CCBN.com Earnings Release and Webcast Content Now Available Through Motley Fool; Agreement Provides Fool Users With Direct Access To Corporate Event Information.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2000 CCBN CCBN Central Coast Bancorp CCBN Charles County Business Network .com (www.ccbn.com), the leading provider of Internet-based corporate-investor communications, today announced a content and broadcast services agreement with The Motley Fool. Under the agreement, The Motley Fool will provide its customers with access to information that is sourced directly from 6,000+ companies that use CCBN's StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com) service to publish their corporate event information. With this new relationship, The Motley Fool customers will gain easy access to earnings release information and be able to listen to live and archived conference calls broadcast by CCBN. When a user clicks on the Quotes/Data tab on the homepage of The Fool, (www.fool.com), they'll find a calendar section that is populated with events from CCBN. Events are posted up to four weeks in advance of the event and are available for replay after the event at the user's convenience. The ease of use combined with the relevancy of the information makes this content a valuable addition to The Motley Fool's offerings. Jeff Parker Jeff Parker can refer to more than one person:
StreetEvents provides aggregated, straight-from-the-source event information on more than 6,000 public companies, including the S&P 500 and FTSE FTSE A company that specializes in index calculation. Although not part of a stock exchange, co-owners include the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times. Notes: The FTSE is similar to Standard & Poor's in the United States. 100, and is the nation's leading broadcaster of corporate earnings conference call webcasts. The Motley Fool relationship is a powerful addition to CCBN's current portal partnerships with America Online See AOL. , Wall Street City, Raging Bull, IFN IFN abbr. interferon IFN interferon. IFN Interferon, see there and Yahoo. This partnership with CCBN comes at a time when the online investment community continues to expand and demand more timely information as they do their best to make sound investment decisions. Tom Gardner Tom Gardner (born April 16, 1968) is one of the three founders of The Motley Fool and the current Motley Fool Fantasy Football champ. He is currently co-chairman of the board of The Motley Fool. , co-founder of the Motley Fool said, "It is important that individual investors have access to the best information source -- the company itself. Event information helps to level the playing field for small investors." Until recently, information such as quarterly earnings conference calls was first released to institutional investors, and then eventually filtered down to the individual. Now, with the help of The Motley Fool, companies that work with CCBN can deliver this market-moving information to everyone at the same time. This agreement places more information at the disposal of investors, to help them make better investment decisions and gives CCBN corporate customers a broader base of investors who will hear their message in their words. 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About CCBN.com Founded in 1997 by Jeffrey P. Parker, creator of First Call, CCBN.com 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 1,500 public companies, providing detailed shareholder information through interactive, multi-media solutions. 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 one of the largest collective audiences 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 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 , Atlanta and London. |
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