These services join the hundred other services StrikeIron offers to use now, integrate into applications or build into Web sites including high-quality business and financial data services from providers such as D&B, MapQuest, Midnight Trader, Tax Data Systems, and Zacks. In a recent survey conducted by StrikeIron, over 65 percent of respondents listed "quality of available data" and "relevancy of available data" as the critical challenges they faced when integrating external data with internal mashups, applications and web sites.

Wall Street Horizon specializes in providing clients with multiple ways to receive information about impending corporate financial events. Their massive database currently boasts coverage of over 5,000 U.S. public companies. The data is gathered directly by trained analysts who speak directly with the companies tracked. In addition, their QA process monitors corporate web sites for daily omissions, deletions, and changes. Their unique combination of high-touch and high-tech data collection methods provides users with the most accurate and current calendar information available for the market today.

"Content and its effective distribution and availability are critical to any investor," said Barry L. Star, managing director of Wall Street Horizon. "We are excited about offering our services through the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace, allowing users to develop novel and innovative solutions that will support the new ways clients conduct their business."

Wall Street Horizon Corporate Earnings Calendars

Gives users access to comprehensive earning calendars providing earnings announcements, investor conference call dates and times, dividend announcements, and split announcements to track and evaluate over 5,000 U.S. public companies. Data reported includes:
-- Quarterly Earnings Announcements Dates and Times
-- Investor Conference Calls
-- Dividend Announcements
-- Stock Split Announcements
-- Board of Directors Scheduled Meetings
-- A real-time list of the day's scheduled and actual earnings releases, including times
-- Earnings per share (EPS) estimates and actuals as reported
-- URL links to the underlying press releases
Wall Street Horizon Interest Rate Calendar
Allows users access to current daily and 52 week historical averages for a wide variety of interest rates. Data reported includes:
-- Current interest rate information for mortgage rates with points and average rates including 30 year fixed rates, 15 year fixed rates, and five year adjustable rates with points.
-- Consumer Loan rate information for Home Equity Line of Credit, Credit Card averages rates, and New and Used Car loans
-- Historical interest rate calendar information for 52 weeks

"Wall Street Horizon is a respected leader in the financial calendars industry. We believe that their partnership with StrikeIron's strengthens the comprehensive real-time financial data companies can now access to integrate into business applications, Web sites and enterprise mashups", said Bob Brauer, CEO and president of StrikeIron. "We look forward to helping our customers meet ambitious business and financial goals across both the front and back offices with our services."

About Wall Street Horizon
Headquartered in Boston, Wall Street Horizon offers a comprehensive, highly accurate database of detailed U.S. corporate calendar dates -- earnings release dates, conference calls, ex-dividend dates, meeting dates, and other critical information that has direct impact on a company's stock price. The Company has created a proprietary business process for collecting, storing, analyzing, and verifying such corporate information. The Company's clients include some of the largest firms on Wall Street. For more information, contact Wall Street Horizon at 781.994.3500 or www.wallstreethorizon.com.

About StrikeIron
StrikeIron is the leader in Data as a Service (DaaS), facilitating the consumption and distribution of live, integratable data and business functionality over the Web. The company's innovative Web Services Marketplace provides a technology platform, micro-transaction management and a consistent interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources. This allows business users, application developers and enterprise IT professionals to customize and integrate external data sources and additional external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications. Currently, StrikeIron provides over 100 live data sources and business functions from organizations such as D&B, MapQuest, Midnight Trader, Tax Data Systems and Zacks.

StrikeIron also offers a set of products and tools to simplify and accelerate the consumption of data such as its SOA Express for Excel, enabling business users to access live data via front office applications. StrikeIron delivers value to over 1,000 customers and partners such as BEA, Delivery.com, IBM, Honda Europe, D&B, Time Warner, Siemens, Nike, Kenwood, and Exclusive Resorts. For more information, visit www.strikeiron.com .

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