News by subject: CONTESTS AND AWARDS

E8 Security, an innovator of behavioral intelligence for cybersecurity, today announced that it won 'Best Cybersecurity Startup' with 50 or fewer employees in the 2017 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. E8 Security emerged victorious over 27 other...

DashBid, an advertising exchange that creates deep connections between brands and consumers, today announced that the Company has debuted as #1 on Pixalate's first-ever International Video Seller Trust Index (VSTI). The Index focuses on video sellers...

Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA Inc. (Konica Minolta) has been named to After Nines Inc.'s ChannelE2E 100 (http://www.channelE2E.com/top100), which identifies and honors the top 100 mergers and acquisitions from 2016. The company acquired a...

General Tire pro Mark Rose of West Memphis, Arkansas, caught five bass Sunday weighing 18 pounds, 3 ounces to win $125,000 at the FLW Tour at Lake Guntersville presented by Lowrance. Rose's four-day total of 20 bass weighing 79-11 gave him a 15-ounce...

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a partner of Wayne Taylor Racing (WTR) for four consecutive years, is pleased to announce today that WTR's No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R race team and its drivers Ricky and...

Venstar®, a leading thermostat and energy management systems supplier, today announced that its ColorTouch® color touch screen WiFi® thermostat received a 2016 IoT Evolution Connected Home and Building Award from IoT Evolution magazine, the leading...

Canadian real estate is already a hot button issue, with the Vancouver and Toronto markets viewed as some of the most competitive in the world. However, recent rankings pinpoint just how significant the Canadian real estate market is against its...

Terra Tech Corp. ("Terra Tech") or (the "Company"), a vertically integrated cannabis-focused agriculture company, today announced it has been named to the 2017 OTCQX® Best 50, a ranking of top performing companies traded on the OTCQX Best Market...

Electrovaya is pleased to announce it has been named to the 2017 OTCQX® Best 50, a ranking of top performing companies traded on the OTCQX Best Market last year. The OTCQX Best 50 is an annual ranking of the top 50 U.S. and international companies...

Domo, provider of the Business Cloud, the world's first platform for business optimization, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Domo as one of its 20 Coolest Cloud Software Vendors. Companies on this list are chosen...

Med Ad News, the leading pharmaceutical business and marketing publication, introduces an exciting opportunity for agency creatives to celebrate their craft like never before at the 2017 Manny Awards, celebrating the best in pharma and healthcare...

Junior Achievement USA® (JA) announced today that it will honor 64 organizations with the 2015-2016 U.S. President's Volunteer Service Awards. The organizations receiving the awards provided Junior Achievement with significant volunteer resources...

LOOK, a modern kitchen cabinetry line by Italian designer Michele Marcon, has won the 2017 Green GOOD DESIGNtm Award. LOOK is manufactured in Italy by Snaidero and available in North America exclusively through Snaidero USA. The Award is a testament...

Marin Software Incorporated , a leading provider of cross-channel, cross-device, enterprise marketing software for advertisers and agencies, announced today that it was named the #1 mobile advertising software solution for enterprise, mid-market, and...

The EIFS Council of Canada (ECC) officially announced the names of those selected for the ECC Architectural Design Awards Judging Panel today. The Panel will convene in April 2017 and independently select the recipient of the ECC Architectural Design...

The Salt Institute is honoring 87 transportation facilities across the United States and Canada with its Safe and Sustainable Snowfighting award recognizing environmental consciousness and effective management in the storage of winter road salt.Clear...

Cognosante is pleased to announce that Michele Kang, CEO and Founder, and Corey Stevenson, SVP of Clients and Delivery, have both been named to the "FedHealthIT100" inaugural list by FedHealthIT Magazine.The FedHealthIT100 honors those individuals...

Travel agents have spoken and Playa Hotels & Resorts has been recognized with new prestigious awards to add to their growing showcase. Last night, four resorts within Playa's all-inclusive collection -- Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos, Hyatt Ziva Cancun, Hyatt...

The Ledcor Group of Companies and its partners received a number of nominations and prestigious corporate awards in 2016. Ledcor's awards and nominations exemplify the diversity of our work and high standards of Ledcor and its employees. Through...

For the second consecutive year, American Portfolios Financial Services, Inc. (APFS), a privately-held, independent broker/dealer that services financial advisors across the country, has been included among an elite group of top employers by being...

Domo announced today that it has been named a finalist in the 2016-2017 Cloud Awards Program in the Best Cloud Business Intelligence or Analytics Solution category. Additionally, Domo customer Randstad Sourceright was named a finalist in the Most...

The Ledcor Group of Companies and its partners received a number of nominations and prestigious corporate awards in 2016. Ledcor's awards and nominations exemplify the diversity of our work and high standards of Ledcor and its employees. Through...

ACTRA is honouring Canadian star Kim Coates with the 2017 ACTRA National Award of Excellence on Saturday, January 28 in recognition of his career achievements, and contribution to his fellow performers and Canada's entertainment industry. ACTRA...

Primitive Logic, the premier digital strategy, experience design, and technology services firm, is proud to announce that Informatica, the world's No. 1 provider of data management solutions, has named Primitive Logic as the 2016 Outstanding...

Hearst Health, a division of Hearst, and the Jefferson College of Population Health of Thomas Jefferson University, today announced the three finalists for the 2017 Hearst Health Prize, an annual $100,000 award given in recognition of an...

Freedom Boat Club, the nation's oldest and largest boat club and exclusive boat club franchisor in North America, was featured for the fourth time and ranked #398 in the prestigious Entrepreneur magazine's Franchise 500® list for 2017 as published in...

Avaya announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named Avaya SDN Fxtm Healthcare as a 2016 SDN Product of the Year Award winner, presented by TMC's INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine."In an industry where medical and IoT devices are...

ShippingEasy, an innovative provider of the leading cloud-based shipping, inventory management, and customer management solutions for e-commerce sellers of all sizes, has been named a 2016 Top 10 E-commerce Solution Provider by Retail CIO Outlook, a...

Axine Water Technologies (Axine), an award-winning developer of low cost, chemical-free solutions for treating ammonia and toxic organics in industrial wastewater today announced it has been named to the 2017 Global Cleantech 100, produced by...

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is proud to announce its online Master's in Public Administration Program (MPA) was ranked one of the best by BestColleges.com. The program, ranked thirteenth by BestColleges.com, is offered through NSU's H. Wayne...

Brightway Insurance, the nation's seventh largest privately held Personal Lines insurance agency, named Chris Cole, Owner of Brightway, The Cole Agency, as its 2016 Agency Owner of the Year. Cole opened his first Brightway store in Palm Springs in...

RevenueWire has made the shortlist for a 2017 Cloud Award in the Best Cloud Payment, Finance, or Billing Solution category. The award celebrates excellence and innovation in the rapid-growth cloud computing market."RevenueWire is honored to have been...

Somnia Anesthesia, a national anesthesia practice management company, joins the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) in celebrating nurse anesthetists across the country in its the 18th annual National CRNA Week, January 22-28, 2017. The...

Enablon, a Wolters Kluwer business and the world's leading provider of EH&S, Sustainability and Risk Management software, today announced the company was named among the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® in the nation by the National...

Targazyme Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel enzyme technologies and products to improve clinical efficacy, safety and cost of care outcomes for patients undergoing cancer immunotherapy, stem cell transplantation and...

Today The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) announced the winners of the 2017 Childhood Obesity Prevention Awards during the organization's 85th Winter Meeting in Washington, DC. The awards went to cities with outstanding programs that...

In the news release, "Ceridian Announces Record Year for Awards and Recognition with over 35 Award Wins," issued earlier today by Ceridian, we are advised by the company that the fourth paragraph should be attributed to "Jennifer Soccio, Vice...

Ceridian, a global human capital management technology company, announces the results of an outstanding year for awards and recognition. In 2016, Ceridian was recognized 36 times, winning awards for a variety of achievements, including innovation,...

CDPHP has done it again! The Albany, N.Y.-based health plan has made the Best Companies to Work for in New York list for the ninth consecutive year. The award, presented by the Best Companies Group, in conjunction with the New York State Society of...

Elana Rabinovitch, Executive Director of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, today announced the five member jury panel for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The 2017 jury members are:Canadian writers André Alexis, Anita Rau Badami (Jury Chair) and Lynn...

American Home Shield, the nation's leading home warranty company, has again earned the 2017 Top Rated Award from HomeWarrantyReviews.com, one of the foremost home warranty consumer review sites in the country. The award is based on customer feedback...

Financial research firm Greenwich Associates recently named Huntington one of the top banks for businesses nationally with the presentation of Greenwich Best Brand Awards for ease of doing business with middle-market companies and small businesses...

Today Domo announced that Theo Epstein, President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs, and Nate Silver, Statistician and Editor-in-Chief of FiveThirtyEight, will keynote at Domopalooza 2017. Both Epstein and Silver, newsmakers in 2016's most...

SingleHop, a leading provider of on-demand infrastructure and managed cloud services, announced today it has been selected as the 2016 Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) Strategic Partner of the Year by Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of...

Bromium®, Inc. announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has named Bromium a finalist for the 13th Annual 2017 Info Security PG's Global Excellence Awards® in four...

The California Community Foundation (CCF) has named 14 Los Angeles County artists as recipients of the CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists (FVA), with a total of $350,000 in unrestricted grants. The prestigious FVA annually awards grants to help...

Swift Navigation, the San Francisco-based startup building centimeter-accurate GPS technology that will power a world of autonomous vehicles, is proud to announce that two of its co-founders, Fergus Noble (29) and Colin Beighley (28), have been...

Hospitality Technology (HT) magazine and HTNG are pleased to announce that nominations are open for the HT-NEXT Awards Program including both the 2017 Hotel Visionary Awards and the HTNG TechOvation Award. The Awards Program, sponsored by Datatrend...

Avaya today announced that Michael C. Fina Recognition has implemented Avaya Midmarket and Contact Center solutions to deliver a seamless, high quality experience for customers giving and receiving corporate incentives and recognition awards.Michael...

Cask (cask.co), the company that makes building and deploying big data applications easy, is proud to announce that it has been recognized as one of the "20 Companies that Changed Big Data in 2016" by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in the firm's...