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Mobile Tag Media Wins 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award

PARIS – May 8, 2012 – Mobile Tag Media, (http://www.mobiletag.com/), leader in 2D and 1D barcode marketing solutions, announced today that is a recipient of the Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe award in recognition of being one of the leading private companies in Europe, celebrating its innovations and technologies.

Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work. 

“Mobile Tag Media’s vision is simple and stunning,” said Alexis Helcmanocki, CEO of Mobile Tag Media. “If you can capture a consumer’s attention at the very moment that interest is roused, then you can deliver a greater user experience and greater value to brands and marketers with analytics and optimized sales opportunities.” 

Mobile Tag Media has earned its market recognition as a leader in providing marketer ready, carrier-grade technology solutions; as a successful innovator in mobile handset code scanning, they are a pioneer for network operators across the globe.  The Company’s ‘Point-of-Interest’ position has resulted in successful deployments by wireless carriers in Europe, including Orange, SFR (Vodafone), and Bouygues.  Additionally, leading enterprise customers, media brands and advertisers actively use Mobile Tag barcode solutions to reach consumers.

“Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across Europe to the Top 100 Winners. We believe Mobile Tag embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Mobile Tag should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was the strongest it has ever been.”

Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in Europe.

About Mobile Tag Media

Mobile Tag Media connects brands with people when it matters the most – at the point-of-interest.  Using the Mobile Tag smartphone app, users simply scan ‘tags’ (barcodes, NFC chips, etc.) on products, posters, POS material, etc. to instantly receive marketing messages, useful information or unique offers.  Combining the latest advances in mobile tagging and data analytics with its extensive database of tag data and user information, Mobile Tag’s point-of-interest platform provides brands with unsurpassed ability to understand and engage with consumers worldwide.  Mobile Tag sells both directly and through strategic marketing partners such as AT&T, who delivers point-of-interest services to its business customers under the AT&T Mobile Barcode Services brand. Selected from hundreds of companies, Mobile Tag has been named a Red Herring Europe Top 100 winner for 2012, recognized for their technological innovation.

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Share Your Workouts in Real-time with Endomondo’s New App for Facebook Timeline

Endomondo Members Can Now Share Their Workouts on their Facebook Timelines
for Social Encouragement, Bragging and More 

AUSTIN, TX at SXSW – March 12, 2012 –  With a focus on community fitness, Endomondo launches a new app for Facebook timeline. By extending both the competitive and community nature of fitness – from the groups of friends who compete against each other for fun and rewards to the friends who all work out together to offer support and encouragement in their fitness goals – Endomondo’s timeline app will let members share their workouts as they happen on their Facebook timeline and in Facebook News Feed.

The Endomondo fitness app for Facebook timeline posts workouts live and in real-time, so Endomondo members are able to share their progress while they exercise, showing maps of their latest workouts that they track with Endomondo’s mobile app. People can always control what information they share with friends and who can see it, from their Application Settings on Facebook. 

“Exercising with friends is more fun and effective than exercising alone,” said Justin Osofsky, Director of Platform Partnerships, Facebook. “Endomondo is a great example of how a social app can affect real world change. Through their new timeline app, people can track a range of activities including running, biking and walking and share their fitness accomplishments with friends.”

The Endomondo mobile application is available on all major mobile platforms, from iPhone and Android to BlackBerry and Windows Phone. By making the application as ubiquitous as possible, and with the new timeline app for Facebook, Endomondo is helping people get more from their fitness.

“From the very beginning, our focus has been on how the social dimension can make fitness fun and help people find motivation to exercise”, said Mette Lykke, co-founder of Endomondo. “From the competitive nature of friends and family to the encouragement and community sharing from friends and family, no matter what your fitness focuses on, Endomondo is there as a part of the community to help you meet your fitness goals. With the timeline app, we extend the Endomondo community onto member’s Facebook timelines, sharing encouragement and competitiveness where people’s networks already are.”

As part of the timeline app, Endomondo members will also be able to list recent workouts with statistics, such as distance, duration, speed and calories burnt, as well as monthly and annual summaries of training for growth and competitive insight. 

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About Endomondo

Launched in September 2008, Endomondo is a social sports and fitness network that enables people worldwide to engage around their passions for living active lives. Endomondo turns the mobile phone into a full-fledged personal trainer and a social training partner. The app can be used for running, cycling, walking and all other distance-based outdoor sports. Using GPS, the app tracks route, distance, duration, split times, calorie consumption and more while providing audio feedback on performance. The app offers a full history of workouts, as well as social features that allow users to compete with friends without giving up flexibility. The app also supports heart rate monitors on most handsets. 

Endomondo.com incorporates the social community where users can challenge friends and share results. Endomondo has 7.5 million users with exponential growth. Being available on seven mobile platforms (iOS, Android, RIM, Symbian, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile, Java), the app supports almost all GPS phones. It is the highest rated app of its kind in several of the biggest app stores. 

For more information, please visit http://www.endomondo.com and follow Endomondo on Facebook.

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Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) Applauds Partner Organizations for Supporting Goal of Improving Healthcare via Wireless Technologies

SAN DIEGO – May 3, 2010 – The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA), which convenes innovators, globally relevant companies, scientists, physicians and policy makers to drive improved healthcare through advances in wireless technologies, today hailed its partner organizations for their collaboration and dedication in promoting WLSA’s mission.

“WLSA is the organization where the future of wireless healthcare is being shaped by committed organizations from the entire spectrum of relevant industries.  We would not be able to progress without the active participation and focus of our partners at all levels,” said President and CEO Robert B. McCray.

“In particular, AT&T Mobility, OptumHealth Inc., Qualcomm Incorporated, Ascension Health, and St. Jude Medical, Inc., are wonderful examples of how large organizations can nurture and lead by putting aside individual agendas and concentrating on achieving the over-arching vision of wireless technologies enabling better healthcare for people everywhere,” McCray added.

Log onto www.wirelesslifesciences.org for the complete list of partners.

McCray said WLSA welcomes new partners who can lend further expertise to the organization.  For information about joining WLSA, or to register for one of its events, prospective partners can visit www.wirelesslifesciences.org or contact Andrea Jackson.

The 5^th Annual WLSA Convergence Summit is scheduled for May 11-13 at the Estancia Hotel & Spa, La Jolla, Calif.  The WLSA’s Wireless Health 2010 event is scheduled October 5-7, 2010, in San Diego.

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About WLSA
The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) is a special-purpose trade organization for innovators, globally relevant companies, scientists, physicians and policy makers. The WLSA is dedicated to creating value and improving health globally through the convergence of communications technologies, consumers, caregivers and all sectors of the life sciences and technology environment. WLSA partners and companies all over the world are using wireless health innovations to better manage chronic conditions, pre-empt disease and improve the lives of the elderly and underserved populations around the world.

Thought Leaders Shaping the Emerging Wireless Life Science Space to Share Vision and Insights at WLSA Convergence Summit

LA JOLLA, Calif. – April 28, 2010 – The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) today announced key industry speakers and open registration for its Wireless Health Commercialization Day on May13, 2010.  This meeting is part of the 5^th annual WLSA Convergence Summit, a three-day conference sponsored by the premier trade organization dedicated solely to creating value and improving health through wireless communications technologies. The conference is scheduled for May 11-13 at Estancia Hotel & Spa, La Jolla, California.

Now open to general registration, the Wireless Health Commercialization Day on May 13, will feature product life cycle workshops led by the esteemed product design teams of IDEO and Insight Product Development, including:

Human-Centered Innovation: A Path to Successful Products – IDEO will lead a series of hands-on activities demonstrating techniques that ensure products and services meet user needs.

 

What’s Your “Next” in Forming New Opportunities? – Led by Insight Product Development, this workshop addresses what happens after a product or service is launched.

 

In addition to these workshops, senior management representing AT&T, Ascension Health, St. Jude Medical, Gambro, DexCom, ResMed, Zeo, Midmark, Reglera, IDEO, Insight and Qualcomm, will participate in panel discussions to debate these complex topics:

 

Going Wireless: Is a Smart Phone App the Only Way?

 

Wireless Healthcare Without Borders

 

Sleep Disorders…Prescribe or Subscribe?

 

Commercialization Day will conclude with an opportunity for attendees to “Meet the Experts” and visit with featured speakers and panelists, followed by a private networking reception and product demos.  Attendees may register online here.

 

About the WLSA Convergence Summit.  The annual meeting is a three-day conference.  Day 1, the Investor’s Meeting, showcases 12 innovative companies chosen as part of the Triple Tree I Award Program for Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance^®.  In addition to company presentations, this meeting will highlight keynotes including:

 

·       Terrance H. Gregg, President and CEO of DexCom Inc. and Special Venture Partner at Galen Partners. Gregg will discuss “Notes from the Frontlines:  Building MiniMed and now DexCom – Having More Fun While Working Even Harder to Succeed.”

·       Dr. Mohit Kaushal, Director of Connected Health at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will provide an update on the U.S. broadband plan and its implications for healthcare.  

Admission to the WLSA Investors’ Meeting is complimentary to qualified investors and a limited number of seats are available to others. 

The WLSA Convergence Summit on Day 2 is an invitation-only program for C-level executives from WLSA members, thought leaders and policy makers, featuring brief presentations by the attendees and moderated conversations in interview and panel style.

“Each speaker at the Summit is a recognized pioneer in the emerging wireless healthcare convergence industry,” said Robert B. McCray, WLSA President & CEO. “Those interested in hearing more are encouraged to contact us and consider joining WLSA as a member.”

For information about the WLSA and the 5^th annual WLSA Convergence Summit, visit www.wirelesslifesciences.org/wlsa-events or contact Andrea Jackson.

 

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About WLSA

The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) is a special purpose trade organization for innovators, globally relevant companies, scientists, physicians, and policy makers. The WLSA is dedicated to creating value and improving health, globally, through the convergence of communications technologies, consumers, caregivers and all sectors of the life sciences and technology environment. WLSA partners and companies all over the world are using wireless health innovations to better manage chronic conditions, preempt disease and improve the lives of the elderly and under-served populations around the world.

 

WLSA Convergence Summit Assembles Wireless Life Science Leaders to Shape the Future of Disruptive Health Technologies

LA JOLLA, Calif. – April 20, 2010 – The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) is now accepting registrations for its fifth Annual WLSA Convergence Summit, a three-day conference sponsored by the premier non-profit trade organization dedicated solely to creating value and improving health through wireless communications technologies. The conference is scheduled for May 11-13 at Estancia Hotel & Spa, La Jolla, California.

 This unique conference between the leadership of wireless companies, global product companies, consumers, payors, providers and service organizations, offers attendees the distinct opportunity to discuss the most significant emerging market trends, address and propose solutions to industry issues, create new partnerships and demonstrate new solutions – all in one exclusive venue.

Among the organizations presenting are senior management from WLSA members, including Ascension Health, AT&T, CareFusion, Johnson & Johnson, OptumHealth, QUALCOMM and St. Jude Medical, who will provide insights into their interest in the field and best practices for incorporating innovative, new wireless technologies into new products, applications and services, as well as how to bring these to providers and patients.  

“WLSA created the Convergence Summit to bring key elements of the wireless health community together to meet, share ideas and demonstrate new products and solutions,” said Robert B. McCray, WLSA President & CEO. “Our goal is to provide a forum that directly addresses emerging wireless technology in healthcare and enables participants to gain a thorough understanding of how to succeed in this dynamic market.”

The event begins with the Investor’s Meeting and Triple Tree I Award Program for Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance^® on Day 1, followed by the WLSA Convergence Summit on Day 2, and ends with Commercialization Day on Day 3.

The Summit’s first day (May 11) features the Investors’ Meeting, an invitational event for qualified investors, WLSA partners, and I Award finalists. A limited number of seats are open to the public.  Keynote speakers on Day 1 will include Terrance H. Gregg, President & CEO, DexCom, Inc., and Dr. Mohit Kaushal, Director of Connected Health, FCC Omnibus Broadband Initiative.  Additionally, winners of the prestigious I Award, which recognizes companies for Best Operational Effectiveness Solution, Best Clinical Solution, and Best Consumer Experience Solution, will be announced.  Award finalists include technologies such as remote monitoring technologies, home healthcare solutions, advanced imaging software, cloud computing and personal health improvement opportunities.  Twelve finalists were chosen through a competitive process from approximately 50 applicants.

The second day (May 12) is reserved for the Convergence Summit, an invitation-only program for C-level executives from WLSA members and featuring presentations by attendees and moderated conversations between executive leadership and thought leaders within the wireless, healthcare and convergence spaces. Among the themes and questions to be addressed are:

• How can we convince physicians to adopt wireless and connected health innovation in the delivery of theirs services?
• How can the U.S. healthcare innovation community learn from the “frugal innovation” of India and China?
•  Where can we find significant adoption of wireless health innovation?
• How can we apply the lessons of online commerce, like Amazon.com, to wireless health?
• Is Moore’s Law coming to healthcare? Can we leverage the cost curve to reduce the cost of delivering more healthcare to more consumers?
• Does clinical innovation and business monetization need to begin in the United States or will U.S. companies increasingly look to international markets?

The third day of the Summit, Commercialization Day, is open for general registration, and features workshops facilitated by IDEO and Insight Product Development aimed at identifying solutions to numerous industry challenges, including the clinical validation of new technologies and tech-enabled services; modification of healthcare business and payment models to support opportunities; and seamless integration of products into consumers’ and patients’ daily lives.

Showcased during the day will be:

• IDEO- and Insight-hosted interactive workshops focusing on issues associated with innovative approaches to product definition, business monetization and go-to-market strategies. 
• These workshops will utilize actual case studies from pressing social challenges, such as teen obesity and sleep disorders, for context. Participants will leave with a toolkit of techniques that can be applied to any complex problem, system or workflow.
•  WLSA partners and others will share their products and services during an end-of-the-day demo and reception.

Throughout all three days of the Summit, global leaders in wireless healthcare and life sciences industries will staff demo booths that provide product demonstrations and informative presentations. 

“The entire conference will leverage the experiences and processes from other industries to mitigate risk in our industry,” McCray said. “The sessions are designed to lead attendees toward true innovation and to provide real value to their organizations.  It is our insight that the initial shape of an important new market is driven by a relatively small number of committed organizations and thought leaders.  Our meetings are designed to identify and bring the best wireless health leaders together in a quality setting to enhance their discovery of business partners.”

For information or to register for WLSA’s 5^th Annual Summit, visit www.wirelesslifesciences.org or contact Andrea Jackson. 

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 About WLSA

The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) is a special purpose trade organization for innovators, globally relevant companies, scientists, physicians, and policy makers. The WLSA is dedicated to creating value and improving health, globally, through the convergence of communications technologies, consumers, caregivers and all sectors of the life sciences and technology environment. WLSA partners and companies all over the world are using wireless health innovations to better manage chronic conditions, pre-empt disease and improve the lives of the elderly and under-served populations around the world.