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

Sri Lanka Cracks down on Software Piracy. Anti-Piracy and Counterfeit Unit of Sri Lanka Police Carries out Raids

05th December 2010, www.sundayobserver.lk

The Anti-Piracy and Counterfeit Unit, recently established at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Sri Lanka Police carried out a series of raids on an international group of companies suspected of infringing the intellectual property rights of Business Software Alliance members. Amongst the pirated and unlicensed software were those from Adobe, Autodesk and Microsoft.

The use of pirated and unlicensed software in businesses is a criminal offense under the Intellectual Property Law No.36 of 2003.

The inspection and identification of suspected pirated software took over eight hours and the police seized over 30 computers, installed with suspected pirated business software valued at rupees seven million five hundred thousand (Rs. 7,500,000) taken into Police custody for further inspection and to be produced in Court.

Director CID Wijaya Amarasinghe said: "The laws of Sri Lanka must be respected.

We are focusing on taking action against companies using pirated and unlicensed software in their business as they are not only infringing upon the rights of copyright owners, but may be indirectly rewarding illegal vendors or even organised crime networks. Companies trying to cut costs may be tempted to use pirated software and disregard the law, but piracy is theft and is actionable by law.

The software industry and other creative sectors need protection against this kind of crime. We are responsible for creating a safe environment where legitimate businesses, innovation and original ideas can flourish".

"The Police is committed to protecting intellectual property rights, and will not hesitate to pursue criminal action against senior management of companies found to be taking advantage and flouting the law in this regard", Amarasinghe said.

Consultant, Business Software Alliance (BSA) Sri Lanka Shalini Ratwatte said, "The BSA commends the Government for its initiative to create a safe environment for Intellectual Property and Innovation to thrive.

The establishment of the Anti-Piracy and Counterfeit Unit at the CID, with its dedicated and well trained team, is an example of the Government's commitment to ensure respect for the law in this area.

This is vital for building investor confidence and supporting the growth of legitimate local business".

The cases are being heard at the Magistrate's Courts of Panadura and Kalutara under the instructions of Sudath Perera Associates.

ERP Goes Live in 6 Weeks at Swedish Industrial Park in Sri Lanka, Implemented by IFS

15th September 2010, www.lankabusinessonline.com

Firms in an industrial park in Sri Lanka are getting enterprise resource planning software (EFP) from Swedish based IFS, in as little as six weeks, making it a record for implementing such software, officials said.

The Flinth Industrial Park, a unit of Swedcord Development AB of Sweden provides not only factory infrastructure but also operational support such as finance, legal, services, quality control, human resources and information technology for firm in their park.

"The actual companies in the park are built to produce and market, nothing else," says Flinth group chairman Rune Flinth.

Flinth has been operating its own factories in Sri Lanka for twenty years.

The firm has signed up IFS to support manufactures in the park which has eight firms.

Jayantha de Silva, head of IFS for Asia Pacific said the software had gone live in six weeks at two firms, which was a record for ERP implementation.

IFS is firm with 2.6 billion Swedish Krona with 2,000 customers and 2,700 employees. It also has 40 customers in Sri Lanka.

The Flinth park has firms making sensors for aircraft, cables and cable harnesses. Aerosense, a firm making sensors for aircraft was the firm with the most complex manufacturing processes, officials said.

IFS software comes in modules which can be implemented at each firm connected to the common services provided by the industrial park.

IFS has now started providing its services outside its own park starting with an industry that supplies components to one of the firms in the park.

Flinth says he has had discussions with Sri Lanka Board of Investments, which approves foreign investments and runs industrial parks about extending the concept.