GSMA Announces Nominees for Mobile Innovation Grand Prix - Americas Tournament

Winners to be Announced at Rutberg & Company's Future:Mobile Event in San
Francisco in December

LONDON, November 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The GSMA, which represents the
interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry, today announced
the finalists for the Americas Tournament of this year's Mobile Innovation
Grand Prix competition. The GSMA has partnered with Rutberg & Company, a
US-based investment bank that provides M&A advisory and private capital
raising services to companies in the wireless and digital media industries,
to host the Americas leg of the competition at the firm's Future:Mobile
event, where the winners will be announced on December 1st 2009.
The Mobile Innovation Grand Prix competition was created by the GSMA with
the primary goal of showcasing promising entrepreneurs from small and
medium-sized companies bringing innovative new products and services to
market. During the Americas leg, presentations from 10 finalists will be
reviewed by a judging panel comprised of senior executives from mobile
operators and venture capital firms. Two overall winners from the Americas
leg will then move on to compete for the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix title,
part of the GSMA's Global Mobile Awards, at the Mobile World Congress in
February 2010.
The 10 finalists for the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix - Americas
Tournament are:

- CallSpark!, US
- DeviceAnywhere, US
- GetJar, US
- InfoGin, Israel
- iSkoot, US
- Paratek Microwave, US
- SunCore, US
- Tecore Networks, US
- Ubidyne, Germany
- WellDoc, US

"We are thrilled with the number of high-quality entries we've received
for this year's Americas Tournament. Innovation is at the heart of the mobile
industry's growth and dynamic evolution, fuelling new technologies, products
and services that could have a huge impact on people's lives," said Bill
Gajda, Chief Commercial Officer at the GSMA. "This competition provides a
significant opportunity for the finalists to gain exposure in front of not
only the senior mobile and VC executives on the judging panel, but also the
many other influential decision makers present at Rutberg & Company's
Future:Mobile event."
In addition to the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix competition, the GSMA
will host a dedicated full-day track focused on innovation, which will boast
a strong line up of industry thought leaders discussing a number of hot and
current industry issues. Attendance for Future:Mobile is limited to 200
invited senior executives who are responsible for innovation within their
organisations, as well as strategic partnerships, investments, and
acquisitions.
The Future:Mobile 2009 event will take place at the Sofitel Hotel San
Francisco on December 1st 2009. For more information please visit:
http://www.rutbergco.com/conferences/future-mobile-2009.
The Platinum sponsor of the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix competition is
the Generalitat de Catalunya. For more information on the GSMA's Mobile
Innovation programme and Americas Tournament, please visit
http://www.mobileinnovation.org.
About the GSMA
The GSMA represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications
industry. Spanning 219 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world's
mobile operators, as well as more than 200 companies in the broader mobile
ecosystem, including handset makers, software companies, equipment providers,
Internet companies, and media and entertainment organisations. The GSMA is
focused on innovating, incubating and creating new opportunities for its
membership, all with the end goal of driving the growth of the mobile
communications industry.
For more information, please visit Mobile World Live, the new online
portal for the mobile communications industry, at
http://www.mobileworldlive.com or the GSMA corporate website at
http://www.gsmworld.com.
SOURCE GSMA

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