Data Broadcasting real-time stock market quote service begins; $29.95 monthly fee includes mandatory exchange fees.JACKSON, Wyo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 1996--The Internet's most visited independent site (www.dbc.com) for stock market quotes is now offering subscribers real-time quotes for just $29.95 per month. Data Broadcasting Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DBCC DBCC Daytona Beach Community College (Florida) DBCC District Business Conduct Committee (NASD) DBCC Desert Breeze Community Church (Glendale, AZ, USA) ) launched its powerful MarketWatch (mw.dbc.com) service on April 19 with more than 3,500 users registered through the preview period. "This price point and the enthusiastic early response we have seen for our MarketWatch service opens vast new customer markets to our company, which has historically focused on providing real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. to active individual investors willing to pay more than $100 per month for continuous stock market access through our private networks," said Alan Hirschfield and Allan Tessler, co-chief executive officers. "The Internet makes it possible to provide a quantum leap quantum leap n. An abrupt change or step, especially in method, information, or knowledge: "War was going to take a quantum leap; it would never be the same" Garry Wills. in service quality to new customers, who have traditionally at these price points been restricted to data delayed at least 15 minutes." DBC launched delayed stock market quote service over the Internet eight months ago. DBC's site is recording between two and three million hits per day, through direct public access to the site as well as through the company's growing base of partners for its customized "brand label" quote services. Under this arrangement, DBC designs a customized company Web site quote page that enables another company's Web site visitors to seamlessly access DBC's quote server even though it appears they are still on the original company's site. Microsoft, USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. , US News & World Report and Deloitte & Touche are among the many the companies on four continents currently contracting with DBC's brand label quote service. MarketWatch subscribers have access to real-time stock market quotes, fundamental and historical financial data and charts, a specialized business news headline service, portfolio tracking features and other investment-related data. The $29.95 monthly fee includes mandatory 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 , American and Nasdaq exchange fees totaling approximately $12.00 per month and covers the administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. DBC will incur to process each stock exchange contract and fee. In the near future, many of the features of DBC MarketWatch will be made available to the company's real-time broadcast customers at no extra charge, and through its relationship with Internet Financial Network, customers will be gain access to the electronic filings of public companies as they are submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Data Broadcasting is America's leading provider of real-time stock market data to the individual investor. Through its DBC West and BMI BMI body mass index. BMI abbr. body mass index Body mass index (BMI) A measurement that has replaced weight as the preferred determinant of obesity. services, the company delivers real-time stock quotes, financial and sports news and betting odds Noun 1. betting odds - the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; "he offered odds of two to one" odds ratio - the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient) to more than 34,000 subscribers via wireless FM, cable and satellite transmissions, as well as now through online services and the Internet. CONTACT: Data Broadcasting Corporation Larry Kramer, 415/571-1800 lkramer@dbc.com or Pondel Parsons & Wilkinson Cecilia Wilkinson/Ina McGuinness, 310/207-9300 investor@pondel.com |
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