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Congratulations to GlobeChat and their Founder, Kevin Strom for being selected as “Finalist – 2017 OCTANe High-Tech Innovator of The Year\u201d. \u00a0GlobeChat enables people to communicate with others anywhere in the world with video, photos, text, voice-to-text, and audio files on Android, Apple and Windows mobile devices, as well as tablets, laptops and desktops. The platform translates languages real-time within private one- to-one, private group as well as public chat environments allowing for seamless interaction – each person receives messages in their native language regardless of the language of the sender. GlobeChat offers an innovative search feature allowing a user to easily filter others globally based on age, gender, orientation, religion, political affiliation, education, career, interests, commonalities and more with the results immediately displayed on a colorful map of the world.\u00a0 Since launch on April 1st, 2016 GlobeChat has now spread to 152 Countries.\u00a0 In the first year since launch, GlobeChat has received 10 other awards in addition to this most recent one. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

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