To: MileHigh who wrote (4673 ) 6/19/1998 11:30:00 AM From: REH Respond to of 93625
BusinessWire, Friday, June 19, 1998 at 10:53 SAN BRUNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1998--M&A West, Inc., a San Francisco-based financial public relations and investment banking firm, announced today the addition of a venture capital page to its web site, www.mawest.com. The page features top venture capital firms with web site links. Scott Kelly, President of M&A West stated, "We selected these firms according to the successful market value gains of their IPO portfolios for 1997. In the future, we hope to include more firms and provide further information for our users." Among the selected firms portfolio IPOs were Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), NeoMagic (NASDAQ:NMGC), Ciena (NASDAQ:CIEN) MMC Networks (NASDAQ:MMCN), Power Integrations (NASDAQ:POWI), Corsair Communications (NASDAQ:CAIR) and Rambus (NASDAQ:RMBS). Some of their representative investments were America Online (NYSE:AOL), Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU), Netscape, (NASDAQ:NSCP) Compaq Computer (NYSE:CPQ), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Federal Express (NYSE:FDX), and Novellus (NASDAQ:NVLS). Other features of the site include an online financial bookstore in association with Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS) , discussion forums on publicly traded companies, focusing on small/micro cap and Bulletin Board stocks, a list of recommended stock brokers, and client company profiles. Profiles presently on site include Players Network (OTC BB:PNTV), Casino Journal Publishing Group (OTC BB:CJPG), Mortgage Bankers Holding Corporation (OTC BB:MBHC) and ComTech Consolidation Group (OTC BB:CCGI). In the efforts to increase site traffic, M&A West has engaged an advertising campaign with Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) and currently offers stock quotes through Yahoo! Finance. Future plans for the site include a page dedicated to micro cap mutual funds, an investment newsletter page, a financial newsstand, a related links page and further marketing and advertising.