Briefing.com Expands Content Agreement with Yahoo!; Real-time Market Analysis Now Available on Yahoo! Finance.Business Editors BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2000 Briefing.com (http://www.briefing.com) today announced an expanded agreement with Yahoo! Inc., a leading global 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 communications, commerce and media company, to provide additional content on Yahoo!(R)Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com), including four new pages of market analysis. Under the agreement, Briefing.com is providing real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. Market updates throughout the trading day In Business, the trading day is the time span that a particular stock exchange is open. For example, the New York Stock Exchange is, as of 2006, open from 09:30AM to 4:00PM. Trading days never take place on weekends. to the Market Summary section that appears on the main page of Yahoo! Finance. Briefing.com is also providing a version of In Play(R) on the newly launched Market Overview page that users can view by clicking on the Market Overview link on the main page of Yahoo! Finance. In Play contains articles that focus on stocks that are experiencing, or are likely to experience, sharp moves or heavy trading volume Trading volume The number of shares transacted every day. As there is a seller for every buyer, one can think of the trading volume as half of the number of shares transacted. That is, if A sells 100 shares to B, the volume is 100 shares. throughout the day. Also on the Market Overview page, Yahoo! Finance users can now access Briefing.com's popular Story Stocks(R), analysis behind stocks in the news, and Short Stories, brief summaries of key news items affecting individual stocks. The new content compliments com·pli·ment n. 1. An expression of praise, admiration, or congratulation. 2. A formal act of civility, courtesy, or respect. 3. the Briefing.com "intra day" analysis previously offered on Yahoo! Finance. Such analysis includes: Upgrades and Downgrades of company stocks, which are updated three times per day by recommendations from major Wall Street brokerage firms; the Splits Calendar, succinct suc·cinct adj. suc·cinct·er, suc·cinct·est 1. Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse: a succinct reply; a succinct style. 2. lists of upcoming U.S. stock splits; and the Economic Calendar, forecasts for each upcoming release. "Expanding our relationship with Yahoo! to provide real-time market commentary on Yahoo! Finance is a natural step in our relationship," said David Beasley David Muldrow Beasley (born February 26 1957) is a United States politician. He was the Governor of South Carolina from 1995 until 1999. David Beasley began his political career as a member of the U.S. Democratic Party, but switched to the U.S. , vice president of sales and marketing, Briefing.com. "Now Yahoo! Finance users can benefit from our most active market analysis and can make more informed investment decisions." "We're pleased to expand our relationship with Briefing.com," said Tim Sheehan, director of production, Yahoo! Finance. "The new content from Briefing.com helps enable our users to monitor U.S stock market conditions at any time, from any where." About Briefing.com Briefing.com is an employee-owned company headquartered in Chicago with offices in Jackson Jackson. 1 City (1990 pop. 37,446), seat of Jackson co., S Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1857. It is an industrial and commercial center in a farm region. , WY, Burlingame, CA, Boston and London. Briefing.com is one of the only Internet companies designed to provide professional quality, "live" market analysis to professionals and individuals at an affordable price. Briefing.com provides content to a growing number of prominent partners as displayed at http://www.briefing.com/corpinfo/partners.htm. Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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