The Wiley Finance Series : Handbook of News Analytics in Finance

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Head Office: 260 Sheridan Ave., Suite 420, Palo Alto,
CA 94306www.kapowtech.com


Other sites: Denmark: Dr. Neergaards Vej 5A, DK-2970 HA ̃,
Hørsholm
United Kingdom: 107–11 Fleet Street, London,
EC4A 2AB
Germany: Westhafen Tower, Westhafenplatz 1,
DE-60327, Frankfurt-am-Main


Managing Director: John Yapaola (CEO)


Marketing Director: Ron Yu (VP, Marketing)


Chief Technology Officer/Director: Stefan Andreasen (Founder and CTO)


Tools/Services: Kapow Web Data Server


Tool/Services description


Kapow Technologies’ powerful data-mining technology quickly converts disparate
streams of web data into strategic business assets. The result—precision data that drives
enhanced business efficiency, intelligence, and performance.
Kapow ‘‘robots’’ use standard web technology to automate navigation and
interaction with any website or web application to provide access to its underlying data.
Any browsable content can be accessed including


.Enterprise/SaaS applications Oracle, SAP, Salesforce.com, any legacy web
application, etc.
.Subscription feeds Hoovers, BBC, etc.
.Consumer websites Amazon, eBay, CNN.com, WSJ.com, etc.
.Blogs WordPress, CNN, Flickr, etc.
.Social networks Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.


Kapow Technologies transforms this web data into a new source of value and
intelligence, directly improving business performance by allowing users to


.eliminate time-consuming coding, scripting, or fragile screen-scraping efforts;
.quickly and accurately extract any enterprise or public web data;
.complete data integration projects in hours and days vs. weeks and months.


The Kapow Advantage—Right Data. Right Now. Right Business Decisions.


332 Directory of news analytics service providers


Company name

Kapow Technologies

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