| FunMobility Named to Inc. 500 List FunMobility Ranks No. 71 on the 2007 Inc. 500 With Three-Year Sales Growth of 1921% |
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New York , NY — August 23, 2007 - Inc. magazine today ranked FunMobility Company No. 71 on its 26th annual Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. "If you want to find out which companies are going to change the world, look at the Inc. 500," said Inc. Editor Jane Berentson. "These are the most innovative, dynamic, fast-growth companies in the nation, the ones coming up with solutions to some of our most intractable ills, creating systems that let us conduct business faster and easier, and manufacturing products we soon discover we can't live without. The Inc. 500 list is Inc. magazine's tribute to American business ingenuity and ambition." FunMobility delivers a unique mobile entertainment experience with photo-sharing, wallpaper, ringtone and content applications that enable creativity, personalization, and community-building for consumers. Their technologies provide simplified, flexible development and deployment solutions and services for carriers. FunMobility provides carriers and consumers with some of the industry's most popular mobile applications such as America's Best Mobile PixT a mobile photo sharing social network rated a top 10 revenue generating mobile application (Source: Telephia 2006) that hit one million unique users in July 2007. Other popular FunMobility applications include: Wallpaper UniverseT, Ringtones UniverseT, TrueTones UniverseT, FunGirl DISHT, Chick TalkT, Mobile Comics NetworkT, Personalized WallpaperT, MyScreenzT, MyTonzT and FunMobility Animated GreetingsT. FunMobility's mobile applications and services are distributed through all major U.S. wireless carriers The 2007 Inc. 500, as revealed in the September issue of Inc. magazine (on newsstands August 28 - October 2), reported aggregate revenue of $16 billion and median three-year growth of 939 percent. Most important, the 2007 Inc. 500 companies were engines of job growth, having created more than 64,064 jobs since those companies were founded. Washington, D.C., is the top metropolitan area for the fifth consecutive year, with 40 of the fastest-growing companies, down slightly from 43 last year. New York City is a close second, with 38 (down four companies from last year), followed by San Francisco with 26 (up seven companies from last year), Los Angeles with 25 (no change), and Boston with 22 (down two companies). Interestingly, finance and advertising--two industries often associated with New York--contributed a quarter of California’s total. Hottest Industries for Fastest-Growing Businesses The largest business category is IT Services, with 55 Inc. 500 companies in this category. Advertising & Marketing and Human Resources (both with 48 companies), Government Services (38 companies), and Software (37 companies) round out the top five industries ranked on the 2007 Inc. 500. Industries reporting the highest total revenue from 2003 – 2006 are Health ($3.2 billion), Real Estate ($2.1 billion), Advertising & Marketing ($1.14 billion), Human Resources ($883 million), and Retail ($873.6 million). Methodology Companies can apply for next year’s Inc. 500 and Inc. 5,000 by registering with IncBizNet, the new social network for private companies that will launch this fall on Inc.com. Introducing the Inc. 5,000 – the Inc. 500, Plus 4,500 New Fast-Growing Companies |
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