"The Powerize 50" for Week of March 6: Oil Crisis Sparks Interest in Alternative Fuel; Satellite Communications Companies Also Hot.Business Editors RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2000 Concern over rising oil prices is generating intense interest in fuel cell technology and alternative power sources, as reflected by this week's Powerize 50, released today by Powerize.com, Inc. (www.powerize.com). The weekly list of companies being watched closely by individual investors and business researchers at www.powerize.com is derived by tracking the search requests of more than 250,000 Powerize.com members. With content from more than 10,000 trusted information sources worldwide, Powerize.com is a leading source for business and investment research on the Web. Powerize.com offers its members free, unlimited access to content from more than 2,400 of those sources, including brand-name newspapers, magazines, trade journals, and newswires. Through a patent-pending business model, Powerize.com offers members free access to premium content that has never before been available to them for free in one place on the Internet. The Powerize 50 for Week of March 6, 2000 Sparked by rising oil prices, companies that develop fuel cells for residential and transportation use drew the most interest this week. One such company - Plug Power - drew enough interest to knock Microsoft from the top spot for the first time in three weeks. Two other fuel cell companies, Ballard (4) and FuelCell Energy (5), made the top five. Other energy companies making this week's Top 50 include: AstroPower (9), Trigen Energy (15), Energy Biosystems (16), Framatome (17), SatCon Technology (21) and USEC USEC Microsecond USEC United States Enrichment Corporation USEC United States East Coast USEC Unity Security Force (gaming) USEC Universal Services Echo Canceller USEC Umts Security USEC User Based Security Model (27). Satellite communications and cable companies were also predominant in this week's Powerize 50, reflecting recent news developments in that area. 21 satellite and cable related companies appear this week, including Globalstar (3), Gilat Satellite Networks Gilat Satellite Networks is a publicly-traded Israeli company (NASDAQ: GILT. TASE) Gilat designs, develops and markets satellite and hybrid networking products, services and solutions to operators in 85 countries. (6), Eutelsat (12), SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Communications (13), Adelphia Communications (14), Lucent (19), EchoStar (22), British Sky Broadcasting British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB — formerly two companies, Sky Television and BSB) is a company that operates Sky Digital, a subscription television service in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels. (24), Global Crossing (25), Teledesic (26), Motorola (29), Time Warner (30), AT&T (31), Charter Communications Charter Communications NASDAQ: CHTR is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 5.7 million customers in 29 states. It is the third-largest publicly traded cable operator in the U.S. (32), Sirius Satellite Radio
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The Powerize 50 for Week of March 6, 2000
Rank Company Last Wk
1 Plug Power -
2 Microsoft 1
3 Globalstar -
4 Ballard Power Systems -
5 Fuelcell Energy -
6 Gilat Satellite Networks -
7 Avista -
8 Palm Inc. -
9 AstroPower -
10 Cisco Systems -
11 3Com -
12 Eutelsat -
13 SBC Communications -
14 Adelphia Communications -
15 Trigen Energy -
16 Energy Biosystems -
17 Framatome -
18 AOL 5
19 Lucent Technologies -
20 Rentech -
21 SatCon Technology -
22 EchoStar Communications -
23 Oracle 2
24 British Sky Broadcasting
Group -
25 Global Crossing -
Rank Company Last Wk
26 Teledesic -
27 USEC -
28 Amazon.com -
29 Motorola 17
30 Time Warner -
31 AT&T -
32 Charter Communications -
33 Sirius Satellite Radio -
34 DaimlerChrysler -
35 Cablevision -
36 Iridium LLC -
37 XM Satellite Radio -
38 Casio -
39 Hughes Electronics -
40 Pacific Century Cyberworks 30
41 DoubleClick -
42 Handspring -
43 Trimble Navigation -
44 Nokia 7
45 eBay -
46 Cheap Tickets, Inc. -
47 ICO Global Communications -
48 Kozmo.com -
49 Incyte Pharmaceuticals 15
50 IBM -
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