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To: astyanax who wrote (2762)	12/19/1999 4:19:00 PM
From: mact	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6018

**OT* an interesting factoid from recent forbes article on Hikari Tsushin's Yasumitsu Shigeta(btw-34 years old and golf buddies with Son)...Son and Shigeta(worth 25B now) are now the 4th and 5th richest men in the world...Shigeta sits on Softbanks board also...Hikari and Softbank have joint venture leasing satellite dishes for SkyPerfect TV and plan to have more partnerships...according to forbes article, Hikari Tsushin Capital is Japans largest internet start-up fund(366M) in which Shigeta owns 20%(but what about softbank?) OT** Net, looking at the charts on Softbank, TransCosmos and Jafco, i believe the word is out!...the one company with alot of upside potential is PCCLF since its only trading at $1.32 a share(bought at 0.92 just a week or so ago)...jmo. mact

To: astyanax who wrote (2762)	2/14/2000 5:01:00 PM
From: astyanax	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6018

Followup on Softbank & Gomez. Gomez ranks Webvan #1. Surprise. biz.yahoo.com - Netconductor.com >>In December, I wrote: Softbank to formally purchase gomez.com (Gomez advisors)? Gomez is the leading independent rating agency for online financial services. In their latest survey, the Softbank empire nearly makes a clean sweep of the categories. 1. Mortgage E-Loan Score: 7.94 1. Insurance Insweb (review) Score: 6.44 1. Brokers ETrade Score: 7.74 Only the bank ratings keep Softbank from dominating the online financial world, as rated by Gomez. I know very little about Mortgage (most 24-year olds don't worry about that kind of stuff). As for Insweb, I wonder if people find it much better than Quotesmith, Quicken InsureMarket, etc? As for e-brokers, I question the reliability of this score. Lots of anecdotal evidence suggests that ETrade doesn't deserve to sit atop of the ebroker rankings every quarter.