Business Wire Takes Lead in Web-based Investor Communication Product Offerings.Business Editors/Interactive & Multimedia Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Logos are available in a Smart News Release(TM)on Business Wire's Home page at www.businesswire.com or on Newstream.com's Home page at www.newstream.com. 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 & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2000 Company to Market and Sell CCBN CCBN Central Coast Bancorp CCBN Charles County Business Network .com's Innovative and Industry Leading Webcast Products under New Co-Brand Agreement Business Wire (www.businesswire.com), the global leader in news and information distribution, will offer its members and prospects a comprehensive range of cutting-edge Web-based multimedia investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. products, it was announced today at the National Investor Relations Institute's (NIRI NIRI National Investor Relations Institute NIRI Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative (Mississippi) NIRI Near Infrared Imager NIRI National Institute on Recreation Inclusion NIRI New Ideas Research Institute ) annual conference in San Francisco. Based on its new co-brand agreement with CCBN.com (www.ccbn.com), Business Wire will provide an arsenal of webcasting products to investor relations professionals of Fortune 1000, Nasdaq companies, and newly-announced IPOs, enabling them to communicate and share more detailed corporate news and shareholder information with the media, financial analysts and their constituents. Under the agreement, Business Wire will market and sell three levels of webcast services: basic audio webcasts, enhanced audio webcasts and virtual presentations, all powered by CCBN. -- Business Wire's basic audio webcasts will give clients the opportunity to broadcast live or archived conference calls on their own corporate Web sites, as well as directly onto CCBN's vast network of institutional and individual investors. -- Business Wire's enhanced audio webcasts will include all of the features of a basic audio webcast plus will allow companies to integrate their webcast with a pre-event Web page that matches the look-and-feel of their corporate IR Web site, send email alerts prior to and following the event, increase awareness through a pre-event First Call announcement, provide viewer-controlled slide presentations, and gather traffic information through detailed audience reporting. -- Taking the technology one step further, Business Wire will leverage CCBN's Talkpoint technology to offer virtual presentation capabilities to its clients. This leading edge technology allows corporations to hold live, interactive meetings with investors over the Internet. With this service, which requires no special software or plug-ins, PowerPoint slides are controlled by the presenter and are synchronized syn·chro·nize v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es v.intr. 1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous. 2. To operate in unison. v.tr. 1. with the presenter's voice in real time over the Internet. A company's IR spokesperson can interact with investors in real time through online polling and text-based Q&A. Much like a face-to-face meeting, companies control who attends through optional password protection and detailed audience reporting. The company can also opt to have the event indexed and archived for replay just minutes after the event via telephone or streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. . "Under the new arrangement, Business Wire will market and sell CCBN's webcasting products to our current and potential member base, offering them a way to communicate more effectively with their investors," said Cathy Baron Tamraz, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Business Wire. "Providing affordable top-quality Web-based investor relations products and services to our members and the media is central to our business, and further solidifies our position as the premier Internet and satellite information distribution service for the investor relations community and the financial media throughout the world," said Tamraz. "This new co-brand agreement builds significantly on the recent announcement of our strategic alliance with Business Wire and will appreciably ap·pre·cia·ble adj. Possible to estimate, measure, or perceive: appreciable changes in temperature. See Synonyms at perceptible. extend our lead as the number one provider of earnings-related conference call webcasts while further solidifying so·lid·i·fy v. so·lid·i·fied, so·lid·i·fy·ing, so·lid·i·fies v.tr. 1. To make solid, compact, or hard. 2. To make strong or united. v.intr. our emerging foothold foot·hold n. 1. A place providing support for the foot in climbing or standing. 2. A firm or secure position that provides a base for further advancement. foothold Noun 1. in the virtual presentation space," said Rob Adler, President of CCBN.com. Business Wire (www.businesswire.com), which takes news delivery to new dimensions, was the first newswire to establish a presence on the Internet in June 1995, and introduce myriad proprietary online products that quickly and effectively deliver information to online and traditional media. As an early 'brick-and-mortar' newswire, Business Wire has become an online pioneer, harnessing the Internet's power and delivering news to more than 16,000 online databases worldwide. Business Wire delivers the day's top news stories directly to the desktops of major decision-makers, management executives, public and investor relations professionals, and media from around the world. Business Wire's Web site averages more than one million hits daily, and its Internet products are mainstays in the communication arsenal of corporate communicators, investor relations and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most professionals, and journalists. The new co-brand agreement positions Business Wire on behalf of its members to deliver more comprehensive investor relations information to institutional and individual investors, as well as financial analysts and the media. Business Wire will continue to market and sell its own family of Internet-based investor relations products, including IPOs on the Net and Corporate News on the Net. About Business Wire Founded in 1961 by its president, Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations executive, Business Wire delivers more news from more sources to more destinations than any other service in the world. With content from more than 40,000 organizations, including Fortune 1000 and Nasdaq companies, Business Wire remains the fastest-growing and largest independent commercial news wire in the world. Business Wire's family of Web sites includes www.BusinessWire.com, www.tradeshownews.com, www.EntertainmentWire.com and the joint-venture multimedia news portal, www.newstream.com. With 26 U.S. bureaus, Business Wire's headquarters is in San Francisco with an eastern U.S. hub in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , an international hub in Brussels and reciprocal Bilateral; two-sided; mutual; interchanged. Reciprocal obligations are duties owed by one individual to another and vice versa. A reciprocal contract is one in which the parties enter into mutual agreements. offices throughout the world. About CCBN.com Founded in 1997 by Jeff Parker Jeff Parker can refer to more than one person:
StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com), CCBN's event management service, offers access to the most comprehensive calendar of investment-related events and webcasts available to the financial community. Through partnerships with leading retail 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. , CCBN delivers an unprecedented body of direct corporate information to one of the largest collective audiences 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. . Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.061200/bb3 |
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