Though it was a finalist, it was seen as a long shot by energy analysts, because it was farthest from China and because Chinese leaders were said to have been worried about their growing dependence on oil imports from the politically volatile Middle East.
Rather than be bogged down in the "awful lot of commiseration that's going on," he said, Harland & Wolff should build on the fact that it was a finalist though it had not built a cruise ship for some 40 years.
It's a finalist in Intel's Make It Wearable competition — meaning they've just scored themselves $50,000 and all of the mentorship, design help, and technical support a company like Intel can throw at them in order to make it real.
Zenefits is notable here in the TechCrunch house as it first launched its product at Disrupt NY in 2013 when it was a finalist in our Startup Battlefield.
Love's latest game, Analogue: A Hate Story, is a bit of a toughie to describe, but it's catching tons of critical buzz, and it's a finalist for this fall's carefully-curated Indiecade festival, too.
LuAnn Walther, the editorial director of Vintage Anchor, who bought the paperback rights to "Lord of Misrule" after it became a finalist for the National Book Award, said she considered it a gamble of sorts.
