Dapper Awarded Red Herring Top 100 Global Company

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA, January 28, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dapper (dapper.net) today announced that it has been awarded as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies. Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies are chosen from winners and finalists of the previous North America, Europe and Asia Red Herring Top 100 Companies. Winning and finalist companies from the previous three years were eligible for this outstanding award. Out of 1,800 successful and highly eligible companies, the Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed process to drill-down 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. The announcement of the winners was made at the Red Herring 100 Global taking place in San Diego from January 14-16, 2009. Present among the finalists were elite executives and venture capital leaders from around the world.

"We were so pleased to announce Dapper as a Red Herring Top 100 Global Company," commented Red Herring publisher Alex Vieux. "Dapper has proven to be a company excelling in their industry and its ripples have turned into waves. It was difficult for us to narrow down, but we are pleased to have included Dapper in our list of promising companies. We look forward to the changes it make to its industry in the future."

Comments Dapper Head of Marketing, Paul Knegten: "We're thrilled to be a Red Herring Top 100 company for the second year in a row. Growing toward our breakthrough performance ad solution has been an exciting and inspiring ride that we're grateful Red Herring has recognized with this honor."

About Red Herring

Red Herring is a global media company, which unites the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.

About Dapper

Dapper (dapper.net) is a full solution for quickly making dynamic, live ads from an advertiser's website, without any IT integration. Dapper Ads pull live products and inventory from the advertiser's site, bringing the right offer to the right consumer through targeting on Dapper's own pre-contextualized media, drawn from the largest and most effective existing ad networks and premium publisher partners. Dapper Ads at least double performance and ROI over other smart ads, showing particularly high performance lifts in Travel and Retail.

Dapper Contact:

Paul Knegten
Dapper, Inc.
Phone: 415-810-6298
Email: [email protected]

Red Herring Contact:

Anam Alpenia
Red Herring, Inc.
Phone: 650-428-2900
Email: [email protected]

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