Informed Investors Announces Agreement With Yahoo! for Internet Broadcasts
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Informed Investors, Inc., a leading producer of industry-specific investment quality conferences for the retail investment community, today announced a broadcast services agreement with Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet media company.
Under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo! will broadcast Informed Investors' Forums and the weekly Informed Investors Radio program on Yahoo!(R) Broadcast ( broadcast.yahoo.com ), which are also accessible through Informed Investors' Web site ( informedinvestors.com ).
"We feel Yahoo!'s strong Internet broadcasting services provide Informed Investors with a distribution outlet that is unmatched on the Internet," said Timothy Quast, president and COO of Informed Investors, Inc. "Our objective is to bring industry specific conferences previously reserved for institutional investors to individual investors around the globe. We feel that we are now providing a new interactive opportunity for investors.
"The power of the retail investment community has also fundamentally changed the way public companies conduct investor communications," Quast added, "and we think that offering these broadcasts is a very compelling channel for managing that effort."
"We are pleased to be providing our Internet broadcasting solutions to Informed Investors for timely delivery of information to their audience of individual investors," said Stan Woodward, vice president of business services at Yahoo!.
Informed Investors Forums are held in major markets nationwide and feature industry-focused, analyst-style presentations from public companies. In addition, keynote speakers -- which include sellside analysts, buyside analysts and other prominent influencers -- offer unique and valuable insight into the focus industry of each Forum.
The next event available on Yahoo! Broadcast is the 3rd Informed Investors/Worth Electronics & Technology Stocks Forum on Sunday on November 7 in San Diego. Presenting companies are Genesis Microchip, Caere Corp., Bell Microproducts, TriQuint Semiconductor, Power Integrations, Coherent, ATMI, Hi/fn Corp. and Trimble Navigation.
The keynote speakers are Kevin Landis, founder and CEO of Firsthand Funds, and Arun Veerappan, communications and semiconductor devices analyst for BancBoston Robertson Stephens. The previous event, the Philadelphia Healthcare/Biotechnology Stocks Forum, was held on October 23 and is archived on Yahoo! Broadcast.
Informed Investors Radio (2-3 p.m. EST on Thursdays) offers weekly updates on the latest market, company and industry developments spotlighting senior executives of companies in the news and prominent analysts covering them. The content is featured in the Business area on Yahoo! Broadcast and shows are archived for on-demand listening. |
