(COMTEX) B: PC QUOTE SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH MULTEX.COM
B: PC QUOTE SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH MULTEX.COM
- Provides PC Quote.com Users with Access to In-Depth Broker Research
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CHICAGO, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- PC Quote, Inc. (Amex: PQT) a leading
provider of real-time financial market data and news data via Internet
and Broadcast, today announced an agreement with Multex.com (Nasdaq:
MLTX). Under the agreement, PC Quote's popular financial content
website www.pcquote.com will become a member of the new Multex Investor
Network affiliate program and offer full service broker research to its
users. Frequented by over 913,000 unique visitors each month (@plan,
Spring 1999), www.pcquote.com offers non-fee delayed quotes to all
visitors as well as fee-based real-time subscription market data
services.
PC Quote visitors will benefit from the addition of search boxes and
ticker-driven links which will direct users to a list of the most
recent research reports available on a company from a database of over
250,000 brokerage research reports.
Each time a www.pcquote.com visitor purchases a research report, PC
Quote earns up to 20% of the purchase price in sales commission.
"This agreement is another example of our commitment to financial
content," said Jim R. Porter, PC Quote Chairman and CEO. "We are
always striving to provide investors with one-stop information shopping
-- giving them the tools they need to make sound investment decisions.
The in-depth financial research contributed by Multex Investor Network
serves as an excellent compliment to our existing offerings."
"Financial Web sites need sources of outstanding content to draw in new
users and keep the existing ones coming back," said Isaak Karaev,
President and CEO of Multex.com. "The Multex Investor Network
affiliate program feeds original content to our affiliate partners, as
well as enables them to link contextually to hundreds of thousands of
brokerage research reports."
About Multex.com
Multex.com is a leading provider of online investment research and
information services designed to meet the needs of individual and
institutional investors, including investment banks, brokerage firms
and corporations. Multex.com's services enable timely online access to
over 1,000,000 research reports and other investment information on
over 15,000 companies published by more than 450 investment banks,
brokerage firms and third-party research providers worldwide. More
than 700,000 individual investors, institutional investors and
financial professionals, including mutual fund managers, portfolio
managers, brokers and their clients have access to Multex.com's
services. For the individual investor market, Mulltex.com has recently
launched the Multex Investor Network, an internet service targeting the
rapidly growing online individual investor market.
Multex.com has become the leading provider of commingled brokerage
research for individual investors through its Multex Investor Network
Web site (http://www.multexinvestor.com). The Multex Investor Network
is a unique Internet community that offers individual investors online
access to free and premium investment research from over 250 leading
brokerage firms, investment banks and independent research providers.
More than 250,000 people have become members of the Multex Investor
Network since its launch in November 1998.
About PC Quote, Inc.
PC Quote is a premier provider of delayed and real-time financial
market data to financial and consumer markets worldwide. The company's
proprietary datafeed, HyperFeed(TM) 2000 is known as the fastest, most
complete datafeed available. It is the only datafeed able to
consistently deliver full options chains in true real-time.
Long a technological leader in market data delivery, PC Quote boasts a
long line of industry "firsts." Most recently, PC Quote was the first
data vendor to announce the incorporation of IP Multicast technology
and advanced compression techniques into its datafeed and tickerplant,
offering recipients unparalleled speed and capacity. PC Quote's
professional clients include brokerage firms, banks, insurance
companies, fund managers, as well as institutional and professional
investors.
Ancillary products include dynamic software applications which allow
users to view, analyze and manipulate HyperFeed 2000's robust market
data as well as user-friendly web-based authoring and software
development tools. The firm's recently created internal business unit,
PC Quote.com, manages the firm's popular financial content website
www.pcquote.com. Offering non-fee delayed quotes to all visitors as
well as fee-based real-time subscription market data services, the site
receives over 33.9 million page views each month, the site strives to
provide comprehensive investment tools to empower today's sophisticated
online investor.
SOURCE PC Quote, Inc.
-0- 04/13/99 /CONTACT: Jim R. Porter,
Chairman and CEO of PC Quote, Inc., 312-913-2800, or General Inquiries,
William Murphy, 312-266-6764, or John Kroen, 312-640-6693, both of The
Financial Relations Board/
/Web site: multexinvestor.com /Web site:
pcquote.com
(PQT MLTX)
CO: PC Quote, Inc.; Multex.com ST: Illinois IN: CPR FIN SU: CON
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