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Technology Stocks : RRRR: Rare Medium Group (soon to be) formerly ICC -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ztect who wrote (1)	1/9/1999 2:16:00 PM
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Trading volume for RRRR On 01/08/99: Trading volume for RRRR was triple its 13-week average, and its price was up by at least 5%. A jump in price on big volume is generally considered a bullish indicator because it suggests that the stock is under accumulation Growth Rates % ............Company...Industry...S&P 500 Sales(Qtr vs year ago qtr)..6,900.00 ..78.50..... 8.20 ICC Technologies one-year sales growth: 6,900.00%. Difference from the average for the Internet Service Providers group: 6,821.50 pct. pts.

To: ztect who wrote (1)	1/9/1999 2:17:00 PM
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Technical Indicators ICC Technologies current price: $4.50 Overhead resistance for ICC Technologies: $7.50 (52-week high) First support for ICC Technologies: $3.68 (200-day moving average) Second support for ICC Technologies: $3.43 (50-day moving average) On 01/07/99: RRRR crossed above its 200-day moving average. Technical analysts generally consider this to be a bullish sign because it means the stock is now rising relative to its average price of the past 40 weeks Since 09/15/98: The price-earnings (P/E) ratio for RRRR has been less than its average next year's projected earnings growth rate. For small and mid-cap stocks in particular, this is generally considered as a sign that a company may be undervalued. P/E is 50

To: ztect who wrote (1)	1/9/1999 2:21:00 PM
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Thursday's (1/08/98) NEWS biz.yahoo.com Thursday January 7, 3:11 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Rare Medium, Inc. Rare Medium Selected by Major Business, News and Internet Publications as One of the Top Internet Companies of 1998 NEW YORK, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Rare Medium, Inc. (Nasdaq: RRRR - news), raremedium.com, a pioneering Internet business solutions provider, in addition to its many awards and accomplishments in 1998, has recently received recognition by its peers in major business, news and trade publications as being amongst the top Internet companies of 1998, Glenn S. Meyers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rare Medium, announced. @NY, a leading Internet newsletter website which covers New York's 'Silicon Alley' companies, on December 23rd in its annual ranking of the top 25 companies that made headlines in 1998, ranked Rare Medium at number 13 with the following remarks: ''The stock market frenzy over Internet valuations presented CEO Glenn Meyers with an opportunity, and he took it. In a somewhat strange merger with an already public cooling manufacturer, Meyers gained the capital he needed to make Rare Medium into a bigger interactive services player through acquisitions. He then made six acquisitions during '98, including Silicon Alley startup I/0360 and finished the year with a presence in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Dallas. So can he keep it up in '99 and join the ranks of the biggest i-agencies?'' Crain's New York Business, in its November 30 issue, listed Rare Medium as number 13 of New York's top 15 players in the Internet industry. Silicon Alley Reporter ranked Rare Medium and its CEO, Glenn S. Meyers, as number 28 in its Internet Top 100 for 1998. According to Silicon Alley Reporter editor and publisher Jason McCabe Calacanis, ''Rare Medium is a talented, aggressive, and intelligent company with a bright future.'' He went on to say, ''They've been in the Internet business since the start, and they get it. Glenn Meyers and his team have taken a wonderful boutique firm and turned it into a powerhouse positioned to be one of the top interactive firms in 1999. Rare Medium had a great '98 and I expect they will have an even better '99.'' Rare Medium's recently acquired Dallas-based FS3 Interactive, received recognition in the December 7th cover story of U.S. News & World Report which named Hotel Reservations Network's (HRN) Website, developed and maintained by FS3 Interactive, as one of the 'Best of the Web.' The site (http://www.180096hotel.com) provides real-time rates and availability for hundreds of hotels worldwide. In addition, CNN recently named the Mattel Hot Wheels Speed City Website developed and maintained by Rare Medium (http://www.hotwheels.com), as 'Site of the Day,' and the London International Advertising Awards 1998 named the Hot Wheels Speed City Website as a finalist in the Interactive Media Websites category/ Recreation Equipment. Commenting on these latest achievements, Mr. Meyers said, ''1998 was a year in which Rare Medium laid a firm foundation for growth including the building of infrastructure, addition of key management and personnel, and important acquisitions, setting the tone for more rapid growth and profitability in 1999. These accomplishments have reflected in increased investor confidence in the shares of Rare Medium which closed the year up 135.7% under the new Rare Medium management team. We look forward to an exciting new year.'' Dealing primarily with Global 2000 clients, Rare Medium, Inc. is an Internet business services firm, helping clients develop Internet strategies, improve business processes and develop interactive content using Internet- based technologies. To accomplish this, Rare Medium provides clients with Internet business strategy consulting, marketing, creative design and development, needs analysis, architecture planning, Internet, Intranet and Extranet solutions, hosting and maintenance. Except for historical matters contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that these forward-looking statements reflect numerous assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties that may affect ICC Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Rare Medium, Inc. (Nasdaq: RRRR - news), and its subsidiaries' business and prospects and cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ are Rare Medium's limited operating history; competition; low barriers to entry; reliance on strategic relationships; rapid technological changes; inability to complete transactions on favorable terms and those risks discussed in the Company's filings with the SEC. SOURCE: Rare Medium, Inc.

To: ztect who wrote (1)	1/9/1999 2:24:00 PM
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Previous NEWS:Wednesday December 9, 6:30 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Rare Medium, Inc. Rare Medium Named One of the Top 15 New Media Companies in New York NEW YORK, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Rare Medium (Nasdaq: RRRR - news; raremedium.com), a pioneering Internet business solutions provider, has been chosen as one of the top 15 Internet players in New York by ''Crain's New York Business,'' capping a tremendous year of growth and achievement. With several strategic acquisitions completed or recently announced and a strong, growing customer base, Rare Medium has positioned itself as a leading Internet business solutions provider. Rare Medium is one of the few companies that is capable of providing a full array of services -- business strategy consulting, marketing, creative design and development, needs analysis, architecture planning, Internet, Intranet and extranet solutions, hosting and maintenance -- necessary to successfully extend brands and business models to the Internet. The company, an anchor tenant in New York's Silicon Alley New Media community, has a client base that includes as Pfizer, ''The New York Times,'' Microsoft, Sharp and General Mills. ''We are pleased to be recognized by Crain's as one of the top 15 players in New York,'' said Glenn S. Meyers President and CEO of Rare Medium. ''It is a great way to end an extremely successful year in which we have focused our business, added key members to our board, increased our customer base, and successfully integrated two key acquisitions.'' About Rare Medium Dealing primarily with Global 2000 clients, Rare Medium, Inc. is an Internet business services firm, helping clients develop Internet strategies, improve business processes and develop interactive content using Internet-based technologies. To accomplish this, Rare Medium provides clients with Internet business strategy consulting, marketing, creative design and development, needs analysis, architecture planning, Internet, Intranet and Extranet solutions, hosting and maintenance. Except for historical matters contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that these forward-looking statements reflect numerous assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties that may affect ICC Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Rare Medium Corp. (Nasdaq: RRRR - news), and its subsidiaries' business and prospects and cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ are Rare Medium's limited operating history; competition; low barriers to entry; reliance on strategic relationships; rapid technological changes; inability to complete transactions on favorable terms and those risks discussed in the Company's filings with the SEC. SOURCE: Rare Medium, Inc.

To: ztect who wrote (1)	1/9/1999 2:27:00 PM
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Partial Client List: American Showcase, Inc. New Media Showcase Interactive Disk Promotion DISK AT&T Avon Bankers Trust Bugle Boy Buick CAAF (Children Affected by AIDS) Compaq Simon and Schuster Epson General Mills Hewlett-Packard Home Box Office (HBO) Johnson & Johnson Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Levi's Lucent Technologies, Inc. Mattel Mercury Records Mitsubishi Nabisco New York Times New York Today WEB Pfizer Pontiac Procter & Gamble Sharp Electronics USA Digital Copiers WEB Mobil Revolution Presentation WEB Sony USA The USA Networks Viacom Nickelodeon WEB Wall Street Journal WSJ Circulation WEB Young & Rubicam

To: ztect who wrote (1)	1/9/1999 2:35:00 PM
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Old Article Repost for Newbies SOURCE: Success Magazine TITLE: A little old-fashioned service helps one new-media start-up sizzle DATE: September 1998 The story of Rare Medium is one that any new-media company would wish to emulate. Founded two years ago in the heart of Manhattan's Silicon Alley (that's downtown, for the non-pierced or uninitiated) by five "creative types," the company, under the guidance of CEO and president Glenn Meyers, has grown into a full-service Web- development firm with 150 employees and a revenue of $3.9 million in 1997 and nearly double that projected for 1998. Among its clients are General Mills, Johnson & Johnson, Sharp, Viacom, and Mattel. And, if that isn't impressive enough, in April, ICC Technologies bought Rare medium for $45 million. Meyers, 37, a veteran tech entrepreneur who started his own systems-integration company (American Cable Products) after graduating from the University of Florida, became CEO and president of both companies. He talks about the role that service played in his company's fast growth. SUCCESS: Have new-media companies been too arrogant? Have they suffered from a sort of "enfant terrible" syndrome? MEYERS: I think many forgot that, as with any business, service comes first. You can feel you have the best creative solution, but ultimately it's the client's money, and that has to be respected. That in-you-face Gen X attitude went over okay in the beginning because the clients had little choice. But now there are lots of Web firms a company can go to. SUCCESS: How do you appeal to corporate America but maintain a cutting-edge image? MEYERS: Service your clients and provide them with a good-value proposition, and you're going to win. It doesn't matter if you have purple hair and a bone through your nose. I don't think people care what you look like. It's the attitude that's important. SUCCESS: And how do you instill that attitude in your employees? MEYERS: Give them an owner's mentality. Everyone from the receptionist to senior-level management has stock options in our company. That's the easiest way to make people care about every aspect of the company, especially the service. SUCCESS: What makes the way you give service different from the way other companies do? MEYERS: Our mantra around here is "Underpromise and overdeliver." When delivering service, you want to exceed people's expectations. That's how you're going to make them happy. And if you have happy clients, they stay with you, which, in turn, shows other clients that you're good. SUCCESS: Underpromising must be hard. MEYERS: It's easier with a new industry where the technology is constantly changing. The key is to be always educating your clients. It takes patience, but you don't invest in the client-service model, you'll never win with Global 2000 and Fortune 1000 companies. And that's where the real money is. --D.C.

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Excerpt from Transcript of Last year's CNBC Interview SOURCE: CNBC/DOW JONES Business TITLE: CNBC/DOW JONES BUSINESS INTERVIEW WITH RARE MEDIUM'S CEO GLENN MEYERS DATE: January 7, 1998 SCHACKNOW: These top-of-the-line web sites can cost millions of dollars a year to maintain. Are we at such an early stage in Internet development that you have trouble from a company's point of view saying, yes, we see how much we're spending, but it's hard to get a grip on how much that brings back? It's still a whole new method of assessment, as well? MEYERS: Sure. It depends what your business model is. We all know in the press about companies like Dell Computer (DELL) and Cisco (CSCO), who do three, $4 million a day on their web sites. They've created billion-dollar business lines that didn't exist a year ago. And that's obviously an attractive business model. They can afford to spend a lot of money deploying a site. Other consumer product companies that are trying to extend their brand and extend their reach via the Web may have a different sort of business model to justify. I think it really depends what the client's objectives are. We don't advocate spending tens of millions of dollars on brochure ware or to put a message out to a consumer. You want to first determine, is it a business-to- business model like a Dell or a Cisco, or is it a business-to-consumer model like a Biztravel's model where you are trying to reach consumers. We were just named a interactive agency of record for Biztravel. They are an online business. Their budget is dedicated to customer acquisition and delivering products and services. SCHACKNOW: What are the advantages out in the marketplace of being an interactive agency versus an agency that does interactive? MEYERS: I'm sure. I think that the skill sets necessary to win at this business include very deep back end programming and architecture ability and we hired the CTO, the head of software development from AT&T's Internet division at Downtime Digital. We made an investment, it was eight and nine months ago in one of the top guys in the space. He subsequently built a team on the back end and we have built a big hosting platform with 50 megs directly on T-3, directly to the Web. And a server farm and load balancing software. We have made an investment in the back end. We also have made an investment in the developments process, in the design and the art process and we have also made an investment in the front where all the strategic consultants are, account management and business development. So, this business has what an application developer would have on the back end, like an Anderson Consulting.

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Projected Expenditures on types of services Rare Medium provides... "..an enormous amount of advertising dollars are being spent on Internet development, and projected expenditures reflect the medium's incredible potential....using the medium to establish, grow and, inevitably change ... [business]— ...web sites, CD-ROMs, e-commerce and integrated business solutions ... redefine the noble art of communication....clients see the impact a billion global connected computers can have on marketing, information, commerce, and entertainment." ========================= World-Wide Third-Party Internet Developer Revenues By Segment Projected for the Years 2000 & 2002 Interactive Architects Consumer Marketing Experts...........$2,070,000,000.. &.$2,208,000,000 Business Process Specialists..... $1,220,000,000.. &...$2,736,000 Old Guard System Integrators.............$1.942,000,000.. &...$3,990,000,000 Ad Agencies....................$554,000,000.. &...$1,228,000,000 Management Consultants.........$150,000,000.. &...$556,000,000 Low-end Developers Web Developers.........$3,128,000,000.. &...$3,285,000,000 Local VARs ............$420,000,000.. &...$1,890,000,000 Total yr 2000-$9,484,000,000...year 2002- $15,893,000,000 Source: Forrester Research Definitions: Interactive Architects Who they are: Interactive Architects are the original Internet developers. Their solutions include Internet sites, banner ads, kiosks, and CD-ROMs. Interactive Architects approach projects with a consumer marketing focus, but their non-consumer work is continually growing. Old Guard Who they are: Firms that provide large company brass with an overarching business strategy. Old Guard companies are experts in business process re-engineering and enterprise resource planning. Ad Agencies Who they are: The major advertising agencies house more than 500 employees catering to global clients and have wholly-owned, in-house interactive units. Ad Shops create integrated advertising and interactive solutions, with Ad banner work often constituting a high proportion of service.

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Technology, Creative, Production and Business Development Officers Chief Technology Officer: David Rosenbloom, 48, has been in software development for 15 years and in the arts for 25. He led software development at AT&T's Internet Division Downtown Digital, a technologically aggressive Internet development group, focusing on dynamic, database-driven site development as well as advanced technology R&D. Mr. Rosenbloom was the creative director and project lead for Eidolon's critically acclaimed Millennium Auction, developed the software for Workman's My First Computer (a Parent's Choice award winner), and has developed for fax, graphics, terminal emulation, database, music and systems applications. ------------------------- Managing Director of Web Development: Robert P. Stratton, 38, has been programming award-winning interactive multimedia applications for over 12 years, starting with CD-ROM titles, kiosk applications and disk-based presentations, later moving into the web-based projects he has built with Rare Medium, as an original founding partner. His department is responsible for integrating the 'front end' work of the designers and illustrators with the 'back end' work of the Advanced Technology Group. Mr. Stratton sits on Macromedia's Director Advisory Council and frequently consults on and beta-tests new products from Macromedia. He graduated from the School of Visual Art's MFA program in Computer Art with an award-winning thesis. He has taught numerous courses in computer art and multimedia programming at that school, as well as at the Parson's School of Design. Mr. Stratton has a BA in Art and Communication from Oberlin College in Ohio. ------------------------- Creative Co-Director: William Nelson, 36, is by profession an illustrator, educator, multimedia designer and producer of interactive media and computer graphics. He most recently served as creative director for Viacom's highly publicized web site for Nickelodeon. During his ten-year career as a commercial artist, Mr. Nelson has worked with companies in the publishing and computer graphic industries. Mr. Nelson has designed and illustrated several award winning CD-ROM titles published including "With Open Eyes: Images from the Art Institute of Chicago" CD-ROM, which was voted the Best Museum CD-ROM of 1996 by the International Association of Museums. Mr. Nelson earned his BS in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Florida, where he was linebacker on the Southeastern Conference All-Academic football team. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children. ------------------------- Creative Co-Director: Nathaniel E. Brochin, 35, is an original partner and co-founder of Rare Medium. He has been a practicing designer and Art Director working in Interactive Multimedia for the last five years. Previously, he has held positions at Time Warner Interactive, RGA/Interactive and Dow Jones, Inc. In 1993, Mr. Brochin co-founded Wax Fruit Design with David Grossman, where he was art director for several award-winning interactive marketing promotions for the recording industry. Mr. Brochin has been invited to serve as a judge on prestigious interactive design competitions around the world; including the 1997 International Addy awards and the 1998 inaugural edition of the One Show Interactive sponsored by the NY Art Directors Club. Mr. Brochin has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and at New York University's Center for Media Education. Mr.Brochin received his Masters in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts, and a BA in Art History from Oberlin College. --------------- Director of Images and Effects: .M. Casey, 46, is Director of Images and Effects, a newly created department devoted to photographic imagery. He is also an original partner and co-founder of Rare Medium. Mr. Casey has 20 years of experience as a developer of still, motion and interactive projects. He is a photographer, educator, multimedia artist and producer of audio-visual presentations. Previous companies include High-Res Solutions, Incredible Interactivity, Four Rocks Studio, Incredible Afterimages and Icon Communications. Mr. Casey has served on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology. He earned a BA in Art Education / Photography from Southern Connecticut State College, and a MFA in Synaesthetic Education / Visual Communications from Syracuse University. Mr. Casey resides in New York City with his wife and son. ----------------------------- Director, Client Services: Courtney Q. Shore supervises the account management, business development and on-line marketing and media departments. Before joining Rare Medium, Ms. Shore was Vice President, Director of Interactive Communications at DMB&B Interactive for three years. While at DMB&B, Ms. Shore directed the strategic development, client services and production of all interactive projects at DMB&B/New York, including projects for P&G brands Pampers and Always, as well as Pontiac, American Plastics Council and TWA. Previous to her position at DMB&B, Ms. Shore lived in New Orleans, where she was Director of Marketing and Public Relations at a major health care facility. She holds a BA in Psychology from Tulane University. ----------------- *Director of Business Development: Bill Dolan has worked with the top Fortune 500 companies for over ten years, specializing in print design, Intranet, Internet and interactive multimedia solutions. Mr. Dolan came to Rare Medium from Murray Multimedia, where he served as Director of Account Management and was responsible for business development and producing projects with existing clients. He has helped companies like Forbes, Better Homes & Gardens, Johnson & Johnson, Warner-Lambert, SmithKline Beecham, AT&T, UNICEF, Allied Signal and Schering-Plough establish innovative new marketing and communications tools.