Company Sleuth Uncovers Scoops on Walt Disney's Portal Strategy And Amazon's New TV Domains
-- Company Sleuth(TM), a free online business information service, is searching specialized sites on the Internet to uncover clues about the financial moves and Internet dealings of market- moving companies before they are officially announced or reported.
This week, Company Sleuth, a service of Infonautics, Inc. (Nasdaq: INFO - news), was credited by Bloomberg News on November 5, 1998 for discovering that The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS - news) had purchased more than 200 domain names containing the word ''go'' -- the reported name of the soon-to-be-launched portal site it is developing with Infoseek (Nasdaq: SEEK - news). Similarly, Company Sleuth users learned of Amazon.com's (Nasdaq: AMZN - news) registration of three domain names with TV-related themes -- Amazontv.com, Amazontelevision.com and Amazontube.com -- long before it was reported on November 2, 1998 by Inter@ctiveWeek Online.
''In less than a month, Company Sleuth has established itself as the Internet's premier provider of free, legal, inside information to investors, executives and journalists nationwide,'' said Joshua Kopelman, executive vice president of Infonautics. ''We'll continue to break news and turn heads as we provide our users with the information they need to make informed investment and business decisions.''
In just three weeks, Company Sleuth has already unveiled countless clues on select public companies, including 21 new patents for Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT - news), 20 patents for Lucent (NYSE: LU - news), 49 new domain names registered by Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC - news) and four new trademarks registrations for the Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F - news).
Company Sleuth provides its users with information on newly applied for and registered trademarks and domain names, SEC filings, stock market reports, job postings and postings on Usenet newsgroups and Yahoo! and Motley Fool message boards. With Company Sleuth, users receive a daily e-mail report detailing the business activities of selected companies -- often before they are officially announced or reported.
About Infonautics
Infonautics, Inc. (Nasdaq: INFO - news) is a rapidly growing Internet information company that provides online information services for schools, libraries, consumers and businesses. Its award-winning Electric Library service was the first reference service of its type on the Internet, and today is the fastest growing electronic reference product for schools and libraries, serving more than 9,500 institutions in all 50 states. Electric Library is also one of the largest paid subscription sites on the Web with more than 50,000 paying subscribers. The company also provides custom content-management and online archive services to major publishers and other content creators. Infonautics was founded in November 1992, and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.
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SOURCE: Company Sleuth
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