Archive for January, 2009

Nimbuzz Wins Prestigious Red Herring Global 100 Award

January 22nd, 2009 Social Guy

Nimbuzz

Red Herring awarded Nimbuzz with the prestigious Global 100 award as one of the Top 100 tech-startups in the world. This prestigious awards program honors the top 100 private technology companies in the world. Nimbuzz is now growing at around 20,000 new users every day and is the first aggregated mobile messenger company worldwide to ever receive this award.

The winners were announced at the Red Herring Global 2008, held on January 14-16, 2009 in San Diego, California. Out of 1,800 successful, eligible companies, the Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed process to drill-down to 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.

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Carol Bartz to be Yahoo’s new CEO

January 14th, 2009 Social Guy

Yahoo!

Yahoo Inc. has appointed Carol Bartz as its new chief executive officer. The 60-year old Bartz was chairman, president and CEO of Autodesk for 14 years. She stepped down in April, 2006.

Bartz told analysts that she saw a big opportunity in Yahoo. A technology veteran, her salary at Autodesk was a whopping $500,000. During her tenure, the company diversified its product line and grew revenues from $285 million to $1.523 billion in FY06.

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ICOON iPhone Application – Made Travelling Easier than Ever Before

January 10th, 2009 Social Guy

ICOON

ICOON, Europe’s most popular language dictionary, has made travelling easier than ever before. And now ICOON digital edition is conveniently available for download to your iPhone and iPod touch for only 99 cents. Soon also available for Blackberry.

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Whrrl Now Provides Its Users with Local Search and Mapping

January 1st, 2009 Social Guy

Whrrl

Whrrl is a leading location-aware, mobile social networking service that allows friends to share their experiences in real time, partners with Maponics for local search and mapping to power their location data needs.

Whrrl’s social-savvy users expect Whrrl to have the most relevant, detailed information at the neighborhood level to help them find cool nearby places and activities. As part of the agreement, Maponics Neighborhood Boundaries will power Whrrl with over 50,000 targeted neighborhoods in 2,000 cities across the U.S. and Canada. (more…)

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