Alerts.com is an opt-in service that aggregates content from multiple sources, eliminating the need to visit multiple sites. The service is designed to enable anyone, anywhere to access, manage, organize and control how to receive reminders, notifications and alerts of personally relevant and time-sensitive information and content.
With Alerts.com, mobile users can get updated news headlines, airfare, hotel, sports scores, price watch, weather, price, gas price wake-up alerts and more. Alerts can be delivered via e-mail, SMS, voice, widget and/or through the desktop. Alerts.com promises absolutely no spam. "What you select is what you get, nothing else," the company pledges. Recently added alerts include gas price, Craigslist, NFL score, health and movies/DVD release feeds.
By aggregating content from multiple sources, advertising-supported Alerts.com does the heavy work of searching the Web for the news and information consumers need most to help them save time and money. Alerts.com users can schedule when they receive alerts and where they are delivered. By using Alerts.com, consumers can receive the information they want, when and where they want it.
"Consumers are inundated with vast amounts of information and often have a difficult time sorting through what is relevant, important or urgent to their everyday needs," says Pascal Stolz, Alerts.com's co-founder and CEO. "Alerts.com is a user-friendly service that helps users aggregate what they want from one secure source.
The company recently unveiled a Desktop Alerts widget that allows subscribers to manage their incoming messages and alerts by receiving them directly on their desktop without having to visit Alerts.com or their inbox. The new downloadable dashboard aims to ensure that subscribers receive their requested content as quickly as possible.
Alerts.com is hoping to ride a boom in mobile messaging advertising market that's expected to reach $1.5 billion this year, up 82 percent from 2007, according to eMarketer, a New York-based media research firm.
Alerts.com is privately held and received initial funding from Monster Venture Partners and Internet Real Estate Group, which both focus on acquiring and developing businesses around "category-defining" generic domain names such as Alerts.com, Phone.com, Patents.com and Chocolate.com.
Alerts.com was founded in December 2007. The company is based in Bellevue, Wash.
