NEW YORK, NEW YORK--(Marketwired - Sept. 2, 2014) - Yappn Corp. (OTCQB:YPPN) has begun to roll out its widely anticipated global media and social sharing platform, FotoYapp, in major app stores for iPad ®, iPhones® and Android® devices. Along with its desktop, portable and mobile web browser versions at www.fotoyapp.com in 67 languages, FotoYapp is establishing a truly global experience for users and brands around the world to create social engagement connected to social content in the native language of the user.
FotoYapp allows viewers and users around the world to share images, 18 second video and social comments in their native language, promoting Global Storytelling together with sites like Facebook®, Instagram®, Twitter®, Pinterest®, Flickr®, Tumblr® and Google+® in almost any language.
"FotoYapp allows images that were individually shared across a single network or language to cross-pollinate, sharing among many networks and many languages, creating global social media," said David Lucatch, founder and CEO of Yappn Corp.
For brands, celebrities and athletes, FotoYapp creates the ability to reach a larger audience in their native language and communicate brand messages globally through images and social content. FotoYapp's Official solution provides a robust set of features not found anywhere else, allowing for customized control of content, time elements and user engagement opportunities in multiple languages.
On May 13, 2014, Yappn announced its business agreement with Getty Images allowing consumers to have access to some of the world's best imagery through select Getty Images collections offered on FotoYapp, providing new opportunities to create global social engagement with content.
FotoYapp provides the ability to garner global data results in 67 languages through activities on its online and mobile platforms forming the basis for revenue programs that focus on how content and multi-lingual context interact to enable interactive, sponsorship and monetary associations.
"We're very excited to announce the launch of FotoYapp in the app stores and online," added Lucatch. "FotoYapp enables a global voyage of discovery connecting images and video with social context providing an opportunity to story tell and create brand awareness in 67 languages."
For more information on FotoYapp, please visit www.fotoyapp.com/ and www.yappn.com
About Yappn
Yappn is a real-time multilingual company that amplifies brand messaging, helps conduct commerce and provides customer support by globalizing these experiences with its proprietary approach to language. Through its real-time multilingual amplification platform, Yappn eliminates the language barrier, allowing the free flow of communications in 67 languages. Yappn has developed cost effective, unique and proprietary technology tools and services that create dynamic solutions that enhance a brands messaging, media, e-commerce and support platforms.
In addition to Yappn, FotoYapp (www.fotoyapp.com) provides consumers, brands and Influencers with the ability to share media content (images, video, audio, etc.) instantly across the global social sphere with all major social posts in a single environment in almost any language allowing global participants to interact with each other, regardless of their native tongue.
Yappn Corp. is publicly in the U.S. on the OTCQB - symbol "YPPN" and leading technology incubator; Intertainment Media Inc. (TSX VENTURE:INT)(OTCQX:ITMTF)(FRANKFURT:I4T) has a controlling interest in Yappn Corp.
For more information, please visit http://corporate.yappn.com
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