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Jaxtr Selected by AlwaysOn as an AO100 Top Private Company Award Winner, Recognized for Leadership in Emerging Technology and Global Business Potential
(PRLEAP.COM) Jaxtr, Inc., a social communications company, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AO 100 Top Private Companies for 2007. The fifth-annual elite AO100 list was compiled by the AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the AO100 list, companies had to be peer-nominated, with AlwaysOn receiving more than 1,000 nominations from venture investors, investment bankers and other industry experts.
Jaxtr and the AO 100 Top Private Companies for 2007 will be honored at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit to be held July 31 – Aug 2, May 1-3, 2007, at Stanford University. The Stanford Summit is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. The idea behind the AO100 top private companies list is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global technology industry.
Jaxtr provides users with free accounts that link their mobile or landline phones with their online network. By adding their jaxtr widget to their online profile or blog, users can hear from callers worldwide while keeping their existing phone numbers private. Jaxtr works with the world’s most popular social networks and communities, including MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, Craigslist, eBay, LiveJournal, and Blogger.
A full list of all the AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/15899
About The AlwaysOn Stanford Summit:
The Stanford Summit is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. The Stanford Summit features the most innovative companies, eminent technologists, influential investors and journalists in keynote presentations, panel debates and private company CEO showcases. The Stanford Summit’s goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry.
About jaxtr
Jaxtr is a social communications company based in Menlo Park, CA. The company was founded by Phillip Mobin and Touraj Parang with the mission to bring voice to social networks and blogs.
Jaxtr links your phone to the web, so you can hear from callers worldwide while keeping your existing phone number private. Jaxtr works with any phone, including ordinary landline phones. No download is required – even if calls are initiated from a mobile phone. Jaxtr is the recipient of numerous industry accolades, including the Red Herring 100, Pulver 100, and was named one of the Top 25 VoIP Start-ups as well as the business "Most likely to Succeed" by attendees of Launch Silicon Valley. To try a call with jaxtr, visit www.jaxtr.com or click on the jaxtr link of an existing jaxtr user.
About AlwaysOn
ALWAYSON ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, ALWAYSON continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. ALWAYSON is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (STANFORD SUMMIT, ALWAYSON HOLLYWOOD, ALWAYSON MEDIA and GOINGGREEN) and quarterly print “blogozine” by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, ALWAYSON is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.
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