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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ALACRA STORE OFFERS FREE RSS ALERTS ON NEW CREDIT AND INVESTMENT RESEARCH
New York, 29 June 2006....Alacra� Alacra, a leading global provider of business and financial information, announced today, the launch of Web feeds for select premium publishers� content in the Alacra Store (www.alacrastore.com). This new feature enables business information professionals to subscribe to company-specific feeds containing credit and investment research from premium content publishers such as CreditSights, Moody�s Investors Service, and Thomson Financial.
The Alacra Store currently aggregates premium content from close to 40 sources. Relevant portions of information are combined to create a comprehensive Company Snapshot view on over 200,000 public and private companies. On every Company Snapshot, users now have the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds containing the latest credit and investment research on the company of interest. RSS is an Internet technology standard that allows busy people to receive notifications on new web-based content. Once users subscribe to one of these free feeds, they will receive alerts on new research reports which include the title of the report and a brief snippet of text in their favorite newsreader like My Yahoo!, Google Reader, BlogLines, or NewsGator.
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�We are very excited to offer Web feeds containing alerts on the latest credit and investment research from multiple publishers free of charge�, said Steve Goldstein, CEO of Alacra. �These integrated feeds offer a one-stop shop for business information professionals to rapidly find the latest research published on the companies found in the Alacra universe.�
In addition to the company-specific feeds, Alacra has made available several publisher-specific feeds, allowing users to track all of the latest premium content from a given provider. These publisher feeds can be found at the following URLs:
�The smart marketers at Alacra are innovating again,� said Larry Schwartz, Newstex President. �They know that information is only useful if it is found by those who need it when it is needed. Creating RSS alerts is great way to make content even more valuable.�
Launched in August, 2005, the Alacra Store currently contains over 200 million reports on more than 350,000 public and private companies from over 35 premium business information publishers such as CreditSights, Datamonitor, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Fitch Ratings, The Freedonia Group, Moody�s Investors Service, Newstex, Snapdata International, and Thomson Financial. The Alacra Store now offers free RSS feeds on all of its Company Snapshots, enabling business information professionals to receive timely alerts on the best of breed content from premium information providers. This comprehensive data collection offers customers the ability to discover and purchase a host of authoritative premium business content on a transactional basis.
About The Alacra Store
The Alacra Store is an e-commerce website offering business information users access to select reports from a host of Alacra premium databases. Searching the Alacra Store is free. You register to purchase and download reports with a credit card. Types of business information available include company fundamentals and financials, credit research, earnings estimates, economic data, market and investment research and news. To purchase a report, you must complete a simple registration form and submit your credit card information. Once paid for, reports can be downloaded instantly to your desktop and will remain available to download from your purchase history screen for twenty-four hours.
About Alacra
For more information about Alacra, visit the company's Web site http://www.alacra.com or call customer service at (212) 363-9620.
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For further press information, please contact:
Carol Ann Thomas
Alacra is a leading global provider of business and financial information and solutions. A privately held company founded in 1996, Alacra is headquartered in New York. The company provides a diverse portfolio of authoritative databases along with proprietary solutions that enable users to quickly find, analyze, package and present mission-critical business information. Alacra customers include more than 700 leading financial institutions, professional service firms, consulting, law and accounting firms and corporations throughout the world.
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