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(MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA) June 9, 2009 – Today Skyfire, the makers of the PC-like browser for mobile devices, and MocoSpace, a leading mobile social network, announced a partnership that will deliver the popular social network to consumers using the Skyfire browser to access the web from their mobile phones. The partnership, which provides MocoSpace with prominent placement among Skyfire’s bookmarks will allow users to quickly and easily access the community site’s features like IM, photo sharing, chat and profile pages of its over 6 million users.

Content is King
Skyfire was the first mobile browser to integrate real-time web activity aggregating customized feeds from news, media, Facebook and Twitter. It continues to be the only mobile browser that delivers the PC web to mobile phones at unprecedented speeds. Skyfire is partnering with Web companies to create a host of links available in the Skyfire bookmarks, giving their users easy access to sites they visit frequently – social networks and media-rich sites.

“The MocoSpace brand and its mobile community product fit really well with our vision to bring the richest possible social networking experience to this mobile generation,” said Tracy DeMiroz. “With the explosion of social networking among Skyfire users, we are happy to reach the over 6 million registered users that MocoSpace has. Now with this partnership, in just one click, our users can be engaged with all MocoSpace has to offer.”

MocoSpace empowers anyone with a mobile device to have a full, rich social networking experience on mobile without ever having to use a computer.

“We’re always looking for new opportunities to reach mobile consumers especially if we can make the mobile socializing experience better in the process,” said Justin Siegel, co-founder and CEO of MocoSpace. “It makes a lot of sense for us to partner with a great product company like Skyfire because our interests line up so well. Both companies seek to make the mobile Web experience faster, more accessible and more fun for consumers.”

Skyfire users can find the MocoSpace link in their bookmarks. Skyfire 1.0 is available for free at get.skyfire.com.


About Skyfire
Skyfire is the creator of the Skyfire mobile browser, which delivers the PC Web to mobile phones so users can experience the Web on their phone exactly as they do on their PCs. On May 27, 2009, Skyfire came out of beta and introduced Skyfire 1.0. In the same month, it was awarded the prestigious 2009 Webby Award for Best Mobile Application. The company was founded in 2006 by Nitin Bhandari and Erik Swenson, who serve as CEO and CTO, respectively. Skyfire is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures and Matrix Partners.

For more information, visit www.skyfire.com, or follow Skyfire on Twitter at twitter.com/skyfire.

About MocoSpace
Founded in 2005, MocoSpace is a mobile social community designed to help people find friends, have fun and stay connected on their mobile phone. The service is free and available on any web-enabled mobile phone in the world. MocoSpace is a privately held company with offices in Boston, MA and Herzliya, Israel. For more information, visit our consumer site at http://www.mocospace.com on your phone or on the web and visit our corporate site http://www.jnjmobile.com.

Follow MocoSpace on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mocospace



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