Fidelity Investments® and Verizon Deliver First Stock, Financial and Market News Application on FiOS TV




BOSTON NEW YORK–(business WIRE)– Fidelity Investments®, a leader in helping individuals research and invest in the financial markets, and Verizon, a high-tech broadband leader and entertainment provider, today announced a joint project to provide Verizon’s FiOS TVsubscribers instant access to the Fidelity Market Monitor Application. Now available to Verizon’s 4 million FiOS TV customers, the new app gives them instant access, directly on their televisions, to rich market data including quotes, charts, watch lists and financial news.

Verizon is the first cable or satellite provider to offer the Fidelity Market Monitor Application, and at no addition charge for FiOS TV customers.

FiOS TV subscribers can access the Fidelity Market Monitor Application with their TV remote control, search for quotes and information about stocks and mutual funds, and view the information on the right side of their TV screen, while watching TV programming. Once they select their desired stock or mutual fund symbol, subscribers can use their remote to scroll through a full-price quote1, a historical pricing chart, and related news stories. Subscribers can add up to 25 stock or fund symbols to their personal watch list, which is color-sorted based on the daily movement of each stock or fund (red for negative, green for positive, and black for no change).

“In today’s economy, people are watching their investments more closely than ever, and the new Fidelity app enables FiOS TV customers to track their investments on their TV screens, making personal finance management easier and more enjoyable,” said Rachelle Zoffer, director, Content Acquisition and Programming for Verizon. “This is another way we’re putting technology in people’s hands to help them benefit from a borderless lifestyle where everything that’s important to them is accessible anytime, anywhere on their favorite devices.”

Sean Belka, senior vice president and director of Fidelity’s Center for Applied Technologies, said, “Our relationship with Verizon is the latest in our ongoing efforts to introduce technology innovations that enable Fidelity to be there for investors on the platforms and services that they use every day. Now investors can access financial information and services from Fidelity via FiOS TV, the Web, mobile devices, the telephone, and in person at more than 160 investor centers nationwide.”

Fidelity also recently increased access options for investors with an updated iPad® app introduced last week, which features world market data and news, advanced charting and in-depth research. For more information about Web development projects designed and built by Fidelity Labs, investors can visit Fidelity.com/beta.

FiOS TV offers dozens of free, interactive applications that make life easier, more productive and more fun. They include apps for Facebook®, Twitter®, HSN Shop By Remote® and others.

About Fidelity Investments

Fidelity Investments is one of the world’s largest providers of financial services, with assets under administration of $3.4 trillion, including managed assets of $1.5 trillion, as of October 31, 2011. Founded in 1946, the firm is a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and many other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals and institutions, as well as through 5,000 financial intermediary firms. For more information about Fidelity Investments, visit www.fidelity.com.

About Verizon

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America’s most reliable wireless network, with more than 107 million total connections nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America’s most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers in more than 150 countries, including all of the Fortune 500. A Dow 30 company with $106.6 billion in 2010 revenues, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 195,000. For more information, visit www.verizon.com.

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