StockTouch - An App that Tells You More in Five Seconds than You Would Learn Reading Financial News All Day

StockTouch is a powerful new way to monitor and understand the stock market for casual and professional investors. Designed for both iPhone and iPad, StockTouch was selected by Apple as the Top iPad Finance App for 2011 and was the Top Grossing App for Finance in the AppStore, October 12, 2011. Also, Apps Magazine has selected it as the Best Work App of 2011.

StockTouch uses up-to-the-minute market data to create 9,800 dynamic charts, all of them available at your fingertips. You can customize your view of the market to view price or volume, and rearrange the layout to sort by market cap, winners, activity and alphabetical. You can use StockTouch to see the top 900 stocks in the U.S. market, as well as the top 900 global stocks, categorized across nine industry sectors.

With StockTouch, you can go back in time, using the slider to see results from as far back as five years ago to as recent as five minutes ago. You can see the entire stock market as the day unfolds and zoom in to take a closer look at individual stocks with StockTouch. 9 sectors, 900 companies, 12,600 tiles of heat, 6300 charts, 10,800 news stories, all updated every 5 minutes, all at once. Through favorites, StockTouch allows you to keep track of the stocks that matter most to you, automatically syncing between your iPad and iPhone via iCloud.

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For the Financial Pros

● StockTouch uses up-to-the-minute market data to create 9,800 dynamic charts, all of them available at your fingertips. You can customize your view of the market to view price or volume, and rearrange the layout to sort by market cap, winners, activity and alphabetical.

● StockTouch has a search function, offering two different ways to find any publicly-traded stock.

● You can use StockTouch to see the top 900 stocks in the U.S. market, as well as the top 900 global stocks, categorized across nine industry sectors.

● With StockTouch, you can go back in time, using the slider to see results from as far back as five years ago to as recent as five minutes ago.

● With live information, StockTouch allows you to see 1400 companies at any one time, supported by over 16,000 news articles.

● You can see the entire stock market as the day unfolds and zoom in to take a closer look at individual stocks with StockTouch.

● 9 sectors, 900 companies, 12,600 tiles of heat, 6300 charts, 10,800 news stories, all updated every 5 minutes, all at once.

● Through favorites, StockTouch allows you to keep track of the stocks that matter most to you, automatically syncing between your iPad and iPhone via iCloud.

● Future versions of StockTouch will include new visualizations, watch lists, portfolios, more analytics, international markets, and social features.


For the Technical Mind

● StockTouch was awarded the #1 iPad Finance App by Apple's App Store Rewind 2011.

● StockTouch's technology platform is the first of its kind to apply a video game engine to visualize statistical data, which is combined with a proprietary compression technology that transmits information at 20x the speed of comparable apps allowing the application to deliver up-to-the-minute market trends and numbers through a visually-intuitive, game-like, iOS-native interface.

● StockTouch was designed for mobile-touch. One fluid zoomable heat map interface displays 75% of all global trading activity, enabling investors to view the equity markets contextually as they unfold.

● StockTouch is a series of color-coded heat maps that gives you the pulse and direction of the market by price, volume, in the context of the S&P 500, well as by performance within a given sector.

● StockTouch brings revolutionary data visualization to the masses so that anyone can understand the dynamics of the stock market, not just the financial elite.

● StockTouch features a groundbreaking interface that combines design, animation and high performance, bringing together the power of data visualization and financial market data.


For the Casual Investor

● StockTouch is for everyone, not just traders– college students deciding on careers, jobseekers looking for new opportunities, salespeople calling on clients, retired people, entrepreneurs starting new businesses.

● StockTouch is a dynamic, tactile map of the market for iPad, iPhone and Mac desktop.

● StockTouch brings the market to your fingertips, and gives you a dynamic birds eye view of the stock market's activities with a professional understanding of the stock market instantly.

● On StockTouch, shades of green indicate stocks that are gaining in value, while shades of red indicate stocks that are losing in value.

● StockTouch's touch and zoom-based navigation makes rapidly flying through a large data set very natural and intuitive.

● StockTouch is currently available in the iTunes store as a universal app for iPad and iPhone.


User Reviews:

"StockTouch is an iPad/iPhone app that allows users to quickly understand in a very visual way the overall state of the stock market, and then drill down further to the individual stock level. StockTouch includes a groundbreaking interface that brings together the power of data visualization and Xignite’s financial market data." - Financial Market Data Web Services - XIGNITE BLOG

"It's an enormous force when we animate our statistics… The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation." – Hans Rosling

"We are in a blizzard of information - we need to be able to design ways of visualising data in a way that can make them beautiful, that can make them tell a story, that can make them more understandable." – David McCandless

"I highly recommend StockTouch if you are even the slightest bit interested in the stock market. Those that care about the stock market for business or personal reasons would also love this app. It’s just a great tool for watching over the markets, and easily puts Apple’s own Stocks app to shame." Christine Chan - Appadvice.com

"StockTouch is a surprisingly cheap app given the power and functionality it contains. What is it? Essentially, it’s an app that lets you know anything you could possibly want to know about the stock market at any point in time." - Technophilia


For More Information: Please visit StockTouch Website

First Restaurant to Use iPad for Menus is in Sri Lanka

13th April 2010, www.dailymirror.lk

On the opposite side of the planet to Cupertino, California is the island nation Sri Lanka, home to Nihonbashi Japanese Restaurants, the first restaurant in the world to use the iPad. Nihonbashi has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to restaurant design, creativity in foods and bringing to diners the cultural and gastronomical appeal of Japanese cuisine.

The half Japanese, half Sri Lankan owner of Nihonbashi, Dharshan Munidasa, a Johns Hopkins Graduate, watched the ipad launch from across the oceans while preparing content for the ipad; and now guests can browse through the menu and view the specials photographically. “Describing an original dish without a picture is tough and hard copies are time consuming and expensive,” says Dharshan as he prepares to use the ipad to communicate to guests daily specials. “No, you cannot order from the ipad,” he continues, as he’s strongly against automated ordering that erodes the relationship between restaurant and diner.

According to Dharshan, the ipads will also be used in the administration aspects of Nihonbashi operations as communications between team members and idea sharing will become easier, faster and more descriptive owing to pictorial representation- and all this without paper. Dharshan explained that the ipad will soon open up a new medium inwhich hotels, resorts, restaurants and banks especially can use as apromotional tool in advertising. With peace settling in the country after decades of war and tourism gathering momentum, Dharshan now wants to show the world that Sri Lanka and his restaurant Nihonbashi is a place where innovative ideas thrive and are not restricted to the Dubais or the Singapores of the world.

Wine lists, daily specials, guest comments and much more will formpart of the content found on the ipad allowing guests to email directly from their ipad comments or take part in surveys and lucky draws. Dharshan added that a special application will also be developed for this very purpose at a later stage. Trying to be the first in the world to introduce the ipad in arestaurant is especially hard owing to the fact that Sri Lanka is on the other side of the globe from the US. If Nihonbashi were based inthe US, Dharshan claims the implementation of the ipad could havehappened on the ipad launch day itself, but with a general election and almost a week of holidays, 9 days later can’t be too bad either.