more VDAT news: 10:51am Visual Data's TheFirstNews.com to Be Featured on Yahoo! FinanceVision
POMPANO BEACH, Fla., June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Visual Data Corporation (Nasdaq: VDAT - news), a leading provider of original broadband video and audio content for the Internet, today announced an agreement with Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO - news), a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company. TheFirstNews.com, Visual Data Corporation's streaming audio business and financial news service, will be the first featured link in the Tools area on Yahoo!© FinanceVision (http://financevision.yahoo.com). TheFirstNews.com will provide Yahoo! FinanceVision users with its customized business and financial news in a constant audio stream throughout the trading day.
Yahoo! FinanceVision, the first live financial network to originate from Silicon Valley, combines Yahoo!'s expertise in personalizing data, streaming video and aggregating and distributing information to deliver an integrated consumer experience.
``We are excited that the value and benefits of TheFirstNews.com are being recognized by an Internet pioneer such as Yahoo!,'' said Randy Selman, president and CEO of Visual Data Corporation. ``TheFirstNews.com allows users to specify their preferences by industry sectors and/or individual stocks, and alerts users via audio or text when news fitting their selected preferences is announced,'' continued Selman. ``Having news available minutes before many of the other news sources gives users of TheFirstNews.com a trading advantage.''
``We are pleased to work with TheFirstNews.com and to provide Yahoo! FinanceVision users access to its fast breaking financial and business news,'' said Eric Scholl, executive producer and director, Yahoo! FinanceVision.
About TheFirstNews.com
TheFirstNews.com is an automated advance financial news source on the Internet that gives investors customized corporate news in advance of other services. Through agreements with national news sources, TheFirstNews.com receives corporate press releases, late breaking news stories and broadcasts customized audio and text excerpts throughout the trading day, giving today's new breed of investors the advantage of first action. TheFirstNews.com also aggregates top news and information from many sources and with no spin, slant or editorial angle. TheFirstNews.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Visual Data Corporation (Nasdaq: VDAT - news), a leading creator of video and audio content for the Internet. For more information on TheFirstNews.com visit thefirstnews.com.
About Visual Data Corporation
Visual Data Corporation (Nasdaq: VDAT - news) produces, markets and distributes original broadband video and audio content for the Internet and soon Interactive Television. Visual Data's extensive video libraries (http://www.vdat.com) cover a wide range of topics, including travel, business information, medicine and healthcare. Through its subsidiary EDnet, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: EDNT - news), Visual Data has established extensive contacts throughout the motion picture and recording industries. Visual Data's current business relationships include PR Newswire, InterVu, TravelWeb, Road Runner, Yahoo!, NBCi, Rezsolutions, and Intelihealth.
This press release con. E_ B_,rward-looking statements, which involve numerous risks and uncertainties. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward looking statements as a result of certain factors, including those set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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