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Compete, Inc.'s Voicebox Named as Finalist for the 2006 MITX Technology Awards
Third Annual MITX What's Next Forum & Technology Awards Recognize Outstanding Technology Advancements in New England Region
Boston, MA - May 31, 2006- Compete, Inc. today announced that it has been named as a finalist for the 3rd Annual Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) Technology Awards. The MITX What's Next Forum & Technology Awards recognize innovative technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and organizations responsible for driving these advancements. MITX is the region's premier association for thought leadership, technology trends, business networking and professional training and development.
Compete's Voicebox platform has been nominated for enabling companies to establish deeper, more informed customer relationships. For the MITX Technology Awards, Compete featured a Upromise-branded PC desktop application enabled by Voicebox. Last October, Compete announced that Upromise, the nation's largest privately-funded service helping families save for college, would offer a Voicebox-powered desktop application making it easier for members to receive college savings on their purchases
The Voicebox platform provides market-specific services, personalization offers and online functionality, making it fast, easy and convenient for consumers to take advantage of offers tailored to their buying interests and behaviors. Voicebox combines desktop marketing with sophisticated customer profiling and segmentation to deliver permission-based and behaviorally targeted marketing interactions.
"We are honored that MITX has nominated Voicebox for this prestigious award," said Don McLagan, president and CEO of Compete. "We are proud that Voicebox helps Upromise and our other customers transform the way that they and their consumers communicate."
"In its third year, the MITX Technology Awards have attracted some of the most distinguished technological innovations that the region has to offer," said Kiki Mills, Executive Director of MITX. "It is this tremendous interest that enables our organization to accomplish its mission of uniting the brightest minds in the technology community and honoring their outstanding achievement."
Compete, Inc. will be recognized with the other finalists in the category of Customer Relationship Application at an awards ceremony attended by the region's top technology and business professionals. Winners will be announced at the ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston on Wednesday, June 7, 2006. This year's keynote speaker and special honoree is Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of the MIT Media Lab, esteemed author and founder and Chairman of the non-profit association One Laptop per Child.
The ceremony is preceded by the What's Next Forum, a panel discussion moderated by Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief of Technology Review. The topic, What's Next for the Social Web, will be a forward-looking discussion about the next platforms and paradigms to shape the social web.
The MITX What's Next Forum & Technology Awards are sponsored by Backbone Media, Lewis PR, Nixon Peabody LLP, Oracle, and Technology Review.
About MITX
The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX - pronounced my-techs) accelerates business opportunities and professional development for those who seek to create business advantage through the innovative application of technology and services. Serving more than 2,500 members from multiple industries MITX is the region's premier association for thought leadership, technology trends, building business relationships and professional training and development. MITX also offers its members the chance to promote their companies to targeted audiences through sponsorships, speaking opportunities and networking. MITX is headquartered in Cambridge. For more information please call 617-871-2155 or visit www.mitx.org.
About Compete, Inc.
Compete, Inc. extends online market research to transform the way consumers and brands communicate. By combining permission marketing, predictive analytics and the industry's largest consumer behavior database, Compete helps marketers identify and reach their target consumers. Compete delivers conversant marketing solutions that increase profitability and customer loyalty and result in measurable and effective marketing programs. Compete delivers these solutions to leading brands such as Carlson Hotels Worldwide, DaimlerChrysler, Hyundai Motor America, Toyota Financial Services and Upromise?, among others. Compete is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with offices throughout the US. For more information, please visit Compete's web site
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