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.

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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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