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Yesterday, online financial communication platform StockTwits launched a new capability called Conversations:

"StockTwits Conversations group new contributions made in response to any piece of content together, creating another way to share and consume messages beyond real-time StockTwits streams."

The new feature should bring the communication from Twitter to the StockTwits platform and help users find and contribute to conversations.

To learn more about StockTwits, watch its FinovateEurope 2011 demo.

Fast Company recently published a list of most innovative companies that contained multiple Finovate alumni. Here's the breakdown:

Overall top 50 most innovative companies:

Google
Rank: 3
FinovateFall 2011 demo

PayPal
Rank: 43
FinovateSpring 2011 demo

Top 10* in finance category:

PayPal
Rank: 4
FinovateSpring 2011 demo

SecondMarket
Rank: 6
FinovateStarup09 demo

Dwolla
Rank: 8
FinovateSpring 2011 demo

Simple (formerly BankSimple)
Rank: 9
FinovateFall 2011 demo

StockTwits
Rank: 10
FinovateEurope 2011 demo

Financial communications company StockTwits yesterday announced a new product called Direct that will enable public companies to post new on the Yahoo! Finance Quote page.

"StockTwits Direct allows subscribing companies to publish their most important updates directly to a module on the main "Quote Summary" page on Yahoo! Finance for their ticker symbol. Companies can easily modify or change their updates at any time and access usage metrics through a simple web dashboard within their StockTwits account."

HP, Intel, Royal Dutch Shell and Yahoo are all currently using the product in order to communicate updates to the public.

To learn more about StockTwits, watch its FinovateEurope 2011 demo.