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London, UK and Helsinki, Finland: The GSM Association (GSMA) has announced that Xtract is one of the top ten finalists for the 2008 Mobile Innovation Global Awards. These awards encourage breakthrough technology, applications and services in the mobile industry by bringing together innovative mobile products, industry investors and mobile operators. Xtract’s social intelligence software solution, Social Links, was chosen one of the two Most Innovative Carrier Infrastructures/Platforms out of hundreds of competing solutions.

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Helsinki, Finland and Barcelona, Spain – MobileMonday, the global community of mobile innovators, visionaries, and developers, will present the most exciting young mobile industry innovators at the MobileMonday Peer Awards during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on February 11, 2008. This year, the Peer Awards will showcase early stage and emerging start-up companies. The event, which will be held at Espacio Movistar, is expected to attract participants from over 30 countries. Mr. Pekka Ala-Pietilä, former president at Nokia Corporation and currently chief executive officer of Blyk Corporation, a virtual mobile operator in the UK, will be the keynote speaker.

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Xtract was the runner up of a public voting to select Finland’s Most Promising Growth Company. View a 2 minutes elevator pitch for the jury by founders Kimmo Kiviluoto and Jouko Ahvenainen at the Helsingin Sanomat event yesterday. In Finnish only.

Xtract is shortlisted in Helsingin Sanomat’s (the leading Finnish Newspaper in Helsinki) voting where the paper looks for the most promising Finnish growth company. They have an article about all 10 finalists on next Sunday. They have also articles about the companies in the Internet and readers can vote, which of the companies is the most promising to become a leading international company. The companies are shortlisted by the leading Finnish VC’s and business professionals. They have commented that Xtract has fast growth and leading technology and competence. You can find the voting here.