ZUG, Switzerland and NEW YORK, January 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leader in Web-Plus-Mobile Financial Information Solutions Recognized as
One of the Top 100 Private Technology Companies in the World

CarryQuote, A.G. (www.carryquote.com), the leading provider of
web-plus-mobile financial information solutions, announced today that it has
been selected as a Red Herring Global 100 (
http://www.herringevents.com/global08 ) Award winner. This prestigious awards
program honors the top 100 private technology companies in the world.

"Being named a Red Herring Global 100 Award winner recognizes our
standing as the first and only company to offer real-time, global financial
information and analytics to investors on their desktops and on their
smartphones," said Michael Stennicke, CEO, CarryQuote. "We thank Red Herring
for recognizing our achievement and we look forward to continuing to enable
hedge fund managers, wealth managers and individual investors to stay on top
of market changes and have greater visibility into real-time global market
data."

The winners were announced at the Red Herring Global 2008, held on
January 14-16, 2009 in San Diego, California. Out of 1,800 successful,
eligible companies, the Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed
process to drill-down to the best companies first to 200 finalists, then to
the top 100 winners of this global award. Evaluations were made on both
quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance,
innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration.

"CarryQuote has proven to be a company excelling in their industry and
its ripples have turned into waves," commented Red Herring publisher Alex
Vieux. "It was difficult for us to narrow down, but we are pleased to have
included CarryQuote in our list of promising companies. We look forward to
the changes CarryQuote will bring to its industry in the future."

The power of CarryQuote's financial information solution rests in the
coupling of on-demand, real-time market snapshot views from more than 50
global data sources with macroeconomic data to produce actionable analytics
that filter and rank potential investment opportunities across asset classes
and geographies. The solution offers a fast and easy-to-use, web-plus-mobile
(http://www.carryquote.com/solutions/overview/ )experience that is available
on the desktop and on all smartphones, including Blackberry, Windows, Nokia
(Symbian) Android (Google) and iPhone.

About CarryQuote

CarryQuote is the first and only web-plus-mobile financial information
services company to provide cost-effective, real-time pricing data,
actionable analytics and personalized alerts through a unique,
web-plus-mobile application. CarryQuote's real-time snapshot market views and
personalized alerts ensure that fund managers, wealth managers and individual
investors are always on top of market changes and have visibility into market
data from more than 50 global data sources covering a broad range of asset
classes, including equities, bonds, foreign exchange, commodities, real
estate and alternative investments.

About Red Herring

Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world's best high
technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a
variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology
news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders
around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global
innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging
technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is
available on the Internet at http://www.redherring.com/.