New Web Company Steps Up Development for 2008 with New Office and Employees

Victoria BC, January 7, 2008 - Victoria-based Internet media company, mPulse, kicked off the new year with a brand new office and two new employees. The company moved out of its make-shift office into the Innovation and Development Corporation’s building on January 7. On that day, the company’s founders, Rian Bowden and Lewis Sobotkiewicz were joined by newly hired software developers Tom Yang and Debbie Yu.

Development is taking off, and we’re looking forward to revealing our spiffy new site to the public,” says Sobotkiewicz, mPulse CTO. Fresh off a trip to San Francisco, Sobotkiewicz made his way directly from Victoria Airport to the mPulse office on the 7th where he worked setting up equipment into the wee hours of the morning.

Tom Yang is a recent computer science graduate and founder of domainpagerank.com and victoriaBBS.com. Debbie Yu has taken bachelor’s degrees in both business and computer science.

With Debbie and Tom on board, the company plans to open up a section of the website to the public by the end of the month, on track to release a full beta by March 2008.

mPulse is a web company that is building innovative solutions to help bring podcasting to the mainstream. It started in the summer of 2007 as a student project. After winning the IDC business plan competition, the company was subsequently incorporated. Visit company.mpulse.ca

For more information contact Rian Bowden at rian@mpulse.ca or call +1.250.885.5303

Ren to be Assistant to Vice Chair of Maple Leaf Educational Systems in Dalian, China

Victoria, BC, December 31, 2007 - mPulse co-founder Hongge Ren has accepted an amazing opportunity with Maple Leaf Educational Systems in Dalian as Assistant to Vice Chair. Maple Leaf is the first offshore school of British Columbia. Hongge will be stepping down as CFO and partner at mPulse. The company looks forward to maintaining close personal friendship with Hongge, and has arranged a friendly compensation agreement for his hard work and passion in its early days.

“Leaving mPulse just as things were getting really exciting was not an easy decision, but the other partners and I all agree the position in Dalian is one I simply can’t pass on for a number of reasons. It’s time to be home again.” says Ren. Hongge will be working with his long time sponsor and owner of Maple Leaf. “I consider myself extremely lucky for first, being sponsored to study in such a beautiful country and then meeting all these great people. I have no doubts mPulse will be a huge success and I look forward to watching from China.”

Hongge and mPulse CEO, Rian Bowden, met in the Entrepreneurship program at the University of Victoria last summer where they began working on the concept. “I knew right away that Hongge was destined for success and we clicked instantly,” says Bowden. The two later recruited Lewis Sobokiewicz, mPulse CTO, to help bring the concept to life. “It’s difficult losing such a dedicated and talented member of the team” says Sobotkiewicz.

mPulse is a web company that is building innovative solutions to help bring podcasting to the mainstream. It started in the summer of 2007 as a student project. After winning the IDC business plan competition, the company was subsequently incorporated. Visit company.mpulse.ca

Maple Leaf Educational Systems currently operates 12 private schools in China, enrolling approximately 5,000 students, from K-12 to college. Its philosophy is to blend the best educational practices of the East and the West. Visit www.mapleleaf.net.cn

For more information contact Rian Bowden at rian@mpulse.ca or call +1.250.885.5303

Exciting new podcasting technologies developed by UVic students now being tested on the web

Victoria BC, December 01, 2007 - UVic student startup company mPulse, launched a web product on Dec. 1 that the company hopes will help bring podcasting to the mainstream. The service was released in Alpha to a group of users who signed up to preview the site early on. The launch comes only three months after the company won $15,500 in prizes at the 2007 IDC Business Plan Competition in Victoria.

The service uses podcasts to provide personalized audio content for people’s morning routines. “This is a concept I’ve been dreaming of since I was 9 years old. It’s really cool to have the technology to do it now, and to actually be using it when I get up in the morning.” says mPulse CEO, Rian Bowden. The company plans to develop the service into a personalizable structured media channel to rival traditional broadcast media.

The company plans to open up the service to more users in future releases. “We are dealing with online media, and so there are a lot of bandwidth, storage, and scalability issues that we need to consider before releasing it to the general public.” says the company’s CTO, Lewis Sobotkiewicz. mPulse is currently being tested by a handful of users, and the company plans to release the next version in January, at which time it will allow more users to start exploring the site.

mPulse is a web company that is building innovative solutions that will help bring podcasting to the mainstream. The company was formed in the summer of 2007 as a student entrepreneurship project. After winning a $15,500 business plan competition, the business became the founding members’ full-time jobs.

For more information contact Rian Bowden at rian@mpulse.ca or +1250.885.5303. For details about the mPulse Coding and Design Challenge, visit the challenge website at http://challenge.mpulse.ca.

Innovative young web company approaches challenging early development issues with competition

Victoria BC, November 26, 2007 The UVic student startup company mPulse, announced a coding and design competition with $2000 in cash prizes. The company recently took home gold at the 2007 IDC Business Plan Competition, which included $15,500 in prizes, and has decided to use some of their winnings to host a competition of their own. The company hopes the competition will help attract keen coders and designers to their team. The competition will also allow them to collaborate with the community to build innovative technologies that can be incorporated into their products.

“We’re seeing a lot of bigger web companies doing these kinds of competitions lately, and we think it’s a great way to get the attention of keen developers who are interested in building cool Web 2.0 products technologies.” says the company’s CEO, Rian Bowden. mPulse came across the idea when looking for creative ways to recruit employees.

The competition will also provide a way for the three person tech company to collaborate with the community to develop cutting edge solutions to complicated usability problems on the Internet. The mPulse competition announcement comes only a week after Google announced a competition with the same kind of collaborative objectives for its new mobile device operating system.

The company may not have the deep pockets of Google, who is offering $10 million in prizes, but the mPulse team believes that when it comes to the Internet, the size or age of a company is not limiting. “You won’t find any multi-billion dollar web company that had more than a few employees ten years ago, but you’ll find ambitious young companies staying ahead of the curve and making waves internationally almost every day.” says Bowden.

mPulse is a web company that is building innovative solutions that will help bring podcasting to the mainstream. The company was formed in the summer of 2007 as a student entrepreneurship project and, after winning a $15,500 business plan competition, became the founding members’ full-time jobs.

For more information contact Rian Bowden at rian@mpulse.ca or +1250.885.5303. For details about the mPulse Coding and Design Challenge, visit the challenge website at http://challenge.mpulse.ca.