Orange Partners With Netvibes to Offer the World's Largest Collection of Mobile Widgets

Paris and San Francisco, March 4, 2010 (ots/PRNewswire) - Orange and
Netvibes today announced a partnership to bring the world's largest
collection of mobile widgets to all types of mobile phone user across
an extensive range of handsets. Netvibes' huge catalogue of nearly
200,000 real-time widgets will be available on Orange widgets, a
service featuring on 80% of handsets shipped by Orange. It will also
be available on djinngo mobile, an Orange service open to any mobile
phone user in the world. And soon, mobile widgets will be available
to Orange customers in the recently launched Orange Application Shop.

The widget collection, known as Netvibes Ecosystem, is a library
of popular widgets from the leading content providers around the
world. Customers will access Orange widgets with one click from the
Orange homescreen. The service has a carousel from which they can
chose their favourite widgets and will be available on devices from
the majority of handset companies, including basic phones right up to
the most sophisticated smartphones.

Orange widgets first launched in July 2009 and was designed to be
quick and easy to use - even for customers totally unfamiliar with
mobile multi-media services. By providing access to the best, most
popular local content, in customers' own language, Orange is seeking
to open a new mobile widget marketplace for everyone.

By bringing a user-friendly widget service to the mobile mass
market, Orange is also giving content developers access to an
entirely new market of users. To facilitate this, Orange is creating
a software developer kit to ensure a simple and efficient process for
developers to create new and value-adding widgets.

Commenting on the partnership, Paul-François Fournier, Executive
Vice-President, Audience and Advertising, Orange said: "As the
largest independent provider of real-time widgets across 90
languages, Netvibes was the ideal partner for us. Our strategy is to
make mobile widgets a reality for everyone - not just the mobile
multimedia fans with sophisticated smartphones. Our approach is to
offer diverse local content, in all languages, with an intuitive and
simple experience that will appeal to all. Netvibes' catalogue
includes widgets from content developers around the world and this
was important for us as we will be offering widgets across Europe,
Middle East and Africa."

"Our vision is to personalize the entire online world and empower
consumers to customize their entire Web experience. Thanks to our
partnership with Orange, we are bringing personalized widgets to
millions of consumers everywhere," said Freddy Mini, CEO Netvibes.
"The era of the real-time, personalized Web has truly begun."

While the partnership will focus initially on mobile widgets, the
partners will draw on Orange's leadership in broadband internet and
IPTV to extend the experience across other screens.

Lean more about the Orange Netvibes partnership on video at
http://www.orange-innovation.tv/mobile

About Orange

For more information (on the internet and on your mobile):
http://www.orange.com, http://www.orange-business.com,
http://www.orange-innovation.tv

About Netvibes (http://business.netvibes.com)

Launched in 2005, Netvibes pioneered the leading personal
dashboard publishing platform for the Web. Today, Netvibes powers
real-time dashboards and widgets for more than 1,500+ of the world's
leading brands, interactive agencies, government organizations,
non-profits and enterprises--serving half a billion widgets every
month. Netvibes has offices in Paris (EMEA) and San Francisco
(Americas and Asia).

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