To: Jim Bishop who wrote (14087 ) 11/14/1999 2:05:00 PM From: SSP Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 150070
TRACK DATA ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE DOW JONES NEWS SERVICE IN ITS myTrack SERVICE New York, New York - November 15, 1999 - Track Data Corporation (Nasdaq NMS: TRAC) announced today it signed a non-exclusive wholesale agreement with Dow Jones Newswires to offer the Dow Jones News Service, the leading source of real-time equity news for financial professionals, to customers of its myTrack Internet-based online trading and market data service. This premium service from Dow Jones Newswires is available now. Track Data's Chairman and CEO, Barry Hertz, said, "We have offered this high-end service to our institutional customers for many years and we are very pleased to make Dow Jones News available to our Internet-based customers. This arrangement is one of many in our effort to add professional grade content and enhance myTrack's value to investors." James Donoghue, VP Sales and Marketing for Dow Jones Newswires, noted, "We're very pleased to offer our service through a high level Internet-based service like myTrack. Our news will add great value to myTrack by providing users with the same information most frequently used by professional traders and brokers." Other agreements between Track Data and Dow Jones Newswires allow Track Data products to carry Dow Jones News, including Dow Jones News Service, Professional Investor Report, World Equities Report, Capital Markets Report and Economic Report. myTrack is a fully integrated Internet-based online trading and market data system. Trading is offered at prices starting at $12.95 per trade. myTrack delivers free streaming delayed quotes and unlimited free real-time extended quotes, as well as breaking company news, a trade by trade log, charting for technical analysis and a proprietary library of intraday market statistics. For $19.98 per month plus exchange fees, users can subscribe to streaming real-time quotes. A menu of features, including Nasdaq Level II, is available separately or in value packages. To open a trading account, users should go to www.mytrack.com and click on "Open a Trading Account." Track Data provides real-time financial market data, news, fundamental research, charting and analytical services to institutional and individual investors through dedicated telecommunication lines and the Internet. The Company also offers online trading through its myTrack Internet-based personal investment service. myTrack is an Internet-based software application that is not restricted by the limitations of an HTML website-based static system offered by virtually all of its well-known competitors such as E*Trade (Nasdaq: EGRP), Schwab (NYSE: SCH) and Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD). myTrack delivers a continuous dynamic stream of live market data and investors' online trading activity. The system is always connected and is an order of magnitude faster than competing browser-based systems. Download myTrack software at mytrack.com or call 1.800.myTrack. Additional information may be obtained by contacting Laurel Louison, Investor Relations, at 718.522.7373 or by e-mail: laurel_louison@tdc.com. Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; www.dj.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and Interactive editions, Barron's and SmartMoney magazines and other periodicals, Dow Jones Newswires, dowjones.com, Dow Jones Indexes, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters group of Factiva, and with NBC of the CNBC television operations in Europe and Asia. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC in the U.S.