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Technology Stocks : IATV-ACTV Digital Convergence Software-HyperTV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mike.com who wrote (1468)	4/7/1999 10:12:00 PM
From: SteelerStu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13157

IATV --- NEWS --- She's explode tommorow !!!!!!!!! ACTV Shares Rise 33% on Optimism About Ties With Liberty Media New York, April 7 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of ACTV Inc., an interactive television and Internet services company, surged 33 percent to a record on optimism that it will benefit from Liberty Media Group's growing interest in Internet technology. The shares rose 4 5/16 to 17 7/16 in trading of 7.26 million shares, almost 26 times the three-month daily average. The stock has skyrocketed 68 percent since Thursday. ACTV now provides interactive cable-TV technology to Liberty Media, the cable-programming company run by John Malone, which yesterday said it will invest in the Internet through its majority-owned TCI Music Inc. ACTV also supplies TCI Music with technology that synchronizes Internet data with TV programming, said Anthony Stoss, a Southeast Research Partners analyst. ''People are anticipating Liberty will expand their relationship with ACTV to include the Internet,'' said Stoss, who has a ''buy'' rating on ACTV. Liberty, a unit of AT&T Corp., already owns 10 percent of New York-based ACTV, Stoss said. AT&T's tracking shares of Liberty rose 3 1/4 to 62 1/4. NYSE/AMEX delayed 20 min. NASDAQ delayed 15 min.

To: mike.com who wrote (1468)	4/7/1999 10:15:00 PM
From: TWICK	Respond to of 13157

mike.com, I saw your post on the Ampex thread. Agree with you. Here's how I see it. It's TCI. It's John Malone and his cable kingdom. He, MSFT/WebTV, ATHM, and AT&T will make IATV, and TUNE fit in with our overwhelming demand for cable modems, better TV options, and interactivity. MSFT pumped a ton of money into the cable companies, especially TCI and Comcast. A billion each from what I remember. MSFT, and other innovative companies are working with TCI's and other cable giants' vision and will make IATV, TUNE, and other streaming technology like Real Networks, MP3, etc, work IMHO. Gates must have seen something in John Malone's holdings and his vision for where he wants to take us cable viewers. Paul Allen has spent a lot of dough on Charter Cable, and Marcus Cable. He now controls a 12 million subscriber base. With all his other Internet investments, he needed the viewers to make his vision come true. Who knows, he may have the same vision as Gates, and Malone. All working together on a brand new medium we can't even imagine. This is a whole new technology that is coming thanks to the Internet and cable companies understanding that they need to converge in order to grow revenues. We want our MTV and be able to surf and shop on-line at the same time. Gates, Malone, and Paul Allen are going to make it happen for us. IATV will fit in with all this techno-gizmo IMHO. Twick, the dreamer and ultimate couch-potato has spoken. Peace