Digital Bridges Scoops Tornado 100 Award For 4th Year Running
3 dbigames titles short-listed for BAFTA Games Awards
London, UK - 26th - January 2005: Digital Bridges, a world leader in the creation and distribution of mobile entertainment solutions, today announced that for the fourth consecutive year, it has been chosen as a winner in the annual Tornado 100 Award. The Tornado 100 list represents the best performing and innovative high-tech private companies of Europe and Israel, and as a 2004 Tornado 100 Winner, Digital Bridges is deemed 'a company to watch' in 2005.
Combining its own analysis with advice from industry experts, Tornado Insider assembles the annual Tornado100 lists appreciating excellence in:
- Innovative,
- Commercial
- And financial performance
Tornado Insider was convinced that, from among thousands of start-up peers, Digital Bridges and the products and services it is commercialising today will change tomorrow's trends. Thus, the company is ranked among the elite of Europe's high-tech entrepreneurial vanguard.
In a separate news item, Digital Bridges, together with developers, Distinctive Developments and Iomo, has had three db/i/games mobile games titles short-listed for BAFTA Games Awards. The games nominated -- Colin McRae 2005, 3D Pool and EA SPORTS Tiger Woods 2005 PGA Tour -- make up 50% of the six mobile games titles short-listed for a BAFTA Award.
Brian Greasley, CEO of Digital Bridges, commented "It is an honour to be a Tornado 100 winner for the fourth straight year, and nice to observe that the excellence our individual titles is being recognised by awards like the BAFTA's in parallel with the recognition of the company as a whole."
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About Digital Bridges
Founded in 1998, Digital Bridges is a world leader in the creation and distribution of mobile entertainment solutions. An industry pioneer, Digital Bridges provides the best in mobile entertainment to a global distribution network of operators, portals, retailers, interactive TV channels and other e-commerce outlets, representing over 400 million subscribers worldwide. The company possesses a unique combination of mobile technology, development and publishing expertise, and works with many of the world's leading media and entertainment brands including Crash BandicootTM, RollerballTM, RobocopTM, The Pink PantherTM, PlatoonTM, 2 Fast 2 FuriousTM, Weakest Link, Space Invaders®, EA SPORTSTM 2005 FIFA Football Mobile International Edition and EA SPORTSTM 2005 Tiger Woods PGA TOUR®. UNITY, the company's best-in-class technology platform, supports all current and future mobile standards, protocols, technologies and operating systems. Digital Bridges' investors include funds advised by Apax Partners, Argo Global Capital and Openwave Systems Inc. Digital Bridges has its commercial and publishing headquarters in London, with technology & production divisions in Dunfermline, Scotland and San Mateo, California as well as sales offices in Paris, Munich, Madrid, New York and Singapore.
For more information, please call +44 (0) 20 7901 1760 or visit us at our corporate site www.digitalbridges.com