Placed rises to the top at our MobileBeat startup competition

Location analytics company Placed beat out four other mobile services companies today at our MobileBeat Innovation Competition.

For winning the competition, Placed bagged our Tesla Prize, which is named after Nikola Tesla, the scientist who developed early mobile communication. The company will receive a two-hour business strategy session from three principals at Tandem Capital, as well as 10,000 Business ExtrAA points from American Airlines (or around five domestic round-trip tickets).

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