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Clickatell Honored With Idea and Innovation Award by the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal
REDWOOD CITY, CA, Feb 27, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Clickatell, the global leader in Personalized Priority Messaging
(PPM), announced today that it has won the San Jose/Silicon Valley
Business Journal Idea and Innovation award for Social/Economic Impact
for providing a service that improves people's daily lives in a
significant and tangible way. Clickatell was recognized by The
Business Journal at a ceremony held to honor the new directions in
the world of technology and science, paying tribute to Silicon
Valley's unique position in driving new thinking and advanced
technology progress.
The event was held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,
and featured winners from biotech, software, hardware and consumer
products. "The goal of the Idea and Innovation Awards was to
recognize some of the most innovative products and people here in
Silicon Valley," said publisher James MacGregor. "Several of the
honorees have achieved a lot in a very short amount of time and the
companies are truly groundbreaking."
Clickatell provides a solution that enables simpler, quicker and
better delivery of high value, just-in-time, individualized mobile
messages such as text alerts that can significantly improve people's
day-to-day lives in terms of safety, convenience, awareness, and
savings. As mobile use continues to climb, Clickatell's SMS Gateway
is gaining more recognition as a powerful and cost-effective channel
of targeted real-time communications, marketing and customer
interaction, and emergency use in remote areas where Internet access
is unreliable or non-existent. As an example of how Clickatell is
making a positive impact on society, emergency alert services like
MapAlerter and Universal Alert use Clickatell in rescue efforts
including incident and damage assessment, mobilization of rescue
workers, transmission of emergency instructions, and managing
evacuations.
Following the earthquake in Haiti, Clickatell extended free SMS
messaging services to organizations providing aid and helped to
reunite missing children with their families. The ubiquity of SMS
allowed the lines of communications to remain open during emergency
services and disaster relief efforts. The 'store and forward' nature
of SMS meant that messages could be delivered as soon as there was a
'window' of network coverage -- and this window didn't need to last
more than a few seconds. As a result, many organizations in Haiti
were using SMS services to communicate even as the capacities of
networks were stretched thin.
"It is an honor to be recognized as a leader in delivering innovation
that has a measurable impact on improving people's ability to
communicate, work and live more efficiently, and stay safe and
informed," said Clickatell CEO Pieter de Villiers, who was at the
event in Mountain View to accept the award. "We're just beginning to
see how mobile messaging is changing lives, not just for
business-to-consumer interaction, but also for emergency alerts. At
Clickatell, we are making it easy and cost effective to connect
people, companies, ideas, and help in times of increased competition
and conflict."
About Clickatell, Inc.
Clickatell -- the global leader in
Personalized Priority Messaging through all mobile devices -- is the
largest Online SMS mobile messaging gateway in the world, covering
869 networks in 223 countries and territories, with the potential to
reach 5 billion mobile phone users -- more than 70 percent of the
world's population. Clickatell enables simpler, quicker and more
verifiable delivery of high-value, just-in-time, individualized
communications and associated mobile transactional services. Its
carrier-grade mobile messaging solutions have been embraced by more
than 13,000 enterprise, government, medium and small business
customers and application developers. Founded in South Africa in
2000, Clickatell is based in Redwood City, Calif. To learn more,
visit http://www.clickatell.com/
Media Contact:
Kevin Sugarman
GlobalFluency
ksugarman@globalfluency.com
650-433-4170
SOURCE: Clickatell
mailto:ksugarman@globalfluency.com
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