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Technology Stocks : First Ecom.com Inc (FECC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul S. who wrote (1)	3/11/1999 11:02:00 AM
From: Jim Spitz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 303

Picked some up today. Know any more about the company? jimS

To: Paul S. who wrote (1)	2/20/2000 1:37:00 PM
From: DAPerez	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 303

To All: From most recent press release out of Hong Kong "This is by far our most significant venture to-date. Creating this new joint venture demonstrates that both companies recognize the importance of working together to create a comprehensive, third-party processing solution for banks and their merchants all over the world," said Gregory Pek, First Ecom.com President and CEO. "FEDS represents a unique payment processing outsourcing opportunity for banks, in that they can work freely with a non-bank, non-competing institution such as FEDS that offers multi-currency payment processing services and can get banks up and running in a matter of days." Pek added that FEDS overcomes many of the common hurdles facing banks in providing payment processing services to their merchants, including the extreme shortage of qualified technical personnel to build the systems, attracting industry-savvy business partners, increased operating costs for multinational corporations, and high costs associated with system development, maintenance and ongoing R&D. FEDS also addresses the risks associated with banks losing merchant business to competitor banks that have effective payment processing systems because FEDS provides a turnkey solution that can be quickly implemented with any banks existing systems. "We've been working closely with First Ecom.com since earlier last year, and are very excited about what our new FEDS joint venture will mean, not only for our two companies, but for the vast number of banks and their merchants that understand the clear advantage of outsourcing payment processing," said Alan Richardson, Executive Vice President, Retail Clients for the Bank of Bermuda Ltd. "Payment processing has always been the cornerstone of e-commerce and other types of credit card transactions, and we believe that FEDS will be regarded among the best solutions." Watch this stock rocket up to and through listing on NASDAQ. Regards, DAP

To: Paul S. who wrote (1)	2/22/2000 2:12:00 PM
From: DAPerez	Respond to of 303

From Asia CyberAtlas: Worldwide B2B E-Com Pegged at $7.29 Tril by 2004 By Stefan Hammond Associate Editor, asia.internet.com [February 10, 2000--HONG KONG] Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce will grow at aggressive rates through 2004, causing fundamental changes to the way businesses conduct business with each other, according to Dataquest, a unit of GartnerGroup. Dataquest forecasts that the worldwide B2B market will grow from US$145 billion in 1999 to US$7.29 trillion in 2004, and that B2B e-commerce will represent seven percent of the predicted US$105 trillion total global sales transactions by 2004. "The B2B explosion is imminent, fuelled by a combustible mixture of investment financing, IT spending and the opportunistic euphoria that is being funneled into both start-ups and more traditional brick and mortar companies' e-commerce initiatives," said Leah Knight, principal analyst for GartnerGroup's e-Business Intelligence Services. "Collectively, they will drive short-term economic disruption, but long-term they will increase business efficiency across industries and geographies," she added. The catalyst for B2B e-commerce is e-market maker activity. Dataquest describes an e-market maker as an organization that develops a B2B, Internet-based, marketplace of buyers and sellers within a particular industry, geographic region or affinity group - examples include Chemdex, VerticalNet, Altra Energy Technologies, Paper Exchange, Instill, PlasticsNet and Commerce One's Marketsite.net. E-market makers are projected to account for US$2.71 trillion e-commerce sales transactions in 2004, representing 37 per cent of the overall B2B market and 2.6 per cent of worldwide sales transactions. GartnerGroup analysts said e-market makers will have a critical but subtle impact on transactions that flow through brick and mortars' sell-side initiatives: defined as including extranets, B2B Web storefronts, EDI and flat file transfer over the Internet and related e-commerce activity allowing a seller to leverage the IP network as a channel to its buyers. "These brick and mortar sell-side initiatives will fuel the B2B e-commerce fire significantly, as e-market maker valuation envy and Wall Street pressures drive brick and mortars to accelerate sell-side e-commerce adoption," said Knight. "Valuation envy has already sped up e-commerce adoption in the chemicals and electronics components industry, where traditional companies are under pressure to keep up with fast-moving virtual competitors." The worldwide B2B market is projected to reach US$403 billion in 2000 climbing to US$953 billion in 2001. In 2002, the market will increase to US$2.18 trillion and at the end of 2003 worldwide B2B revenue is forecast to reach US$3.95 trillion. I think this bodes well for FECC longs Regards, DAP

To: Paul S. who wrote (1)	2/22/2000 5:25:00 PM
From: DAPerez	Respond to of 303

Finished strong again today! I always love the DD side of investing: asia.internet.com China Approaches 9 Million Users, 50,000 Domain Names [January 20, 2000--BEIJING] China has approximately 8.9 million Internet users and 48,695 domain names have the '.cn' suffix, according to the latest biannual survey conducted by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The detailed survey that has over 200,000 participants was recently translated into English by Beijing-based research group BDA China Limited. The number of Chinese Web surfers has increased 120 percent since the last CNNIC survey conducted in July 1999 which estimated that there were 4 million users in China. According to the new CNNIC study, 1.09 million users access the Internet through direct access, 6.66 users access the Net through dial-up accounts, 1.15 user both methods, and around 200,000 use alternative terminals. CNNIC estimates that 3.50 million computers are used for Web surfing with 410,000 connected to networks and 3.09 million used on dial-up accounts. According to the BDA translated study, there continues to be a strong gender gap among Chinese Web surfers. 79 percent are male and 21 percent are female. 64 percent of the total are single. A large chunk of China's Internet users are highly educated. Thirty two percent have a college degree and 45 percent have a University degree. In regard to e-commerce, a majority of users said their biggest concern was security. Only 8.79 percent of Chinese users have purchased something online. CNNIC also found that the average monthly time online was 17 hours. Hope you find the above informative and useful in evaluating this and other asia listings. Regards to All. DAP