Talkster's award winning voice technologies are revolutionizing ad-supported telephony with a fully sustainable mobile advertising supported business model which benefits both callers and advertisers. Talkster's Free World Dialing™ service for consumers is the only service for making long distance, international, and group conference calls from any type of phone, on any network, for the cost of a local call. The Talkster white-labeled service, Talkster Platform, brings instant mobile voice and text communications to online communities around the globe.

"Red Herring recognized Talkster for its groundbreaking communications platform that lets the mobile phone serve as the communications hub for all of a person's voice and text communications and contact lists," said Red Herring CEO, Alex Vieux. "Talkster's innovation, global availability and proven advertising-based business model makes its service compelling, viable and desirable for individuals and online communities all over the world. Talkster embodies the very innovation and promise Red Herring recognizes with our Top 50 Award."

Talkster was among hundreds of companies nominated for this award which were rigorously evaluated by Red Herring's editorial staff on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy and integration into their ecosystem. This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, allowing Red Herring to see past the "buzz" and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

"While Talkster earned this award for services we already have available for consumers and online communities, we are even more excited about what we are going to be introducing in the months ahead," says James Wanless, Founder and COO of Talkster. "During our Red Herring presentation we previewed coming innovations from Talkster in the areas of user-generated mobile advertising, mobile presence, and unified voice and text messaging which were incredibly well received by the attending conference audience of leading technology executives and investors. Stay tuned to hear more from Talkster on these new innovations as we roll them out publicly in the coming months."