Local blog receives global award
Somewhere in Net Limited, a company operating the largest Bangla social media community became the first organisation in Bangladesh to win the prestigious Red Herring Award. Red Herring is a global media company uniting innovation, technology, financing and entrepreneurial activities in a verity of forums. The company investigates and reports on how the world of innovation and entrepreneurship are transforming business and how the business of technology is transforming the world for last 10 years. Technology industry stakeholders regard the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of innovation. "As the pioneer in creating social media and online communities for Bangladesh where the number of internet users may grow significantly by 2020, I think our practical way of creating services in Bangla with easy mobile access was well received", said Arild Klokkerhaug, head of opportunities of Somewhere in Net, at a press conference at its office on Monday. Apart from popular Bangla blog community somewhereinblog.net, the organisation also runs aawaj.com, a popular location based community for activity sharing, allowing easy bangla text entry and SMS-to-web features.
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