Brainshark's SlideShark App Wins 'Best Sales App' in TabTimes' Tabby Awards

WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Brainshark, Inc., the leader in online and mobile presentations, today announced that its SlideShark app was honored in the inaugural Tabby Awards /Business competition – a program that recognizes the best business and productivity apps for tablets. SlideShark – the app for viewing and sharing PowerPoints on the iPad and iPhone – won the "Best Sales App" category. The Tabby Awards are run by TabTimes, the online media outlet exclusively covering news and trends in the tablet industry.

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An international panel of independent judges selected the winning apps from submissions worldwide. Winners were announced last week at the TabTimes TabletBiz conference & expo in New York City.

"Sales reps are the ultimate road warriors – so it's critical they have hassle-free, mobile access to the PowerPoints they rely on," said Lisa Johnson, Brainshark's vice president of SlideShark marketing. "SlideShark lets sales teams leave their laptops at home, and deliver powerful presentations right from their iPads and iPhones. We're thrilled to be recognized in the Tabby Awards for SlideShark's role in supporting mobile sales enablement and in helping companies maximize their iPad investments."

With SlideShark, iPad and iPhone users can view PowerPoints the way they were meant to be seen – with fonts, animations, graphics and colors intact – and take advantage of powerful presentation features. Companies worldwide use SlideShark Team Edition, the multi-user business version of SlideShark, to equip distributed salesforces with up-to-date and high-impact presentations, organize and manage content, and see when and how content is being viewed and shared.

Since its launch one year ago, SlideShark has been:

• Downloaded more than 1 million times – with a steady rate of two downloads/min., 24x7.
• Used by businesses and individuals in more than 140 countries.
• Rated 4.5 stars (out of 5) in Apple's App Store, based on thousands of user reviews.
• Continuously listed among the top "Productivity Apps" in the App Store.

For more information and to download SlideShark and SlideShark Team Edition, please see www.slideshark.com and www.slideshark.com/TeamEditionInfo.aspx. More information about the Tabby Awards is available at http://tabbyawards.com.

About The Tabby Awards
The Tabby Awards is the only competition acknowledging the best tablet apps worldwide. For more information, see http://tabbyawards.com/.

About TabTimes
TabTimes provides information and marketing solutions to the tablet ecosystem. It publishes a business news and information website at TabTimes.com, as well as an iPad app, a Windows 8 app, a web app for tablets and several email newsletters. It also organizes the Tablet Strategy and TabletBiz conferences devoted to tablet uses by organizations. TabTimes is based in New York, with editors in the San Francisco Bay Area and in London, UK. For more information, see http://tabtimes.com/about.

About Brainshark, Inc.
Brainshark provides the leading cloud-based solution for creating, sharing and tracking online and mobile video presentations. With Brainshark, businesspeople can easily transform static content such as PowerPoint® documents into voice-enriched video presentations that can be accessed anytime, on-demand. Customers can also obtain extensive viewing details, enabling them to measure the effectiveness of their content and follow up accordingly. Brainshark is also the company behind SlideShark™, the award-winning app for viewing and sharing PowerPoints on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Thousands of companies – including a third of the Fortune 100 – rely on Brainshark to increase the impact and reduce the cost of their sales, marketing, training and HR communications. For more information, visit www.brainshark.com and www.slideshark.com.

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