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Richard Branson Uses Sendsteps

Branson was a guest speaker at an Amsterdam congress on the inauguration day of Barack Obama. Participants were using Sendsteps Technology. Questions could be asked by a text message, after checking them they were put on a large screen.2 students wrote “Will you take along two poor students to Obama?”, to which Branson immediately said…

TomTom Acquires Portfolio Company New Toast The Next Web writes about the Acquisition

The Next Web, a blog with a reported 6,5 Million unique visitors per month and 16,8 Million pageviews per month, writes about the acquisition of New Toast by navigation juggernaut TomTom. Please follow this link for more information: 1) The Next Web Article ~ Acquisition of New Toast, TXXI App  2) The Next Web Article…

Sendsteps and the Hotello of the Year Award Mike Coumans (co-founder Sendsteps) accepts the Hotello of the Year Award

HotelloTOP, initiator of the Hotello of the Year Award, celebrates this year its tenth anniversary edition. The network for graduates of accredited Dutch High Hotel Management provides an active platform where they meet and share knowledge. Once a year it awards one person with the Hotello of the Year award to give recognition for its…

Sendsteps Wins Deloitte Fast 50 Co-founder Mike Coumans accepts prize

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 is the pre-eminent technology awards program with 2014 being its fifteenth anniversary. Combining technological innovation, entrepreneurship and rapid growth, Fast 50 companies – large and small – span a variety of industry sectors, and are leaders in hardware, software, telecom, semiconductors, life sciences and emerging areas, such as clean technology….

Largest Organisation for Electric Transport We meet with the Minister of Transportation

Steven Blom, CEO of Yaiks, was co-founder and chairman of the largest organisation that creates initiatives in the electric transportation field. This day we met with the Minister of Transportation to receive support for our organisation.

World First Taxi Application TomTom acquired our company in 2011

Yaiks co-founded and developed the company New Toast. New Toast went on to develop the worlds’ first location based taxi application (yep, even before uber and mytaxi) in 2009. The company got acquired by global navigation company TomTom (AEX:TOM2) in 2011.