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Earlier this week in Austin, Texas, the winners of the 2013 SXSW Accelerator competition were announced. <\/p>\n
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The seven winning companies represent the best innovation categories such as Mobile<\/strong>, Gaming<\/strong>, Social<\/strong>, Health<\/strong>, News<\/strong>, Web<\/strong>, plus The Best Bootstrap Company<\/strong>. Here are the winners:<\/p>\n News Technologies: <\/strong><\/p>\n \n Health Technologies: <\/strong><\/p>\n \n Innovative Web Technologies: <\/strong><\/p>\n \n Mobile Technologies: <\/strong><\/p>\n \n Entertainment and Gaming Technologies:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n Social Technologies:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n Best Bootstrap:<\/strong> (the company who has done the most with least)<\/p>\n Earlier this week in Austin, Texas, the winners of the 2013 SXSW Accelerator competition were announced. The seven winning companies represent the best innovation categories such as Mobile, Gaming, Social, Health, News, Web, plus The Best Bootstrap Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mobiadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThis year over 500 companies entered the competition. A panel of experienced industry veterans – including MobiAD’s Ferhan Cook<\/strong> – selected 56 of these companies to demonstrate their product in front of a live audience at SXSW. And then finally the winners in seven categories were selected by a judging group of industry experts, early adopters, journalists, and representatives of the VC community. <\/p>\nPhone2Action<\/strong> – a mobile platform that uses SMS to connect constituents with their elected officials.<\/div>\nNeurotrack<\/strong> – a technique to diagnosis Alzheimer’s disease years before clinical symptoms appear.<\/div>\nWanderu <\/strong>– building the simplest way to book trips on buses and trains, enabling low-budget travelers to connect with affordable transportation.<\/div>\nSyntellia <\/strong>– a way for consumers to type on the familiar keyboard layout on their smartphones without having to look at the screen.<\/div>\nMakieLab<\/strong> – using a 3D-printer to customize toys and dolls and let people combine digital and physical play.<\/div>\nPlotter <\/strong>– a social mapping app that enables people to create, share, and crowdsource maps on their phone.<\/div>\nInfoActive <\/strong>– turning data streams into interactive infographics for media companies.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"