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Spotback is a new breed of personalized news service. It is designed to quickly learn each user's fields of interest and style by analyzing how users rate and interact with news information. It then offers users the most interesting, relevant and hard to filter news information personally tailored to their taste. Spotback uses sophisticated algorithms that analyze social behavior. These algorithms are designed to harness the power of the entire community for the benefit of the individual user. The ideas and technologies behind Spotback are based on the understanding that every user has his own interest and tastes. The true challenge of a personalized information service lies in finding the information that will interest individual users the most rather than the information that most users think is interesting. This concept makes Spotback fundamentally different from the existing 'find the most popular content' or 'top stories' technologies.

The Relegence Corporation is the premier global technology company putting real time information, news and knowledge in the hands of end users less than a second after it is published. Relegence sells subscription-based services that offer real-time discovery, notification and delivery of information, connecting customers to cross-media content as it is generated from anywhere across the globe. Using proprietary technology, Relegence simultaneously monitors, indexes, and filters tens of thousands of live content streams - local and international newswires, television and cable networks such as CNBC, regulatory feeds such as EDGAR and RNS, corporate and information web sites, bulletin boards - and puts on a user's desktop only the information which is relevant to his or her individual search criteria. Additionally, Relegence can integrate all of a corporation's internal content streams, such as research, with external content and create a powerful tool for corporations and their employees to manage and utilize mission-critical information in their day-to-day activities and enable them to make more timely, accurate business decisions.