freshEYE and Meta4 Group Launch Private Labeled freshEYE WorldFriends

(10 August 2004 – Tokyo) NewsWatch, Inc. (CEO Naoyuki Kaneda, Chuo-ku Tokyo) and Meta4 Group Limited (CEO Dominic Penaloza, Hong Kong) announced their affiliation in a world-wide communication service to offer “freshEYE WorldFriends” through “freshEYE (http://www.fresheye.com/)”, an internet search portal operated by Newswatch.

“freshEYE WorldFriends” is a world-wide online communication service where users can communicate not only with Japanese, but with people who live outside Japan. “freshEYE WorldFriends” can help members achieve their desires, such as to “become a friend with a foreigner”, “communicate in English or Chinese” and so on. The service offers a wide range of functions and tools, such as “match mail”, an email containing a list of other members who fulfill their requests for a match. This service can help freshEYE users to easily initiate communication with over 170,000 members (WorldFriends Networks member base as of August, 2004) all over the world.

- name of the service: freshEYE WorldFriends, URL: http://friends.fresheye.com/
- launched on: August 10, 2004
- type of service: online communication service
*Regular membership is free which includes the ability to create your own profile, search other members and see their profiles, receive messages, and send a smile to other members. Regular members can upgrade their service to send and receive messages freely. A premium service starts from 3500 yen per month (w/ tax).

“freshEYE” (operated by NewsWatch) is a portal site focused on the latest news. It is popular amongst business-minded people in their 20s and 30s. With this affiliation, freshEYE enriches their service to fulfill users’ intellectual curiosity and Meta4 Group obtains users which further penetrates them into the international online market.

About NewsWatch, Inc.
http://www.newswatch.co.jp/

NewsWatch, Inc. is a Japanese venture company which provides unique marketing solutions by information searching and filtering. NewsWatch assists in the marketing for their clients using internet technology, such as obtaining information strategically by using their own natural language process system, operating a search portal site called “freshEYE” and an ASP service which enables the search inside websites.