Bloomberg.com Agrees to Make CCBN Its Exclusive Provider of Corporate Conference Call Webcasts; Webcasts of CCBN's Client Companies' Conference Calls Will Be Available on Bloomberg.com.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2002 CCBN CCBN Central Coast Bancorp CCBN Charles County Business Network (www.ccbn.com), the leading provider of Internet-based shareholder communications services, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Bloomberg Bloomberg A major global provider of 24-hour financial news and information including real-time and historic price data, financials data, trading news and analyst coverage, as well as general news and sports. .com to become the site's new exclusive provider of corporate conference call webcasts. Individual investors will be able to access live and archived webcasts of corporate conference calls from CCBN through the Earnings Center in the Markets section of the Bloomberg.com Web site, one of the top five most visited Web sites in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. for financial news and information. CCBN provides webcasts for thousands of companies on a live and archived basis for quarterly financial conference calls, product announcements, annual meetings and conference presentations. Through distribution relationships with premier sites like Bloomberg.com, CCBN has become the standard for direct communications between public companies and the investment community. With these partnerships, CCBN provides content to millions of investors, enabling its corporate clients to take advantage of the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the to efficiently and cost-effectively distribute their message to an ever-broader audience. "We are excited to work with an industry leader to provide Bloomberg.com users with extensive and timely coverage of corporate conference calls," said Marissa Levinson of Bloomberg.com. "Visitors to our site want to know what public companies are saying during their quarterly earnings calls and CCBN fulfills this need by delivering financial event information from more than 6,000 public companies." Bloomberg.com joins more than 20 other retail financial sites, including America Online See AOL. , Yahoo! Finance and Forbes.com, that makes up CCBN's Investor Distribution Network. CCBN helps companies communicate fully and effectively with individual investors by providing them with access to this powerful network of leading portals that reaches millions of individual investors. "Because Bloomberg.com is one of the most highly trafficked financial portals Financial Portal A website that provides a variety of financial data and information, acting as an information hub for clients who are individual investors requiring timely financial news and data to make their investment decisions. on the Web, this partnership enhances CCBN's ability to target and distribute our clients' messages to the broadest audience of individual investors possible," said Rob Adler, president of CCBN. "We are dedicated to helping our clients reach their current and potential individual investors, and becoming the exclusive provider of webcasts for Bloomberg.com demonstrates our leading position as a distributor of investor event information." This agreement to distribute webcasts on Bloomberg.com complements the previously announced partnership with Bloomberg L.P. to provide its more than 260,000 institutional investors Institutional Investor A non-bank person or organization that trades securities in large enough share quantities or dollar amounts that they qualify for preferential treatment and lower commissions. who use the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service with access CCBN's StreetEvents service. The StreetEvents service provides institutional investors with a master calendar of upcoming conference calls, earnings releases, live and archived webcasts, shareholders meetings and other investment-related events sourced directly from over 6,000 public companies and 100 sell-side institutions. About CCBN Co-founded in 1997 by Jeffrey P. Parker, creator of First Call, and Robert Adler Robert Adler (December 4 1913 - February 15 2007) was an Austrian-born American inventor who held numerous patents. Achievements Adler was born in Vienna, and earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Vienna in 1937. , CCBN is the global leader in enabling direct communications between public companies and the investment community over the Internet. CCBN builds, manages and hosts the investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. sections of Web sites for more than 2,500 public companies, providing detailed shareholder information through interactive, multimedia solutions. In addition, CCBN hosts live and archived quarterly conference calls for more than 3,000 corporations each quarter. Through its StreetEvents institutional event management database (www.streetevents.com) and partnerships with leading retail financial portals, CCBN has created a revolutionary investor distribution network that delivers an unprecedented body of direct corporate information to the largest collective audience of institutional and individual investors in cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. . Headquartered in Boston, MA, CCBN has additional offices in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and London. |
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