Looney Labs Announces Partnership with Publishers Services, Inc. One- Stop Shopping for International Distributors and Book Trade

College Park, MD (PRWEB) June 22, 2009

Looney Labs, makers of the award winning games, Fluxx and Treehouse, and Publishers Services, Inc., a leading North American sales and fulfillment service, are excited to announce a joint venture where PSI will perform the majority of Looney Labs' International Hobby Game Distributor fulfillment and sales and fulfillment for book and other key accounts in the United States beginning July 1, 2009.

"This strategic partnership will allow Looney Labs' games to be sold to International Distributors as part of PSI's one-stop shopping and shipping portfolio. This also improves our international customers' efficiency by being able to order and restock all of Looney Labs' games side-by-side with all of the other products PSI offers," said Jessica Blair, Director of Sales & Marketing at Looney Labs.

Ross Jepson, PSI International Sales Manager, said, "If you currently deal with PSI, you now have access to a whole new library of great evergreen games with Looney Labs." PSI will provide information for this new group of games all available at PSI's standard discounts and terms.

"Along with these great international distribution benefits, this new partnership expands Looney Labs' games to the US Book Trade," says Kristin Looney, President and founder of Looney Labs. "We started working with Barnes & Noble at Toy Fair earlier this year, and we are excited to transfer their distribution and account management to PSI beginning in July. PSI will also now offer our games to a half dozen other significant new accounts."

Based in College Park, Maryland, Looney Labs designs, produces, and markets award winning, specialty card and board games. Founded in 1996 by Andy and Kristin Looney, both former NASA engineers, Looney Labs proudly manufactures all of their games in the USA. The Looneys believe that one of the most important things they create is the fun people have while playing their games. To learn more about Looney Labs and to see a complete listing of all their games visit, http://www.looneylabs.com.

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Argo Translation, Inc. Exhibiting at American Medical Writers Associations Annual Conference

Chicago, IL (Vocus) November 8, 2010

Argo Translation, Inc. is proud to announce that they will be exhibiting at the American Medical Writers Associations Annual Conference, held in Milwaukee. This years conference will be held November 10th through the 13th at the Hilton Milwaukee Civic Center.

Argo Translations booth will be manned by Operations Manager and CEO, Peter Argondizzo as well as Marketing Coordinator, Caitlin Harte. They will be offering free demos and giveaways. The Argo Translation booth will offer visitors the opportunity to win a new Amazon Wi-Fi Kindle, as well as a copy of MadCap Flare. Flare is a powerful, XML-based professional content authoring and publishing software application that will allow medical writers to create and manage content for multiple channel publishing. The booth will feature a fish-bowl business card drawing for these two products. Argo Translation and MadCap Software invite all attendees to stop by for an introduction as well as the chance to win prizes.

Both Argondizzo and Harte are excited for the opportunity to meet with a new group of medical writers. Argondizzo says, We have handled many projects for medical device manuafacturers and healthcare providers over the last 15 years so I am excited to exhibit at our first AMWA Conference. Argondizzo continues, We currently work with a number of medical device companies as well as technical writers. Our current clients have seen the benefits of using a trusted translation agency for their foreign language and compliance needs. We are excited to show what our company can offer to this group of writers.

To learn more about Argo Translation, Inc please visit http://www.argotrans.com. If you are interested in attending the AMWA Annual Conference this year in Milwaukee please visit http://www.amwa.org

About ARGO Translation

Having successfully executed projects requiring simultaneous translations in 46 different languages, ARGO Translation provides specialized and professional translation services for a multitude of domains ranging from legal and technical to marketing and financial and everything in between. Argo provides efficient, accurate translation and localization services focused on quality and clarity for a wide range of companies across North America. More information is available at http://www.argotrans.com.

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Webs, Inc., Celebrates its 10th Anniversary: Do-it-Yourself Solution for Website Creation Now Serves More than 40 Million Users Worldwide

Silver Spring, MD (PRWEB) June 10, 2011

Webs, the popular, do-it-yourself solution for website creation, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week, having grown from 34 daily sign-ups to more than 40 million businesses, that have launched their own websites with Webs.

Started in 2001 by three brothers--Zeki, Haroon and Idris Mokhtarzada--Webs was founded on the principle that the average, nontechnical person should be able to make a great website.

Zeki and Haroon Mokhtarzada, while students at the University of Maryland, College Park, created Webs (then known as Freewebs) after realizing that a website-creation tool would be more efficient than creating websites for others by hand. They each invested $ 1,000, bought a few servers, put the servers in a closet in Zekis apartment, and Freewebs was born.

We wanted to make it easier for people to get nice looking, organized websites, according to Haroon Mokhtarzada, Co-Founder and CEO of Webs. The brothers chose their mother as the ideal Webs user: "My mother is a professional and a very intelligent person, but she doesn't have any technical skills. If she could use our Site Builder, most people could," explained Haroon.

In a recent interview, the founders of Webs shared the Webs philosophy and their mothers role in the company:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VbwI6LQP30

In 2001, two or three new users signed up with Freewebs each day. Then something strange happened: a lot more people started signing up. The mystery was solved when Haroon and Zeki found out that their younger brother, Idriswho was then only 14had added Freewebs to dmoz.org, a popular website directory. We werent even ready to launch, noted Haroon.

But the business was put on the back burner in 2002 when Zeki began working for the National Institutes of Health and Haroon began studying law at Harvard University. They kept Freewebs going by working on it part-time. After Haroon graduated from law school he considered his options: Freewebs was making enough money to pay our salaries, so we said, lets give it some love. In 2005 the brothers gave Freewebs their full attention and set out to fulfill their entrepreneurial dreams.

High-octane growth

Their hard work paid off: in August 2006 they received $ 11 million in Series A funding from Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Columbia Capital.

Between 2003 and 2007 the company grew 1704%. In 2008, Webs placed fifth in Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for the Greater Washington region. By this point, Webs was getting 20,000 new user signups every day and each month 30 million unique people visited sites created with Webs Site Builder tool.

2008 was also the year the company rebranded itself by changing its name from Freewebs to, simply, Webs. This 2.0 iteration of the Webs platform let site owners create community-driven sites that visitors could join as members. By giving site members the ability to comment on photos, post to a blog, add to a site calendar, and more, a site becomes more of a living, breathing entity, notes Haroon.

In November 2009, Webs launched an App Store to make helpful third-party applications available to all Webs users. Some of the most popular apps in the App Store include the e-commerce Web Store, Cafe Press, DudaMobile, Meebo, and Etsy.

The Webs family of products

2010 was the year Webs developed a family of products to give Webs customers primarily small business owners -- easy and cost-effective ways to develop an online presence across web, mobile, and social platforms. In addition to the Webs DIY site-creation tool, the Webs family of products grew to include:

ContactMe, the first online, lightweight customer relationship management (CRM) tool created exclusively for microbusinesses.

Pagemodo, a do-it-yourself Facebook page builder that enables small businesses to design and customize their Facebook fan pages for free. With Pagemodos Pagebuilder, entrepreneurs dont need to have any technical or design skills to create fresh, stylish Facebook pages for their business that attracts visitors and promotes their services.

Continued innovation

But growing its family of products didnt stop Webs from innovating within the Webs platform as well, particularly to give small businesses an edge in the mobile arena:

Mobile Websites are available to every Webs user. The mobile version is optimized for todays mobile devices, like the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry, and automatically stays in sync with the original site.

A Webs Redesign in 2010 presented a stylish and more functional version of Webs to the world. The Webs.com website and the Webs Site Builder were overhauled to make their site-building tools and processes even easier for people to use.

All of this innovation was recognized in July 2010 when Webs was named one of the Hottest DC Area Companies by Lead411. The awards review noted that Webs is among the top 100 most trafficked websites in the world. The company has tripled its revenues in the past 3 years.

The Webs family

Webs now has 50 employees and offices in both Silver Spring, Maryland, and Silicon Valley. The Silver Spring office has an open floor plan that facilitates brainstorming and collaboration. Zeki, Haroon, and Idris sit with their teams but often move around the office to answer questions, solve problems, fix bugs, and discuss plans for helping Webs users achieve their own entrepreneurial dreams.

About Webs, Inc.

Webs (http://webs.com) is the worlds largest do-it-yourself solution to create a free website, serving over 40 million users. Webs enables small businesses and entrepreneurs to easily make a great-looking website and project a professional image. The Webs family of productsincluding Webs, ContactMe, and Pagemodoprovide small businesses with simple and cost-effective ways to launch and grow their companies across web, social, and mobile platforms. Founded in 2001 by the Mokhtarzada brothers, Webs is funded by Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Columbia Capital. For more information, contact Chuck Hester at hester(at)webs(dot)com or visit http://www.Webs.com, http://www.ContactMe.com and http://www.Pagemodo.com to sign up for free today.

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