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Gal Arav, founder & creator of Newsflashr: Gal's developing faster ways to monitor huge amounts of news data. Following a successful run of investing in the stock markets, in 2006, Gal invested in his own startup company to create InstantBull.com, a time-saving stock message board aggregator. This came after several years of R&D at an MIT spin-off that develops eye-tracking devices where Gal was Lead Software Developer and Product Manager. In 2008, Gal is once again striving to turbo-charge the Web with his latest news aggregator, Newsflashr. Gal holds an Engineering degree from The Technion, Israel and a Master's degree in Operations Research and Decision Theory from Tel Aviv University, Israel. |
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"News aggregators like the just-released Newsflashr are must-have tools for any investor. A newcomer to a crowded field, newsflashr founder Gal Arav has made a point of challenging longer-running news traffickers Google News and Yahoo! News based on the frequency with which his device flashes the news."
- Barron's, Mike Hogan |
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"Newsflashr.com has an interesting new way to look at topics in the news."
- Bangkok Post (Thailand), On Computers |
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"Arav said Google News doesn't reveal the workings of its selection algorithms. That means users can only guess why a particular story is at the top of the page ... Newsflashr makes no secret of its method. The company gets newsfeeds from several hundred sources--newspapers, wire services and broadcasters. It then analyzes the headlines of each story to identify keywords. The more often a word appears in a headline, the more significant the story."
- Boston Globe (Business front page!), Hiawatha Bray |
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"[Newsflashr] offers what's always been missing from searches: serendipity. Just like browsing books in a library, you don't always know exactly what you want, but you get that "aha" feeling when you see it."
- Shanghai Daily (China), Bob and Joy Schwabach |
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"A particularly useful application is the Newsflashr site, which taps directly into the world's major news feeds and automatically updates and sorts news as it is disseminated. The news feeds are truly global, and a handy "cloud" at the side of the page helps you find hot news topics."
- Seeking Alpha, Dr. Brett Steenbarger |
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"Aggregator Newsflashr.com is a zippy route to headlines worldwide: Accessing news on the Web just keeps getting easier. Newsflashr.com, the latest entrant among news aggregators, went live this week, based on new technologies that give users ways to get to the world's headlines quickly and easily."
- The Sacramento Bee (Business front page!), Mark Melnicoe |
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"I love to skim the Newsflashr-Business Blog site ... if you read on a regular basis you'll certainly get a sense of the market's general tone"
- Stock Chartist |
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"NewsFlashr is Great ... I understand that other RSS tools exist to monitor all your favorite blogs but there is something about Newsflashr that keeps me coming back."
- Chris Perruna |
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"Newsflashr, an awesome blog-tracking real time site that features the most popular investment/trading blogs on the Internet"
- Wallaston Investments |
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"This morning while scanning the Newsflashr Business Feeds section, I noticed that virtually every major news organization was reporting on Crude Oil prices breaching $130 per barrel for the first time."
- Free eSignal |
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"By simply looking at the headlines it becomes obvious that Fox Business news, the new business channel of media mogul Murdoch, skips the important issues of the day."
- Man on the street 64 |
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"It's the kind of site you can spend a lot of time in, if you're a news junkie, playing around with different sorting options and looking for trends in the data."
- John Eckman |
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"Newsflashr distinguishes itself from other aggregators through ease of use and transparency ... I found it particularly useful for getting a quick feel for the response to events such as Google's earnings announcement."
- Stock Market Beat |
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"If you haven't already seen the Newsflashr site everyone is talking about, check it out ... this site has become a really great resource already"
- Condor Options |
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"an interesting new blog aggregator called Newsflashr.com, from the founder of InstantBull.com"
- The Market Speculator |
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"Interesting new blog aggregator: Newsflashr. There's also media feeds, and a business feed with a nice category cloud."
- Big Picture |
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"News junkies will love newsflashr"
- About.com, Wendy Boswell |
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"Newsflashr, which recently received a rave review from Barron's, has a user-friendly interface where you can find the news you want through the use of keywords of different sizes and colors"
- Mark Evans |
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"This cool new site is getting some seriously good reviews. Maybe that's because the site rocks for news ... and soon for blogs too!"
- Timothy Sykes |
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"Welcome to the latest in a series of online news aggregators. This one, the brainchild of Gal Arav, aims to challenge Google News and Yahoo News based on the frequency with which it updates its headlines."
- Book of Joe |
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"with so many options to customize, newsflashr seems promising. We wish good luck to Gal's newsflashr! :)"
- Devils Workshop |
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"when you have a product that's faster, cleaner, and potentially unbiased (as media should be), it's only a matter of time before it catches on."
- Investing Adventures |
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"Newsflashr is an amazingly fast news gathering system. This is a great tool to keep you on top of the hottest news bubbling to the surface. Check it out you will be hooked."
- The Disciplined Investor |
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"The site is updated in real time, so it will be helpful to check it often. I can tell I will be using this site often, and may even make it my homepage!"
- Afraid To Trade |
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"Very Cool Site. Gal Arav, founder of Instantbull.com appears to hit it out of the park again with a new project ... I have to say, I tried it and it was very fast and I am really impressed at how innovative this idea is."
- Downtown Trader |
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"designed to be a faster way to track headline news! ... great concept and product. I've just started putting into the morning routine."
- 93 South |
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"I've been a fan of Google reader until now, but [newsflashr] wins hands down. The "newsflashr cloud" is a much higher bandwidth way to see what's happening."
- Al Stevens |
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"Very Promising Tool - The Newsflashr site is an excellent way to track and pull out news headlines. You see the hottest headlines on the home page, and a link cloud displays the most popular news topics."
- Trader Feed |
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"One of my readers is Gal Arav, founder of the hit investment site, InstantBull. Yesterday, he launched a brand new site called newsflashr - I found it lived up to its promise"
- Jason Kelly, author of The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing |
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"The site is constantly updated and the topics get larger or smaller depending on their popularity. It's a pretty interesting place to check out what's on the minds of Web crawlers worldwide at any particular moment."
- The San Antonio Express News, Laura A. Lorek |
