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Company Press Release
SOURCE: Go2Net, Inc.
Go2Net Relaunches Silicon Investor
Redesigned Personal Finance Discussion Site Incorporates Go2Net's StockSite And IQC.com
SEATTLE, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Go2Net, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNET - news), 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 - news), 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 more than 120,000 active members.
Go2Net acquired IQC.com in May 1999 to provide Silicon Investor users with 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 Web sites 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.
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