Electronic Arts to Join FORTUNE e-50 Index.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2003 FORTUNE announced today that Electronic Arts Inc. (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 : ERTS ERTS Electronic Arts, Inc. (stock symbol) ERTS Earth Resources Technology Satellite (US NASA) ERTS Embedded Real Time Systems ERTS Enhanced Remote Transit Shed ) will be added to the FORTUNE e-50(TM) Index (Symbol: FEX FEX Fexofenadine FEX Funding Exchange FEX File Extension FEX Flight Engineer FEX Field Exercise FEX Feature Extraction FEX Fluorescence Excitation FEX Fleet Exercise FEX Frequency Extender FEX Freshmen Externships FEX Floating Point Enabled Exception ) after the close of trading on Wednesday, October 8, 2003, replacing component Overture overture, instrumental musical composition written as an introduction to an opera, ballet, oratorio, musical, or play. The earliest Italian opera overtures were simply pieces of orchestral music and were called sinfonie. Services Inc. (NASDAQ: OVER). Electronic Arts, based in Redwood City Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif., is a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for personal computers and other video game and entertainment systems. EA reported revenue of $353.4 million for the three-month period ended 6/30/03. Index components that cease to trade due to mergers, acquisitions, LBOs, bankruptcies, or other developments of a material nature are removed. Overture Services has been acquired by Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ). The FORTUNE e-50 Index was developed by the editors of FORTUNE to be the definitive benchmark of the Internet economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. . Index component selections are made at the discretion of the FORTUNE Index Committee. In general, the Committee selects the 50 companies that best represent the Internet economy in the subsectors of e-Companies, Internet Communications, Internet Hardware, and Internet Software and Services. Company additions to and deletions from the FORTUNE e-50 Index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company. For more information about the FORTUNE e-50 Index, including Index policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental , as well as the entire list of companies in the FORTUNE e-50 Index, visit http://indexes.fortune.com. Index updates and changes can be viewed at www.amextrader.com.
FORTUNE e-50 Index - Effective at close, October 8, 2003
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ACTION COMPANY INDUSTRY SUBSECTOR
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ADDED Electronic Arts Internet Software and Services
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DELETED Overture Services e-Company
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