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Spice Digital and Foreca sign MOU for offering Weather Services in India
New Delhi, November 26, 2009:
Spice Digital Limited, India's leading Telecom VAS player and Finland based Foreca, pioneer in digital weather services, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding for offering Weather services in India through different Mobile connectivity medium. MOU was signed by Mr. Vinish Kathuria, Chief Operating Officer, Spice Digital Ltd. and Mr. Marko Moilanen, Vice President, Foreca Ltd. Gracing the occasion were Mr. Mauri Pekkarinen, Finland's Minister of Economy & Employment and Ms. Terhi Hakala, Ambassador of Finland to India.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Vinish Kathuria, Chief Operating Officer, Spice Digital Limited, mentioned, "As a leader in Indian Telecom VAS arena, we are always looking for innovative and technologically advanced offerings that can add value to our customers. We look forward to leverage our expertise in different Mobile connectivity medium of Mobile Internet, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and SMS, to develop different standalone and integrated product offerings around Weather that can be leveraged by millions from the comfort of their handsets. We envision the information to be not only useful for city residents for their day to day activities but also for farmers in planning their agriculture activities, for tourists in planning their business & vacation travel, for governments & NGOs in planning disaster recovery efforts etc. It gives us great pleasure to announce the signing of MOU with Foreca, a pioneer in digital weather services for internet, mobile and navigation devices"
Mr. Marko Moilanen, Vice President, Foreca Ltd said, "We are very excited to sign the partnership agreement with Spice Digital. Foreca's vast knowledge and in-depth experience of weather data and markets around the world, allows us to bring a very unique and innovative weather offering to the Indian market. Spice Digital's reach in Indian Mobile arena would allow us to offer different products & services to the Indian consumers".
About Spice Digital:
Spice Digital is one of India's leading VAS (Value Added Services) player in the Telecom arena. Part of the Spice Group, it offers innovative solutions for Telecom Operators, Enterprises - small & big and Government agencies across different mobile connectivity medium of Voice, IVR, SMS, USSD, WAP & Mobile Applications. Spice Digital's SMS 139 service was recognized as m-Governance Initiative of 2009.
About Foreca:
Foreca is a privately owned company based in Helsinki, Finland. Established in 1996, Foreca is a full-scale weather service company and a pioneer in digital weather services for internet, mobile and navigation devices.
For further information, please contact:
Pankaj Gupta
9958894400
Pankaj.gupta@spicedigital.in
Foreca is expanding its operations in new markets by opening country offices in Russia and India
We are strengthening our presence in these growing markets by opening new branch offices. Dmitry Nikiforov and Vishal Singh as Country Managers will be responsible for executing our business strategy in Russia and India respectively. We welcome these two experienced professionals to our growing international team. A presence in Russia and India will give our customers a local first point of contact and enhance our knowledge of the Indian and Russian markets. Dmitry and Vishal will also be advising us how to further improve our products and services for our customers in Russia and India, to realize our promise of local knowledge, global coverage.
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Helsinki, November 17, 2009
Foreca and XIHA make it easy to talk about the weather
Helsinki - Zürich, September 15, 2009 -- Foreca, a Finnish weather service company, and XIHA Life, a multilingual lifestyle community, help people break the ice on cross-cultural communication by adding comprehensive weather information on the XIHA Life social networking site.
"Weather is the most socially acceptable subject around the world, so it's a safe bet to start a conversation when making friends from other cultures", says Marko Moilanen vice president business development at Foreca. "XIHA's multilingual social network site is ideal for Foreca's weather service, because weather does not have any cultural or lingual borders. We have a same vision with XIHA how we can conquer the world together."
XIHA Life is not only concentrating in major language areas. It is available in over 40 languages, also in smaller languages such as in Tagalog (language spoken in Philippines) or Catalan(language spoken in parts of Spain and Andorra). Foreca's weather services are global and available in several languages, including ancient Latin.
Says Jani Penttinen, XIHA Life co-founder and CEO: "XIHA Life members like to travel, and learn about new places. With Foreca's weather service we are now able to offer real time weather information everywhere in the world, in multiple languages. This adds real value to our users."
The users of XIHA Life can easily view the weather around the areas where their friends are located. Real-time weather map gives more detail and historical weather data helps them compare between holiday destinations or check back in time what the weather was like during an important event, trip or a football game.
The weather service at XIHA Life is currently live and the XIHA development team is busy at work creating new innovative ways to use weather information in a social setting.
About Foreca
Foreca is a global weather service company with a business focus. Foreca mission is to help businesses profit from accurate state-of-the-art forecasts. With clients all around the globe, Foreca is a leader in international digital Weather services. For more information, please visit: http://corporate.foreca.com/en
About XIHA
XIHA Life (http://www.xihalife.com) is an active online community of people who are interested in other cultures and languages. XIHA is growing fast and currently has more than 500,000 registered members from over 200 countries. Registration is not required however, and in fact nearly 2 million unique visitors spend time at the site every month.
XIHA features city pages for nearly all cities and towns in the world with community-created descriptions and travel tips. XIHA helps travelers connect with locals to learn what to see or which events to attend.
For more information
Foreca:
Vice President Business Development Marko Moilanen, Foreca Ltd
Email: marko.moilanen@foreca.com, mobile:+358 50 541 1124
XIHA Life:
Co-founder, CEO Mr. Jani Penttinen, XIHA Ltd
Email: jani@xihalife.com, mobile +41 79 673 8397, Twitter, Skype: jani_penttinen
Foreca and Rapid Mobile Media Deliver Weather for Mobile
Edinburgh and Helsinki - 8th June, 2009 - Foreca Ltd, leader in digital weather services for mobile and LBS applications and Rapid Mobile Media Ltd, provider of innovative mobile marketing solutions, have teamed up to launch Foreca's mobile weather service through an interactive application available on a wide range of handsets. The detailed weather information available for global locations can now be delivered in real time to users' mobile phones thanks to Rapid Mobile's technology platforms.
Foreca expands its mobile weather application offering to cover almost all the mobile phones in the market today. "With an ever increasing appetite from a mobile audience for accurate, up-to-date weather information it was important for us at Foreca to be able to rapidly address the broadest possible audience of mobile phone users with our application", said Marko Moilanen, VP Business Development, Foreca.
Rapid Mobile's ThinkPhone delivery platforms and Ad360 mobile advertising server will maximise reach for Foreca's service and provide additional branding and monetisation opportunities, whilst delivering the best possible user experience.
"Rapid Mobile's automatic provisioning platform capabilities mean that we are able to achieve this market reach through the development of only one version of the application, minimising engineering costs and time to market whilst meeting our stringent requirements for quality." Marko Moilanen, VP Business Development, Foreca continues.
"Weather information is a proven revenue generator and is of great value to mobile users, workers and travellers. Foreca's detailed meterological information provides current conditions, satellite images, radar images, and weather forecasts as and when the user requires them and for any selection of location," Jeremy Copp, Rapid Mobile Media CEO commented." As well as ensuring that Foreca can offer users the best possible mobile experience, regardless of their mobile phone type, our platforms can also automatically deliver multi-lingual versions of the application to reach a truly global audience. We look forward to assisting Foreca in delivering the pre-eminent mobile weather forecasting service."
The Foreca mobile weather applications can be accessed by visiting http://getfw.com from a mobile phone or on the web.
About Foreca Ltd.
Foreca Ltd. is a full-scale weather company based in Helsinki, Finland. Foreca has more than ten years of experience of forecasting weather and providing internet and mobile weather services. Foreca specializes in weather services for digital media and especially mobile devices. Foreca's first commercial mobile weather service was launched already in 1997, and it is still steady revenue creator. Thanks to its world-wide partner network Foreca is able to provide accurate weather information for any market. Today, Foreca's mobile weather services have users across all continents. For more information please visit http://corporate.foreca.com
About Rapid Mobile Media Ltd
Rapid Mobile Media is an Edinburgh-based software company licensing platforms that enable automatic optimisation, delivery and installation of services, applications and content on any mobile phone, without the need for user intervention or device-side agents. The company's ThinkPhone Deliver platform and ThinkPhone Design environment allow the rapid deployment of any type of service to the mobile environment, and have to date automatically provisioned more than 4,000 phone types. The ThinkPhone Direct platform provides automatic delivery and optimisation of mobile internet sites. The Ad360 platform provides complete management of mobile advertising campaigns, allowing graphical and textual adverts to automatically be delivered to the selected WAP, SMS, MMS or application channels at the highest possible quality. For more information please visit http://www.rapid-mobile.com