Mancx partners with Viadeo to extend its service for paid social search to 155 million professionals
MANCX PRESS RELEASE: 13 December, 2011, London, Stockholm, San Francisco
A new partnership could be set to revolutionize social search by coupling Viadeo, a professional social network with 40 million professionals worldwide with a question and answer service that allows users to buy and sell information on a global level.
The partnership between Paris-based Viadeo and Swedish online knowledge market Mancx will allow members to search the network for people who are well placed to provide vital business intelligence. Furthermore, the Mancx platform will automatically match business questions existing on Mancx with relevant Viadeo members.
Unlike other Q&A services, Mancx offers payment, negotiation and even the tax facilities so that business people can pay other professionals for expert advice, valuable answers and specific information. By partnering with Viadeo, following the earlier integration with LinkedIn in September, Mancx becomes the first Q&A service to bring together the knowledge existing in the professional social networks of both Viadeo and LinkedIn. The Mancx Matchmaker will now be able to find people and relevant expertise across the entire globe to match up with incoming questions.
Viadeo has established itself as the leading professional network focused on Europe and BRIC countries, and offers companies global access to professionals.
Says Mattias Guilotte, CMO and co-founder of Mancx, “We are very excited by this partnership with Viadeo, as we are now the first Q&A service able to provide seamless matching of questions asked by Viadeo members with answers or respondents from the LinkedIn network, and vice versa.”
“The strength of Viadeo’s network in countries such as India, China and Brazil is of great value to Mancx’ current users and provides a further extension to the Mancx knowledge trading platform. 155 million people are now able to use Mancx in order ask, answer and refer business questions to each other. The business world just got a whole lot smaller! ”, he continues.
"In an increasingly global economy, the best person to solve an issue or answer an important question, might not be an employee at your company or even in the same country. Today, in order to stay competitive, businesses need access to professionals all over the world," said Dan Serfaty, CEO, Viadeo. "With this partnership, companies now have access to the best professionals, and can tap the most relevant expertise—no matter where the person is located."
Following the API integration with Viadeo and LinkedIn, the Mancx Matchmaker now matches members’ business questions on Mancx with contacts in their own Viadeo and LinkedIn networks, as well as with the extended Mancx network. If there is a contact that might be able to answer a question, Mancx will let the user know, and the user can then decide whether or not to refer the relevant question to their contact. Another useful feature is that Mancx gives the user the option of taking a percentage of the fee on the questions they are referring.
Mancx, based in Sweden, has a patent pending for its solution to managing trade with information and was in November awarded a £70,000/$110,000 grant by Vinnova, a Swedish government agency distributing research and development grants. Previously in September, Mancx earned the title as “the hottest Nordic startup” when winning Arctic15, in competition with close to 100 Nordic and Baltic Internet startups.
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About Mancx
Mancx is a global online knowledge market.
Mancx offers a trusted, fully transactional, secure environment, with processing and marketing tools to buy and sell information, openly or anonymously.
For information buyers, Mancx is the place to go to for answers to the business questions they face on a daily basis. For information sellers, Mancx offers a way to capitalize on accumulated knowledge and to build their personal brand profile as sources of valuable information.
Mancx is a privately held company based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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For further information, please contact:
Mattias Guilotte
CMO / Founder
tel: +46 70 4147575 / +1 4153167281
email: mattias.guilotte@mancx.com
About Viadeo
Founded in 2004, Viadeo is one of the largest professional social networks in the world with 40 million members. With a dominant position in Europe and the BRIC countries, Viadeo brings business opportunities to professionals all around the world, and focuses on a multi-local approach to social networking.
Viadeo’s members consist of business owners, entrepreneurs and managers from a diverse range of businesses--from start-up to well-established companies. The Viadeo group employs 310 people across 10 offices around the world, in the UK (London), US (San Francisco), Spain (Madrid and Barcelona), Italy (Milan), China (Beijing), India (New Delhi), Mexico (Mexico City) and Senegal (Dakar).
Our Website: www.viadeo.com
Mattias Guilotte
CMO / Founder
tel: +46 70 4147575 / +1 4153167281
email: mattias.guilotte@mancx.com
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Mancx is a global online knowledge market.
Mancx offers a trusted, fully transactional, secure environment, with processing and marketing tools to buy and sell information, openly or anonymously.
For information buyers, Mancx is the place to go to for answers to the business questions they face on a daily basis. For information sellers, Mancx offers a way to capitalize on accumulated knowledge and to build their personal brand profile as sources of valuable information.
Mancx is a privately held company based in Stockholm, Sweden. US office in San Francisco, CA.
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