CMTX NEWS
Comtex and The Motley Fool Bring Serious News to Foolish Investing
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Comtex Scientific Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: CMTX) is pleased to announce its agreement to provide four unique and powerful newswire feeds to The Motley Fool. Comtex is a leading aggregator, integrator, and syndicator of value-added, real-time financial and business newswires. The Motley Fool (http://www.fool.com) is the popular financial and investment site that combines finance and folly to educate the individual investor.
Comtex helps The Motley Fool conquer market mystique by providing newsfeeds from PR Newswire, UPI, Business Wire, and the Comtex-originated Investor Alert. All content Comtex delivers to The Fool comes equipped with investor-friendly enhancements that highlight Comtex as the advantageous alternative for financial news. For example, Foolish investors can make a mockery of tedious headline searching, as they rampage through hundreds of stories a day, regardless of source, using a simple ticker symbol -- to uncover only the news mentioning the companies they track. In addition, The Motley Fool will post Comtex' proprietary Investor Alert wire, a custom service designed by Comtex especially for Individual Investors. Investor Alert monitors the stocks that meet specific market criteria, and delivers a daily volley of alerts to help investors research and strategize their own trades.
"The Motley Fool has used humor to bring common sense to finance, and content to the individual investor," comments Charles W. Terry, President & CEO of Comtex. "Our collection of financial news supports the serious side of that directive and complements their analysis, showing that with the right information, anyone can guide their own investments."
This "Foolish" partnership was about more than just news, however; it was also about diligence bordering on obsession. Comtex employees take dedication to new extremes, and news integration for The Motley Fool was no exception. Comtex' Client Services and Technical Operations staffs are known for their dedicated, round-the-clock technical support of Comtex partners. It was in this spirit (and not, as rumored, in the pursuit of Fool stickers or Fool baseball caps) that Comtex staff (including the Vice President and CIO himself) made housecalls to the famed Fool Global Headquarters in Old Town Alexandria, to assist in the integration of Comtex content on The Motley Fool.
"Comtex offered the content we needed to provide essential financial news," said Bernie Dietz, Business Development Czar of The Motley Fool. "Also, the Comtex team took the time to personally assist in the integration, helping us create a financial news research tool with the highest efficiency and exceptional value for our readers."
About The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool, Inc., founded by David and Tom Gardner, operates the best known personal finance and investment sites on the Web (http://www.fool.com) and on America Online (keyword FOOL). The company's mission is to inform, amuse, and enrich Individual Investors. Having started with 60 readers its first day in August 1994, The Fool now averages 20 million impressions each month by providing financial information and strategies through its online forum. Its three Simon & Schuster books are all Business Week and Amazon.com bestsellers. The Motley Fool's weekly syndicated column currently appears in more than 120 newspapers around the country. Starting in June "The Motley Fool Radio Show," a joint venture with Cox Radio, can be heard nationwide. The Fool also provides regular commentary for Marketplace Radio. The first international site, Motley Fool UK, can be found at (http://www.fool.co.uk) and on America Online (keyword FoolUK).
About Comtex
Since 1981, Comtex has pioneered in the systematic integration, enhancement, and distribution of global newswire sources for a wide variety of end-user markets. Today, Comtex continues to lead the industry by setting the standard for comprehensive, compelling, and mission critical, electronically enabled metadata for financial and business news and analysis. Comtex offers electronic brokerage applications, corporate information services, and both secure and open Internet sites a single, comprehensive solution for coverage of breaking, global news. Comtex is based in Alexandria, VA, and can be found on the World Wide Web at comtexnews.com.
NOTE: All product and company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
CONTACT: Sandy Schulman, Director of Marketing, Comtex, 703-820-2000 or sschulman@comtexnews.com; or Chris Hill, Media Relations Wizard, The Motley Fool, 703-706-0456 or ChrisH@fool.com.
SOURCE Comtex Scientific Corporation
CO: Comtex Scientific Corporation; Motley Fool
ST: Virginia
IN: CPR MLM
SU: CON
05/13/98 09:19 EDT prnewswire.com
|
