StockTouch
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Stock Market Analysis |
Founded | 2011 |
Headquarters | New York |
Key people | Jennifer Johnson |
Products | StockTouch |
Website | http://www.stocktouch.com |
StockTouch is a discontinued visual stock market analysis and tracking app for iPad and iPhone developed by Visible Market, Inc.[1][2]
StockTouch was noted for its intuitive, game-like interface, and until it closed down, was consistently rated in the top finance apps for iPad, and had been recognized as one of the top 5 stock market apps.[3][4][5][6]
History[edit]
StockTouch was created to give users a visual picture of the overall state of the stock market.[7] It merged real time financial information with data visualization technology.[1][8] Visible Market is a New York-based company.[9][10][11]
The concept for the app was based on a desire to clarify vast amounts of financial data.[8][12] The developers noticed a trend among business professionals to move away from desktop tools and towards mobile ones.[10] In response, they initiated the creation of a different, non-linear app which would visually track stock market trends.[3][13] StockTouch was intended as a platform that provided “democratized” financial information for making the stock market more accessible to the general public.[12][14] To that end, Visible Market was a forerunner among tech companies to use game engine technology and animation in the design of its mobile app, with the goal of helping users to visualize and navigate financial data.[15][16]
StockTouch debuted on June 29, 2011 at a cost of $4.99.[1][12] It spent several weeks as the most downloaded paid financial app.[12][17] In order to reach an even wider audience, Johnson announced that with the launch of StockTouch 1.9, the app would be available for free beginning in April 2013.[1][18]
On September 1, 2016, the app relaunched,[19] only to shut down again on Q1 of 2017.[citation needed]
Product[edit]
The StockTouch app provided a dynamic, “at-a-glance” portrait of the stock market.[12][20] The user is initially presented with a screen of organized tiles representing a “tactile heat map” of stock activity.[9][13][21] It tracks thousands of stocks, organized into nine industry sectors: Consumer, Services, Healthcare, Energy, Technology, Financial, Industrial, Materials, and Utilities.[9][22] Users touch the individual tiles, each with a color corresponding to the stock's degree of positive or negative performance.[9][13][20] Selecting a tile displays “everything about that stock,” including user-specified time graphs and relevant news items.[9][13] Stock information is refreshed every five minutes, provided in partnership with Xignite.[23][24] StockTouch is hosted on AWS and is used by Wall Street traders, executives, investors and academics.[23][25]
Awards and recognition[edit]
- Reached #1 in Finance Apps, iPad, April 3, 2013[17]
- App Store Essentials App, 2013[26]
- Reached #2 in Finance Apps, iPhone, October 5, 2012[17]
- Apple Rewind, “#1 finance app,” 2011[9][14]
- Apps Magazine, “Best Work App,” 2011[27]
- One of “Best 10 Business Apps for iPad”[28]
- Visible Market, Inc. selected as FinTech Innovation Lab incubator company, 2012[29]
- Apple Hall of Fame App, December 2012
External links[edit]
- As of February 2019, the old website at [1] is no longer active.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "StockTouch - Visible Market Inc. ? Now in the Top 300 Finance Apps for iPad!". ipad.apptohave.com. March 6, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "Stock Touch". Smmug. December 1, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ a b "StockTouch Review". Apps With Passion. October 3, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "My Top 24 iPad Apps". Mprove. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "StockTouch". Know Your Apps. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "10 Best of Stock Apps to Make Money on Your iOS Devices". PandaApp. June 2, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "StockTouch Mobile App's from Visible Market Inc". OSHIMS Blog. March 11, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ a b "Stocktouch Issued A Buy Rating From SmartStops.net". Market Daily News. March 13, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f Arlene Weintraub (August 9, 2012). "Visible Market Catches Wall Street's Eye With Stock-Tracking App". Xconomy. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ a b "Tech Innovators Focus On Big Data". Wall Street & Technology. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "Company Overview of Visible Market Inc". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e Erica Ogg (March 6, 2012). "Even in the red, StockTouch makes stock market look good". Gigaom. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ a b c d Matt Reich (October 7, 2011). "StockTouch: Incredibly Visual Stock Market Monitoring". AppzStorm. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ a b "Jennifer Johnson". M.O. Archived from the original on July 3, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ Chris Abraham (February 22, 2012). "StockTouch built its iOS stock tracker app on a video game engine". Chris Abraham. Archived from the original on June 23, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "Position Sizing: Key to Maximizing Returns". SmartStops.net Blog. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ a b c "StockTouch". Top App Charts. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "StockTouch Adds New PE and Dividend Maps & Goes Free". StockTouch. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ Johnson, Jennifer: "App Relaunch Notice," stocktouch BLOG. August 31, 2016. (Accessed 2016-09-02.)
- ^ a b Lex Friedman (April 11, 2013). "Review: StockTouch is a colorful, creative alternative to Apple's Stocks app". Macworld. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "StockTouch / Visible Market Inc". LinkedIn. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "StockTouch Is The Way To Watch The Stock Market On Your iPhone And iPad". October 2, 2011. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ a b Melanie Rodier. "Capital Markets Outlook 2013: Mobile in a Millennial World". Wall Street & Technology. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "Xignite-Powered StockTouch, Top iPad App for Finance, Wows Wall St and Novices Alike". Xignite - Global Financial Market Data On-Demand. April 2, 2011. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "Tradier, Inc. Rings the Closing Bell to Celebrate Relationship With NASDAQ OMX FinQloud and Amazon Web Services". NASDAQ. June 18, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "Apple Store". Apple Store. Archived from the original on July 13, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "StockTouch". Download.com. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "10 Best Business apps for the Apple iPad!!". ask.com. Archived from the original on August 27, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ "Banks and Venture Capital Firms Focus on the Digital Frontier at New York's 2012 FinTech Innovation Lab Demo Day". Accenture. July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 13, 2013.