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FCCN recently announced that its portfolio company, Noot, has released a major update for its smartphone mobile news reader for Android and iOS operating systems. The update offers a new design, improved discovery features, as well enhanced personalization, all intended to optimize the smartphone experience.
Mobile app usage continues to increase and now accounts for 86% of time spent on Android and iOS connected devices. With news consumption also on the rise, Noot has positioned itself as the smart way to discover great content and has enhanced its overall user experience with its new update. Noot has always centered its design on simple and glanceable content streams; however, the update adds visually engaging images to the stream, while more powerful contextual personalization works in the background to bring a unique experience to each user. Additionally, Noot has added discovery buttons in individual slides as well as at the bottom of each article to give users the ability to move seamlessly among different topics of interest.
The Noot experience is designed around four different content-specific and user-personalized streams:
- Category, which contains slides for one category and all its subcategories
- Channel, which contains slides from a specific category and subcategory
- Topics, which contains content about topics entered specifically by the user
- Saved Slides, which contains articles users have saved to read again
Noot's update brings a higher degree of contextual personalization for a better overall experience and additional discovery features for greater engagement. Targeted articles that speak to a user's short and long term interests are now interlaced within one's stream to provide for more in depth personalization. For example, if one shows an interest in Tim Howard of the US Men's soccer team, then Noot will begin to add content for that topic while the user is reading sports, soccer or celebrity streams. Additionally, one can add "Tim Howard" under the Topics channel to find information only about him. The new discovery features provide more opportunities for users to learn about topics that they may have not found and provide avenues for curious minded individuals.
"We want the story stream to be at the center of the app, with abundant discovery tools and content within the stream changing along with a user's interests. It is this premise that has driven recent changes to the Noot smartphone app, with user experience within the story stream coupled with enhanced learning and discovery technology being the primary focus of recent changes," said Jenifer Osterwalder, Spectral CEO.
About FCCN
Spectral (FCCN) is a startup accelerator that acquires early-stage technology companies in the sectors of mobile technology, big data and social media. We enter viable markets, design innovative products that exploit current voids, and aim towards market disruption. We structure the launch process to get to market in under a year and make product adjustments by assessing early customer usage to achieve superior alignment with the target market. The end result is effective development toward ultimate company independence by way of profitability, IPO, or attractive acquisition. Spectral is located in Seattle, Washington and Zug, Switzerland.
About Noot
Noot is a mobile search technology firm that has launched its first product as a news discovery engine. The technology finds news and information for people and acts as a personal search assistant. Noot learns over time what preferences a user has and adapts accordingly, making a unique stream of news for each user. Noot was built to utilize the power of today's devices for its search process, which provides economies of scale to millions of users with little to no additional costs, making for a very cost efficient and sustainable business.
Back in June, FCCN's portfolio company, Kontexto, launched Metafull, a new cloud based API service that allows software developers to convert any web link into meaningful metadata.
API's -- Application Programming Interface -- at their most basic level, allow networked products and services to talk to each other. It has increasingly been the way in which companies, applications and mobile devices exchange data, gather information and access resources. This shift in how businesses work and how applications are both built and deployed is often referred to as the new API economy and it is being driven by disruptive changes brought on by advances in social media, networking, mobile and cloud computing.
The API economy is just getting started, but already more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies are expected to offer or consume API's within the next year. Additionally, more than 70% of the top 50 mobile applications rely upon API's to operate. The Metafull API provides developers with a scalable and efficient way to acquire meaningful metadata on any link in typically less than 250ms. At the moment the industry average response time for link analysis is often greater than 2 seconds.
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OTCQB: FCCN
Market Value:
43,607,321 a/o Jul 17, 2014
Shares Outstanding:
117,857,623 a/o Mar 15, 2014
Par Value:
0.001
Shareholders of Record:
87 a/o Mar 31, 2014
Short Interest:
2,092 (100%)
Jun 30, 2014
Transfer Agent:
Pacific Stock Transfer
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KEY EXECUTIVES:
Jenifer Osterwalder
President
CEO
Director
Stephen Spalding
CFO
Director
Harsh Shetty
Chief Technology Officer
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