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Poken's CEO Stéphane Doutriaux receives the "CTI Certified" label

We can proudly announce that Poken S.A. has been awarded the prestigious « CTI Certified » label. This certification handed out by the Swiss Confederation’s Innovation Promotion Agency (CTI) states that the awarded companies are ‘ready for sustainable business development’. Start-ups that receive this label are regarded as the most promising, stable and sustainable businesses to have emerged out of the CTI start-up network.

To read more about this certification, please refer to our official press release. More information about CTI start-up can be found here.

The Perfect Poken Accessory

For those of you just visiting or slightly out of the loop, we’ve been running a Poken Fashionista contest through our Facebook Fan Page and Twitter account. While our fan based turned out to be bit shy, a few brave souls took a shot at coordinateing stellar outfits with their favorite poken.

We’ll be sending the winners (below) their choice of any one of our limited edition pokenSPARKs in the East London Collection and a choice of any one of the limited edition pokenPULSEs in the UrbanPop by GabyGaby Collection.

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We’ve already published it in our press center in late November, but wanted to share this lovely prize with you once more. This time with a picture, too. We are very honored to have been listed as one of the 25 Most Promising European Web & Mobility Start-ups by the European Tech Tour (ETT) on November 18th 2009.

The ETT Web & Mobility Summit, which showcases cutting-edge technology businesses to the venture and investment community, chose the 25 winners of this prestigious nomination from a pool of over 400 applicants! Stéphane Doutriaux, Poken’s CEO, was in Montreux to accept the award personally.

If you’d like to know more about this summit of the ETT, visit their website at www.techtour.com/webandmobility09/index.php

Nominate Poken for a Crunchie Award! Ever heard of the Crunchies award? It’s ‘the Oscar for the technology world’, to cite the organizers. It is an annual competition and award ceremony co-hosted by TechCrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat.

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Poken has won the Swiss ICT “Newcomer” Award for 2009!

The Swiss internet and tech community is a lot like like Switzerland itself: small, diverse, intense and filled with global talents in all fields. So, it feels pretty darn good to be recognized in this growing economy and industry sector- according to the NY times, Switzerland has now passed the US as the most competitive business environment on earth. We’ll let you agree, ponder, or debate that face with the fine folks over in new york, but in the meantime, we’re gonna bask in the glow of this one a little bit.

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Word up! We’ve been shortlisted as for the Best Newcomer award by SwissICT, the leading institute of Information and Communication technology. Yay!

We’d obviously love to be selected… and figured you might like the opportunity to *WIN* a shiny new MacBook or iPhone. It’s in German but here’s what you have to do:
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On Thursday 9th July, the inaugural TechCrunch Europe Awards 2009 for the best European and EMEA tech companies were held in London, UK.

Renate from Poken was there to collect the trophy for Best Real World Device / Gadget. Yay! We did it!

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