Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

Flock Announces New Fashion and Entertainment Edition of Award Winning Social Web Browser

“Gloss” Edition Browser Features Content from Top Entertainment, Fashion and Beauty Web Sites Such as Popsugar, InStyle.com and Glam.com

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – July 23, 2008 – Flock (http://www.flock.com), the innovative social Web browser that helps its users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web, today announced the availability of the Gloss Edition, the world’s first and only fashion and entertainment browser. The Gloss Edition is based on the latest version of the award winning Flock browser, and comes pre-populated with best of breed news, photos, videos and feeds from more than 35 fashion and entertainment content partners across the Web.

Flock’s Gloss Edition is designed to deliver the latest fashion interviews, red carpet events and the hottest style trends to users allowing them to easily share content and information with friends. Flock’s Media Streams, News Feeds and Favorites features have been pre-programmed with content recommended from today’s leading lifestyle sources like Popsugar, InStyle.com, Glam.com, ThisNext.com, Ecorazzi.com, DesignerApparel.com and other leading style and entertainment brands.

“Flock makes the organization and presentation of this content intuitive and helps users easily discover and share media, feeds and information with their social network profiles, family and friends,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “The Gloss Edition, together with the recently released Eco-Edition, demonstrates the power of Flock’s platform to serve diverse groups who are deeply passionate about a variety of interests.”

“Glam Media is excited to be a part of Flock’s Gloss edition,” said Ryan Roslansky, Vice President, Products & Content, Glam Media. “With integration at the browser level, we’ll be able to reach new audiences while providing an easy way for consumers to access content from our more than 500 popular lifestyle publishers in the Glam Network.”

Additionally, Popsugar and InStyle fans will have the option to download special Popsugar and InStyle versions of the Gloss Edition browser. The content of the two versions will remain with the same great fashion and entertainment features, but will include default homepages featuring the respective partner sites.

The Flock Gloss Edition Browser is available as a free software download for Mac, PC and Linux at http://www.flock.com/gloss.

Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

Flock Releases 2.0 Beta, Built on Cutting Edge Firefox 3 Technology

Social Web Browser Takes Advantage of Latest Performance and Security Improvements From Mozilla

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – June 16, 2008 – Flock (www.flock.com), the innovative social Web browser that helps its users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web, today announced that the Flock 2.0 Beta, built on the latest Firefox 3 technology, is now available for early trials.

“Flock is thrilled to announce the Flock 2.0 beta. Thousands of global developers and contributors have made Mozilla's open source technology the best in the world,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “Now our users can experience the best of both worlds with all of the performance and security improvements of Firefox 3, combined with Flock’s unique social browsing experience.”

Flock 2.0 includes all of the enhanced browsing capabilities that have been widely recognized with numerous awards, including the 2008 Webby for Social Networking and as #6 on PC World’s 100 Best Products list of 2008. Flock’s powerful features include easier connecting, sharing, discovering and publishing, plus all of the latest performance, security, and UI enhancements from FireFox 3. Highlights include:

• Improved Performance:

• Faster page rendering with new and improved Gecko 1.9 Web rendering engine

• Reduced memory footprint over the duration of browsing sessions
• Complex web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast

• Security Improvements

• Site security is validated within the address bar

• Malware detection and blocking functionality has been added with visible alerts
• Improved Password Manager reduces the amount of memory required

• User Interface Feature Enhancements:

• New Location bar auto-completes based on user history and favorites

• New Favorites Manager combines favorites, tags and browsing history
• New Download Manager allows users to resume downloads after re-start

Flock 2.0 Beta is now available for free download at http://www.flock.com/beta/download.

About Flock

Flock is the first and only social Web browser that helps users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web. Flock delivers a more personal Web experience, where users are in control and more connected to what they value. In 2008, Flock received the Webby Award for social networking, the SXSW Community Award and was listed #6 in PC World’s 100 Best Products of 2008. Built on Mozilla’s constantly improving Firefox architecture (http://www.flock.com/mozilla) Flock is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com. Founded in 2005, Flock is based in Redwood City, Calif. and has an office in Victoria, British Columbia.

Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

Flock Browser Expands Its List of Supported Services with Digg, Pownce, and AOL Webmail

Flock brings more sought after Web services to its users in the release of 1.2

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – June 2, 2008 – Flock (www.flock.com), the innovative social Web browser that helps its users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web, today announced it has added Digg, Pownce and AOL Webmail to its ever-expanding list of supported services as part of its 1.2 release. As social networking and Web services continue to grow in popularity, Flock offers intuitive navigation across a variety of sites and services, enabling users to organize and integrate what is important to them in one easy environment.

“We’re thrilled to add Digg, Pownce and AOL Mail to Flock’s stable of supported services - each one has an engaged, active and loyal user community,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “We are especially happy when we can give Flock users access to the popular services they request, and each of these new partners was ready with open platforms.”

The full release of Flock 1.2, available as a free software download for Mac, PC and Linux at http://www.flock.com, includes the following new features:

• Digg – Flock has added support for the pioneering social content site, Digg. Flock users can now submit or ‘Digg’ news stories, videos, images or other Web content from any Web page by clicking a designated Digg button; track friends’ submissions and votes; and easily access the top five most popular stories on Digg.

• Pownce – Flock has also added the micro-blogging service, Pownce, to the sidebar. If you have a Pownce account you can share files and comment on them without opening up a separate webpage.
• AOL Webmail Integration – Flock has added AOL Webmail to let users quickly and easily access their email account, joining Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, which were integrated in Flock’s 1.1 release. When new emails arrive, the Flock Mail icon lights up to let Flock users know that new messages are waiting for them.

Since January 2008, Flock’s user base has increased by more than 300 percent while its revenue has risen by more than 400 percent. Flock has seen more than 3.5 million downloads of its social web browser, with nearly 70 percent of Flock users making it their default browser of choice.

Flock 1.2 is now available for free download at http://www.flock.com.

About Flock
Flock is the first and only social Web browser that helps users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web. Flock delivers a more personal Web experience, where users are in control and more connected to what they value. In 2008, Flock received the Webby Award for social networking, the SXSW Community Award and was listed #6 in PC World’s 100 Best Products of 2008. Built on Mozilla’s constantly improving Firefox architecture (http://www.flock.com/mozilla) Flock is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com. Founded in 2005, Flock is based in Redwood City, Calif. and has an office in Victoria, British Columbia.

Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

Flock Named As One of PC World's "100 Best Products of 2008"

Marking its fourth award win this year, Flock ranked as top browser of 2008

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 29, 2008 – Flock (www.flock.com), the first and only social Web browser that helps users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web, today announced that it was honored by PC World Magazine as one of the 100 Best Products of 2008. The full list is available now on PCWorld.com and will also be featured in the July 2008 issue of PC World, which hits news stands June 17.

The respected 100 Best Products Awards honor products that join practical features with innovation that reflect the rapidly changing technology marketplace. To select the winners, PC World’s editors examined hundreds of products, including those that have appeared in the magazine within the past 12 months. The 100 product and service winners were selected for their commendable design and usability, features, performance and innovation.

“Being recognized by PC World as one of the best products of 2008 affirms Flocks’ ongoing commitment to make the user engagement as effortless as possible,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “We’re entering a new chapter in social networking where the popularity of networks has created the need to integrate the experience into one easy environment.”

Since January 2008, Flock’s user base has increased by more than 300 percent while its revenue has risen by more than 400 percent. Since its launch, there have been more than 3.5 million downloads of the Flock browser, and since it’s first commercial release in 2007, nearly 70 percent of users have made Flock their default browser.

About Flock
Flock is the first and only social Web browser that helps users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web. Flock delivers a more personal Web experience, where users are in control and more connected to what they value. In 2008, Flock received the Webby Award for social networking, the SXSW Community Award and was listed #6 in PC World’s 100 Best Products of 2008. Built on Mozilla’s constantly improving Firefox architecture (http://www.flock.com/mozilla) Flock is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com. Founded in 2005, Flock is based in Redwood City, Calif. and has an office in Victoria, British Columbia.

Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

Flock Closes $15 Million Financing Round, Led by Fidelity Ventures

Funding enables Flock to expand globally and extend leadership in browser innovation

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 22, 2008 – Flock (www.flock.com), the innovative, award-winning social Web browser, today announced that it has completed a $15 million Series D round of venture funding led by Fidelity Ventures. All previous lead investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures and Shasta Ventures, also participated.

This new funding exceeds the amounts raised in all prior rounds combined and will be used to provide growth capital to expand Flock’s business, including research and development, marketing and expansion into new global markets. According to Datamonitor, there are currently over 230 million members of social networks globally, and revenues are projected to reach $2.4 billion by 2012^[1]. Fidelity Ventures brings the advantages of its tremendous global reach and experience to assist in growing Flock’s business.

“We are thrilled to close this significant round of financing,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “Following the tremendous market response to Flock’s commercial release, this new funding will enable us to continue our browser innovation – making engagement and participation across social networks and the Web as effortless as consumption.”

“The browser is strategic because it enables nearly everything users do online,” said Larry Cheng, Partner at Fidelity Ventures. “Flock's social browser is the most compelling innovation in the browser market in over a decade. The reasons we invested are simple: great product, fantastic user adoption, and excellent revenue growth.”

Since January 2008, Flock’s user base has increased by more than 250 percent while its revenue has risen by more than 400 percent. In addition, Flock was named the winner of the Webby Award in the Social Networking category, which also included noteworthy nominees Facebook and Bebo. Hailed as the “the Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The 12th annual Webby Awards received over 10,000 nominations from more than 60 countries worldwide.