GO2NET RELAUNCHES SILICON INVESTOR REDESIGNED PERSONAL FINANCE DISCUSSION
SITE INCORPORATES GO2NET'S STOCKSITE AND IQC.COM
SEATTLE, Aug 16, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Go2Net, Inc. (Nasdaq:
GNET), a network of branded, technology- and community-driven Web
sites, today introduced a comprehensively redesigned version of Silicon
Investor ( siliconinvestor.com ), the Web's premier
financial discussion and information site. Available immediately, the
site integrates Silicon Investor's popular discussion forums with the
proprietary articles, portfolio tracking tools, company research and
news of Go2Net's StockSite ( stocksite.com ) and the
advanced financial charting and technical analysis offerings of the
company's recently-acquired IQC.com ( iqc.com ).
In addition to a redesigned graphical interface and improved navigation
schemes, the new Silicon Investor adds enhanced content and services
from several leading organizations in the personal finance sector,
including:
* Multex.com (Nasdaq: MLTX), which offers a customized, co-branded
version of the Multex Investor Network, providing consensus earnings
and research reports. It provides Silicon Investor users more than 300,
000 free and premium investment research reports from more than 250
global research providers.
* Market Guide Inc., offering fundamental company research, including
income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and financial
highlights.
* FreeEDGAR, which offers Silicon Investor users free access to EDGAR
filings, a watch list service with email alerts for targeted company
filings and instant financial tables, downloadable into Excel
spreadsheets.
* StreetFusion, which provides on-demand conference call webcasts and
earnings release calendars for Silicon Investor users. A c-call.com
company, StreetFusion connects more than 5,000 publicly traded
companies with thousands of investment professionals and individual
investors.
"Silicon Investor has long differentiated itself with a
subscription-based model that is uniquely successful in the personal
finance discussion space," said Russell C. Horowitz, Go2Net Chief
Executive Officer. "The new Silicon Investor adds the best content and
features of StockSite and IQC.com, along with an infrastructure that
will allow Go2Net to incorporate new services, extending Silicon
Investor's leadership position as the Internet's most comprehensive
source of quality discussion and information in the personal finance
category."
Go2Net acquired Silicon Investor in 1998 and has since established the
site as an integral part of the Go2Net Network. The Internet's only
subscription-based financial discussion service, Silicon Investor has
received nearly 11 million message postings since its inception in
1995, from morethan 120,000 active members.
Go2Net acquired IQC.com in May 1999 to provide Silicon Investor
userswith real-time financial charting and technical analysis
capabilities and to add a complementary stream of subscription-based
revenues to the Go2Net Network. IQC's subscription-based IQ Chart
includes robust, real-time technical charts, which continuously monitor
market indices and individual company performances, updating
automatically every minute throughout the trading day. Go2Net launched
StockSite in 1997, to provide Internet users with original editorial
content, investment portfolio tracking tools, company research and
continuously updated news relating to business and finance. All IQC and
StockSite offerings are available immediately on Silicon Investor.
About Go2Net, Inc. Go2Net is a network of branded, technology- and
community-driven Websites focused on the following categories: personal
finance, search and directory, commerce and business services, and
games. The company also develops Web-related software. The Go2Net
Network's properties include: Go2Net Personal ( go2net.com
), which provides users with a comprehensive Internet start page
offering customizable news, discussion, and stock information, as well
as direct access to Go2Net's own finance, search, free Web hosting,
shopping and Java multiplayer game sites; Silicon Investor (
siliconinvestor.com ), the Web's premier financial
discussion site, which also offers proprietary articles, portfolio
tracking tools, company research and news relating to business and
finance; MetaCrawler ( metacrawler.com ), a metasearch
service that combines various existing search/index guides into one
service; Dogpile ( dogpile.com ), a metasearch service and
provider of proprietary search technologies; 100hot (
100hot.com ), a leading directory of the Web's most popular
sites; HyperMart ( hypermart.net ) and Virtual Avenue (
virtualave.net ), the Web's leading providers of free
business hosting services; Authorize.Net ( authorize.net ),
the Internet's leading payment authorization service; Haggle Online (
haggle.com ), a person-to-person auction service; WebMarket
( webmarket.com ), a one-stop comparison shopping service;
and PlaySite ( playsite.com ), the Web's premier Java-based
multi-player games site. The company's Go2Net Labs division develops
innovative technologies to enhance the features and functionality of
the Go2Net sites and for licensing to other Internet companies.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties, including those relating to the company's
ability to grow its user and advertiser base. Actual results may differ
materially from the results predicted and reported results should not
be considered as an indication of future performance. The potential
risks and uncertainties include, among others, the company's limited
operating history, the competitive environment in which the company
competes, the early stage of the Web as an advertising and electronic
commerce medium, the company's dependence on advertising and
sponsorship revenues, the company's dependence on strategic
relationships to drive traffic to its Web sites, consumer acceptance of
the company's new products and services, the company's ability to
develop and integrate new technologies and services into its existing
services, and the increased use of the Web for commerce. More
information about the potential factors that could affect the company's
business and financial results is included in the company's Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 1998 and Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended December 31, 1998 and March
31, 1999, which are on file with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
CONTACT: Mark S. Peterson, Director of Public Relations of Go2Net,
Inc., 206-447-1595, or mark@go2net.com.
SOURCE Go2Net, Inc.
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CONTACT: Mark S. Peterson, Director of Public Relations of
Go2Net, Inc.,
206-447-1595, or mark@go2net.com
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