Wajam To Receive C2-MTL Entrepreneur & Innovation Award

MONTREAL, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wajam (www.wajam.com), a leader in social search technology, was selected by the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation as one of the top 25 winners of the C2-MTL Emerging Entrepreneurs contest. Winners will attend the C2-MTL international business conference to be held May 22- May 25, 2012 in Montreal, along with some of the international business world's most creative thinkers and doers including: Francis Ford Coppola, award-winning director; Michael Eisner, Former CEO, WaltDisney Group; Robert Wong, Executive Creative Director, Google Creative Lab; Patrick Pichette, CFO, Google; Bill Damaschke, Chief Creative Officer, DreamWorks; Robert Safian, Editor of Fast Company; and Carl Bass, CEO, Autodesk, to name a few.

"We are honored to be recognized for our innovative business model and selected as one of the C2-MTL 25 top award recipients from over 300 high-caliber applicants," said Wajam founder Martin-Luc Archambault. "We are especially eager to present our company's search technology at the C2-MTL international business conference, where we plan to network with other entrepreneurs and international business leaders."

C2-MTL is an annual global conference that explores the relationship between commerce and creativity and its potential to redefine business. In addition to attending the first edition of C2-MTL, Wajam will take part in activities organized specifically for award-winners including a networking session with C2-MTL's high-profile speaker, Fast Company editor Robert Safian. Additionally, Wajam will join other entrepreneurs in a workshop led by Lotfi El-Ghandouri, founder of Creative Society and The Hub Madrid.

Wajam is an entrepreneurial start-up that offers two ways to search for social results – through its Social Search Everywhere Plugin as well as a search engine option at www.wajam.com. The Wajam Social Search Everywhere Plugin follows you everywhere you search, making search more personal by adding social network results to all web search queries – without having to change user search behavior. Wajam.com gives users a depository of everything your Facebook, Twitter and Google+ friends and followers are posting and the easy ability to search through this comprehensive mashup.

About Wajam
Wajam (www.wajam.com) is a social search engine that gives you access to the knowledge of your friends when you need it. The Wajam Social Search Everywhere Plugin makes searching the web more personal by adding results from friends to your standard searches on Google, Bing or Yahoo! It elevates search relevance by featuring your friends' likes and reviews for products, places, links, photos and videos within your regular search habits, even in places like Amazon, Yelp, Trip Advisor, YouTube and eBay. The Wajam Search site gives users the ability to search their network of trusted friends and followers across multiple social networks all in one place. Wajam launched in private beta in January 2011 and was founded by Martin‐Luc Archambault, who was previously CEO of Zango Canada. Wajam is privately held and funded by Bolidea, and is based in Montreal, Quebec. Visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/wajam or Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/wajam.

Contact:  Cathy Sperrazzo, Eye-To-Eye Communications, Inc. 858-337-7746, [email protected]

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