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ON24 Partners With Go2Net to Provide Streaming Financial News and Analysis On Silicon Investor
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Brings ON24's Wealth of Financial Content to Go2Net's Silicon Investor
Community
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- ON24, Inc., the leading financial
i-network, today announced a partnership with Go2Net (NASDAQ:GNET) to provide
audio and video financial content to Go2Net's popular Silicon Investor
( siliconinvestor.com ), the Internet's premier financial
discussion and information site. This brings ON24's content directly to
Silicon Investor's audience, and introduces the "ON24 Featured Forum," a
message board environment allowing Silicon Investor users to see and hear ON24
stories and participate in chat discussions surrounding ON24 programming.
This partnership augments ON24's financial distribution network of over
600 partner sites. Go2Net/Silicon Investor's users will now have access to
ON24's full editorial content, including news and programming created by
ON24's in-house news teams in San Francisco and New York.
Silicon Investor users will also have access to ON24's original multimedia
programming, including TalkOnStocks -- a daily talk show with guest analysts
and CEOs, Full Disclosure -- a financial discussion forum, ON24 analyst
roundtables, market analysis, IPO alerts, earning announcements, face-to-face
interviews with top CEO's, and comprehensive coverage of financial and
technology conferences. ON24 provides individual investors with a level of
access to financial news and analysis previously available only to
institutional investors.
With its unique "Personalcast" platform, ON24 gives investors the ability
to customize portfolios of streaming broadcasts of news and expert opinion
based on personal preference. A significant leap beyond the traditional model
of broadcasting, Personalcast provides multiple perspectives on each story
from various analysts, news sources, CEOs, venture capitalists and industry
insiders.
"ON24's content and news services are among the most comprehensive in the
online finance sector, and we're excited to be adding these resources to
Silicon Investor," said Bryan Burdick, Go2Net senior vice president and
managing director of Silicon Investor. "With the addition of ON24 streaming
financial news and analysis broadcasts, Silicon Investor continues to solidify
its leadership in the online investing sector."
"We are delighted to work with Go2Net, as this partnership is a natural
fit," said Sharat Sharan, CEO of ON24. "Silicon Investor's message boards
represent extremely active communities of smart, avid investors, and ON24's
wealth of financial content will greatly enhance their investment decision-
making process."
With a distribution network reach of 70 million, ON24 continues to lead
the online financial media world with the largest distribution network on the
Internet. In addition to Go2Net, some of ON24's partners include Yahoo!
Finance, AltaVista Money, Lycos/Quote.com, InfoSpace.com, Thomson Financial
and SNAP Finance, among many others.
About Go2Net
Go2Net ( go2net.com ) is one of the Internet's leading
networks, providing consumer services, business services and enabling
services. The company offers through the World Wide Web a network of branded
properties and aggregated content in the categories of search and directory,
personal finance, multi-player games, small business services and e-commerce
solutions. The company also develops Internet technologies for its own network
and for license to strategic partners. The Go2Net Network is home to many of
the Internet's leading vertical destinations, including: MetaCrawler(R),
Silicon Investor, the HyperMart Network(R), PlaySite, Dogpile and 100hot(R).
About ON24
The leading financial i-network for online investors, ON24's programming
is available free to more than 70 million users through its partnerships with
some of the leading Web and financial portals, including Yahoo! Finance,
AltaVista Money, SNAP, Lycos/Quote.com, Quote.com, Go2Net, InfoSpace.com,
Thomson Financial, Briefing.com, EarthWeb, NewsAlert, Stockmaster, Comtex and
a network of more than 600 partner sites. Based in San Francisco, the
privately held company was founded in 1998. For free personalized financial
broadcasts register for Personalcast(SM) at on24.com .
SOURCE ON24, Inc.
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/CONTACT: Jenny Benton of ON24, Inc., 415-369-8025, or jenny@on24.com, or
Caprice Fimbres of Blanc & Otus Public Relations, 415-912-2313, or
cfimbres@blancandotus.com, for ON24, Inc./
/Web site: go2net.com
/Web site: on24.com
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