openBC Goes Glocal German company tops international standard for networking. In a league with ebay, Yahoo!, and Google, the business social networking platform

Hamburg 14. 12. 2004 (PROTEXT/ots) - Europes leading platformfor business networking is now operational in all alphabets andcharacter sets and systems used throughout the world. TheHebrew, Arabic, and Cyrillic alphabets are now supported as wellas Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai syllabic writing systems.

Hundreds of thousands of members from more than 160 countriescommunicate on openBC in their native languages of English,Spanish, French, Sweden, Russian, and Chinese. Additionallanguage versions of the website such as Hungarian, Turkish andKorean will become available in the first quarter of 2005.

Our experience shows that key business transactions arecompleted in local markets despite the advance of globalization.It is essential to be able to communicate and network in yourown language to achieve business success. We provide the socialinfrastructure and additional applications on openBC to enableprofessional networking globally and locally, states LarsHinrichs, the companys founder and Managing Shareholder.

openBC is pursuing a sustainable European growth strategywith representative offices in Finland (Helsinki), Sweden(Stockholm), The Netherlands (Amsterdam), France (Paris), Spain(Madrid), Hungary (Budapest), and Israel (Tel Aviv). openBC issupported by country managers who are based in the local cultureand benefit from an existing network of contacts. These countrymanagers encourage users to grow their networking connections.

As part of its international expansion, the company isfocusing its efforts on growth markets in Asia and will soon beopening offices for business in China (Hong Kong and Shanghai),India (Mumbai and Delhi), and Russia (Moscow).

openBCs rapid expansion is driven by revenues from itsmonthly EUR 5.95 premium membership fee, giving premium membersthe most comprehensive set of power networking features in theindustry. The companies complimentary membership is also featurerich and offers innovations such as conference calling andmobile to mobile telephony.

openBC is a product of the Open Business Club GmbH.

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