Miyowa awarded by Deloitte Technology Fast 50

November 19, 2009

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Miyowa awarded N° 2 French technology company's growth, at the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 France 2009

- Miyowa's exceptional growth performance ranked the company at the second place in the 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 France and at the 19th position in the European 500 - The company attributes its 6440% growth to the deployment of innovative products, highly expected by mobile operators worldwide -

Paris, France, November 19, 2009 - Miyowa is proud to announce that it has been ranked 2nd in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 France, which rewards technology companies with high growth. The ranking is based on the growth rate in revenues over five years, from 2004 to 2008. During this period, Miyowa experienced a growth rate of 6440%. The company will reach 10 million Euros revenues this year versus 6.5 million in 2008 and a growth of around 50% in 2010.

Pascal Lorne, CEO, attributed the company's success to the deployment of innovative products very much in line with the expectations of mobile operators worldwide: "With its technology, Miyowa provides a permanent link to everyone's closest community: the address book of the mobile phone! That is why our growth is so rapid. We are already working with 27 operators worldwide; in the coming weeks, there will be 30 and we will announce our first customer in the United States. We own 100% of the French market for rich instant messaging technology for mobile operators. "

"Being part of the Technology Fast 50 Deloitte means being part of the French leaders in growth for five years, demonstrating exceptional qualities in the highly competitive technology industry" said Eric Morgain, associate at Deloitte, in charge of the Technology Fast 50 Program. "We warmly congratulate Miyowa to be one of the first growth technology companies in France. "

Miyowa also enters the European top 20, ranking 19, of Deloitte Technology Europe Fast 500.

The criteria of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 are:

➢ Being a technology company, that is to say either owning a patented technology or manufacture a technology product or devote at least 15% of revenues on R & D.

➢ Reach a turnover of at least 50 000 Euros for fiscal 2004.

➢ Have its headquarters in France and not be controlled over 50% by another group (French or foreign).

➢ Achieve a minimum of 4 fiscal years.

About the Deloitte Technology Fast 50
The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 is a global program that began in the United States in 1995 in San Jose, at the heart of the Silicon Valley. The program was successfully extended to the whole United-States then to the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Israel and France. It was created to highlight the outstanding contribution of technology companies to the growth of the economy.

About Miyowa
Leader in the aggregation of social networks on mobile phones, Miyowa is the first company to provide mobile operators, manufacturers and communities, with InTouch 5™ Social Networks Dashboard, which integrates instant messaging and social networks, to whom Miyowa is officially connected. Miyowa creates all rich messaging solutions whatever the customer needs: ASP (client and gateway), client only and in-house solutions. Miyowa is standards compliant and connects to the operators' messaging platform operators following the OMA IMPS specifications. Putting into practice his vision, Miyowa launched and started to deploy InTouch 5™ Rich Address Book, the first native integration of the messaging services with the mobile phone‘s address book.

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