To: tuck who wrote (340 ) 3/23/2000 9:31:00 AM From: BRAVEHEART Respond to of 423
Hi Tuck, Todays news events on stocks on our watch list premarket:finance.yahoo.com OPTO:biz.yahoo.com Optio Software Delivers XML Power To Fuel B2B e-Commerce with the Announcement of Optio e.ComIntegrate Optio© Software, Inc. (NASDAQ/NM: OPTO - news), a leading provider of software that enables organizations to extend their operations from paper-intensive commerce to e-business, today announced Optio e.ComIntegrate(TM), the second product offering in its e.Com series. Optio e.ComIntegrate represents Optio's next generation server technology and the initial release provides organizations with the ability to conduct B2B e-commerce and participate in e-marketplaces through the creation, transformation and exchange of XML documents conforming to any of the emerging XML standards including CBL, cXML, Biztalk or ebXML. This is a big Marketplace Tuck... Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR - news) predicts that US business-to-business eCommerce will hit $2.7 trillion in 2004. This growth will also be accelerated by the rapid development of eMarketplaces -- new models for conducting eCommerce, including auctions, aggregators, bid systems, and exchanges. By 2004, Forrester expects these eMarketplaces to capture 53% of all online business trade. DRAX:biz.yahoo.com DRAXIS Files for Canadian Regulatory Approval for Brachytherapy Seeds announced that its radiopharmaceutical subsidiary, DRAXIMAGE Inc., has filed with Canadian regulators for the approval to market its Iodine-125 brachytherapy seed product, BrachySeed©. Dr. Martin Barkin, President and CEO of DRAXIS Health stated, ``We are pleased that once approved by the respective regulators, our BrachySeed© product will be available to service the growing Canadian and US marketplaces. Prostate cancer is a serious medical condition, with almost 180,000 new cases diagnosed in the United States in 1999, as estimated by the American Cancer Society.' PCTH:biz.yahoo.com Pacific Aerospace & Electronics Announces Sunlight Readable Display Contract WENATCHEE, Wash., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Aerospace & Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCTH - news), an international engineering and manufacturing company specializing in technically demanding components and assemblies, announced today that it has recently signed a manufacturing contract with Raytheon Marine to provide value-added, optical technology for flat panel displays systems. The contract was placed with the Display Division of Pacific Aerospace & Electronics' U.S. Electronics Group and encompasses the Company's index matched, bonded-glass optical enhancing technology to provide a sunlight readable LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) for Raytheon's GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite marine navigational aid. No Biggie Tuck but suggestive of future potential. Stabilizing news. You will learn about this as you follow more & more conversions. PCTH is likely to trade down today IMO. BEST WISHES Jeffrey