July 31, 2007 10:55 ET

SingleFeed Selected by AlwaysOn as an AO100 Top Private Company Award Winner

Company Recognized for Leadership in Emerging Technology and Global Business Potential

MENLO PARK, CA--(Marketwire - July 31, 2007) - SingleFeed, an online self-service data feed management, submission, and optimization company, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AO100 Top Private Companies for 2007. The fifth-annual elite AO100 list was compiled by the AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the AO100 list, companies had to be peer-nominated, with AlwaysOn receiving more than 1,000 nominations from venture investors, investment bankers and other industry experts.

SingleFeed, a Comparison Ventures, Inc. company, and the AO100 Top Private Companies for 2007 will be honored at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit to be held July 31 - Aug 2, 2007, at Stanford University. The Stanford Summit is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. The idea behind the AO100 top private companies list is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global technology industry.

SingleFeed is a growing online self-service data feed management, submission, and optimization company. No matter what level of experience a small or medium-sized online retailer has with shopping data feeds, SingleFeed can save them time and money as well as get them better results on the shopping comparison engines. SingleFeed's single feed covers all required fields and most important optional fields for the top shopping engines, including Shopping.com, NexTag, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, Yahoo! Shopping, Google Base (Google Product Search), Smarter.com, and Become.

A full list of all the AlwaysOn Top 100 Private Companies can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/15899

"Our team is thrilled that AlwaysOn has recognized SingleFeed's outstanding potential," said Brian Smith, CEO, Comparison Ventures, Inc. "Almost every merchant who works with multiple shopping comparison engines is looking for an easier way. SingleFeed not only provides this ability, but the company's efforts in pioneering data feed optimization (DFO) tactics enable merchants to more effectively market through the shopping comparison engines. We're giving merchants the power to succeed. And with the many enhancements we're releasing in the next couple of weeks and months, merchants that work with SingleFeed will be able to considerably outperform their competitors this holiday shopping season and into 2008."

About The AlwaysOn Stanford Summit

The Stanford Summit is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries. The Stanford Summit features the most innovative companies, eminent technologists, influential investors and journalists in keynote presentations, panel debates and private company CEO showcases. The Stanford Summit's goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry.

About Comparison Ventures, Inc.

SingleFeed, a Comparison Ventures, Inc. company, helps small and medium-sized online merchants quickly and easily syndicate their products to multiple shopping comparison engines like Google Base (Google Product Search), Yahoo! Shopping, Shopping.com, Shopzilla, NexTag, Become, Smarter.com, and PriceGrabber. As opposed to automated XML data feed submission solutions, SingleFeed focuses on data feed optimization, so merchants have the best chance of succeeding on the shopping comparison engines.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Stanford Summit, AlwaysOn Hollywood, AlwaysOn Media and GoingGreen) and quarterly print "blogozine" by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.