TORONTO, Feb. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - ZD Ventures
Corporation (OTCBB: ZDVN) ("The Company" "ZD
Ventures") is pleased to announce that it has closed
on the previously announced letter of intent with Bluesence
Innovation Group S.L. ("Bluesence"),
ZD Ventures has acquired 100% of the shares of
Bluesence. Mr. Sergi Vargas,
founder and CEO of Bluesence will continue in his role as CEO of
Bluesence. He has signed a long term consulting agreement with
Bluesence that provides certain incentives and compensation.
Bluesence is a Barcelona, Spain
based company providing cloud solutions for the Small and Medium
business market based on the IBM Smart Cloud
strategy. Bluesence is an IBM Business Partner focused on
Smarter Analytics and Big Data Capture for Enterprise, Content
Management Solutions for Social, Business Real
Time Analytics, IBM Mobile First Solutions, IBM Cloud
Solutions and Artificial Intelligence via Watson.
Bluesence is led by Sergi Vargas
and Emili Murcia, two senior well
respected IT professionals with over 20 years of experience each in
the IT solutions space. They have been recognized as always being
on the leading edge of technology and facilitating how new
technologies can be integrated into the companies they serve.
Their work and experience in the Spanish market combined with their
outstanding knowledge of IBM software and strategy make Bluesence a
key trusted partner for the companies seeking the best of cloud
solutions for their businesses and international expansion.
It is the intention of Bluesence to develop leading edge
products using IBM expertise and technology.
Terence Robinson, CEO of ZD
Ventures, commented "Bluesence is a strategic acquisition that will
enable ZD Ventures to greatly benefit from web 3.0 IBM software
technologies offered by Bluesence. The ability to provide
Artificial Intelligence using Watson to the startup community offers
us a massive global opportunity. We believe there is a great need
for the types of products Bluesence offers."
Sergi Vargas, CEO of Bluesence,
commented, "I am very happy to be part of ZD Ventures. I look
forward to helping build Bluesence through ZD Ventures, becoming a
leader in Spain and expanding our
business worldwide".
Dr. Angel Moreu, Director of Cloud IBM Spain commented "We
are very pleased to have Bluesence as one of our key business
partners. One of IBM's objectives is to consolidate IBM's strategy
in the market amplifying and making IBM's portfolio accessible and
consumable to all types of enterprises using IBM Cloud, data
analytics and social IBM capabilities, to foster new business and
transforming existing ones through what today's and near future IT
technologies can provide. It's about the solutions and new digital
business paradigms that a company like Bluesence can foster and
speed up to using today IBM capabilities including the adoption of
cognitive systems like Watson to
reach unprecedented levels of new business and added value to the
enterprise, its customers and society in general, making a smarter
planet a reality."
About the Company
ZD Ventures is seeking to expand into the internet industry by
acquiring and supporting emerging internet-related technologies and
other related assets.
Forward-Looking Statements
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involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are
statements that are not historical facts. Such forward-looking
statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could
cause actual results to differ from the forward-looking statements.
The Company expressly disclaims any obligation to publicly update
any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a
results of new information, future events or otherwise, except as
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SOURCE ZD Ventures Corporation