Borqs Selected by AlwaysOn as an AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner

BEIJING and CUPERTINO, Calif., July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Borqs Inc., a leading open source mobile application software provider and integrator, today announced that it has been selected by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners.  Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley. Borqs was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Borqs and the AlwaysOn Global 250 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn's ninth annual Innovation Summit at Santa Clara University on July 28th, 2011, at the Louis B. Mayer Theatre at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA.

This two-day executive gathering highlights the significant economic, political, and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. Innovation Summit's goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry.

"This year's AlwaysOn Global 250 are companies driven by the biggest mega-trends, including the accelerating growth of mobile users, cloud computing, and SaaS offerings, globalization, and the socialization of commerce and basically everything online," says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "This year's winners clearly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities we've seen in the private company marketplace in the history of the global Silicon Valley."

The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders.  The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2011 list.

Borqs's R&D engineering teams provide strong innovative capability with over 400 engineers and research scientists who have core technical knowledge ranging from Android client-end and server-end software solution for mobile internet. Borqs has been determined to be the pioneer and leader in the field of open source application software since its establishment, and has dedicated itself to supporting the development of mobile internet. With this objective in mind, Borqs has developed OPhone OS, Mobile Widget, Big Cloud, Mobee and other applications.

A full list of all the companies can be found on the AlwaysOn website at:
http://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2011-AlwaysOn-Global-250

"It's an honor for Borqs to be recognized by AlwaysOn and its worldwide selection team as a global technology leader," said Pat Chan, CEO of Borqs. "We're so delighted to be recognized by such impressive partners representing different industries from all over the world. This award reaffirms our position as the global leader in providing the end-to-end solutions for the world's most innovative mobile internet companies."

About Borqs

Borqs Inc, established in September 2007, is a high-tech enterprise dedicated to providing end-to-end software solutions for the whole industrial chain of mobile communications. The major engagement of Borqs is to develop and promote mobile operation platform and its application software. Headquartered in Beijing, the company has offices and R&D centers in the China and India. The company is a commercialization partner of Google Android OHA (Open Handset Alliance) and China TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn's preeminent executive event series includes the Innovation Summit, OnMedia, OnHollywood, Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic / IMPACT 2011, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen Silicon Valley, and GoingGreen East. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.

SOURCE Borqs Inc.