ePals(TM) Partners With Fingerprint to Provide Children's Digital Media Apps Worldwide
April 15 2014 - 6:00AM
Marketwired
ePals(TM) Partners With Fingerprint to Provide Children's Digital
Media Apps Worldwide
WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - Apr 15, 2014) - ePals Corporation
(TSX-VENTURE: SLN), an education media and social learning company,
today announced an agreement with Fingerprint, a global mobile
technology company, to develop a custom mobile learning network
featuring ePal's award-winning children's magazines, digital
content and community management platform. The custom mobile
learning network will enable family members and other
parent-approved users to communicate and collaborate around
engaging, educational content while providing parents with
informative dashboards about their child's activity and
performance.
"This partnership and the addition of a new mobile learning
network is part of ePal's overall strategy to foster collaboration
around educational content in school and at home, on the mobile
device of their choice," said Katya Andresen, CEO of ePals.
"Fingerprint's technology combined with ePals' award-winning
content and safe social learning platform will provide a place
where kids, parents and educators can collaborate in an engaging
and educational way."
Fingerprint provides turnkey mobile solutions that help global
brands and content creators better connect with customers through
tailor-made mobile networks. Its enterprise platform solution
enables brands like ePals to license and develop customized
versions of Fingerprint's learn-and-play kids' network. As part of
the partnership, ePals will offer its digital content to
Fingerprint's growing partner networks around the globe including
the upcoming Samsung KidsTime service in Southeast Asia.
"ePals is an ideal partner," said Nancy MacIntyre, CEO and
co-founder of Fingerprint. "For the first time we'll be reaching
both parents and teachers alike, who are searching for meaningful
digital content -- apps, ebooks, games -- that inspire learning and
hone academic skills."
The ePals Mobile Learning Network will launch worldwide later
this year for iOS and Android.
About Fingerprint, Inc. Fingerprint is a mobile technology
company offering a dynamic technology platform and robust content
library for families with children through its own Fingerprint Play
and customer networks. Fingerprint's enterprise platform solution,
with an easy-to-use SDK and curated play-and-learn content from top
developers around the world, enables global brands to license and
develop customized and localized networks of their own. Fingerprint
is funded by leading consumer tech investors including Corus
Entertainment and K2MediaLabs. For more information, visit
fingerprintplay.com or facebook.com/fingerprintplay.
About ePals Corporation ePals Corporation (TSX-VENTURE: SLN) is
an education media company that provides award-winning content on a
safe and secure learning network for children, families and
teachers across the world. ePals' 14 popular media brands for
toddlers to teens include Babybug, Ladybug, Cricket® and
Cobblestone® with multiple language editions and apps in English,
Spanish and Chinese. The company's innovative web-based K12
tools for school and home include the ePals community and virtual
classroom for global collaboration as well as In2Books®, a Common
Core eMentoring program that builds reading, writing and critical
thinking skills. ePals serves approximately one million
classrooms and millions of teachers, students and parents in over
200 countries and territories through its platform and NeuPals, its
joint venture with China's leading IT services company Neusoft.
Cricket Media also licenses its content and platform to top
publishing and educational companies worldwide. For more
information, please visit www.Cricketmag.com, www.ePals.com and
www.In2Books.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Aric Holsinger Chief
Financial Officer ePals Corporation (703) 885-3400
aholsinger@corp.epals.com Cory Pala Investor Relations ePals
Corporation (416) 657-2400 cpala@corp.epals.com Michele Spring
Fajeau Editorial Contact Fingerprint michele@zebrapartners.net
(925) 634-8289
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