IRVINE, Calif. - (Business Wire) YouMail, Inc. (
www.youmail.com), the mobile industry
’s premier consumer voicemail service, today announced its selection as a 2008 Red Herring 100 Award winner, a recognition given to the top 100 private technology companies in North America.
YouMail provides consumers with a free, completely customizable cell phone voicemail service. Users can choose how they listen to their voicemail – in e-mail, on a visual voicemail interface on the web, or over the phone – whether they want transcriptions of the voicemail sent to them in e-mail or text messages. Users can choose which greetings a caller hears based on caller id - recording greetings themselves, choosing from a large and growing library of user-generated greetings and away messages, or even using YouMail’s “Smart Greetings,” which automatically personalize the greeting for the caller. Users can even treat voicemails as digital content they own, easily saving them forever and effortlessly sharing them using popular sites like MySpace, Facebook, Digg and Del.icio.us.
“YouMail is thrilled to join Red Herring’s growing list of recognized companies that includes Google, Skype, Salesforce.com and YouTube,” said Alex Quilici, CEO of YouMail. “Being chosen as one of this year’s 100 most promising technology companies is a true testament to YouMail’s innovative approach to building not only a fun and creative consumer voicemail service but one that has countless uses for increasing both professional and personal productivity.”
Red Herring’s editorial staff rigorously evaluated more than 1,500 private companies through a careful analysis of financial data and subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development. Earlier this year the list was narrowed down to 200 finalists and then down to the final 100 winners, which were announced at the Red Herring North America 2008 event on May 13 in San Jose, Calif.
About YouMail
YouMail, Inc is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA. YouMail provides a free, dramatically better cell phone voicemail service that allows users to better express their personality and be more productive through a collection of unique and powerful features, and the leveraging of the YouMail community of users. The service has a growing set of distribution partnerships with major mobile service and content providers. To learn more and sign up for the free YouMail service, go to http://www.youmail.com.
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.
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