MeetMe Becomes Member of The Family Online Safety Institute
November 04 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
MeetMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEET), a public market leader for social
discovery, today announced it has joined the Family Online Safety
Institute (FOSI). FOSI is the nation’s leading organization
dedicated to educating parents, companies, children, educators and
policy makers about Internet safety. Fred Beckley, MeetMe’s General
Counsel and EVP of Business Affairs, will join FOSI’s Board of
Directors.
“I am delighted to welcome MeetMe as our newest member,” said
Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute. “MeetMe
employs a variety of industry-leading best practices to monitor
their active community. The addition of Fred Beckley to our board
allows us to learn from MeetMe’s innovative work with both
technological and human safety processes, and we are eager to share
their best practices with our membership and the broader Internet
community.”
“As one of the largest mobile platforms for meeting and chatting
with new people, we recognize the important role we play in
educating users about safe online practices,” said Mr. Beckley. “I
am excited to join the FOSI Board and look forward to the
opportunity to collaborate with other leading companies in our
space.”
About MeetMe, Inc.
Through its MeetMe® and Skout® mobile apps and websites, MeetMe
is a leading social network for meeting new people in the US and
the public market leader for social discovery (NASDAQ: MEET).
MeetMe makes it easy to discover new people to chat with on mobile
devices. With approximately two million total daily active users,
MeetMe is fast becoming the social gathering place for the mobile
generation. MeetMe is a leader in mobile monetization with a
diverse revenue model comprising advertising, user credits, and
subscriptions. MeetMe’s apps are available
on iPhone, iPad, and Android in multiple
languages worldwide. For more information, please
visit meetmecorp.com.
About FOSI
The Family Online Safety Institute is an international,
non-profit organization that works to make the online world safer
for kids and their families. FOSI convenes leaders in industry,
government and the non-profit sectors to collaborate and innovate
new solutions and policies in the field of online safety. Through
research, resources, events and special projects, FOSI promotes a
culture of responsibility online and encourages a sense of digital
citizenship for all. FOSI's membership includes 30 of the leading
Internet and telecommunications companies around the world.
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forward-looking statements include the risk that our applications
will not function easily or otherwise as anticipated, the risk that
we will not launch additional features and upgrades as anticipated,
the risk that unanticipated events affect the functionality of our
applications with popular mobile operating systems, any changes in
such operating systems that degrade our mobile applications’
functionality and other unexpected issues which could adversely
affect usage on mobile devices. Further information on our risk
factors is contained in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including the Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2015, the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30,
2016, and the Form 8-K filed on October 4, 2016. Any
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