Spectral Capital Corporation
Spectral’s Monitr Launches Mobile App Extends audience reach: desktop, tablets and smartphones
Spectral Capital Corporation / Key word(s): Miscellaneous Spectral’s Monitr Launches Mobile App SEATTLE-(BUSINESS WIRE)-(December 3, 2014) Spectral Capital Corporation, (FCCN.QB), announced today that portfolio company Monitr has launched a mobile app, significantly extending the reach of its market news analysis platform. Monitr is now available on desktop devices, tablets and smartphones. Gaining vital trading information is now accessible to anyone using an iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows smartphone. Monitr’s app grows its available audience to over 1 billion people worldwide and is another key element to Monitr’s customer acquisition strategy. Monitr finds, aggregates and analyzes thousands of news articles and opinions daily, calculating the sentiment, trend and impact on equities, sectors and indices for every article or social media post in real time. Monitr’s mobile app extends the Monitr service, making real time analysis for over 7,000 publicly traded companies, indices such as S&P500, Dow Jones and Russell 2000, major sectors and 212 industries accessible at any time from a smartphone. The many benefits of having a mobile website with access to the Monitr’s dashboard include instantaneous updates, immediate access, ease of sharing, and overall user support experience is improved. Also, users who take advantage of the Monitr email digest can access the linked company’s data on their mobile devices. Without the need to add another icon on the phone, users can bookmark Monitr.com on their mobile browser and Monitr instantly presents a mobile friendly dashboard. Screens load instantly, including data-intensive screens, which often lag in comparable mobile apps. In addition, network data usage is reduced substantially thereby reducing Monitr’s network load, including data usage across cellular networks, often a concern for consumers of financial applications. Monitr’s mobile app takes advantage of the local storage capabilities of HTML5, a modern technology ideal for building mobile applications. The use of HTML5 local storage offers significant advantages to mobile users of Monitr. “The release of a mobile app is a central pillar in our product development strategy,” said Monitr CEO, Dennis Lutsky. “Current users of Monitr can now access Monitr’s rich market news analysis on their smartphones, which instantly increases the value of the Monitr service to our current customers by extending Monitr’s reach beyond the traditional office environment.” With smartphone access now an essential part of the service, Monitr is well positioned to become an integral tool for investors who believe news moves markets. “Equally important,” added Lutsky, “Monitr is now a viable option for mobile-first – or even mobile-only – consumers of market news and analysis, which opens up a sizeable new group of potential consumers.” Monitr’s mobile app is available to all registered users of Monitr, including those who register for Monitr’s generous free plan. In addition to individual accounts, Monitr is available to larger financial institutions via customizable data feeds, on the web as Software as a Service (SAAS) and via Monitr’s mobile app. For more information and to sign up for Monitr’s free or paid services, visit www.monitr.com ABOUT SPECTRAL: Spectral Capital (FCCN) is a publicly traded technology startup accelerator that invests primarily in emerging and fast growth technology markets. We offer shareholders an ideal way to invest in early stage startups with the added benefit of investment liquidity through public exchanges. We acquire companies that are developing technologies and solutions to challenging business problems and needs. Spectral guides and mentors each new venture, keeping them on track and focused on growth. Spectral Capital has offices and operations in North America and Europe.
ABOUT MONITR: Monitr is a technology and financial data services company. Monitr specializes in the analysis of news, opinion and social media to determine the aggregate sentiment and trends of equities, commodities and currencies across world markets. It offers these services direct to customers on the web as Software as a Service and via customized data feeds for financial institutions and hedge funds. PRESS RELEASE FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENT: Contact: 206-262-7820 03.12.2014 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP – a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de |
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