CONTACTS: Tracie Snitker & Abby Oliva
Media Relations for Outspark
Reverb Communications
tracie@reverbinc.com/abby@reverbinc.com
Media Relations for Outspark
Reverb Communications
tracie@reverbinc.com/abby@reverbinc.com
San Francisco, CA - May 22, 2009 - Outspark is proud to announce that it has been named a 2009 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award Finalist.
In San Diego, from May 11-13, an exclusive audience of C-level entrepreneurs, government officials, senior business developers, corporate strategists, and venture capital funds reviewed the future of technology and witnessed the Red Herring Top 100 awards. Recognized as the most promising private tech companies in the U.S., nominees were assessed on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their ecosystem. 200 Finalists for the Red Herring Top 100 were selected from more than 2,000 entries. http://www.herringevents.com/northamerica09/redherring100.html#winner
"We are honored to be a finalist of the 2009 Red Herring Top 100 North America award, and to be in the company of fellow recipients like Twitter, Zynga, RockYou! And Offerpal." said Susan Choe, Outspark Founder and CEO. "This award further validates our leading edge efforts in redefining engagement in the gaming space."
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To be selected as a Red Herring 100 winner or finalist is a mark of distinction and high honor. Only 200 companies are chosen as finalists out of a pool of thousands. Of those finalists we selected 100 companies as winners. To decide on these companies the Red Herring editorial team diligently surveys entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers regard the Red Herring 100 lists as invaluable instruments to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation.
Past award winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube.
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Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology news service; technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. For more information, visit www.redherring.com.
For more information, please check out http://www.herringevents.com/northamerica09/index.html