2007 Deloitte Technology Company to Watch Award

Companies-to-Watch Awards honour early-stage Canadian technology companies in business less than five years. These companies exemplify many of the winning characteristics of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranked companies, which are judged using a longer track record.

AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Company

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, AlwaysOn is a leading communications firm that maintains an online blogging network and offers numerous other online services. In July 2006, BrandIntel was handpicked from more than 1,000 companies to earn an AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Company award. Winners are chosen based on five criteria: technology innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation. According to AlwaysOn founder Tony Perkins, BrandIntel was deemed to be among those companies with “the greatest market traction, strongest innovation and most game-changing approach.”

Microsoft 2006 Winning Customer Award

In September 2006, our technology team, Affinity Systems, was honored with the Microsoft 2006 Winning Customer Award for outstanding competitive efforts in high performance computing. The team was chosen from a pool of more than 2,300 entrants, by an international field of top Microsoft technology partners, for delivering market-leading solutions that highlight the benefits of working on the Microsoft platform. LinkMap — our proprietary Internet search tool which played a significant role in Affinity Systems’ win — successfully integrates several Microsoft technologies.

AlwaysOn Media Top 100

AlwaysOn Media is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meets the global advertising and media establishment. This year, BrandIntel was recognized as one of the Top 100 emerging growth companies in the media sector.

"The AO Media 100 are creating new revenue opportunities in the more than $16.4 billion online advertising market by disrupting traditional media and advertising models," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor in chief of AlwaysOn. "They are innovating by applying game-changing technology to key sectors including user-generated content, technology-enablers, mobile marketing, community platforms, Web analytics, and online advertising services."