NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Yappn (OTCQB:
"YPPN"), the real-time multilingual service and technology tools
that allows brands to socially engage audiences and communicate in
nearly 70 languages around the globe, has been tapped to power
Oakley's Learn To Ride web site and social platforms for this
year's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The Learn
To Ride program is one of the most coveted invitations by
celebrities at Sundance, and for the first time, fans around the
globe will be able to experience the event remotely with real-time
access to professional and user-generated content as well as the
ability to participate in conversations, no matter their
language.
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Yappn will give fans the next best thing to being at Sundance
with access to video, images and social content in their native
language surrounding both the kickoff event on January 16, dubbed Lil
Jon's birthday party, and the two-day Learn To Ride event
where celebrities learn to snowboard on January 17 and 18. Yappn will also feature
key content and celebrity interviews from AOL's Learn to Ride
Digital Lounge, along with celebrity photographs from Getty Images.
Each image will feature Yappn's Social Images Technology, providing
key social network content and allowing it to "talk" in the
viewer's language of choice further globalizing the
content.
"Yappn is thrilled to work with Oakley and its partners to power
this year's Learn To Ride program so the event can be shared
socially around the world," said David
Lucatch, CEO and Founder of Yappn. "Yappn's real-time
multilingual technology will allow Oakley and the partners behind
Learn To Ride, to converse and share information instantly with
fans in close to 70 languages."
Fans can join the conversation in their native language at
LearnToRide.com starting January 15,
2014.
About Yappn Corp.
Yappn Corp. (OTCQB: "YPPN")
provides people and brands the power to be social, conduct commerce
and communicate freely without a language barrier.
Yappn has developed cost effective unique and proprietary
technology tools (http://tools.yappn.com) and services that create
dynamic solutions that enhance a client's social and media
platforms.
Yappn also provides complementary programming for Twitter,
Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr, Pinterest and Tumblr.
Intertainment Media Inc. (TSXV: INT / US: ITMTF / FRA: I4T) has a
controlling interest in Yappn Corp. For more information, please
visit http://corporate.yappn.com/
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