SearchMaryland.com Names Top Businesses to Watch

    BALTIMORE, MD, March 28, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- SearchMaryland.com, the leading local directory of businesses, attractions and organizations in Maryland, has announced the recipients of its "Top Businesses to Watch" recognition. The "Top Businesses to Watch" recipients include businesses representing the clean energy, mobile advertising, healthcare, technology, and education industries.

Companies recognized in SearchMaryland.com's "Top Businesses to Watch" include:

UR Solar Power: In 2011, UR Solar Power, LLC received the "Best Green Company" title in the Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Awards. The company "develops, implements and manages residential solar programs for utilities and national retailers."

Millennial Media: The company touts itself as the "leading independent mobile advertising and data platform powering the app economy," and the awards it has received back up its claims. Millennial Media has been honored with a bevy of awards; in 2011, the company ranked 74 on the Inc. 500 list, won the "Mobile Marketing Campaign of the Year" at the American Business Awards, won Mobiletrax's "Mobility Award", and took home the Future Mobile Awards title of "Mobile Entertainment Winner."

WellDoc: In 2011, WellDoc was named National Business Incubation Association's "Outstanding Incubator Graduate Company of the Year." WellDoc was also one of 100 companies featured in Forbes' "America's Most Promising Companies" list. The company uses Internet, smartphone, and other technologies to help reduce overall healthcare costs and improve disease management outcomes.

Kloudtrack: Focusing on providing technology solutions for governance, risk and compliance data and process management, Kloudtrack was named the Incubator Company of the Year Awards' "Best Information Technology Company" in 2011.

StraighterLine: Fast Company named StraighterLine one of the "10 Most Innovative Companies in Education" due to the fact that StraighterLine provides the first year of a college education for less than $999. StraighterLine provides online college courses intended to be more affordable and convenient than traditional brick-and-mortar universities provide. The Maryland Incubator Awards also named StraighterLine the "New Company of the Year."

Companies were selected for the SearchMaryland.com "Top Businesses to Watch" list based on a number of criteria, including their growth and their innovation. "We're delighted to showcase five businesses that highlight the best of what the Maryland business community has to offer," said Ashley Boswell of SearchMaryland.com. "We congratulate all of the businesses who made our list, and encourage each of them to continue the good work!" Visit http://www.searchmaryland.com/news/2012-top-businesses-to-watch/ to read more about the "Top Businesses to Watch" list.

About SearchMaryland.com
SearchMaryland.com is the leading local directory of businesses, attractions, organizations and anything else related to Maryland. SearchMaryland.com hosts a comprehensive, human-edited business directory that provides information about companies and businesses based in the "Old-Line State" and is able to be searched by business category or by county. Visit http://www.searchmaryland.com for more information or to add your business to the SearchMaryland.com local directory.

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