FinancialContent

FinancialContent Services, Inc.
Private
Founded San Mateo, California, U.S. (1998)
Headquarters San Carlos, California, USA
Key people
Wing Yu, CEO
Mark Dierolf, Founder & COO
Brian DeWeese, Director[1]
Number of employees
12[2] (2011)
Website www.financialcontent.com

FinancialContent is a web widget company that provides financial tools & applications to websites. It was founded in 1998. In February 2006, the company raised $1 million in funding to develop StreetIQ.com, a business podcasting portal.[3] In July 2008, the company announced that it would begin representing ad inventory for media sites. As of January 2009, the company represents over 100 publishers and serves over 60 million ad units per month.[4]

As of January 2009, the company provides financial widgets to more than 2000 web sites and serves over 300 million widgets per month.[5] The company powers websites such as CNET,[6] CBS, San Francisco Chronicle,[7] Cablevision,[8] Nielsen,[9] 24-7PressRelease,[10] and Minyanville.[11]

The company currently owns and operates SocialPicks.com, a stock idea community,[12] PRConnect.com, a press release distribution network,[13] StreetIQ.com, a business podcast directory,[14] GoInvest.com, a stock market tracking service,[15] MarketMinute.com a blog about the US financial markets,[16] and FinancialMedia.org, which tracks news related to content and monetization in the Financial industry.[17]

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