Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
August 16, 2011 04:25 am GMT

YC-Funded MarketBrief Makes Obtuse SEC Documents Human-Friendly

marketbrieflogoIf you've ever tried to trudge through an SEC filing (or most financial filings, for that matter), you know that it can be a tedious and sometimes confusing process hampered by excessive legalize andunnecessarilysmall font sizes. Now MarketBrief, a Y Combinator-backed company that's relaunching today, has a solution: it looks through these SEC filings for you, then culls the key data to automatically generate a plain-English (well, almost plain) version that sounds more like a newspaper article than a legal document.You may already be familiar with the startup if you deal with a lot of SEC documents "the company originally launched as SECWatch back in 2009, when it served a fairly simple function: it would monitor public SEC filings for new updates, and would make those documents easy to access.

Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/pHeVjfLEbpM/

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Techcrunch

TechCrunch is a leading technology blog, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

More About this Source Visit Techcrunch