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Squace selected as 2009 finalist in RED HERRING 100

RED HERRING 100
Since 1996, Red Herring’s editorial team has diligently surveyed entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers have regarded the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument 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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About Red Herring
Red Herring, Inc., founded in 1993, is a media company whose mission is to cover innovation, technology, financing and entrepreneurial activity. Its staff of award-winning journalists tell readers what’s first, what matters and most importantly, why.

Our journalists, research specialists and newsletter editors investigate on a global basis and report how the world of innovation and entrepreneurship are transforming business and how the business of technology is transforming the world. We provide a deep understanding of venture capital and capital
We recognize that innovation primarily comes from entrepreneurs, but that success comes from a combination of innovation, management, money, strategy and execution. We take all these factors into consideration when evaluating the potential of companies and technologies to succeed. Since no company exists in a vacuum, we take into account the entire competitive landscape of companies of all size.

Red Herring is dedicated to thorough research, relevant metrics deep financial analysis, in-depth reporting, crisp writing and thoughtful debate. We are a skeptical, intelligent and trustworthy source of information in technology business. Our primary obligation is to provide the most relevant, honest and independent information and analysis to our audience, with the conviction that an exceptional editorial product is the best catalyst for success and the best way to serve our advertisers and investors. Our content is original, compelling and actionable for industry executives and entrepreneurs.
A privately held company, Red Herring, Inc. is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

During the last couple of month the interest in mobile solutions have expanded far beyond the mobile industry. Internet services, retailers, brand owners are all interested in finding ways to interact with there users or customers in the mobile context. Apples success with Iphone and the app-store is one wake up call – everyone has a Iphone-app in the pipe. Another wake up call is the success with SMS marketing that right now has turned into a barrier. Even though people want interesting proposals (coupons, vouchers, free games, ring tones and much more) the SMS-channel is still a very private channel. The SMS marketing have reached the ceiling.

Follow this kind of discussions on the blog Universal Mobile Interface and others such as; how we make it easier for Internet Services to create a mobile appearance and a mobile business. Why the long tail content is important as a first step for mobile Internet usage. Every idea and opinion matter, welcome to join.

$400 for the best design at @99designs! Design themes for mobile application – Follow the link to the competition at 99designs

The objective, and challenge, of this design contest is to provide an appropriate professional design for the themes (background pictures) that balances the technical and creative aspects of our application.

We are looking for themes consisting of nine background pictures as described in the technical description here