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ZD Ventures Acquires IBM Business Partner and Bluemix Solutions Provider, Bluesence Innovation Group S.L.TORONTO, Feb. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - ZD Ventures Corporation (OTCBB: ZDVN) ("The Company" "ZD Ventures") is pleased to announce that it has closed on the previously announced letter of intent with Bluesence Innovation Group S.L. ("Bluesence"), ZD Ventures has acquired 100% of the shares of Bluesence. Mr. Sergi Vargas, founder and CEO of Bluesence will continue in his role as CEO of Bluesence. He has signed a long term consulting agreement with Bluesence that provides certain incentives and compensation. Bluesence is a Barcelona, Spain based company providing cloud solutions for the Small and Medium business market based on the IBM Smart Cloud strategy. Bluesence is an IBM Business Partner focused on Smarter Analytics and Big Data Capture for Enterprise, Content Management Solutions for Social, Business Real Time Analytics, IBM Mobile First Solutions, IBM Cloud Solutions and Artificial Intelligence via Watson. Bluesence is led by Sergi Vargas and Emili Murcia, two senior well respected IT professionals with over 20 years of experience each in the IT solutions space. They have been recognized as always being on the leading edge of technology and facilitating how new technologies can be integrated into the companies they serve. Their work and experience in the Spanish mrket combined with their outstanding knowledge of IBM software and strategy make Bluesence a key trusted partner for the companies seeking the best of cloud solutions for their businesses and international expansion. It is the intention of Bluesence to develop leading edge products using IBM expertise and technology. Terence Robinson, CEO of ZD Ventures, commented "Bluesence is a strategic acquisition that will enable ZD Ventures to greatly benefit from web 3.0 IBM software technologies offered by Bluesence. The ability to provide Artificial Intelligence using Watson to the startup community offers us a massive global opportunity. We believe there is a great need for the types of products Bluesence offers." Sergi Vargas, CEO of Bluesence, commented, "I am very happy to be part of ZD Ventures. I look forward to helping build Bluesence through ZD Ventures, becoming a leader in Spain and expanding our business worldwide". Dr. Angel Moreu, Director of Cloud IBM Spain commented "We are very pleased to have Bluesence as one of our key business partners. One of IBM's objectives is to consolidate IBM's strategy in the market amplifying and making IBM's portfolio accessible and consumable to all types of enterprises using IBM Cloud, data analytics and social IBM capabilities, to foster new business and transforming existing ones through what today's and near future IT technologies can provide. It's about the solutions and new digital business paradigms that a company like Bluesence can foster and speed up to using today IBM capabilities including the adoption of cognitive systems like Watson to reach unprecedented levels of new business and added value to the enterprise, its customers and society in general, making a smarter planet a reality." About the Company ZD Ventures is seeking to expand into the internet industry by acquiring and supporting emerging internet-related technologies and other related assets. Forward-Looking Statements This press release includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from the forward-looking statements. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a results of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. SOURCE ZD Ventures Corporation 
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