A wide range of choices both classic and original to tempt users online this February

London – January 26th, 2010.
Twenga, the most comprehensive shopping search engine, has launched its 2010 Valentine’s buying guide, with shopping ideas suited for everyone. Finding traditional favourites and quirky niche gifts couldn’t be easier thanks to the breadth of the products shown on www.twenga.co.uk.

Fashionable this year
Users can pick up classics like perfume, champagne, watches and rose petals, as well as find the popular items for 2010. This year’s must have gift for women is a Pandora Bracelet.

Say it differently
Romantics can start the day with breakfast in bed, saying ‘I love you’ on toast, thanks to a range of toast stamps. Or why not finish off the day in the bath, accompanied by a cool designer duck?

Say it heart shaped
Timeless classics abound this year with heart shaped cufflinks and keyrings, but users can branch out with interesting ideas such as heart shaped pans and heart shaped pasta for that romantic evening meal.

Twenga recognised as one of the ‘100 most promising’ new technology companies

Laguna Nigel – California, 15 January 2010 - Twenga, the most comprehensive shopping search engine, has received the Red Herring 100 Global Award, awarded to the top 100 private technology companies worldwide.

In three years, Twenga has established itself in 14 countries, most recently the USA, Brazil, Australia and India. Twenga’s websites now display more than 180 million products from over 75,000 retailers and receive more than 25 million visits a month. Twenga’s key advantage remains its totally objective and neutral product results, ideal for shoppers, who are always looking for impartial price comparisons.

Twenga is able to display almost 10 times more product offers than other price comparison sites thanks to its proprietary technology automatically indexing retailer sites, and thus guaranteeing that users really find the best deal.

In awarding this prize, the Red Herring media group carefully considered 1,200 private companies, chosen from among the finalists and winners of the regional awards Red Herring 100 Asia, Europe and North America from the last three years. Criteria included financial performance, management quality, delivery on strategy and involvement in research and development. For this global prize, the judges paid particular attention to strategies and the ability to establish an international presence.

“This year was especially difficult,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “Despite the global economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Now we’re faced with the arduous task of selecting the final 100 winners of the award. We know that this year’s crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to go far.”

Bastien Duclaux, CEO and co-founder of Twenga said,
“We would like to thank the Red Herring Global Award judges for recognising the worldwide success of Twenga with this global award. Twenga was designed as a global company from its inception. Thanks to our pioneering technology, we have succeeded in establishing our shopping search engine in 14 countries across four continents in less than three years. This is four times faster than our competitors. We offer users greater choice, and a more objective choice. We offer retailers better return on marketing investment.”

Successful application downloaded by 50,000 iPhone users is now available in four additional languages.

London, October 30 2009 – Twenga the most comprehensive online shopping search engine, today launched an updated version of its iPhone application to help shoppers find the best price available before buying in-store or online.

iPhone and iPod touch users can download the application for free on http://www.twenga.co.uk/iphone/ and directly from the App Store on iTunes.

Thanks to a technology specifically tailored for the iPhone, users now have the freedom to check prices from their phones before they make a purchase. Within a few clicks users can see and compare prices, product details, specifications and consumer reviews from more than 700,000 high-tech products and 800 brands covering computers, Audio-video, telephone, photo and appliances…from 1,250 online shops.

Hailed as the ‘best price comparison site adopted for the mobile’  Twenga continues to lead the price comparison category.

The updated version includes three major upgrades:
• Direct Access to Online Shops
Users can now go directly to an online shop from the iPhone application, without having to close the application.
• Improved Ergonomics
Users can now hide the keyboard visible on screen and colours have been optimised to be more visually appealing.
• Extended Reach
The application was originally launched in 6 countries: United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands. It’s now available in four additional countries: Australia, Poland, Russia and Brazil.

Since its inception, Twenga has adhered to a strict dedication to becoming the most encompassing and objective shopping search engine. As such, the company’s search results are always free of any commercial bias. This updated iPhone application is typical of the companies commitment to the continual development and improvement of the service they offer, giving shoppers an easily accessible price comparison tool, on the go, directly from their mobiles.

[1] Source : « Are mobile comparison sites any good ? », eConsultancy, Février 2009.

Twenga receives prize under the category « International » at the recent E-Commerce Conference, held last week in Paris, France. The E-Commerce Awards recognizes the most innovative companies in the e-commerce industry.
Bastien Duclaux, CEO and Co-founder of Twenga, was present to accept the award.

« We would like to thank the members of the Jury of the The E-Commerce Awards 2009 for recognizing Twenga contributions to the web and online shopping” says Bastien Duclaux, CEO and co-founder of Twenga. Our proprietary indexation technology and our processing of Multilanguage information has enabled us to establish ourselves 3 times faster than our competition in 13 countries in less than 3 years. Our performance based model of coast per action (CPA) innovates by offering the best return on investment to online shops. We are confident that we will soon displace existing models.”

Who would have thought?  What a surprise…

Ok, so we’re just kidding! We didn’t actually make the cover of TIME (yet).
We’re only jumping on the latest internet bandwagon: our fellow internet friend MrBoo has created a fun application that allows you to put your Twitter page on the cover of TIME.

So, if you you’re on Twitter but always wanted to make the cover of TIME, here’s your lucky chance to get your wish (virtually) and appear on the front of iPhone at that.

They say that you have to dream big to achieve big.  We’ll make the cover of TIME in due time, we’re working hard on it.

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