CCBN.Com, S&P Personal Wealth Announce Agreement to Advance Full Disclosure to Online Investors.Business Editors & High Tech Writers BOSTON and NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2000 Investors Will Gain Access to Earnings Calendars and Webcasts CCBN CCBN Central Coast Bancorp CCBN Charles County Business Network .com (www.ccbn.com), a leading provider of Internet-based corporate-investor communications, today announced a content and broadcast services agreement with S&P Personal Wealth (www.personalwealth.com), a unit of the McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : MHP MHP Multimedia Home Platform (consumer electronics) MHP Milliyetci Hareket Partisi (Turkish: National People's Party) MHP Mobile Home Park (district) MHP Maximum Human Performance ). The two companies will jointly build and brand earnings-release and conference-call webcast calendars on S&P Personal Wealth. The calendars will provide access to the content and broadcast services of StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com), CCBN.com's comprehensive Internet-based portal. In addition, S&P Personal Wealth will provide links to earnings-release schedule information and webcasts through its quotes and company-data pages. "This agreement helps our corporate clients and the investment community by expanding both the number and type of individual investors who will have access to relevant financial information in real time via the Internet," said Rob Adler, President of CCBN.com. "Expanding the reach of CCBN.com to include the analytically an·a·lyt·ic or an·a·lyt·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to analysis or analytics. 2. Dividing into elemental parts or basic principles. 3. oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. clientele of S&P Personal Wealth advances our mission of fostering full disclosure of corporate information to all investors." "This agreement is part of our strategy of providing top-quality information to investors, and continuing to be one of the premium portals of financial information," said David Smith, General Manager at S&P Personal Wealth. "CCBN.com has strong relationships with the corporate IR community, and their earnings release data is of a high quality. For these reasons, we felt that they would be the logical choice for a long-term partner for S&P Personal Wealth." CCBN.com is a leader in using the Internet to revolutionize rev·o·lu·tion·ize tr.v. rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·es 1. To bring about a radical change in: Television has revolutionized news coverage. 2. direct communications between companies and investors. The Company is a leading provider of outsourced investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. solutions, offering public companies an efficient, Web-based medium for richer and timelier disclosure as encouraged by the Securities and Exchange Commission. StreetEvents provides aggregated, straight-from-the-source information on more than 5,000 of the largest US corporations, including the S&P 500. This information includes the dates of corporate earnings releases and other significant events, as well as live and archived audio webcasts of investor conference calls, brokerage conferences and investor meetings. Geared toward well-informed investors who can take advantage of Standard & Poor's extensive analytical analytical, analytic pertaining to or emanating from analysis. analytical control control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test. capabilities, S&P Personal Wealth provides CCBN.com with another high-quality channel to reach individual investors. US News and World Report recently named the site as one of ten outstanding financial web sites that charge a small subscription fee ($9.95 per month). Subscribers have access to Standard & Poor's market-leading, independent, value-added insight and analysis across the equity, bond, commodities and money markets. Earlier this year, CCBN.com formed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar strategic alliance to feature CCBN.com on the AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Personal Finance Channel and other AOL brands, including CompuServe and Netscape Netcenter. The Company has since announced additional partnerships with Yahoo! and Raging rag·ing adj. 1. Very active and unpredicatable; volatile: a raging debate; a raging fire. 2. Remarkable; extraordinary: a raging hit on prime-time TV. Bull. About CCBN.com CCBN.com is a leader in enabling essential communications between public companies and the investment community over the Internet. IR Online, the Company's suite of Web-based communication services, provides more than 1,375 public companies with a customized, comprehensive and cost-effective Internet solution for investor relations. StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com), the Company's event management service, provides corporations, financial institutions and individual investors with access to an online portal that enables them to identify, organize, and track investment-related event information. Boston-based CCBN.com was founded in 1997 by Jeff Parker Jeff Parker can refer to more than one person:
About S&P Personal Wealth S&P Personal Wealth (www.personalwealth.com) is the award-winning service created specifically for individual investors by Standard & Poor's. Investment management features include 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. portfolio recommendations; buy, sell, and hold alerts; free real-time quotes; live market commentary; and in-depth analysis and research on companies and funds from hundreds of Standard and Poor's Noun 1. Standard and Poor's - a broadly based stock market index Standard and Poor's Index analysts worldwide. S&P Personal Wealth, recently described as "...easily the best one-stop shopping site for investors..." by Money.com, can also be reached through leading on-line service partners such as AOL, Netscape, Lycos, Quicken/Excite, ABCNEWS.com and Mindspring. |
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