Beijing Infobird Awarded as a Red Herring Top 100 Global Company

BEIJING, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Beijing Infobird Software today
announced that it has been awarded as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Global
Companies. Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies are chosen from winners and
finalists of the previous North America, Europe and Asia Red Herring Top 100
Companies. Winning and finalist companies from the previous three years were
eligible for this outstanding award. Out of 1,800 successful and highly
eligible companies, the Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed process
to drill-down the best companies first to 200 finalists, then to the top 100
winners of this global award. Evaluations were made on both quantitative and
qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management,
global strategy, and ecosystem integration. The announcement of the winners
was made at the Red Herring 100 Global, taking place in San Diego from January
14-16, 2009. Present among the finalists were elite executives and venture
capital leaders from around the world.
''We were so pleased to announce Beijing Infobird Software as a Red
Herring Top 100 Global Company,'' commented Red Herring publisher Alex Vieux.
''Infobird has proven to be a company excelling in their industry and its
ripples have turned into waves. It was difficult for us to narrow down, but we
are pleased to have included Beijing Infobird Software in our list of
promising companies. We look forward to the changes it will make to its
industry in the future.''
''As one of five high-tech companies from mainland China selected as a Red
Herring Global 100 Winner, we felt quite honored,'' commented Yimin Wu, CEO of
Beijing Infobird. ''Because we are the only domestic contact center firm
selected as a Red Herring Global 100 winner breaking the record of the
industry in winning the Red herring Award, it's a very meaningful signal. It
represents a most advanced business model in the software industry that
addresses piracy, the old sore issue in China's software industry. The SaaS
model has great potential; most likely, the enterprise leader of China's new
economy would grow from those software firms adopting SaaS model."
In 2009, as the impact of global economic crisis continues to broaden and
deepen, the real economy will be further exacerbated. However, to sectors such
as e-commerce businesses, this crisis also means opportunity; as an important
tool for e-commerce enterprises to have customer interaction, call centers
will enter their golden era. Moreover, at the aspect of social change, Chinese
society has also been transforming from manufacturing centric to service
centric; not only the central government is committed to building a
service-oriented government, institutions and enterprises at all levels also
put great emphasis on services, which has become a buzz word in China now. As
one of the most powerful tools to improve service level, the application of
call centers will also be greatly expanded. Building on years of accumulated
technology and industry experience, Infobird launched the SaaS model call
center as a pioneer in the field, greatly lowering the threshold for adoption
of call centers, which is a blessing for China's tens of millions of small and
medium-sized enterprises which are eager to improve their customer interaction
level.
About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company, which unites 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. More information about Red Herring is
available on the Internet at http://www.redherring.com .
About Winning Company:
Beijing Infobird Software Co.; Ltd is a professional vendor of call center
system and services, whose main business is to build call centers for
enterprises or provide them hosted call center solutions. Infobird has worked
with hundreds of customers including Alibaba, eLong, The9, Digital China,
Zhaopin and People's Insurance Company of China. In February 2008, targeting
millions of SMEs in China, Infobird launched Qitongbao, SaaS model contact
center solution, turning contact center from an IT luxury into commodity which
each enterprise could afford, greatly lowering the barrier for SMEs to adopt
contact centers to improve their customer interaction. More information about
Beijing Infobird is available on the Internet at http://www.infobird.com .
Beijing Infobird Contact:

Edward Y. Chen
Beijing Infobird Software Co.; Ltd
Tel: +86-10-6252-4762
Fax: +86-10-6252-9647
Email: cheny@infobird.com
Address: 3rd floor e-Wing Center
No. 113 Zhinchun Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100086
Web: http://www.infobird.com

Red Herring Contact:
Anam Alpenia
Red Herring, Inc.
Tel: +1-650-428-2900
Email: aalpenia@redherring.com

Yvonne Caprini
Logistics Manager
Red Herring, Inc.
Tel: +1-650-428-2900 x410
Email: ycaprini@redherring.com

SOURCE Beijing Infobird Software Co.; Ltd

Edward Y. Chen of Beijing Infobird Software Co.; Ltd, +86-10-6252-4762, Fax:
+86-10-6252-9647, cheny@infobird.com; or Anam Alpenia of Red Herring, Inc.,
+1-650-428-2900, aalpenia@redherring.com; or Yvonne Caprini, Logistics Manager
of Red Herring, Inc., +1-650-428-2900 x410, ycaprini@redherring.com