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

To: SCOTT HEIMAN who wrote (3949)	5/20/1999 5:05:00 AM
From: TENNET	Respond to of 13157

Has this been posted yet? Very good article: This article appears in next Monday's Business Week ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inside Wall Street: A TV-To-Net Linkup Once upon a time, ACTV IATV was a little-known company--with stock trading at only 2 1/2 back in mid-November. By mid-April, however, the price had rocketed to 21. The meteoric ascent was fueled partly by its HyperTV product, which has attracted the attention of such large companies as Liberty Media Group, General Instrument, and News Corp.'s Fox Sports. The stock has since dipped to 15, but Anthony Stoss, an analyst at Southeast Research Partners thinks the stock will catch fire again. What's so hot about HyperTV? It is all about providing digital applications for cable TV, according to Stoss. HyperTV's concept is to stream data to a PC that gets synchronized to a TV program. It enables cable-TV networks to run a film or show and allow viewers to log on to their Web site. The viewers could then buy products advertised on TV through their PCs. Stoss believes Liberty is eyeing HyperTV, in hopes of enhancing its cable properties by creating an E-commerce vehicle over the Net. In April, Liberty upped its $5 million investment in ACTV with an additional $9 million, with an option to own as much as a 25% stake. Stoss says either Liberty, General Instrument, or News Corp. could end up buying ACTV. General Instrument owns some 2%. ''More deals are forthcoming for ACTV,'' says Stoss. One that's being worked out with a major tech company: a system to track customers' viewing patterns. Stoss expects ACTV's estimated 1999 revenues of $4.2 million will soar to $31 million by 2000. Still in the red, ACTV should narrow its loss to 13 cents a share in 2000, down from an estimated loss of 55 cents per share in 1999, says Stoss. BY GENE G. MARCIAL

To: SCOTT HEIMAN who wrote (3949)	5/20/1999 5:08:00 AM
From: mike.com	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13157

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To: SCOTT HEIMAN who wrote (3949)	5/20/1999 9:13:00 AM
From: ed doell	Respond to of 13157

>>By the way, is anybody hearing any rumors? I am not looking to hype, but I am am hearing some vague talk. I don't want to stir the pot unless others have heard similar. Let me know.<< ********************************************************** Well, the digital-rr on YAHOO were talking about bongs and lighting up a fat one yesterday afternoon... was that what you had in mind? Oh yeah, I heard there's some kind of meeting scheduled today in a big city in the NE. ;-)