Company:StockTouch

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StockTouch
TypePrivate
IndustryStock Market Analysis
Founded2011
HeadquartersNew York
Key people
Jennifer Johnson
ProductsStockTouch
Websitehttp://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

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 City -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

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

  • 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

  • As of February 2019, the old website at [1] is no longer active.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "StockTouch - Visible Market Inc. ? Now in the Top 300 Finance Apps for iPad!". ipad.apptohave.com. March 6, 2013. http://ipad.apptohave.com/2013/03/stocktouch-visible-market-inc-now-in.html. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Stock Touch". Smmug. December 1, 2012. http://www.smmug.org/stock-touch. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "StockTouch Review". Apps With Passion. October 3, 2012. http://appswithpassion.com/reviews/stocktouch-review/. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  4. ↑ "My Top 24 iPad Apps". Mprove. http://www.mprove.de/script/12/apps/index.html. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  5. ↑ "StockTouch". Know Your Apps. http://www.knowyourapps.com/reviews/stocktouch/. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  6. ↑ "10 Best of Stock Apps to Make Money on Your iOS Devices". PandaApp. June 2, 2013. http://iphone.pandaapp.com/news/06022013/232444951.shtml#.Ud71m9I3vSg. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  7. ↑ "StockTouch Mobile App's from Visible Market Inc". OSHIMS Blog. March 11, 2012. http://blog.oshim.net/2012/03/stocktouch-mobile-apps-from-visible.html. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Stocktouch Issued A Buy Rating From SmartStops.net". Market Daily News. March 13, 2012. http://marketdailynews.com/2012/03/13/stocktouch-issued-a-buy-rating-from-smartstops-net/#more-10332. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Arlene Weintraub (August 9, 2012). "Visible Market Catches Wall Street's Eye With Stock-Tracking App". Xconomy. http://www.xconomy.com/new-york/2012/08/09/visible-market-catches-wall-streets-eye-with-stock-tracking-app/. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Tech Innovators Focus On Big Data". Wall Street & Technology. http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/data-management/tech-innovators-focus-on-big-data/240004114. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  11. ↑ "Company Overview of Visible Market Inc.". Bloomberg Businessweek. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=165614400. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Erica Ogg (March 6, 2012). "Even in the red, StockTouch makes stock market look good". Gigaom. http://gigaom.com/2012/03/06/even-in-the-red-stocktouch-makes-stock-market-look-good/. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Matt Reich (October 7, 2011). "StockTouch: Incredibly Visual Stock Market Monitoring". AppzStorm. http://ipad.appstorm.net/reviews/business-finance-reviews/stocktouch-incredibly-visual-stock-market-monitoring/#more-6101. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Jennifer Johnson". M.O.. Archived from the original on July 3, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130703051107/http://www.mo.com/jennifer-johnson-stocktouch/. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  15. ↑ 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20130623091254/http://www.chrisabraham.com/2012/02/22/stocktouch-built-its-ios-stock-tracker-app-on-a-video-game-engine/. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  16. ↑ "Position Sizing: Key to Maximizing Returns". SmartStops.net Blog. http://smartstops.wordpress.com/tag/technology/. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 "StockTouch". Top App Charts. http://www.topappcharts.com/445170859/app-details-stocktouch.php. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  18. ↑ "StockTouch Adds New PE and Dividend Maps & Goes Free". StockTouch. http://stocktouch.com/category/blog. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  19. ↑ Johnson, Jennifer: "App Relaunch Notice," stocktouch BLOG. August 31, 2016. (Accessed 2016-09-02.)
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Lex Friedman (April 11, 2013). "Review: StockTouch is a colorful, creative alternative to Apple's Stocks app". Macworld. http://www.macworld.com/article/2033751/review-stocktouch-is-a-colorful-creative-alternative-to-apples-stocks-app.html. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  21. ↑ "StockTouch / Visible Market Inc.". LinkedIn. http://www.linkedin.com/company/stocktouch-visible-market-inc-?trk=ppro_cprof. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  22. ↑ "StockTouch Is The Way To Watch The Stock Market On Your iPhone And iPad". October 2, 2011. http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/10/quickadvice-stocktouch. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Melanie Rodier. "Capital Markets Outlook 2013: Mobile in a Millennial World". Wall Street & Technology. http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/asset-management/capital-markets-outlook-2013-mobile-in-a/240044416. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  24. ↑ "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. https://web.archive.org/web/20131005100033/http://www.xignite.com/market-data/test/. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  25. ↑ "Tradier, Inc. Rings the Closing Bell to Celebrate Relationship With NASDAQ OMX FinQloud and Amazon Web Services". NASDAQ. June 18, 2013. http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/tradier-inc-rings-the-closing-bell-to-celebrate-relationship-with-nasdaq-omx-finqloud-and-amazon-web-services-20130618-00412. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  26. ↑ "Apple Store". Apple Store. Archived from the original on July 13, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130713001358/http://store.apple.com/us. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  27. ↑ "StockTouch". Download.com. http://download.cnet.com/StockTouch/3000-2057_4-75484981.html. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  28. ↑ "10 Best Business apps for the Apple iPad!!". ask.com. http://financialsoft.about.com/od/iPhone-Apps-of-the-Month/ss/Top-5-iOS-Stock-Market-Apps-2013.htm. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 
  29. ↑ "Banks and Venture Capital Firms Focus on the Digital Frontier at New York's 2012 FinTech Innovation Lab Demo Day". Accenture. July 18, 2012. http://newsroom.accenture.com/news/banks-and-venture-capital-firms-focus-on-the-digital-frontier-at-new-york-2012-fintech-innovation-lab-demo-day.htm. Retrieved July 13, 2013. 



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