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Features

  • Actionable, instant, real-time news triggered on user-definable company name, symbol or unique key words or phrases. Supports some Boolean matching, such as Company Name or Symbol and trigger phrase.
     
  • Pop-up window alerts instead of emails or streaming news. Pop-ups can easily be temporarily disabled, yet still be visually or audibly recognized through system tray icon changes.
     
  • Pop-ups provide link to full text of release for more detailed info.
     
  • Content is piped directly from the source. No editorializing or spin doctoring, so users don't lose seconds or minutes on a fast breaking story.
     
  • Types of alerts currently include:
     
    • Company news releases the instant they are published
       
    • Top worldwide news headlines from Associated Press
       
    • Insider buys or sells, usually within several days of filing
       
    • Daily Department of Defense contract awards of $5 million or greater at time of announcement
       
    • Earthquake alerts of magnitude 6.0 or greater (Worldwide)
       
    • Terrorist threat condition change alerts
       
    • Food recalls
       
    • Product recalls
       
  • InfoButton® locations to provide users snapshot headlines on selectable web sites of interest.
     
  • Global Triggers to alert users to special triggered news outside of their trigger list.
     
  • Power user functionality to minimize keystrokes.
     
  • Users can request their own test alerts as confirmation of connection.
     
  • Users can easily turn individual news sources off or on to respectively minimize or maximize the number of alerts received.
     
  • News alerts are stored on the TriggerNews servers until users log in so they don't miss a thing.
     
  • Messages and connections to TriggerNews are encrypted for security.
     
  • Stored messages can be limited by quantity or age.
     
  • Alerts are time/date stamped with news source identified and triggers highlighted.
     
  • TriggerEngine® core architected and built for performance and scalability to handle hundreds of thousands of users.
     
  • Will log TriggerNews off remote system if user forgot and automatically login to new system. Great for situations like logging into a home system if user forgot to log off at work.
     
  • Multiple profiles supported for users who share the same system.
     
  • Runs as a background process on the PC.
     
  • Simple to use and manage.
     
  • Firewall friendly, including corporate environments.
     
  • Runs on Windows and most browsers.