience by segregating posts by language. Yappn is also a set of very powerful stand-alone communication tools that brands and companies can use to globalize their message through existing social communities including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest and Flickr in multiple languages without adding staff and at a very low cost. Yappn was founded in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.
"We are pleased to announce the addition of Yappn to our rapidly expanding portfolio of corporate advisory clients," said Doug Rogers, Managing Director of Merriman Capital, Inc. "Providing our clients with market insight, corporate brokerage services and strategic advisory for public markets and capital solutions are central components of Merriman's advisory and corporate services platform. We look forward to working with the Yappn management team in our capacity as their Capital Markets Advisor."
About Merriman Capital, Inc.
Merriman Capital, Inc. is a corporate advisory-focused registered investment bank that provides equity and options execution services, market making, and differentiated research for high growth companies. The firm also provides capital formation, advisory, and M&A services. Merriman Capital, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (otcqx:MERR) and is the leading investment banking firm for unique high-growth companies. For more information, please go to https://www.merrimanco.com.
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