Alacra Street Pulse, Alacra, Inc.

Alacra Street Pulse answers the question “what do key opinion leaders have to say…” about a given company.

By aggregating comments from sell-side, credit and industry analysts, along with key bloggers, Street Pulse provides a single view into what’s being said by key opinion leaders about a company or industry.

Street Pulse, the first application built on the Alacra Pulse Platform, which was launched four weeks ago, combines content from traditional news sources with a group of about 1,000 hand-selected blogs. The content is then run through our proprietary semantic tagger, which extracts entities, such as companies or people, and events, such as analyst upgrades or downgrades, mergers and acquisitions, corporate bankruptcies and more.

Street Pulse uses a freemium business model. A completely free version is available at http://pulse.alacra.com. That version is supported by advertising and the sale of contextually relevant content from the Alacra Store. A professional version, available for license, provides additional functionality such as portfolios, email alerts, enhanced sharing capabilities and advanced search.

Street Pulse is the first application to launch on the Alacra Pulse Platform. Alacra will soon be adding new Pulse applications, including Deal Pulse (M&A events), Legal Pulse (law firm mentions) and Weak Pulse (events for distressed companies).

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Factiva.com, Dow Jones

Factiva.com is the only business research platform that combines comprehensive global news and business information with sophisticated research tools and technologies that help your entire organization make better decisions faster. Its unrivalled content includes more than 25,000 leading sources from more than 159 countries, in 22 languages.

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HighBeam Research (www.highbeam.com), HighBeam Research, Inc.

Highbeam offers consumers an affordable and easy way to find credible information faster. Now with 65 million articles from the world's top published sources (including AP, The Economist, The Washington Post and more), users can search newspapers, magazines and journals and use timesaving tools to organize their research.

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www.infongen.com, InfoNgen

Content sources exist in many different places and utilize very diverse technologies. That’s why InfoNgen was engineered with a flexible set of aggregation tools that are agnostic to content format, enabling seamless navigation of content across different applications that typically do not ‘talk’ to each other. By constantly scanning, indexing and automatically applying consistent meta-data to all sources of information, InfoNgen enables users to discover highly relevant information no matter where it resides – on the web, in emails or attachments, on their desktops, among workgroups or even within an entire enterprise.

Traditional content aggregators require an author or publisher to determine what a story is about and to manually tag it. This results in inconsistent tagging and the inability to effectively cross-reference or discover related content across disparate content sets. InfoNgen’s automated tagging determines the semantic intent – the ‘aboutness’ – of a document by recognizing certain text patterns. Tagging content uniformly across all sources – and in eight languages – enables InfoNgen users to spot trends and discover connections between information that might not otherwise be apparent.

InfoNgen delivers results in real-time through a range of mechanisms, including customized newsletters, desktop popups and our proprietary Scrolling Alerts Screen.

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TheMarkets Bullseye, TheMarkets.com

For over 2,400 institutional investment management firms worldwide, TheMarkets.com is the preferred partner for research from hundreds of brokers, estimates on thousands of companies, and applications that maximize relationships between the buy-side and the sell-side.

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