UPDATED 15:29 EST / NOVEMBER 15 2010

Tungle Releases Initial Premium Features

Tungle introduced the first in its line-up of premium features, called Personalization. It allows powerful branding and provides personalization options.

Tungle is a company that is revolutionizing the online scheduling and calendar industry, and some of its users include 800 universities worldwide, 40% of the Fortune 1000 companies, and users from 160 countries. The company launched its calendar and scheduling tool in 2009.

“We’ve spent the last few years making Tungle as efficient and intuitive as possible” said Marc Gingras, Founder and CEO of Tungle Corporation. “Tungle is seeing exponential growth within companies of all sizes, and is quickly becoming an essential productivity and collaboration service. Many of our dedicated business users have been asking for these advanced features for quite some time, and we are now ready to turn the corner with revenue generating enhancements to the core application.”

A premium account allows the user to brand public pages, email invitations with their company logo and corporate colors, and gets 10 more suggested location for meeting-invitation logos.

“Ford was pleased to have collaborated with Tungle on premium accounts for our ride & drive experience at BlogWorld Expo.” Said Scott Monty, Head of social media at Ford Motor Company. “The convenience it offered to both attendees and Ford staff was the primary reason for using Tungle.”

Existing users of Tungle.me can avail the new features free for 30 days. Afterwhich, they will be given the option to subscribe or shift to the free version. New members will get their free trial upon registration. The Personalization feature is $4.99 a month or $49.99 every year.  The personalization of utility tools is gaining, with Google positioning itself to be a leader in this arena as well, bringing some competition to Tungle with th confirmation of its acquisition of Plannr.


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