CanvasM awarded Best Start-Up at the Mobile Content Awards'08

We are delighted to inform you that CanvasM has been awarded the title of Best Start-Up Company at the Mobile Content Awards ’08 held in London . Jagdish Mitra, CEO received the award at the Gala Dinner & Award Presentation ceremony on the evening of June 19th, at the Kingsway Hall Hotel in London. As one of the finalists in the Best Start-up category, CanvasM was chosen from a list of over 150 entries in various categories from companies across the globe.

The Mobile Content Conference & Awards is a prestigious event where representatives of the wireless industry from application providers to manufacturers to operators from around the world meet to discuss current trends and future prospects of mobile content and value added services. Organized by reputed UK-based telecom research and publishing company-VisionGain, this year’s event had key players from the telecommunications industry attending including Orange, O2, Vodafone UK, Telecom Italia and Nokia-Siemens Networks. The judging panel for the awards comprised of representatives from the companies above as well.

In its submission, CanvasM focused on it’s key content offerings, with special emphasis on the Off portal Consumer Entertainment Solutions and it’s ability to provide an end to end managed service to the consumer in a short span of time .On presenting the award, Peggy Anne Salz (Publisher and Chief Analyst, MSearchGroove.com) read in her citation that “CanvasM leverages the unique strength of Motorola and Tech Mahindra in a nimble, flexible and focused organization to provide to its clients a one stop shop for all VAS application requirements.”

Jagdish who received the award on behalf of the company quipped, “It was an amazing feeling to hear our name being announced; takes a few minutes to sink in and all the while you are hoping you hope you heard it right.”

While receiving the award he said “This belongs to the entire team of CanvasM. It is a demonstration of the passion of each member of CanvasM and the belief that our customers and parents, TechMahindra and Motorola have in us.”

Other award winners include notable names like Garmin for ‘Best Handset Application’, Buongiorno for ‘Best Advertising/ Marketing Service Campaign’ and Bytemobile for ‘Best Award for Enriching Search & Discovery’.

Here is three cheers to CanvasM and wishing them all the very best in their future endeavors.

About VisionGain:

VisionGain is a British research company that provides analysis of telecoms and pharmaceutical industries worldwide. The company generates reports and runs global conferences for the telecoms and pharmaceuticals markets. It also owns publications like Wireless Europe, Wireless America, 3G Bulletin and Project Tracker. VisionGain is headquartered in London, with branches in San Francisco. Some of its notable customers include Nokia, Motorola, Vodafone, Orange, Yahoo! and Microsoft.

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