Chris, Company Sleuth has been up for a little over a month. Here's a copy of a November 13th Reuters News Item discussing it:
Infonautics<INFO.O>leaps, Street warms to Web site
NEW YORK, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Shares of Infonautics Inc., an online information company, tripled in value on Friday as investors warmed to its newest product, a search engine that scours the Web for little-known facts about public companies.
The Wayne, Pa.-based company's shares traded at seven, up 4-5/8 from Thursday, and reached a 52-week high of 10-1/2 in the session.
Van Morris, president and chief executive, said Company Sleuth, which sniffs out data from new trademarks and patents to domain name registrations and government filings, has piqued Wall Street's interest in its overall operations.
"Company Sleuth is certainly grabbing a ton of attention," he said, "and that attention is also helping illustrate the real fundamental growth of the company."
Morris highlighted the revenue growth of Infonautics, which also operates Electric Library, a computer search service with access to hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and reference works, radio and TV transcripts, maps, and photographs.
In October, it reported third quarter revenues of $4.1 million, 149 percent above a year ago, and nine month revenues of $10.3 million, versus $4.4 million in 1997.
It reported a third quarter net loss of $0.44 a share, against $0.41 in the same period a year ago.
The Company Sleuth site is free and currently has no advertising, but Morris anticipates it will incorporate ads and corporate sponsorship early in 1999.
He added that that company is awaiting a response from Nasdaq, after it met with a Nasdaq panel on Nov. 5 regarding its potential delisting.
Nasdaq in October said the company no longer met its the minimun net tangible asset requirements for continued listing. Infonautics has said that if Nasdaq opted to delist the stock, it expects that its shares would be quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board.
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