Austrian online movie portal Flimmit wins "Red Herring Europe 100 Award"

Vienna, 28th May 2010 Award honours especially innovative companies www.flimmit.com

(Vienna, 28th May 2010) - With its 'Film Search' on www.flimmit.com Austrian Start Up Flimmit now itself stands in the spotlight: the online portal with information on more than 65,000 movies and more than 500 films for legal download and streaming wins the 'Red Herring Europe 100 Award'. The award annually honours only 100 private technology ventures for their innovation, originality and success. A few hundreds are nominated for the award. "We are very proud to be one of the hundred most innovative companies in Europe", say the founders Karin Haager, Ulrich Muller-Uri and Walter Huber. "Being winners of the 'Red Herring Europe 100 Award' we follow the steps of some great Start Ups. It proves that we are on the right way and gives us a huge motivation boost to carry on!"

The 'Red Herring Europe 100' list is an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry. Amongst the winners of past years were companies such as Google, Yahoo, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com and YouTube, during their Start Up time.

'Film Search' by Flimmit - get results simple and fast
The 'Film Search', available online since April 2010 on www.flimmit.com, was especially innovative for the 'Red Herring' jury. It simplifies the search for information on movies and products thereof. Users get all online available data easily and fast just by entering one search request. The results are clearly arranged on one page. All available products are listed according to their price and their regional availability.