Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Gold/Mining/Energy : WIZ , (WSI Interactive) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Bishop who wrote (225)	1/10/2000 12:52:00 PM
From: CIMA	Respond to of 421

From Granny again: This is documented compensation that Stocksecrets.com has received for profiling the following companies. Almost a quarter of a million dollars isn't bad for a site that's not even fully operational yet! M&A West $15,000 US Global Media $15,000 US Photochannel.com 40,000 shares Cerro Derado $5,000 US Pinecrest Investment Group $15,000 US Desert Winds Entertainment 7200 shares CyberAmerica Corp. $10,000 US Ryster Communications Ltd. $7,000 US Light Management Group $5,000 US Bion Environmental Technologies $2,500 US Bidhit.com $5,000 US USAsurance Group Inc. $6,000 US Staruni Corp. $2,500 US Dega Technologies Inc. 5,000 shares Visual Link Wireless $6,000 US Industrial Rubber Innovations Corp. $2,500 US SportsPrize.com $9,000 US Advanced BodyMetrics Corp. $5,000 US Synergy Technology $6,000 US iParty.com $4,000 US Reclamation Management $9,000 US Stockgroup.com $5,000 US AutoTradeCenter.com $6,000 US Canadian Cool Clear Inc. $6,000 US Magnum Ventures $4,200 US Entertainment Boulevard $2,500 US Modern Computer Systems Inc. $2,500 Us Ag Armeno $2,500 US Econometrics Inc. $6,000 US The Ultimate Cigar Company $2,500 Cdn. Atlas Mining Comapnay $1,000 US/10,000 shares Anglo Swiss Resources $3450 Cdn. LCS Golf $3,350 US Payforview.com $5,000 Cdn. PlanetCity.com $3,350 US CanFibre $4,500 Cdn. Have a good day.

To: Jim Bishop who wrote (225)	1/12/2000 12:11:00 PM
From: CIMA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 421

'An amazing job of picking winners' CMGI's board on emergency status to approve deals: Silicon Valley has adopted the Japanese concept of keiretsu -- a network of companies linked by mutual obligation that share information and knowledge. Steve Case and Gerald Levin have created the world's largest keiretsu with the proposed merger of America Online and Time Warner but other corporate leaders are set to create global alliances of their own. The preferences of those individual leaders will determine what kind of deals will emerge. In addition to the keiretsus, a number of corporate samurai are roaming the land looking to ally themselves with the emperors of the Internet More Technology News By DAVID AKIN The Financial Post David Wetherell, the 45-year-old chairman and CEO of CMGI Inc., keeps his five-member board of directors on "emergency status," ready to approve a new deal at a moment's notice. That's because he leads an Internet firm and speed is everything in the new connected economy. His board probably doesn't mind being summoned at all hours for Mr. Wetherell, experts agree, has an uncanny gift for spotting winners and sniffing out the duds of the Internet economy. CMGI is two parts venture capital company and one part Internet advertising firm. "It's hard to argue with anything they do," said Paul Hagen, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc., in Cambridge, Mass. "They do an amazing job picking winners." That success -- and a market value of more than $37-billion -- has given Mr. Wetherell, from his home base in Andover, Mass., influence in the Internet economy that matches Bill Gates, Paul Allen or Steve Case. (All figures in U.S. dollars.) The youngest of six children, Mr. Wetherell grew up in Connecticut and went to Ohio Wesleyan University. He is described as soft-spoken and laid-back, the kind of guy you might find selling textbooks to college professors at Ivy League campuses, which is, in fact, what CMGI, then known as College Marketing Group, was doing in the early 1990s. In 1994, Mr. Wetherell took the company public and used the proceeds to invest in Lycos and Booklink. He sold Booklink eventually to AOL for a cool $70-million. Those early investments, which also included taking stakes in GeoCities and Critical Path, have made CMGI and Mr. Wetherell wealthy and added significant cache to the firm. Today, about 60 companies make up the CMGI network, either as subsidiaries or beneficiaries of minority positions. Its most notable holdings right now include AltaVista and Lycos. Because of his connection to Lycos, Mr. Wetherell could become a factor in BCE Inc.'s Internet strategy. BCE is said to have been interested in acquiring all of, or a significant portion of, Lycos, which it would make the cornerstone of a consumer Internet strategy. There will be increasing pressure on BCE, in the wake of the AOL-Time Warner deal, to get into the Internet deal-making game. Top Stories Celestica buys three IBM plants for US$500M R&D picture mixed in Canada: Conference Board Siemens buys Newbridge stake in Israel's Seabridge Japanese stocks fall after Wall Street's declines; U.S. dollar rises