Zacks Selects SkyGrid to Power Real-Time Financial News

Zacks with SkyGrid Delivers Real-Time Financial News Alongside Investment Research

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--SkyGrid, the award-winning real-time financial news platform, has partnered with Zacks, a leading research firm in the investment industry, to give Zacks users real-time financial news. Not only does SkyGrid give Zacks users the ability to see real-time financial news, it also allows users to sort by sentiment or time to quickly see the information they care about most. This partnership brings together two of the teams that financial and business news readers have come to trust for accuracy and quality.

“We’re grateful and enthusiastic to be a partner with Zacks. The combination of Zacks Investment Research and SkyGrid’s real-time content should be something we believe will make many users happy”

“We’re grateful and enthusiastic to be a partner with Zacks. The combination of Zacks Investment Research and SkyGrid’s real-time content should be something we believe will make many users happy,” said SkyGrid founder and CEO Kevin Pomplun.

SkyGrid delivers high-quality financial content from trusted sources in real-time. SkyGrid gives its members a unique way to filter financial news in real-time by using sentiment, source type, and even real-time clusters that show which companies are being discussed the most in the news.

“SkyGrid’s high quality real-time financial news is a natural fit for Zacks users. We selected SkyGrid because of their high quality content, broad reach, and simple and clean design. We’re confident our users will have both high quality information and another reason to enjoy the value we deliver,” said Zacks Vice President of Trading Services John Tornatore.

The partnership between Zacks and SkyGrid adds to a growing list of awards and accolades recognizing the company’s distinctive technology and market leadership. SkyGrid’s first award was received in 2007 for the prestigious Adobe MAX Award in 2007, given alongside Nike, Verizon and Visa. More recently, in the past few months, Pomplun was named one of BusinessWeek magazine's “Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2009,” and also SkyGrid was named as an AlwaysOn Global 250 winner.

About SkyGrid

SkyGrid delivers high quality financial content from trusted sources, in real-time. SkyGrid members include people who are passionate about stock market news, business news, and financial information. To deliver high quality content to its members, SkyGrid gathers millions sources online, filters the information for reputation and relevance, and then presents a real-time stream of the information. Members can search by company, index, industry sector, or multiple custom portfolios. SkyGrid’s reach has a vast index covering millions of blogs and enthusiast websites, thousands of local and regional newspapers, press releases, news wires, product review sites, and the top 100 largest websites by traffic. SkyGrid’s efficiency means that you can search the equivalent of a stack of newspapers more than a mile high in less than one second.

SkyGrid was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in New York City as well. Investors include RRE Ventures, BlackRock, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Esther Dyson, and others. For information, please telephone [phone] or visit www.skygrid.com.

About Zacks

Zacks Investment Research is one of the most highly regarded firms in the investment industry. The guiding principle behind our work is that there must be a good reason for brokerage firms to spend billions of dollars a year on stock research. Obviously, these investment experts know something special that may be indicative of the future direction of stock prices. From day one, we were determined to unlock that secret knowledge and make it available to our clients to help them improve their investment results. In 1978 our founder, Len Zacks, made a breakthrough. Armed with his PhD in Mathematics from MIT, Len discovered that: Earnings estimate revisions are the most powerful force impacting stock prices. From there he developed a quantitative model to harness the power of earnings estimate revisions - the direction, the degree of change, and surprises - along with other important variables to create the Zacks Rank. For more on Zacks' services for individual investors, visit the Zacks Services page.