Selerity Leverages CFN Services' Alpha Platform Expanding its Low-latency Event Data Distribution Network to Global Trading Venues

Herndon, VA (PRWEB) October 10, 2011

CFN Services, Inc., the leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, announced today that Selerity, a provider of real-time event data solutions for the financial services industry has selected CFN Services Alpha Platform to extend low-latency access to its event data worldwide. Electronic traders can now access Seleritys low-latency event data locally without the use of long-distance telecommunications infrastructure in all major global financial centers.

CFNs Alpha Platform significantly decreases the time and costs associated with prospective clients evaluating Seleritys event data in real-time that do not have infrastructure in Seleritys current datacenters located in Chicago, New Jersey, or Frankfurt. The combination of CFNs global market data solutions and co-located access to Seleritys market-moving event data creates an industry-leading, integrated event-based trading solution.

Real-time event data is a critical component in many of todays multi-factor trading and risk-management strategies. The ability to gain access to various market-moving events in real-time to incorporate into their global investment strategies can offer trading firms a distinct competitive advantage. Because many of Seleritys event data sets are locally produced and distributed, trading firms can benefit from obtaining Selerity data close to specific trading venues with the lowest latencies possible.

With Seleritys existing physical presence in Chicago, New Jersey and Frankfurt, the Alpha Platform will expand our reach to a broader global audience, said Ryan Terpstra, founder and CEO of Selerity. Integration with CFNs Alpha Platform provides optimized low-latency connectivity to all the major financial datacenters around the globe including Toronto, London, Tokyo, Brazil and additional NY/NJ metro area trading venues.

CFNs Alpha Alliance consists of leading-edge technology and trading ecosystem providers such as Selerity that have set a standard of excellence through the seamless integration of third-party and proprietary trading technologies, applications and services worldwide. CFN Services Alpha Platform is a global, high-performance trading platform for automated trading. With a flexible and customizable platform, it seamlessly integrates the delivery of low-latency market data with best-of-breed trading applications all proximity-hosted within liquidity venues, to accelerate trading performance.

Selerity customers can now take advantage of CFN Services global footprint, high-performance infrastructure and our commitment to delivering market-leading trading applications with best-of-breed providers, said Mark Casey, President CFN Services. Were pleased to partner with Selerity to bring the capabilities of this platform to a broader segment and deliver enhanced solutions that better serve todays competitive financial markets.

About Selerity

Selerity is a real-time financial information and media company that focuses on capturing and delivering breaking events using innovative technology. Using proprietary real-time search and in-house capital market experts, Selerity monitors authoritative, primary sources for events that impact the financial markets such as corporate earnings, economic reports, energy statistics, and credit rating changes. Selerity's information products deliver clients both machine-readable event data and actionable news in

real-time. Customers use Selerity's platform to make accelerated decisions by incorporating event data and news into their investment strategies.

http://www.seleritycorp.com

About CFN Services in the Global Financial Markets

CFN Services is a leading provider of managed high-frequency trading enablement services, providing solutions that accelerate market data delivery and trade execution for some of the most sophisticated financial markets participants worldwide. CFN Services operates the low-latency Alpha Platform, a high performance global cloud that accelerates trading performance for automated traders across key liquidity venues in the equities, options, futures, derivatives, and FX markets. For more information, please go to: http://www.cfnservices.com

About CFN Services

CFN Services provides high performance network and application delivery solutions for real-time, mission critical applications. Leveraging FiberSource

Verious Partners with Elance to Launch World's Largest Network of Mobile App Contract Developers, Designers and Service Providers

San Carlos, CA (PRWEB) November 08, 2011

Verious, Inc., the one-stop marketplace for mobile app development, and Elance, Inc., the world's leading platform for online employment, today announced that over 25,000 mobile professionals from the Elance network have been added to Verious existing network of mobile app component developers. Now, enterprise decision-makers and small business owners looking to quickly and cost-effectively develop new app featuresor entire new apps from scratchcan browse, review and even post requests to over 25,000 pre-screened, qualified mobile developers and app designers on http://www.Verious.com.

With the continued push to go mobile, enterprises are looking for ways to dramatically accelerate their mobile app development efforts. Additionally, restaurants, retailers, law offices and other main street businesses are looking to participate in the booming mobile app economy, said Anil Pereira, Founder and CEO of Verious. Our partnership with Elance exponentially expands our network of outsourced mobile app developers and broadens our marketplace to include designers and others who can help businesses create the assets they need to enhance existing apps or create entirely new apps for iOS, Android or other mobile devices.

Through their partnership, Verious and Elance have created two new categories in the Verious Marketplace: Find Contract Developers and Find Mobile App Projects.

The first category, Find Contract Developers, enables product managers, brand managers, small business owners and developers to browse a mobile app contractor directory which lists over 25,000 outsourced contract developers and designers skilled in developing iPhone/iPad apps, Android apps, app feature buttons, app icons, splash screens, or even multimedia features. These developer profiles come complete with details of a contractors capabilities, qualifications and ratings from prior projects.

The second category, Find Mobile App Projects, allows contract developers and designers to review postings for newly requested projects, submit their capabilities/credentials/profiles and bid on these projects accordingly.

Find Contract Developers and Find Mobile App Projects are both available now at http://www.Verious.com/Developer.

About Verious

Verious (http://www.Verious.com, @Veriously) is a mobile infrastructure company operating an online marketplace and license management service for mobile app development. The company launched in beta as a Finalist at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, CA in September, 2011.

"Verious" means "very serious, major, something cool". The company is backed by leading seed and angel investors and its management team includes industry veterans with experience at leading mobile, software and trusted services companies including American Express, Apple, Motorola, Oracle, Samsung, TRUSTe, VeriSign and VMWare. For more information, please visit http://www.Verious.com or follow us on Twitter @Veriously.

About Elance

Elance, the worlds leading platform for online employment, helps businesses hire and manage in the cloud.

For businesses looking to staff-up a team on an hourly or project basis, Elance offers instant access to qualified professionals who work online. Elance provides the tools to hire, view work as it progresses and pay for results. Elance is faster and more cost-effective than job boards, staffing firms and traditional outsourcing.

For skilled professionals who want to work online, Elance offers access to qualified clients, a virtual workplace and guaranteed pay for great work. Contractors have already earned more than $ 450 million on the Elance platform.

The company is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information, visit Elance at http://www.elance.com.

Copyright Verious, Inc., 2011. Media inquiries may be directed to Laura(dot)Nunez(at)Verious(dot)com.

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