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To: scotty who wrote (684)	1/1/1999 8:40:00 AM
From: TsioKawe	Respond to of 1530

SYBR sells women cosmetics, cigars, supermarket items Online in '99: Women, small firms PALO ALTO, Calif. -- More women than men will be online, and the Internet will help U.S. small businesses go global in a big way in 1999, says a top Internet analyst. Next year will be the year that "the virtual world looks a lot like the real world," with mergers and acquisitions and Internet kiosks helping customers in retail stores, says Frank Gens, senior vice president of Internet research for International Data, a research firm. Among the trends Gens and his colleagues are predicting: For the first time, women will make up the majority of online users in 1999: 51% vs. 43% in 1997. "This could be a big shot in the arm for Internet commerce" because many women control shopping for household goods, Gens says. One-third of households will be online and half of those will shop online. Fueling this growth will be a new generation of Internet access devices, such as TV set-top boxes. More people will log onto the Internet from outside the USA than from within. U.S. businesses online have a "great opportunity" to sell to foreign customers by putting multiple languages on their Internet commerce sites, Gens says. Internet commerce will more than double, to $68 billion, growing 30 times faster than the overall global economy. There will be a shakeout and consolidation among Internet "portals" -- search, directory and content sites such as Excite and Yahoo!. With its own portal struggling to catch on, Microsoft is a likely buyer for one of the existing strong Web brands, while second-tier players may merge with each other, Gens says. Traditional media companies also may try to buy into the Web gateway business, as NBC and Disney already are doing. Congress is likely to try again to regulate online pornography but will struggle to devise rules that don't stifle Internet commerce. "There is a real issue there," Gens says, citing data from Web tracking firm Relevant Knowledge that nearly 20% of visitors to adult sites on the Internet are between 12 and 17. By Doug Levy, USA TODAY

To: scotty who wrote (684)	1/1/1999 8:43:00 AM
From: Michael Berkel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1530

CMGI Top Pick for 1999 of "Internet Stock News". CMGI ranks among the Top Picks of Internet Stocks that the editors of the e-newsletter "Internet Stock News" think will fare best in 1999. CMGI is a publicly traded Internet Venture Capital company which owns large positions up to 100% complete ownership in over 20 leading Internet companies involved in content, e-commerce, advertising, marketing, software, you name it! They are extremely profitable with over $1 per share in the past 2 quarters and trade at a current PE ratio of around 50 which is dirt cheap, given the awesome growth potential of the companies in which CMGI has invested. (For example AOL is trading at a mind boggling 450 times earnings) CMGI has had the insight to invest in AOL, Lycos (the rapidly growing nr 3 portal of which CMGI owns 25% of the shares), Geocities and many others. Between 20 and 30 companies will be brought public by CMGI through IPO's in the next 18 months. Although the stock has had a huge run so far, this is an Internet Giant (Monster) that very few know about. CMGI's stock will split beginning of January 1999, making it more accessible to smalltime investors.