Pinstorm - Red Herring Asia 100The logo came in a little after midnight our time, confirming it. Red Herring has updated its site to reflect the final 100 winners.

It’s still sinking in. They looked at over 600 companies all over Asia - and Japan and Australia and Russia, and picked us in their top 100. Wowie!

We’re one among a dozen companies they picked with a base in India and, at 15 months of age, we’re by far the youngest of the lot. We’re also the only one in the world this year - across Red Herring’s Asia, Europe and North America lists that’s in the $12 billion business of search engine marketing.

Your wishes - when we last counted, over 60 on the blog itself and a lot many more on email - must have counted. Oh, yes, Sam - and those t-shirts you made for us.

What next? Off to Shanghai on Sep 5 to receive said award, meet the other 99 (and hopefully win some clients among them too!).

Ask us Ni Hao Ma in a couple of weeks!

Mahesh Murthy