'WORTH' Magazine Readers Name Lycos's Quote.com Best Site for Online Stock Market Data.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 16, 2000 Quote.com's QCharts Streaming Quote Service Also Gets Rave Review from "ACTIVE TRADER" Magazine Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) A technology used to make microdisplays for rear-projection TVs and head-mounted displays (HMDs). Each LCoS chip hosts a grayscale LCD shutter sandwiched between a cover glass and a mirror. ), the Internet's leading multi-brand Network, today announced that its Quote.com destination, the leading provider of streaming quotes and one of the top financial information sites on the Web, was selected by "WORTH" Magazine's readers as the best source for Online Stock Market Data. Based on a survey identifying Web users' favorite financial and consumer services Consumer Services refers to the formulation, deformulation, technical consulting and testing of most consumer products, such as food, herbs, beverages, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, hair products, household cleaners, [paints, plastics, metals, waxes, coatings, minerals, and product sites, the magazine reported that Quote.com is the number one choice for stock market data. More than 4,000 readers participated in the survey. "At Quote.com we've dedicated ourselves to developing the Web's best free and fee-based streaming chart and trading information services See Information Systems. , such as LiveCharts and QCharts," said Stan Hjartberg, vice president and executive producer of Quote.com. "We have a platform for any investor--from the novice to pro--to watch the market just like a Wall Street Professional does, by watching charts move in real-time with the market. We are enormously pleased to see that our efforts are appreciated by our most important audience, the users themselves." Lycos also announced today that "Active Trader" magazine, a monthly national publication devoted to active traders and investors, gave a rave review of Quote.com's QCharts, a desktop application that provides real-time financial information such as unlimited number of charts, quote sheets, hot lists, historical time and sales data, and summary period data, in its July 2000 issue. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the magazine, "QChart's slick design and professional layout allow you to get away with a minimum of windows running within each workspace. The company has brought the program to a level of sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. that probably is unparalleled in today's marketplace." In the past month, Quote.com has also received recognition on "100hot's" weekly list of most popular finance sites, maintaining a spot in the top five sites out of one hundred. 100hot collects data on a daily basis from many different sources, representing the Web-surfing patterns of more than 100,000 surfers worldwide and identifies Web users' favorite Internet sites. Since its debut in 1994, Quote.com has been widely acknowledged as one of the Web's best financial sites in independent reviews from top publications including "UPSIDE" and "Barron's." About Lycos, Inc. Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet reaching nearly one out of every two U.S. Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites, attracting a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web search and navigation resources; Web community and communications services including free homepage building, free Web-based e-mail See Internet e-mail service and HTML e-mail. , clubs, chat, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or ; a personalized My Lycos start page; a comprehensive shopping center featuring more than 3,100 merchants; and an assortment of compelling content such as games, music, news, fun and educational information and activities for kids as well as information about investing, technology, entertainment, sports, small business, travel and more. The Lycos Network is composed of Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, MailCity, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News, Webmonkey, Sonique, Quote, Gamesville, Lycos Zone and Matchmaker Matchmaker - A language for specifying and automating the generation of multi-lingual interprocess communication interfaces. MIG is an implementation of a subset of Matchmaker. . Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada and Latin America. On May 16, Lycos, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement with Terra Networks, S.A. (MC: TRR TRR Transportation Research Record (Journal) TRR Test Readiness Review TRR Target Ranging Radar TRR Total Rate of Return TRR Taiwan Research Reactor ; NASDAQ: TRRA TRRA Terminal Railroad Association (of St. Louis) TRRA Three Rivers Rowing Association (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) TRRA Three River Rowing Association (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) ), a global Internet company and the leading provider of Internet access and interactive content and services to the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, under which Terra will acquire Lycos in a stock-for-stock transaction. Upon completion of the transaction, Lycos shareholders will own approximately 41.6% to 49.9% of the new company, Terra Lycos. The formation of Terra Lycos is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval. |
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