Article: Become.com Short-listed as a Finalist for the ''Red Herring 100 North America'' Awards; The Most-Promising Technology Ventures Will Be Honored at the Red Herring Spring 2006 CEO Summit.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Red Herring announced that Become.com, the only vertical search engine combining comparison shopping with Web-wide product research, has been short-listed as one of the top 200 contenders for its annual "Red Herring 100 North America" list. Well over 1,000 privately held technology companies submitted to this year's edition of the prestigious award, giving evidence to the invigorated innovative and entrepreneurial strength of the technology ecosystem.

"We can see the resurgence of the tech sector reflected in the quantity and variety of excellent companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together," said Joel Dreyfuss, ...

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