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Non-Tech : E*Trade (NYSE:ET) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (13005)	4/9/2000 11:39:00 PM
From: ecommerceman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13953

Sort of OT) Results from a recent poll: Here are some of the findings: ÿÿÿÿ ú Not only do 9- to-17-year-olds say that going online is better for them than television, 63 percent of those surveyed prefer going online to watching TV and 55 percent choose online over talking on the telephone; ÿÿÿÿ ú 44 percent of the young people say that going online has increased their interest in current events; ÿÿÿÿ ú A majority of online young people said they'd prefer to be stranded on a desert island with a computer hooked up to the Internet rather than have a telephone (36 percent) or a TV (10 percent); ÿÿÿÿ ú 52 percent of online users said they have "made room" for computers in their lives by moving furniture around; ÿÿÿÿ ú The longer they are online, the more they spend online: Newcomers to the Internet said they spent an average of $109 online in the past three months in spring 1999, versus $235 by online veterans with one to three years of ÿ electronic commerce experience.

To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (13005)	4/11/2000 12:04:00 AM
From: ecommerceman	Respond to of 13953

Also from the Bull Market Report... ETRADE LAUNCHES ETRADE BANK ETrade Group, Inc. (EGRP, $25, down $5) on Tuesday launched ETrade Bank, the first all-electronic bank to offer consumers FDIC-insured banking products and services fully integrated with an all electronic brokerage offering. Less than three months after ETRADE finalized its historic merger with Telebank, the nation's largest pure-play Internet bank, ETrade Bank's virtual doors opened today via the Destination ETrade web site located at www.etrade.com. The newly launched ETrade Bank combines the superior value of interest-bearing checking, high yielding CDs, money market and savings accounts, and unlimited online bill payment, with the tools, information and educational resources of the world's most visited online investing site. This integrated functionality includes a single login process, which allows ETrade customers to view combined bank and brokerage account balances using just one password for all of their accounts. Customers can also transfer funds between their brokerage accounts and FDIC-insured checking, savings and money market accounts, using a seamless interface on a single Web page. COMMENT: This is what we have been waiting for from ETrade, an integrated platform for banking and brokerage. ETrade has created a true one-stop financial shopping services portal with one login and one site. This allows people to better control their financial lives with easy transferring of funds between brokerage accounts and bank accounts. We knew this was going to be coming down the road but ETrade has moved much faster than previously expected. This only increases our belief that E*Trade will be one of the major financial services players in the years ahead.