Berlin, April 3rd, 2009 – Red Herring today announced that Gravity Technologies (formerly Gravity R&D) was named a WINNER of the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year. www.redherring.com

Gravity R&D won the Strands $100k Call for Recommender Start-Ups, with IMPRESS, an instant personalized entertainment solution for TV.

Gravity R&D Ltd. specializes in high-quality scalable recommendation systems. We are constantly working on improving our methods to provide state-of-the-art performance for our customers.

Gravity R&D Ltd. is participating very successfully at the famous Netflix Prize competition as team Gravity, see our current position on the leaderboard. We are also a founder of the team Grand Prize Team, which alloys the effort of many teams participating in the competition.

Our software product, the Gravity Recommendation Engine can provide recommendations based on the following data:

• metadata about items, demographic data about users
• the pages the user visits
• the ratings given by the user
• the products purchased by the user

The recommendations are always up-to-date, i.e. all available data are incorporated. We will shortly release our web service based recommendation.

We offer the following services for our current and prospective partners:

• customization of our recommendation engine;
• consultancy services;
• high-quality software development;
• research activity in the field of recommendation systems;
• solving problems for unusual recommendation system settings.

If You are interested in our products or services, or You need recommendation related expertise, do not hesitate contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We would be pleased to answer Your e-mails as soon as possible.