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IceBreaker, Inc. Launches Dating Platform Designed First and Foremost for Cell Phone Users
[January 16, 2007]

IceBreaker, Inc. Launches Dating Platform Designed First and Foremost for Cell Phone Users


BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, IceBreaker, Inc. announced the debut of the interactive mobile dating platform designed first and foremost for cell phone users -- Crush or Flush(TM). The mobile software provides an easy way to flirt, chat, and meet real people with similar interests in your area -- right from your cell phone.



Initial funding for Icebreaker's Crush or Flush(TM) was provided through a combination of angel investors and Lightspeed Venture Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

"According to Frost and Sullivan, the mobile dating segment is projected to grow at 62% a year through 2009," said Jake Seid, General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. "Based on extensive user testing, and partner feedback, we believe Crush or Flush(TM) has the most appealing user experience and feature set for our target demographic, who are heavy cell phone users. As the first dating application designed explicitly for the cell phone, Crush or Flush(TM) completely rethinks one of the most compelling services on the Internet for the dynamic and fast growing mobile web."


The IceBreaker executive team has prior work experience in entrepreneurial environments as well as large corporations -- Microsoft, Disney, and McKinsey & Co. The founders, Dr. Michael Robinson and Eric Hennings, met at Microsoft and have over a decade of experience in creating multi-platform technologies (Apple, Linux, Unix and Windows). In addition, Robinson founded the first community Web site in China called renren Media, a public company in Hong Kong that was partially funded by News Corp. Before its sale in 2001, the renren Web site attracted more than 10 million daily page views.

To sign up for Crush or Flush(TM) online, please visit http://www.crushorflush.com/ .
About IceBreaker, Inc.:
Based outside Seattle, Washington, IceBreaker, Inc. launched Crush or Flush(TM) in January 2007, the dating platform designed first and foremost for cell phone users. IceBreaker's mission is to help people connect through mobile software that is engaging and easy to use. Revenues for the online dating category are estimated at nearly $600M in 2006 and are growing exponentially with the mobile niche projected to grow at 62% per year through 2009. More information about IceBreaker, Inc. is available at http://www.icebreaker.mobi/ .

IceBreaker Inc.

CONTACT: Michael Young, Barokas Public Relations, +1-206-264-8220, orfax, +1-206-264-8221, or [email protected]

Web site: http://www.crushorflush.com/http://www.icebreaker.mobi/

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