We have created a scalable system that aggregates, manages, and streams information from the stock exchanges, and from other information and content feeds, across both the Web and dedicated telecommunication lines. Because Quotemedia is a comprehensive single source market data provider, our clients are not required to deal with multiple data vendors, many of which continue to employ outdated infrastructures and delivery technologies. This allows our clients to license comprehensive financial information applications and raw data feeds more efficiently and cost-effectively.
QuoteMedia offers clients the advantages of a single source for a broad range of data, information and services, including:
•Streaming Real-time Data Feeds
•Mobile/PDA Wireless Solutions
•News Feed Aggregation and Delivery
•Streaming, Dynamic Content
•Complete Portfolio Management
•Corporate Investor Relations Solutions
•Internet Data and Product Provisioning
•Custom Software Application Development
•Research Information Supply
Our array of data-delivery solutions are fast, lightweight, reliable, and easy to implement across all platforms. Our products are technologically advanced, providing a framework for quick implementation, seamless client integration and complete customization.
We are a United States reporting public company which was incorporated in the State of Nevada. Our shares are listed on the NASDAQ:OTCBB under the trading symbol QMCI. Our corporate head office is located at 17100 East Shea Boulevard, Suite 230, Fountain Hills, Arizona 85268, and our telephone number is (480) 905-7311. All references to our business operations in this report include the operations of QuoteMedia, Inc. and our operating divisions and subsidiaries.
Our website is located at www.quotemedia.com. Through our website we make available free of charge the following company information: our annual reports on Form 10-KSB; our quarterly reports on Form 10-QSB; our current reports on Form 8-K; our proxy statements; and any amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These reports are available as soon as reasonably practical after we electronically file these reports with the SEC. We also post on our website the charter of our Audit Committee; our Corporate Governance Guidelines; our Code of Business Conduct/Ethics and Code of Ethics for the CEO and Senior Financial Officers, and any amendments or waivers thereto; and any other corporate governance materials contemplated by SEC or applicable regulations. These documents are also available in print to any stockholder requesting a copy from our corporate secretary at our principal executive offices.
Products and Services
QuoteMedia has developed a full range of financial data and market information solutions which are licensed to our clients on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis. Our products and services are divided into three main categories: Data Feed Services; Interactive Content and Data Applications; and Portfolio Management Systems.
Data Feed Services
QuoteMedia offers comprehensive, ultra low latency, tick-by-tick enterprise level streaming market data feeds with complete coverage of all North American Exchanges, including equities, options, futures, commodities, currencies, mutual funds, and indices. Supplemental fundamental, historical, and analytical data is also available, keyed to the same symbology for a complete market data solution. The data is normalized for ease of use, and is available in a wide range of formats and delivery methods, from streaming tick-by-tick; real-time feeds delivered via dedicated telecommunications lines to XML feeds, delivering aggregated data to clients over the Internet.
Interactive Content and Data Applications
QuoteMedia offers a unique suite of customizable applications that clients can embed in their website to display financial data in a wide variety of formats. Clients may choose from our complete data solution packages or individual components to receive dynamic, timely financial information. Our financial data solutions offer unparalleled ease of implementation and seamless integration into our clients' current layouts and offerings. Our Interactive Web-Based Content Applications include the following:
Quote Modules - allow users to enter information and look up various data points on equities, funds, rates, currencies and the markets. Our Quote Modules provide complete market data and supplemental data coverage. This comprehensive coverage consists of fundamental data (EPS, P/E ratio, dividends, yield, shares outstanding, market cap, etc.), analytical statistics (52 wk high/low, moving averages, average volumes, moving performance numbers), historical EOD data (fully adjusted and keyed historical data), market updates, North American indices, market movers, actives, gainers, losers, Company Information (business description, address, phone, fax, auditors, officers, etc.), classification codes (sector, industry, NAICS, SIC, CIK, etc.), share statistics (shares outstanding, float, holdings, profitability, management effectiveness, short interest, short interest ratio), as well as broader market information such as bank rates and currency values. The data returned is compact, customizable, and incorporates comprehensive information, including charts, news, historical stock prices, market depth, SEC filings, insiders, financials, and other information.
Real-Time Snap Quotes - Cost-effective, customizable, and webpage-embedded Real-Time Quote and Market data, Real-Time Charts, Real-Time Level II, and Real-Time Options. The Real-Time Snap Quote Service features client-controlled entitlements, comprehensive online tracking, detailed reporting capabilities, and North American Exchange Fee Capping. These features are unique to our company and result in greater efficiency and cost savings for our clients.
Market Indices - At-a-glance display of market conditions, fed directly from the major North American and International exchanges.
Charts - Markets and equity charting are available in a variety of formats. Static thumbnails or dynamic interactive charting is available to allow full market coverage charting or individual stock performance displays, including comparisons to other equities or indices, as well as the ability to plot a wide range of technical studies.
Stock Tickers - Fully customizable vertical or horizontally scrolling tickers supply instant market information.
Stock Screeners - Allow users to filter stocks based on a wide variety of selection criteria, including sector/industry, share price, market cap, exchange, EPS, P/E ratio, etc.
News - Topic-based and equity-based lookup of news stories and commentary relating to the markets, individual companies, or specific areas of interest.
Watch Lists - Display current values and trends for a group of user-defined equities.
Market Statistics - Top gainers and losers on the day for a variety of exchanges. Detailed statistical analysis of most actively traded stocks.
Investor Relations - Information on current value, historical data, charting and news, related to individual public companies, generating a turnkey and self-updating Investor Relations solution for corporate websites or Investor Relations professionals.
SMS Quotes - QuoteMedia's SMS Quote service delivers scheduled updates of stock performance via SMS (short message service), also known as Text Messaging, to cell phones.
Portfolio Management Systems
QuoteMedia offers three leading edge portfolio managements systems: Quotestream Desktop; Quotestream Wireless; and the Web Portfolio Manager. Each of these systems can be implemented independently, or the three can be employed in conjunction to provide a complete portfolio management solution.
Quotestream Desktop
QuoteMedia's proprietary software, Quotestream, is a unique web-delivered, embedded application providing streaming real time or delayed market information, such as such as streaming stock quotes, NASDAQ Level 2 data (market depth), Toronto Stock Exchange & TSX Venture Exchange market depth, market indices, dynamic and interactive charts, options, news and research information, in an easy-to-use and highly configurable interface.
No downloads or installations are required with this quick, lightweight and robust application. It is a sophisticated streaming portfolio management solution that can readily be embedded in any web environment, allowing users to track investments and access research data with ease.
Quotestream has been designed specifically for syndication and private branding by brokerage, banking, and other corporate clients. It can be fully integrated into existing user registration databases, portfolio systems and on-line trading systems, thus enabling any brokerage, clearing firm, bank or other corporation to seamlessly complement their existing product offerings and differentiate themselves from their competition.
QuoteMedia corporate clients purchase volume licenses for their customers, gaining significant increases in customer attraction, retention and activity, and increased revenues as a result.
Quotestream offers the user ten portfolios of up to 52 symbols per portfolio, as well as market summaries, NASDAQ Level 2 data, a last-ten-trade trend meter, volume leaders, top gainers and losers, company news, insider activity, SEC Filings, research, analysts and opinions, earnings forecasts, news and stock tickers, intraday through twenty year historical charting, interactive charting, news, desktop pop-up alerts, audio alerts. Users may customize their views and the order of columns to suit their preference. The design also offers a very simple point and click navigation with little or no typing involved. If the user wishes to view the application in full screen mode, by simply clicking on the float button, the applet is floated from the web page and maximized to full screen.
Quotestream Wireless
QuoteMedia's Quotestream Wireless is a revolutionary wireless companion to the desktop product that allows users to access financial data, news, and charting in real time or delayed modes, from many different handheld devices. Users are able to access and manage their Quotestream portfolios over-the-air through a cellular telephone or PDA. Quotestream Wireless offers an extensive array of features and advanced functionality, and supports RIM BlackBerry, PalmOne, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and countless other handheld devices and cellular telephones.
Quotestream Wireless can be integrated with any brokerage/clearing firm's existing on-line trading platform without the installation of expensive Business Enterprise Servers. QuoteMedia's Quotestream Wireless is a revolutionary wireless companion to the desktop product that allows users to access financial data, news, and charting in real time or delayed modes, from many different handheld devices.
Quotestream Wireless offers an extensive array of features and advanced functionality, and supports RIM BlackBerry, PalmOne, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia (trademarks owned by respect companies) and countless other handheld devices and cellular telephones. Quotestream supports the largest selection of web based phone/pda's of any supplier in the market. Quotestream Wireless and Quotestream Desktop are true companion products as any changes made to portfolios in either application are automatically reflected in the other.
Web Portfolio Manager
The Web Portfolio Manager is a user friendly yet powerful solution allowing users to track their holdings, conduct in-depth research and analyze performance for all stocks, mutual funds and indices listed on any of the major North American exchanges.
The Web Portfolio Manager provides immediate web access to detailed Quote Data, Market and Company News, Charting, Depth / Level II, Filings, Historical Data, Snap Quotes and more, the Web Portfolio Manager is an efficient and economical solution for both the new and experienced investor.
The Web Portfolio Manager offers corporate clients such as banks, wealth management companies, brokerages, clearing firms and web portals an ideal opportunity to cost-effectively provide premium online portfolio management services for their investor clientele.
The Web Portfolio Manager can be integrated with the Quotestream products, so that changes in any one platform are reflected across the other systems, and real-time data entitlements are consistent across the board.
New Products and Services
We continue to introduce new and advanced products and services for 2006 and 2007.
During 2006 the company developed and prepared for the 2007 launch of new low latency data feed services which will offer broad based multiple content feeds to a large new customer base. Refinements to these services and their ‘offering packages' will continue throughout 2007, as marketing activities are ramped up. In addition, the company began development work in 2006 to bring in new international data, including real-time data from the London Stock Exchange, to service the market for our desktop and wireless products which is emerging in Europe. The company expects to selectively pursue new business opportunities in Europe in 2007, particularly with the addition of equity data from the major international exchanges.
QuoteMedia will launch its new Quotestream II streaming desktop and wireless product in the first half of 2007. The upgraded new generation of our highly successful Quotestream wireless/desktop product will feature rich new content, charting and other advanced features not found in the existing product. Quotestream II will provide true ‘tick by tick' market data and has been expressly designed to support the Investment Professional market.
Additional new and upgraded versions of QuoteMedia's financial applications in such areas as news, charting, screening, mutual funds, and advanced research information are expected in 2007.
