Skygrid Furthers Partnerships For Real-Time News Widgets
by Leena Rao on August 25, 2009

SkyGrid is slowly expanding its real-time financial news empire. The powerful business news aggregator, recently struck a deal with StockTwits, a popular site that lets you track real-time discussions about stock information on Twitter, to feature a live feed of real-time news. Tomorrow, SkyGrid will launch its real-time financial news widget on Zacks, an investment research site that’s popular in the financial industry.

Similar to the deal with StockTwits, SkyGrid will embed a widget into Zacks pages of financial information for companies, showing a stream of incoming, real-time news for the company on the page. You can also filter news by sentiment: SkyGrid uses semantic text analysis to determine if each incoming article is deemed positive, negative, or neutral about a given company.

SkyGrid’s founder Kevin Pomplun told us the the integration of SkyGrid’s widget with StockTwits was so successful that StockTwit’s homepage will now feature a real-time general financial news widget. Considering the success of the StockTwits partnership, I’m betting that we’ll see many more publishers who want the real-time news widget.

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  • I was on SkyGrid for the first time in a while earlier today. They’ve made some noticeable improvement and it’s nice to hear about this as well. I would love to see a video feed of financial news in the top right hand corner box where they currently advertise, give tips, and make announcement’s. It’s a wonderful service, and I hope to start using it regularly.

  • Why did they need $13 million in funding if they can predict the stock market? Couldn’t they have started with must less?

    • A bunch of liars.

      If they can predict stock market, they’d better to use the money to run a hedge fund.

      In investment work, if people discover something “works”, they keep it as secret.

      Do not know why those VCs tried to make themselves a fool to invest in this crap.

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