America's Largest Small-Cap Stock Expo Provides New York Chance to Look Over the Next Wave of Companies.

Business Editors

Discovery Expo Spring 2000

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2000

No matter the market gyrations today, there will come a time when investors will wish they had bought some new hot stock of the new millennium back in the Spring of 2000.

Brokers, analysts, and sophisticated fund managers, who hope to ride this new wave of successful shares onto the beach, can review 80 serious hopefuls at the 12th Discovery Expo. It is from noon to 7 p.m., June 15, 2000, in the New York Hilton at 6th Ave, and 53rd St.

Exhibitors at this Expo represent examples of the diverse and expanding world we live in. Advanced health care, communication, automotive, and many other products will be showcased.

One company offers online clients an opportunity to negotiate and settle legal disputes with more than 1,300 qualified hearing officers, while another operates high-speed wireless Internet services in nine markets across the West Coast.

Attendees, who are admitted free if they surrender their business card, will have opportunities to talk and question the CEOs and other executives of these growth firms.

The whole show is geared toward making the discovery and research of young energetic companies easier for the financial professional and the investor.

You can check out www.emergingequities.com, EmergingEquity's discovery financial portal Web site for online small cap investors, while Standard and Poor's demonstrates their new investor-oriented Web site for the big caps.

Unique Event

This 12th, in a unique series of Discovery Expos, was organized by The Investment Reporter, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based financial newspaper to bring together undiscovered companies with high-profile growth fund managers, analysts, stock brokers and sophisticated investors together in a semi-annual one day event.

"The financial world definitely needs to find growing companies whose shares have strong upside potential, and these companies want to be discovered," said John Robbins, publisher of the 12-year-old Investment Reporter and host of the Discovery Expos.

Sponsors of the Expo include: Business Wire, Standard & Poor's, AGS Specialist Partners, The Boston Stock Exchange, The Investment Reporter and Emerging Equities.com.

Participating Companies

Among the companies appearing at Expo'00 are: Circle Group Internet, Inc. (AMEX Proposed); Eagle Wireless International, Inc. (AMEX: EAG); ICH Corp. (AMEX: IH); Lifepoint, Inc. (AMEX: LFP); Measurement Specialties, Inc. (AMEX: MSS); Agritope, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGTO); Altair International, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALTI); Bioject Medical Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: BJCT); Bio-Plexus, Inc. (Nasdaq: BPLX); BioTransplant Inc. (Nasdaq: BTRN); Brio Technology (Nasdaq: BRIO); Circle Group Internet, Inc. (AMEX Proposed); clickNsettle.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLIK); Community Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMBC); Cowlitz Bancorparation (Nasdaq: CWLZ); Chromatics Color Sciences International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CCSI); Demarco Energy Systems of America, Inc. (Nasdaq: DMES); Digital River (Nasdaq: DRIV); First Bank NW Corp. (Nasdaq: FBNW); First Mutual Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: FMSB); First Washington Bancorp (Nasdaq: FWWB); Host American Corp. (Nasdaq: CAFE); Inamco International Corp. (Nasdaq: IICO); Infocus Systems (Nasdaq: INFS); Mace Security International Inc. (Nasdaq: MACE); Nara Bank (Nasdaq: NARA); NHancement Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: NHAN); North American Technologies Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NATK); PBOC Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: PBOC); Radiologix (Nasdaq: RDLX); Retek Inc. (Nasdaq: RETK); SafeScience, Inc. (Nasdaq: SAFS); T-NETIX, Inc. (Nasdaq: TNTX); Triquint Semiconductor (Nasdaq: TQNT); UBNetworks (Nasdaq: IJNT); United Heritage Lord (Nasdaq: NHLP); United Security Bancorporation (Nasdaq: USBN); Wilshire State Bank (Nasdaq: WSBK); Advanced Technology International Holdings, Limited (OTCBB: SCRO); Alpha Trade.com, Inc. (OTCBB: EBNK); ARS Networks Inc. (OTCBB: ARSN); AutoTradeCenter.com, Inc. (OTCBB: AUTC); Bingo.com Inc. (OTCBB: BIGR); BioLabs, Inc. (OTCBB: BILB); Cambio, Inc. (OTCBB: CAMB); China Premium Food Corp. (OTCBB: CHPF); Clear Works.net, Inc. (OTCBB: CLWK); Cryopak Industries Inc. (OTCBB: CYPKF)(Canadian Venture Exchange: CII); Dimensional Visions, Inc. (OTCBB: DVUI); Endovasc Ltd., Inc. (OTCBB: EPSO); Foodvision.com, Inc. (OTCBB: FVSN); Freedom Golf Corp. (OTCBB: FGLC); Global Diamond Resources, Inc. (OTCBB: GDRS); Hammi Bank (OTCBB: HNBK); Healthnet International Inc. (OTCBB: HLNT); Internet Business's International, Inc. (OTCBB: IBUI); iQ Power Technology Inc. (OTCBB: IQPR); Netstaff, Inc. (OTCBB: NTSF); JustWebit.com, Inc. (OTCBB: JWIT); Lifestream Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: LFST); M&A WEST, Inc. (OTCBB: MAWI); Medi-Hut, Inc. (OTCBB: MHUT); Mercury Scheduling Systems Inc. (CDNX: MRY)(OTCBB: MYSYSF); The Murdock Group Career Satisfaction Corp. (OTCBB: TMGS); National Rehab Properties, Inc. (OTCBB: NRPI); Pacific Webworks, Inc. (OTCBB: PWEB); Pcsupport.com, Inc. (OTCBB: PCSP); Phoenix Resource Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: PRTI); Skinvisible, Inc. (OTCBB: SKVI); Smartsources.com Inc. (OTCBB: SSXX); Softquadsoftware (OTCBB: SXML); Stockgroup.com (OTCBB: SWEB); The Stockpage (OTCBB: LJMP); Surgical Safety Products, Inc. (OTCBB: SURG); Timebeat.com Enterprises Inc. (OTCBB: TMBTF); Virtual Academics.com, Inc. (OTCBB: VADC); W3OTC.COM, Inc. (NQB: WOTC).

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