Individual Investor Online Message Boardsto Be Featured on Infonautics' Company Sleuth
NEW YORK, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Individual Investor Group, Inc.
(Nasdaq: INDI) and Infonautics, Inc. (Nasdaq: INFO) today announced that
Infonautics' popular business information Web site, Company Sleuth
(http://www.companysleuth.com) will feature links to the extensive message
boards on Individual Investor Online (http://www.iionline.com). Company
Sleuth users seeking information on particular companies will be able to view
headlines from Individual Investor Online's message boards concerning those
companies, and link to the Individual Investor Online site to view the
messages.
Free with site registration, Company Sleuth scours the Internet for a wide
range of information on companies specified by users. Users of Company Sleuth
can develop a "Stakeout" list of companies they would like to track and then
receive a daily e-mail telling them what new information was posted on the
Internet over the past 24 hours about those companies. Starting in April,
this e-mail will include notice of the postings on Individual Investor
Online's message boards. This service from Company Sleuth has grown rapidly,
recently surpassing the 100,000 registered users mark.
Individual Investor Online has quickly become one of the Internet's most
popular sites for investment analysis, news and commentary, with page views
increasing by more than 150% since the beginning of the year. In January,
Individual Investor Online launched expanded message boards to provide its
users with a community in which to share ideas concerning investments. Since
the launch, message board traffic has increased dramatically, with March
figures up more than 70% from February. In addition to including its content
in Company Sleuth, Individual Investor Online will also provide a link to
Company Sleuth from its company pages, which are viewed whenever a user of
Individual Investor Online asks for information or quotes on specific
companies.
"Participants on our message boards provide very interesting and useful
information on specific companies as well as their own investment strategies,"
said Jonathan Steinberg, chairman and CEO of Individual Investor Group. "Our
inclusion on the Company Sleuth site will increase the exposure of this
information and will draw an even larger number of knowledgeable investors to
our site. By offering the best message board technology on the Web, the full
resources of Individual Investor Online are only a click away and active
participation from our in-house analysts, we wish to make our message boards
the best forum on the Web for our community of users to share their investment
intelligence."
Individual Investor Group currently maintains a relationship with
Infonautics through InsiderTrader.com, which Individual Investor Group
acquired in December 1998. InsiderTrader.com provides Company Sleuth with
much of its information on the insider activity of publicly-traded companies.
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