Wildfire Selected for AO Global 250

We are proud to have been chosen as a nominee for this year's AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies Competition. For several years now, AlwaysOn has looked for the top emerging private companies that are creating new business opportunities in the global technology industries, and we are honored to be nominated under the Enabling Tools and Devices category.

The AO Global 250 represents the best emerging innovators and recognizes private companies that demonstrate significant market traction and pursue game-changing technology.

The winners of this competition will be announced in late July and honored at The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford, July 28-30, 2009 at the Francis C. Arrillaga Alumni Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Read more...

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Wildfire among first Facebook Verified Apps

Hey everyone! We are super excited to announce that our Promotions application for Facebook Fan Pages is one of the few Facebook applications that got officially verified by Facebook. Facebook opened the program to interested developers several months ago and has been overwhelmed by the positive response and passion of these early participants. Facebook's Application Verification Program gives developers an opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to providing trustworthy user experiences in their applications. Users of Verified Apps can feel confident that these applications strive to be transparent about how they work and respect social expectations between friends.

All this is great news for businesses who use our Wildfire Promotion Builder platform to run sweepstakes, contests, coupon giveaways and other interactive promotions on Facebook because being verified provides us with a higher daily allocation of friend requests and notifications per user than non-verified apps. It also provides us with a premiere, page one listing in the application directory, making it easier for consumers to find promotions running via our application. So our ability to help companies build their fan base, drive leads, engage Facebook users and spread their word via interactive promotions, is now even stronger.

Click here to learn more about Promotions for Fan Pages.

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BREAKING: Google's Nic Bennett joins Wildfire Promotion Builder Team!

We are very excited to announce that Google's Nic Bennett will be joining our team as Sales & Account Manager! Nic is a true Google veteran, having been at the firm for almost seven years. He joined Google when the salesforce had fewer than 50 employees, and since then he has helped to build sales within several groups at Google, both within online (Adwords) and offline advertising. He also spent half a year in India helping to establish an account management team for Adwords. Having seen Google grow from a scrappy startup to one of the biggest companies in the World, Nic is again ready to experience the fast pace and excitement of building a startup - this time a cutting edge technology for the online promotions industry. With his extensive experience in sales and wealth of valuable contacts, Nic will be an invaluable asset to Wildfire Promotion Builder; we are very excited to welcome him to our team!

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