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Madrid+D´s weblog “Technological Enterpreneurs” has published the news on Almira Labs being the Grand Prize winner of the Dialogic Innovator Award Contest 2009.

We are very grateful to Madrid+D for their regular collaborations with us and, especially, for spreading the announce of such an important award for our company. We hope that this prize can motivate to new enterpreneurs that are at the beginning of their business

To read the article, click here.

1st MadridTech´s edition has been very possitive for Almira Labs. The business trip to San Francisco organized by PromoMadrid and CEIM (Confederation of Madrid Companies) and shared with 12 Madrid´s technological companies has resulted in a good number of new contacts and ideas for the company. Almira Labs has found an american market very willing to start up new projects and put new ideas into practice.

During our stay in San Francisco, we have had several business meetings with local companies with different profiles: partners, potential clients and venture capitals. These meetings have been very helpful to set strategic alliances for our business in USA to develop and grow. We have also been able to detect new business opportunities which we will include in our business plan for 2010.

Almira Labs has achieved its goals in this MadridTech: to strengthen our presence in USA market, to extend our partners network and our client base. We hope that the rest of companies will also place a high value on this event and we will be looking forward to hace the chance to take part in a next edition of MadridTech.

To know more on this event, click here.

Tim Murray, Dialogic´s, Executive Vice President and COO, has given Dialogic Innovator Award Contest 2009 Grand Prize to Miguel Monforte, Almira Labs´ CMO in the Dialogic´s Executive Summit meeting held in Israel today, October 26th. In his speech, Tim Murray, has highlighted the innovative character of winning applications Video / Voice Notes and Community Video / Voice Cast which are both results on Almira Labs´s focus on innovation.

Mr Murray has also stressed Dialogic´s belief in video being the new voice and new video capabilities will substitute voice and text applications. Video-only applications are taking off as a very attractive and new revenue-generating source both for developer and carriers.

Our CMO, Miguel Monforte has shown how both Video / Voice Notes and Community Video / Voice Cast work and has expressed Dialogic and the jury gratitude for the award on behalf of Almira Labs.

Almira Labs has been chosen as the Grand Prize winner of the Dialogic Innovator Award Contest 2009. Our applications Video / Voice Notes and Community Video / Voice Cast have been considered by the judging panel as “extremely innovative” thus deserving this award. Both applications are mobile video applications that are built on the Dialogic® IP Media Server.

This prize is of a great significance for us as it comes from a leading company, Dialogic, with presence in over 30 countries and whose products and solutions are being used by thousands of companies all over the world. With this recognition, Almira Labs is again rewarded for our efforts and investment in R&D and for a business strategy focused on developing innovative convergent services.

The award also enables us to participate with Dialogic in a joint marketing activity in which Video / Voice Notes and Community Video / Voice Cast will be featured and recognized as the winners of the contest. We have also been invited to show a demo of both applications in Dialogic´s Executive Summit meeting in Israel on October 26th.

We would like to express our greatest pleasure and satisfaction with this Grand Prize and would like to seize this opportunity to thank Caja Navarra, our main investor, for they continuous support, always believing in our innovation track. Our special thanks go to Almira Labs team, for their contribution with their daily work, their inspiration and motivation which are a huge part of our success.

Voice Cast is a voice solution for group messaging that introduces a change in the way people communicate. No more hassle by typing long messages and adding contacts one by one.

With Voice Cast you just need to record your voice message and send it to the group of people you want. The system will make a call on every contact of your group and, when picking it up, the will hear your message.

Voice Cast is faster, easier and more effective than traditional SMS.

Do you want to know more about Voice Cast? Click here to see our demo on YouTube.

Almira Labs was one of the companies chosen to show its business plan at the Invesnova Forum that was held in Madrid on Friday, 16th October. The event, organized by the EOI Business School, the Scientific Park of Madrid (PCM) and Madrid´s Townhall was attended by important business and financial figures.

Almira Labs´ business plan went to different evaluation stages defined by experts and was chosen to be presented in this forum. The valuation criteria included the focus on innovation, market potential, capacity for international expansion, and the company´s working team. This meeting is within the framework of a formative program aimed at fostering success possibilities of small and medium companies. We will have a personalized consulting support of business experts.

Our business plan was presented by our CEO, Javier Martin, and he was congratulated by an innovator business plan and Almira Labs´ entrepreneur spirit. We are confident that our participation in this program will help us to find new markets to introduce our products and services.

Almira Labs will submit its business project in the Invesnova Forum that will take place on Friday, 16h October in Madrid. The purpose of this event is to promote the meeting among investors and entrepreneurs. Almira Labs´ participation in this forum means an opportunity to show its business project with products, services and working processes based on innovation.

Invesnova Forum is organized by the Scientific Park of Madrid (PCM) and the EOI Business School. It is an excellent showcase for investors as they get to know new business projects and can support them with their own valuation and experience and, in a second term, with the funds needed to develop them.

We are very proud of our participation in Invesnova Forum, as it highlights the value of our constant focus on innovation and our ceaseless efforts on R&D that are reflected on a business project which is receiving numerous recognitions both inside and outside Spain.

Almira Labs is one of the 100 companies in the semi-final of the Eurecan European Venture Contest 2009. Almira Labs has passed the first stage of the selection process where 750 companies have participated.

This award, with an amount of 90.000 euros, is an initiative of Caja Navarra that aims to reward the most innovative European project that contributes to a higher competitiveness and European growth.

One more time, our constant focus on innovation has meant the recognition of a jury made of 20 investors and international experts that has positively valued our avant-garde technology and services vision with an innovative project with a high development potential.

The semi-final will take place on the next 14th of October in Pamplona where Almira Labs will do its best to be one of the 25 companies that will take part on the final day in Barcelona, 14th-15th December.

We hope to see you all in Barcelona!

Almira Labs has been included as a provider of IMS-based services on the latest Moriana Group Report on IMS and RSC.

The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current status of IMS in the telecommunication market and the likely future direction of the industry. It also addresses some of the main barriers the IMS industry needs to go beyond.

Conclusions drawn form such analysis state that even tough a rich ecosystem has grown around IMS industry, there is a real need to for a cultural shift towards innovation and openness.

To download the Moriana Group IMS and RSC Report 2009 click here.

Almira Labs has been chosen to participate in the Foreign Trade Introductory Project (PIPE), which is organized and conducted by the Foreign Trade Spanish institute (ICEX) and the Spanish Chambers of Commerce. It also has the collaboration of the Spanish Regional Governments.

This program aims to support Spanish small and medium-sized businesses to access international markets. PIPE brings human and economic resources for these companies to help these companies to promote and market their products and services in foreign markets.

By taking part in the PIPE, we will get the support needed to access the most interesting markets for our business and to find the most suitable marketing channels to our products and services.

For more information on the PIPE, please click here.