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Science and Technology
Tue, February 3, 2009 eSignal Unveils QuoTrek 2.0 for Mobile Devices
HAYWARD, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--eSignal, a division of Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) and a leading provider of streaming, real-time financial market data, news, analytics and decision-support tools for professional and individual traders, today announced that it has launched QuoTrek® 2.0, the latest update to the Company's leading mobile financial service available for Blackberry and other Java-enabled mobile devices.
In addition to the robust mobile tools the service currently offers, the QuoTrek 2.0 platform now allows users to view 5 portfolios containing up to 15 symbols each, 45 more symbols than the prior version, and features Snap Quote, which provides on-demand pricing information on a scrollable screen. The news window has also been upgraded to include Dow Jones energy and commodities news and supports key word and symbol searches.
"Investors will quickly find that it is an amazing experience to have such powerful market information available in the palm of their hands," said Chuck Thompson, president of eSignal. "QuoTrek 2.0 empowers its users with convenient real-time data updates to their watch list of securities anytime, anywhere. These additional features will deliver a new level of access to personalized financial information by allowing customers to manage and monitor the market using more dynamic tools on their mobile devices."
The predecessor to the QuoTrek 2.0 product is currently highlighted in New York's Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. In its exhibit, "Trading on the Street," the museum traces the history of stock trading through the electronic era. It identifies the original QuoTrek device as the first to send market quotes, news and information via FM airwaves to users across the United States, long before PDAs, cell phones and instant messaging existed. Pioneered by eSignal and launched in 1983, the original QuoTrek boasted more than 50,000 subscribers to real-time market data and news services. Now, eSignal's award-winning services and financial tools are available to users on most Java-enabled portable devices including Blackberry® Bold™.
With the latest update, QuoTrek continues to help meet the needs of the financial services industry by providing investors with eSignal's reliable, streaming, real-time quotes on their hand-held, portable devices. QuoTrek provides investors with streaming charts containing real-time data that can be displayed in line, bar or candlestick form, as well as access to U.S. and international stocks, indices, futures, options and FOREX data. QuoTrek users can also access more than 15 analytical studies, along with real-time company announcements from newswire services such as PR Newswire and Business Wire.
Availability and Pricing:
QuoTrek 2.0 is currently available. Monthly subscription fees start at $59, but current subscribers to other eSignal products, including LiveCharts, eSignal, eSignal Pro or FutureSource Workstation, can add QuoTrek to their subscription for free for the first 30 days and for only $35 per month thereafter. For more information, visit eSignal's QuoTrek website at [ www.QuoTrek.com ] or call 510.723.1765.
About Interactive Data:
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company's businesses supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities. Through its businesses, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics, and eSignal, the Company has approximately 2,300 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Company is headquartered in Bedford, Mass. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, is Interactive Data Corporation's majority stockholder.
For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visit [ www.interactivedata.com ].
Interactive DataSM and the Interactive Data logo are service marks of Interactive Data Corporation.
About eSignal:
eSignal ([ www.eSignal.com ]), Interactive Data Corporation's (NYSE: IDC) desktop solutions business, is a leading global provider of financial and business information to professional traders and active individual traders. Building on a legacy of 25 years of delivering time-sensitive financial information, eSignal provides streaming, real-time market data, news and analytics. eSignal's suite of products includes eSignal®, Advanced GET®, QuoTrek®, FutureSource®, MarketCenter LIVE(SM), QCharts®, LiveCharts®, Market-Q(SM) and the Web portals FutureSource.com, Quote.com® and RagingBull.com.
Blackberry® and Blackberry® Bold(TM) are trademarks of Research in Motion Limited.
