The Ennis-based weather forecasting business, Nowcasting International, has had a major win for its Askmoby.com initiative.Askmoby.com has been awarded the 2008 Silver Award for the Most Innovative Business Model at the Mobile Search Awards in London. The service provides a quality and accurate hour-by-hour forecasting, free of charge, from www.askmoby.com.
“We were very pleased to beat big international companies from Europe and Silicon Valley; it’s a very significant feather in the cap for us,” said CEO Mark White.
Askmoby.com is sponsoring the Green Dragon in the Volvo Ocean Race and assisting the crew with specialist requirements for current forecasting on some of the legs.
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