(PR NEWSWIRE) ..Piper Jaffray Analyst Ekoniak Explains What's Behind the Vertical Rise In
E-Market-Maker Stocks On Today's Informed Investors Radio
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Piper Jaffray's new senior
analyst on the Business-to-Business e-Commerce team, Jon M. Ekoniak, guests
today on Informed Investors Radio to share his perspective on "Vertical Market
Makers," the group developing auction-like exchanges on the Web.
The show airs 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST on WALE in Providence and KFNX in
Phoenix, as well as live and delayed at www.informedinvestors.com. Listeners
may send live questions via email during the show to cohost Tim Quast at
tim@informedinvestors.com.
Ekoniak previously helped launch the Business-to-Business e-Commerce
coverage area at BancBoston Robertson Stephens after covering e-business
software for two years. He will focus his coverage on companies that provide
open communications platforms on the Internet for buyers and sellers like
Chemdex, PurchasePro.com and VerticalNet.
VerticalNet (Nasdaq: VERT) CEO Mark Walsh is the second-half guest on the
radio show, and will survey his firm's strategy and pioneering efforts in
business-to-business exchanges.
Consulting firm Forrester Research expects the business-to-business
e-commerce market to grow from $43 billion in 1998 to $1.3 trillion in
2003. Listeners to the show should gain insight into which companies might be
poised to capitalize on transaction, subscription and advertising revenue
opportunities as online-exchange commerce explodes.
InformedInvestors.com is the leading producer of online and offline
industry-specific investment conferences for individual investors and offers a
growing stable of resources for in-depth sector-analysis including the weekly,
technology-focused Informed Investors Radio. Its next conference is the 3rd
Annual Informed Investors Cancer Stocks Forum Saturday, Dec. 12 in Seattle,
WA, which can be attended onsite or via the Internet.
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