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Technology Stocks : Town Pages Net.com plc (TPN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hcm1943 who wrote (36)	1/11/2000 11:41:00 AM
From: Intrepid1	Respond to of 40

TownPages Announces Intention to List BuyersGuide Subsidiary - Formerly Bowden Publishing - On the London Stock Market ALTON, England, Jan 11, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- TownPagesNet.com plc (AMEX: TPN), a provider of Internet-based on-line information services in the UK, has announced its intention to take its B2B (business to business) subsidiary BuyersGuide public in the UK and seek a listing for it on the London stock market. Based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Bowden publishes the well-known Internet-based Local Government & Public Service 'Buyers Guide' (www.buyersguide.co.uk), which attracts in excess of 2,500 advertisers annually. Since its formation, the company has grown from two to 30 employees and built up a client list including blue chip companies such as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Canon (NASDAQ: CANNY), together with a wide range of telecommunications companies. Stephen Hall of TownPages commented: "TownPages is enhancing and expanding the BuyersGuide service by adding e-commerce capabilities to its current advertising service. BuyersGuide's revenue-generating potential is likely to prove extremely attractive to investors when listed on the London stock market. Local government authorities' current purchasing expenditures are worth in excess of (pound)400 billion per year. This market attracts advertisements by many suppliers. We are extremely excited by the considerable commercial opportunities for BuyersGuide." TownPagesNet.com plc owns Town Pages UK Ltd., which operates TownPages, an interactive service providing comprehensive, up-to-date, locally focused information about specific towns and cities in the United Kingdom in a graphically pleasing format. On May 5th, 1999, the company consummated the initial public offering of its securities in the US for gross proceeds of $22,000,000. "Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market acceptance, reliance on key strategic alliances, fluctuations in operating results and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. TownPages(R)' website can be found at www.TownPages.co.uk Copyright (C) 2000 Business Wire. All rights reserved. Distributed via COMTEX.

To: hcm1943 who wrote (36)	7/22/2000 1:31:47 AM
From: Intrepid1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 40

Hello HCM, I'm still long TPN how about you? I did the craziest thing. After the TPN shareprice collapsed I did some serious DD on the company. Apart from phoning the company in the UK on a weekly basis and talking to as many different people there as I could, I had an associate in the UK do some hard contact research. Guess what? The company is doing extremely well (with the exception of the Kiosk strategy) and there is no doubt in my mind the details of Buyersguide IPO will be announced very shortly. As a result I bought 10 times as many shares below $2 as I owned above $7 (average price prior to collapse). Today there was an instituional buy order for 50,000 shares Follow this link and type in enter TPN in the "Enter Ticker" box. thomsoninvest.net Even though the stock has been trading lightly under $2 for many weeks the bid held and was only dusted for about 15,000 shares. I sense a turnaround happening.