GetFugu Names Derek Norton Chief Operating Officer

Los Angeles, CA - September 22, 2009, GetFugu, Inc. (OTC BB:GFGU.OB), www.getfugu.com, the revolutionary new method of accessing the Internet through mobile phones, has appointed Derek Norton Chief Operating Officer, the Company announced today.

Norton is the founder and Managing Partner of Watertower Group, an industry-leading boutique investment bank, and the Managing General Partner of the Watertower Early Opportunity Fund, a seed and early stage venture capital fund.

"We are delighted to welcome Derek Norton to our team,” commented Bernard Stoler, GetFugu’s CEO. “Derek is an accomplished entrepreneur and venture capitalist, with over 19 years of business building and executive management experience in the technology, internet and media industries.”

“GetFugu has revolutionary technology that will change the way consumers interface with the Internet on their mobile phones,” Norton said. “I’m pleased to be part of this new venture.”

Norton was previously an investment professional at Entertainment Media Ventures, a $120 million dollar seed and early stage venture capital fund focused on investments in broadband infrastructure, consumer internet and digital media sectors, having led investments in Kassena, Matchcraft and Relegence, among others, and earlier, was with Entertainment Media Ventures, a Michael Milken-backed seed and early stage venture capital fund located in Los Angeles.

Norton founded Jeffries Technologies, Digital Boardwalk, a provider of web based service solutions to traditional businesses and new media business ventures. Netscape’s second commercial partner, Digital Boardwalk was a pioneer in the provisioning of Internet technologies, e-commerce development, and marketing solutions to a wide range of companies and industries. Clients included CBS SportsLine, eToys, Office Max, Hughes Global Services, News Corp, and Hewlett Packard. Jeffries became one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest growing privately held U.S. companies, providing network enterprise architecture and systems integration to Global 2000 businesses.

Getfugu premiered its four unique “See It,” vision recognition (ARL) “Say It,” voice recognition (VRL) “Find It,” location recognition (GRL) and “Get It,” Hot-Spotting services on 09/09/09, and is swiftly deploying it around the world.

About Getfugu

Getfugu, Inc. is the first technology architect to provide a carrier agnostic, platform agnostic mobile search platform. Getfugu will change the way people access the web with their mobile phones. It is designed to encourage use of its applications by simply integrating the mobile phone's core strengths (image recognition, voice recognition, location recognition) into a single customizable application. Additionally, Getfugu offers the only mobile hot-spotting e-commerce platform available worldwide today. The Getfugu platform will be available for 97% of the mobile phones available (over 3.3 billion handsets) worldwide.

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