Finovate Alumni News– November 23, 2011

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  • Mitek updates its Remote Deposit Capture product to improve UX and performance.
  • CNBC reports CashStar fuels eCommerce this season with personalized eGift cards.
  • StockTwits adds real time streams to The Street’s ticker pages.
  • Prosper launches ‘$5,000 Shop on Us’ sweepstakes.
  • QVC selects CashStar to power its new eGift Card program.
  • The Next Web refers to HelloWallet as a “brilliant” personal finance tool.
  • MyCyberTwin wins 2011 New South Wales Australian Technology Showcase Rising Star Award. 
  • LearnVest updates My Money Center.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– November 18, 2011

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  • FiPath (formerly eRollover) launches FiPath for Advisors, online marketing solution for advisor leads.
  • Reuters discusses the benefits of BillGuard.
  • TSYS signs largest private bank in Azerbaijan.
  • MShift to power AmeriCU’s mobile banking platform.
  • StockTwits & Gnip partner to cater to traders.
  • StockTwits goes International with its real-time financial platform.
  • Mitek doubles clients, plans to enter insurance vertical.
  • PayPal relaunches Facebook app for friend-to-friend payments.
  • Expensify launches lite iPhone app for mileage support.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

Finovate Alumni News– November 15, 2011

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  • FamilySearch now using eWise’s Secure Vault Payments Technology.
  • Business Insider recommends Credit Karma as a free way to learn your credit score.
  • Netbanker: WV United FCU offering both Square and Dwolla payments.
  • The Globe and Mail adds ticker content from StockTwits.
  • Brightscope holds off on adding yelp-like investor reviews in order to add a Q&A section to the site.
  • Wall Street Survivor launches affiliate program.
  • Williams-Sonoma works with CashStar to provide e-gift cards.
  • Lendio works with LegalZoom to bring legal resources to users.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

The Globe and Mail Adds Ticker Content from StockTwits

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The Globe and Mail announced yesterday that it has launched the StockTwits ticker stream on its website. Readers will be able to follow the news in real time and will be able to message the stream to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Here are the three features that The Globe and Mail has included:

    1. StockTwits tab to the ticker page
    2. StockTwits widgets to the story page
    3. Ticker widget on the StockTwitsScreenShot.jpgticker page

The Globe and Mail joins Yahoo! Finance, CNN Money, Reuters.com and Bing Finance as StockTwits content distributors.

To learn more about StockTwits, watch its FinovateEurope 2011 demo.

Finovate Alumni Website Traffic in September

Each month we survey the Web-traffic performance of Finovate alums using data from Web-analytics company Compete.
Out of 268 alumni, 80 had more than 10,000 unique U.S. visitors in September 2011 and are included in the tables below. Of those, 33 (41%) had more visitors in September than August. Year-over-year, 42 (52%) had traffic increases.
Private Companies
  • Seeking Alpha and Cortera had the highest traffic in September with 2.1 and 2.0 million unique visitors, respectively. Cortera also had the highest increase in number of unique year-over-year visits with over 1.5 more visits in 2011 than in 2010.
  • Kabbage had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, up 280x.
  • Weemba saw the highest monthly growth percentage with more than 7.5 times the number of unique visitors in September compared to August.
  • SmartCredit.com had the highest increase in number of unique year-over-year visitors, growing by 126,000.
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Source: Compete.com retrieved the week of October 26, 2011
 
1) The previous month recorded was August 2011
2) Sears Credit Score is powered by CreditKarma.com
3) Truaxis was formerly BillShrink
4) Kasasa is powered by BancVue
Public companies
 
  • CheckFree had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, with over 7 times the number of visitors this year than last year.
  • Intuit had a notable increase in number of unique, year-over-year visitors, increasing by 300,000 visits.
  • Check Point had the highest month-over-month percent growth, with 41% more visitors in September than in August.
PublicWebTrafficSeptember2.jpgSource: Compete.com retrieved the week of October 26, 2011

1) The previous month recorded was July 2011.
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Notes:
1. We reviewed 268 Finovate alumni. Only those with at least 10,000 unique visitors in July are listed.
3. NM = not measurable
4. t= tie
5. Compete estimates online visitors based on the activity of a panel of more than 2 million U.S. Internet users. It is only an estimate of traffic and may undercount at-work usage.

Finovate Alumni Website Traffic in August

Each month we survey the Web-traffic performance of Finovate alums using data from Web-analytics company Compete
Out of 268 alumni, 75 had more than 10,000 unique U.S. visitors in August 2011 and are included in the tables below. Of those, 41 (55%) had more visitors in August than July. Year-over-year, 45 (60%) had traffic increases.
Private Companies
  • Seeking Alpha — the most-trafficked in August with 2.5 million unique visitors — also had the highest increase in number of unique month-over-month visits with 300,000 more visits in August than in July.
  • Budgettracker.com saw the highest monthly growth percentage with more than 6.5 times the number of unique visitors in August compared to July.
  • Betterment had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, up 88x.
  • Cortera had the highest number of unique year-over-year visitors, growing by 1.5 million. 
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Source: Compete.com retrieved week of October 3, 2011
1) The previous month recorded was July 2011
2) Truaxis was formerly BillShrink
4) Kasasa is powered by BancVue
5) Checkingfinder.com is powered by BancVue

Public Companies

  • Fiserv had the highest month-over-month percent growth, with 50% more visitors.
  • CheckFree had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, with over 5 times the number of visitors.
  • S1 also had a high percentage growth year-over-year, doubling its visitors.
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Source: Compete.com retrieved the week of October 3, 2011
1) The previous month recorded was July 2011.
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Notes:
1. We reviewed 268 Finovate alumni. Only those with at least 10,000 unique visitors in July are listed. 
3. NM = Not measurable
4. t= Tie
5. Compete estimates online visitors based on the activity of a panel of more than 2 million U.S. Internet users. It is only an estimate of traffic and may undercount at-work usage.

Alumni News — Week of April 4, 2011

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eWise officially relocates from Australia to Denver, Colorado. http://bit.ly/finovate44114
Fiserv and Cardlytics partner for merchant-funded in-statement rewards. http://bit.ly/finovate45112.   See last month’s Online Banking Report for more info.
Southwest Louisiana Credit Union joins Kasasa with fun and games on April Fools’ Day. SLCU has served the Lake Charles, LA, region since 1952. http://bit.ly/finovate45111 
Mint introduces mobile advice for iPhone. The feature will come to the Android app this summer. http://bit.ly/finovate44111
SmartyPig launched a free mobile app for Android. http://bit.ly/Finovate44112
Follow the markets through the StockTwits blog network. Users can follow more than 40 profiles in StockTwits network. http://bit.ly/finovate45113