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To: molemania who wrote (4937)	11/28/1999 1:55:00 PM
From: Ellen	Respond to of 5529

biz.yahoo.com [excerpt] "The deal of the week is Agency.com followed by McAfee.com," said Vincent Slavin, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald. "I'm not sure which is going to do better, but both will have stellar performance. There is a lot of demand." Agency.com is slated to price 5.9 million shares at an expected price range of $10 to $12 per share in a deal underwritten by Goldman Sachs, Salomon Smith Barney and Hambrecht & Quist. The New York-based company will trade under the stock symbol ACOM on Nasdaq. Agency.com helps create Internet business models, including distribution, marketing and Web design services. McAfee.com Corp. is scheduled to sell 6.25 million shares at an expected price range of $6 to $8 per share, with underwriters Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Hambrecht & Quist and Robertson Stephens. The Santa-Clara, Calif.-based company provides computer virus protection kits as well as other security and management products and services over its Web site. The company plans to sell shares under the symbol MCAF on Nasdaq. "One that might be a sleeper is Digimarc (Corp.) ... ," DeGraw said. "With this company the benefit is immediate, because there is a great deal of counterfeit going on and this helps prevent it." Digimarc, which provides patented digital watermarking technologies, plans to price 3 million shares at an expected price range of $13 to $15, with the help of underwriters Robertson Stephens, Hambrecht & Quist and U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. The Lake Oswego, Ore.-based company, which had boosted its price range from $11 to $13 per share, expects to sell its shares on Nasdaq under the symbol DMRC.