Mobicious Selected by AlwaysOn as a Northeast 100 Top Private Company Award Winner
Mobicious Selected by AlwaysOn as a Northeast 100 Top Private Company Award
Winner
Recognized for Creating New Business Opportunities in High-Growth Markets
through Game-Changing Technology
NEEDHAM, Mass., April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobicious, Inc. today
announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Northeast 100 Top
Private Companies. The first-annual Northeast 100 list was compiled by the
AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the list, companies in
the Northeastern United States had to be creating new business opportunities
in high-growth markets, demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing
game-changing technology in a key sector. AlwaysOn received hundreds of
nominations for this year's list.
Mobicious and the Northeast 100 Top Companies for 2008 will be honored at
the AlwaysOn Venture Summit East to be held April 7 - April 9, 2008, at the
Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, MA. Venture Summit East a two-day gathering that
highlights the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting
the global growth investor. Venture Summit East features the most influential
institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment
bankers and research analysts in the Eastern US in keynote presentations and
panel debates. The idea behind the Northeast 100 companies list is to identify
the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the
Northeast region's technology industry.
"For the first annual elite Northeast 100 list we surveyed more than 500
venture investors, investment bankers, and technology insiders, who nominated
hundreds of companies to determine the Northeast 100 winners," said Tony
Perkins, Founder and Editor, AlwaysOn Network. "Each of the Northeast 100
winners had to demonstrate leadership among their peers in the following
areas: innovation, market opportunity, commercialization, media buzz, and
stakeholder value creation. We congratulate them all on this great honor!"
Mobicious, Inc. offers innovative mobile services and operates two direct-
to-consumer media properties: Mobicious.com and SnapMyLife.com. Mobicious.com,
the largest mobile content directory in the United States, boasts over 400,000
items of free and premium mobile content. SnapMyLife.com, a mobile social
media site, which enables people to instantly share photos taken with their
mobile phones, has grown rapidly since its stealth introduction in December
2007. Today the site receives over 1,000 new registrations per day; attracting
over 500,000 monthly unique mobile viewers, from over 180 countries; and
serving over 4 million page views per month.
A full list of all the AlwaysOn Northeast 100 Top Private Companies can be
found on the AlwaysOn Web site at http://alwayson.goingon.com.
"We are honored to be recognized by AlwaysOn," said George Grey, CEO and
founder, Mobicious. "The Northeast is a hotbed for technology innovation. We
are privileged to be launching a company in an area filled with so many
industry leaders."
About The AlwaysOn Venture Summit East
Venture Summit East is a two-day gathering that highlights the significant
economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth
investor. Venture Summit East features the most influential institutional
investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers and
research analysts in the Eastern US in keynote presentations and panel
debates. The goal of Venture Summit East is to match growth-company buyers and
sellers and identify the most promising innovation-driven, growth investment
opportunities.
About Mobicious
Mobicious, Inc. offers innovative mobile services and operates two direct-
to-consumer media properties: Mobicious.com and SnapMyLife.com. Mobicious
(http://www.mobicious.com), the largest mobile content directory in the United
States, is the best place for people to find everything for their mobile
phones. In one place, consumers can find the latest popular music and videos,
trustworthy places to buy ringtones, images, and games, and create their own
ringtones and wallpapers. SnapMyLife (http://snapmylife.com) is a mobile
social media site that enables people to instantly share photos taken with
their mobile phones. SnapMyLife is optimized for viewing and sharing directly
from the mobile and uses sophisticated filtering technology to ensure a great
experience for a wide range of audiences and advertisers. Mobicious, Inc. is
venture-backed and headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts.
About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the
first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued
to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where
members can connect and engage. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media
business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series
(Stanford Summit, AlwaysOn Hollywood, AlwaysOn Media and GoingGreen) and
quarterly print "blogozine" by empowering its members to post and share their
ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn is
committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event
programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction
with its readers and event participants.
SOURCE Mobicious, Inc.
David Chang of Mobicious, +1-617-429-6126, dchang@mobicious.com; or Michael
Parker of Lois Paul & Partners for AlwaysOn Venture Summit East,
+1-781-782-5714, alwayson@lpp.com
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