Monday, July 7, 2008

Happy Birthday iPling!

Things have been so busy at iPling the last few weeks we hardly had time to blow out the birthday candles, but last week marked an important milestone: one year since our official launch on June 29, 2007--the same day as the iPhone.

It's been an exciting ride. After making big waves with the launch (for example, we were named one of the "Top 25 Web Apps for iPhone" and "one of the most ambitious of the new iPhone features to come from developers outside Apple") we hunkered down to make our "Find and Be Found" app more robust and scalable. 2008 started off with a bang as we held the popular iPling Treasure Hunt that had Macworld Expo attendees "plinging for treasure" during the event. This spring we closed a bridge financing round that got VentureBeat, Killerstartups.com, and Dow Jones VentureWire, among others, buzzing. We were also nominated for the 2008 AlwaysOn Global 250, an honor that “highlights the top 250 private companies from across innovation.”

Most recently there's been exciting news from Latin America, where we have an LOI with a top carrier to develop a mobile, SMS-enabled classified application, "iPling Instant Classifieds."

So Happy Birthday iPling! It's been an exciting start. We can't wait to see how Year 2 stacks up.

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