Dr. A. K. Pradeep, NeuroFocus CEO, Named Grand Winner of the Advertising Research Foundation’s ‘Great Mind’ Innovation Award

September 23rd, 2009 MILAN - - James Nolan, 20, Great Britain With the Design "Odette and Odile" is the Winner of International Lingerie Design Award Picture is available via EPA (European Pressphoto Agency) and can be downloaded free of charge at: www.presseportal.de/pm/56445/?keygroup=bild On the opening night of the 2009 Milan Fashion Week, fashion design students from 28 countries and regions around the world presented their lingerie showpieces at the grand final of the Triumph Inspiration Award '09 in a fabulous catwalk show in the famous design museum, La Triennale. A celebrity expert judging panel, consisting of two-time Academy Award winning actress Hilary Swank, Editor in Chief of Vogue Italy Franca Sozzani, Hong Kong's international model Qi Qi, legendary fashion photographer Giovanni Gastel, co-founder and creative director of the fashion label Miss Sixty, Wichy Hassan, and Jan Rosenberg, Head of Global Sales and Marketing Triumph International, decided which design piece is the most creative interpretation of this year's award motto "Icons".

September 17th, 2009 BERKELEY, California - NeuroFocus, the world's leading neuromarketing company, announced that it has named Dr. Steven L. Miller to lead its neurological testing laboratory facilities.

September 14th, 2009 NEW YORK - Martin Oxley, Managing Director of BuzzBack Europe, has been awarded a Fellowship by the Market Research Society. Each year, the MRS awards Fellowships to individuals to recognize exceptional contributions and achievements in research.

September 9th, 2009 NEW YORK - - Firm Takes Gold Medal For Strong Performance, New Business and External Recognition Weber Shandwick, one of the world's leading global public relations firms, has been awarded the gold medal by PRWeek for its first global agency report card. The report tracks performance over the last 12 months for 24 global agency networks against four key criteria: business development, people, network initiatives and cohesion, and external recognition.

August 4th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - - blinkx's unique contextual advertising platform for online video recognized for innovation and excellence blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that their contextual advertising platform for online video, blinkx AdHoc, has been selected as a finalist for the 2009 Search Engine Watch Awards in the Best Search Engine Ad Platform category. "It's an honor to be named a finalist for the Search Engine Watch Awards and to be acknowledged for our innovation and leadership in online advertising," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx.

June 28th, 2009 TOKYO - - UNIQLO decides to make and sell official T-shirts from 2010 onwards UNIQLO has been responsible for the creation and sale of official T-shirts for the 2009 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, one of the world's top three advertising fests. Ten short-listed designs have been made into commercial products.

June 18th, 2009 BARCELONA, Spain - The GSMA, which represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry, today announced the winners of the EMEA leg of the 2010 Mobile Innovation Grand Prix competition. The winners were announced at the GSMA's Mobile Innovation EMEA Event, which was held as part of the inaugural HiT Barcelona World Innovation Summit that took place in Barcelona, Spain this week.

May 18th, 2009 HUNTINGTON BEACH, California - FireScope Business Service Management (BSM) Selected As Winner In Enterprise 2.0 FireScope announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry's leading publication on information technologies and solutions has named FireScope Business Service Management (BSM) a winner of the 2009 Product Innovation Award. The prominent award recognizes innovative and groundbreaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes as well as raising the bar for others in all areas of information technology.

April 1st, 2009 BERKELEY, California - Marketing Research Industry's Top Prize Recognizes Neuromarketing Leader's Contributions To 'Creation of Superior Advertising' For Frito-Lay's Cheetos The Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) bestowed its top prize, the 2009 Grand Ogilvy Award, to NeuroFocus, the organization announced. The Grand Ogilvy is awarded to honor those companies who contribute to the advertising campaign that an independent jury of industry leaders cites as "demonstrating the most successful use of research in the creation of superior advertising that achieves a critical business objective." Frito-Lay's "The Orange Underground" campaign for its Cheetos brand was singled out by the ARF jury as the Grand Ogilvy Award winner for 2009.

March 11th, 2009 BERKELEY, California - World's Leading Neurological Testing Company Purchases Leading UK Firm In The Fast Growing Field of Brainwave-Based Market Research NeuroFocus, the world's leading company in the rapidly-expanding field of neuromarketing, announced that it has concluded an agreement to purchase Neuroco. The move marks NeuroFocus' next step in its global expansion, following closely on the company's rapid growth in the U.S.

January 29th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor will be honoured by the Rotary Club for being the youngest achiever of the film industry. She will be given the Vocational Excellence Award by Bansi Dhurandhar Feb 1 here at the Grand Hyatt, Santacruz.

May 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI - PlaySpan, the leader in monetization solutions for online games, social networks, and virtual worlds, today announced that it has been selected as the Category Winner among this years OnHollywood 100 list of companies within the gaming category. PlaySpan was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

February 6th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - MobMe and Light Logics, two incubated companies based in Kerala's Technopark, have won national innovation awards, it was announced here Saturday. MobMe won the Nasscom Innovation Awards 2008 for the 'Most Innovative Start-up' and the Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Parks and Business Incubators Association (ISBA) award for the 'Best Start-up ICT Company of 2008'.

June 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - India's biotechnology major Biocon Ltd. Monday announced the setting up of a cell for innovation management at Hyderabad's Indian School of Business (ISB) with a corpus of Rs.1 crore.

January 31st, 2009 LONDON - Irish-British filmmaker Danny Boyle's underdog drama 'Slumdog Millionaire' has bagged the Directors Guild of America (DGA) award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film. The DGA is tipped as a barometer for the Academy Award for Best Director and only six times since the DGA awards began in 1948 has the winner not gone on to receive the Best Director Oscar, reports contactmusic.com.

September 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government-appointed board of scam-tainted Satyam Computer Services has been conferred the "Dataquest Person of the Year" award for its role in helping overcome the biggest corporate fraud in the country. The leading tech magazine brought out by the niche publishing house CyberMedia presented the award to the firm's board led by its chairman Kiran Karnik instead of an individual, in what has been a departure from the past.

June 10th, 2009 Mexican university wins Spanish awardMADRID — The National Autonomous University of Mexico has been awarded Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities. The award foundation says in a statement Wednesday the near 100-year-old university "has become a point of reference, combining quality and an extensive academic and research offering with its firm commitment to disseminate culture, humanism and new technologies." The communication and humanities award is one of eight handed out each year by the Prince of Asturias Foundation.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Actor Patrick Stewart has bagged one of the biggest theatre honours, the Laurence Olivier award, for his role of Claudius in 'Hamlet'. Stewart has got the award for the third time, while his first Olivier dates back to 1979 for 'Anthony and Cleopatra'.

June 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - Biocon Limited have launched the Biocon Cell for Innovation Management (BCIM) to promote innovation in business. The Cell will be established under the aegis of the Centre for Leadership, Innovation, and Change (CLIC) at the ISB.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard, 28, pipped Manchester United's Ryan Giggs by 10 votes to pick up the Football Writers' Association award. Gerrard, who takes the honour back to Anfield for the first time since John Barnes in 1990, said: "I'm delighted but surprised.