re: coming ipo of PCQT spin-off:
ipomaven.com
WWW.PCQUOTE.COM is its free Web site that provides access to delayed quotes, news, research and analytical tools. Through its relationship with CNNFN, it provides users of its Web sites with access to timely news headlines and stories published by CNNFN. WWW.PCQUOTE.COM serves as the primary marketing and promotions engine for the rest of the services it provides. According to @plan, its demographics provider, the number of unique visitors to its WWW.PCQUOTE.COM Web site grew from approximately 796,000 per month in their Winter 1999 report (covering the months of July to September 1998) to approximately 987,000 per month in their Summer 1999 report (covering the months of January to March 1999). The Company is ranked third among approximately 311 content Web sites (second among all financially-oriented Web sites) surveyed in @plan's Summer 1999 report in terms of the percentage of the Web sites' audience that is male and has a household income of at least $50,000. According to the same report, the percentage of its Web sites' audience that is male, has a household income of at least $50,000 and has shopped online in the last six months is ranked sixth among the surveyed content Web sites (fifth among all financially-oriented Web sites). The Company believes these user demographics are attractive to potential advertisers. MARKETSMART-REAL.PCQUOTE.COM is the Company's subscription-based Web site that provides real-time, snapshot market quotations, along with all of the news, research and analytical tools that are available on WWW.PCQUOTE.COM. Because of its ability to provide real-time quotes, this site is targeted toward a more active investor than is WWW.PCQUOTE.COM. MARKETSMART-REAL.PCQUOTE.COM uses sparse graphics, text indices and creative advertising to speed download times and give users faster access to the site's content. The Company offers two Internet-enabled desktop services, PCQuote 6.0 RealTick and PCQuote Orbit, that provide automatically updated quotes, commonly known as streaming quotes, and a variety of real-time analytical tools. PCQuote 6.0 RealTick provides its subscribers with a professional-quality, NASDAQ level II, real-time quote system that offers reliable, streaming real-time market data for all North American equities and options. PCQuote 6.0 RealTick is online trading-enabled and offers order execution capabilities through participating broker-dealers. PCQuote Orbit, which it expects to launch in Fall 1999, provides subscribers with streaming, real-time market quotations delivered via an Internet-enabled desktop application. |
