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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York, NY, Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - Alacra today announced the addition of two new social media features to its free Alacra Pulse site (http://pulse.alacra.com). Alacra Pulse aggregates news and blogs from the open web, tags key business events and presents the information in an easy-to-use format.
The new features, Tweet This and Share This are designed to make it easier for users to share and track links to information on the site.
Tweet This is a customized Twitter integration. By clicking the Tweet This button, a draft �tweet� is automatically created, including a short snippet from the specific business event. The user may edit the tweet before posting to their Twitter account. Tweet This also includes integration with the popular StockTwits service by inserting the ticker symbol for the stock, preceded by a '$'. This allows the tweets to automatically be passed to StockTwits for users of that service.
�Investors are constantly looking for ways to manage the vast amount of information on the web� according to Alacra CEO Steven Goldstein. �As services like Twitter help people manage the real-time web, our goal is to give our users the tools to make that easy.�
Share This is a plugin that allows users to automatically post stories to social media applications like Facebook or LinkedIn, as well as social bookmarking applications including Digg, Delicious, Stumble Upon and others. With a single click, users can post a story to any of more than fifty different social media applications.
About Alacra
Alacra is a technology company that aggregates content from more than 165 premium business and financial information databases along with thousands of reputable business web sites and blogs. Alacra provides a single point of access to this content through its suite of powerful online applications specifically designed for the needs of information professionals, analysts and researchers.
Worldwide, more than 600 organizations representing 50,000 end users worldwide use Alacra to effectively find and deploy business information in their daily workflow. For more information, visit www.alacra.com.
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