Book­ing travel is made eas­ier for cus­tomers and their Face­book friends

Min­neapo­lis, MN -August 12, 2010- Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) and Alvenda Inc., the only inte­grated social com­merce chan­nel, offi­cially launched the travel industry’s first ecom­merce capa­bil­ity on Face­book today. Face­book users will now be able to book flights with their friends directly on Facebook.

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Alvenda Strength­ens Exec­u­tive Team with Jamie Thin­gel­stad as COO and CTO

Min­neapo­lis, MN – Jan­u­ary 28, 2010 – Alvenda, Inc., a dis­trib­uted com­merce net­work mer­chants use to cre­ate mil­lions of oppor­tu­ni­ties for sell­ing on Face­book and through adver­tis­ing media, announced today that Jamie Thin­gel­stad has been named chief oper­at­ing offi­cer (COO) and chief tech­nol­ogy offi­cer (CTO) of Alvenda.

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Alvenda, Inc. Secures $5 Mil­lion in Series A Fund­ing Led By Split Rock Part­ners
to Sup­port Rapid Growth

Min­neapo­lis, MN – Jan­u­ary 25, 2010 – Alvenda, Inc., a dis­trib­uted com­merce net­work mer­chants use to cre­ate mil­lions of oppor­tu­ni­ties for sell­ing on Face­book and through adver­tis­ing media, has received $5 mil­lion in ven­ture cap­i­tal fund­ing from Split Rock Part­ners to sup­port its rapid growth. Split Rock Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Michael Gor­man has joined the Alvenda Board of Directors.

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The mark Brand Intro­duces Dig­i­tal Social Sell­ing Appli­ca­tion that for the First Time Con­nects Shop­pers with Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Facebook

NEW YORK, NY, Decem­ber 11, 2009 – Rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing the direct-selling model for the next gen­er­a­tion of women, mark, the beauty and fash­ion bou­tique brand of Avon Prod­ucts, launches new dig­i­tal social sell­ing appli­ca­tion that will con­nect shop­pers with Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Face­book for the first time. The mark e-commerce bou­tique allows Face­book users to shop on the “mark. girl” Face­book Page and con­nect directly with mark Reps. Reps can also use this new tool to build their busi­ness and build their sales by open­ing a dig­i­tal dia­logue with new clients.
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(via 1-800-Flowers.com® investor rela­tions website)

Lead­ing Flo­ral Retailer to Host First Store within a Face­book Page

CARLE PLACE, N.Y., July 29, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Giv­ing con­sumers a brand new way to shop, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM® (FLWS), the world’s lead­ing florist and gift shop has launched an e-commerce store inside its Face­book® Page, where cus­tomers can pur­chase their flo­ral favorites with­out ever leav­ing the site. With the debut of a fully-functioning store­front, peo­ple can now browse and buy gifts directly through the 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Face­book Page. Read more

Alvenda’s Mer­chants can Now Reach 90% of Online Con­sumers in the U.S. with Alvenda Shoplets™ Enabled by Microsoft Rich Media Certification

Min­neapo­lis, MN – July 16, 2009 – Alvenda, Inc., the only ecommerce-enabled adver­tis­ing solu­tion for mer­chants, today announced the com­pany has achieved cer­ti­fi­ca­tion as a third-party rich media ven­dor on Microsoft Media Net­work.
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Alvenda Shoplets Gen­er­ated a 41% Increase in Sales and 10.5x Lift in Inter­ac­tion Rates

Min­neapo­lis, MN – July 15, 2009 – Alvenda, Inc. announced today that on May 2, 2009, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM achieved an indus­try first by open­ing mil­lions of stores on many of the Web’s most vis­ited sites dur­ing its Mother’s Day hol­i­day cam­paign. Thou­sands of cus­tomers were able to con­ve­niently order gifts from the lead­ing retailer’s Shoplets™ (shop-able adver­tise­ments) with­out get­ting “clicked off” the Web site they were brows­ing. Read more

Alvenda Adds a Microsoft Adver­tis­ing Vet­eran and a Pri­vacy Indus­try Leader to its Board of Advisors

Min­neapo­lis, MN – May 4, 2009 – Alvenda, Inc. today announced that Tom Ker­sten, National Indus­try Direc­tor at Microsoft, and Rebecca Herold, owner and prin­ci­pal of Rebecca Herold & Asso­ciates, LLC, have joined Alvenda’s advi­sory board.
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Alvenda, Inc Secures Financ­ing for Commerce-Enabled Adver­tis­ing Platform

Min­neapo­lis, MN – April 15, 2009 – Alvenda, Inc. today announced that it has com­pleted a thor­ough third party secu­rity and pri­vacy audit. The Pri­vacy Impact Assess­ment was com­pleted by Rebecca Herold & Asso­ciates, LLC., a Com­put­er­world magazine’s “Best Pri­vacy Advi­sor” for 2007 and 2008. Alvenda was rated as “privacy-friendly and privacy-enhancing” over­all, the high­est rat­ing achievable.

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Alvenda Attracts Top Indus­try Lead­ers from Ora­cle, IBM, Tar­get and Endeca for Advi­sory Board

Min­neapo­lis, MN – March 2, 2009 – Alvenda, Inc. today announced it has orga­nized a team of indus­try vision­ar­ies and lead­ers to pro­vide strat­egy and oper­a­tional advice that will help us develop a valu­able offer­ing for our cus­tomers and accel­er­ate the growth of our com­pany. Read more

Alvenda, Inc Secures Financ­ing for Commerce-Enabled Adver­tis­ing Platform

Min­neapo­lis, MN – Decem­ber 19, 2008 – Alvenda, Inc. today announced that it has com­pleted a round of financ­ing to extend its commerce-enabled adver­tis­ing plat­form and grow its sales and mar­ket­ing capa­bil­i­ties. The fund­ing came from pri­vate investors who are indus­try lead­ers in tech­nol­ogy and retail ecom­merce oper­a­tions. Read more