Above Trade and The Sports Network Select GiantBear.com As Wireless Internet Application Service Provider.Business Editors/High Tech Writers WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000 Daily trading recommendations for a personal stock portfolio and up-to-the-second football scores nationwide will now be in the hands of thousands of consumers anytime, anywhere as a result of an agreement between GiantBear.com, AboveTrade.com and The SportsNetwork.com by expanding the presence of the companies in the wireless arena. GiantBear.com will serve as a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. web-to-wireless application service provider for AboveTrade.com and The SportsNetwork.com, creating functionality tools, applications and creative solutions for extending specialized content to wireless cell phones, pagers, PDAs and other wireless computing devices. "GiantBear.com is empowering the consumer with up-to-the-second important information that affects their daily lives. The ability to deliver breaking news for stock or sports information is continuing to extend the reach of the Internet and push the envelope for personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. web-to-wireless information," said Steven Price, chief executive officer of GiantBear.com. By partnering with GiantBear.com, more than 60,000 AboveTrade.com members will now be able to receive and schedule daily trading strategy In finance, a trading strategy (see also trading system) is a predefined set of rules to apply. Usually, this refers to a means used to replicate an option in order to give it an arbitrage free value in the sense that the cost of buying some financial assets to give the same alerts based on the previous day's market closing prices. The information will be customized on an individual basis and include buy, sell, or hold recommendations on personal stocks as well as daily alerts on hot stock tips. AboveTrade.com sends out more than 100,000 e-mail alerts to its members on a weekly basis. GiantBear.com will also serve as a web-to-wireless application host, provider and developer for Sports Network data. Under the partnership, GiantBear.com will accept The SportsNetwork.com content and provide back-end implementation that will allow subscribers to receive up-to-the-second scores including more than 10,000 football scores in season, statistics, news, injury and weather reports, team standings, schedules and team information from any location at any time using their wireless device. "Our continued partnerships with leading information sources such as AboveTrade.com and The SportsNetwork.com are specifically designed to meet the increased demand for real-time delivery of personalized, up-to-the-second information via multiple distributors," Price said. About AboveTrade.com Creating a bridge between traditional financial content sites and online brokerages, AboveTrade.com is the leading provider of customized online investment advice technology. AboveTrade's tools and services were developed to help investors make more informed trading decisions by leveraging its innovative CrossAnalytics(TM) technology, which analyzes an abundance of market, industry, and stock information to offer fully automated, objective, and personalized trade recommendations. Stock-specific strategies and recommendations are offered on thousands of U.S. stocks traded on the NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange , AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange and 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 markets. AboveTrade also provides its stock analysis tools to a number of strategic partners including Sina.com (NASDAQ: SINA) and GoInvest.com. For more information, visit http://www.abovetrade.com. About The SportsNetwork.com The SportsNetwork.com, a Southampton, Pa.-based company has paved pave tr.v. paved, pav·ing, paves 1. To cover with a pavement. 2. To cover uniformly, as if with pavement. 3. To be or compose the pavement of. the way for providing "real-time" sports data Sports data are typically published online and in newspapers as box scores. Box scores contain a numerical view of a sporting event and are of interest for sports betting and fantasy sports. While box scores contain a wealth of information (e.g. since 1980. TSN TSN The Sporting News TSN The Sports Network TSN Targeting Social Need (NI) TSN Tan Son Nhut (Vietnam) TSN Time Since New was the first service to offer in-progress game coverage, weather, injury and odds information and since 1996, has been a major player on developing content through it customized software See custom software. program for hundreds of web sites across the web. Today, TSN is the premiere leader in capturing, gathering and transmission of sports information from its hundreds of stringers and reporters in the field. About GiantBear.com As an innovative wireless Internet Application Service Provider (ASP), GiantBear.com is empowering today's businesses Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. by providing end-to-end turnkey wireless data and mobile commerce solutions for wireless carriers, e-businesses and corporate enterprises. GiantBear.com's suite of services include application development and implementation; portal and platform development and integration; hosting and maintenance services; strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and marketing assistance; content and mobile commerce distribution; and billing and customer service integration. Through GiantBear.com's innovative applications, companies can deliver personalized, local, national and company-specific information or commerce across multiple delivery channels -- wireless cell phones, pagers, PDAs or other pervasive computing Refers to the use of computers in everyday life, including PDAs, smartphones and other mobile devices. It also refers to computers contained in commonplace objects such as cars and appliances and implies that people are unaware of their presence. devices. GiantBear.com's major investors include Thomas H. Lee Company, Blackstone and Reuters. The company was founded by Steven Price and Stuart Rosenstein, seasoned wireless industry executives who ran, took public and sold PriCellular Corporation -- a regional wireless carrier. For more information about GiantBear.com and its products, visit http://www.giantbear.com. |
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