Press Release
Contact:
David Beasley
650-347-2220 x.132
dbeasley@briefing.com
New York, NY, November 9, 1998 - Intuit, the leading
provider of personal and business finance software, today
announced a relationship with Garban Information Systems
(www.garvininfo.com) and Briefing.com (www.briefing.com). As
part of this relationship, Garban Information Systems (GIS), the
market source for fixed income, money market, and foreign
exchange information and Briefing.com, the leading Internet
provider of live market analysis for U.S. Bond, U.S. Stock, and
world FX market participants, will supply intra-daily market
pricing and analysis to the new Bonds section for Intuit's
leading finance site Quicken.com (www.quicken.com). GIS
supplies Quicken.com with indications of all "on the run" US
Treasuries, selected Mortgage-Backed securities, selected Money
Market instruments, and leading world FX rates. Prices for these
markets are updated three times throughout the trading day. In
addition, Briefing.com supplies its industry leading Bond Ticker
commentary and Economic Calendar to the site, which is also
updated three times throughout each trading day.
Quicken.com, through its relationships with America Online and
Excite, is also providing this same information through
AOL.COM's Personal Finance Web Center, the Excite Money &
Investing Channel, and the WebCrawler Money & Investing Channel.
Combined, these four sites reached in excess of 39 million
unique visitors during the month of April 1998
(RelevantKnowledge). "Our new Bonds section creates an
opportunity for our Quicken.com consumers to have access to high
quality information on this important category of financial
instruments," commented Tapan Bhat, Group Product manager for
Quicken.com. "The ability to deliver Web based pricing
from leading brokers around the world truly allows private
investors to now benefit from what was only available to
professional fixed-income and FX traders just a few years ago",
said Michael W. Mayhew, President of Garban Information Systems,
Americas. "Our growing relationship with Quicken.com and
GIS allows us to now aggregate our industry standard intra-daily
U.S. bond market analysis with the best market pricing and
deliver them through leading Internet portal sites", says David
Beasley, VP Marketing for Briefing.com.
About Briefing.com
Briefing.com is an employee-owned company headquartered in
Chicago, with offices in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Rated a “top site” eight consecutive years by Barron’s and three
consecutive years by Forbes.com, Briefing.com is the leading
provider of quality, live market analysis via the Internet.
About Garban Information Systems
Garban Information
Systems (GIS), is the exclusive sales and marketing agent for
Garban, the world’s leading integrated money and securities
broking group. GIS supplies real-time and derived broker
information products for the fixed-income, foreign exchange,
money market and derivative markets to nearly 700,000 real-time
quote terminals of practically every major vendor world wide. A
few of these clients include Reuters, Bridge, Bloomberg LP, Data
Broadcasting Corporation, and Telekurs AG. GIS has offices in
London and Hong Kong. About Quicken.com
Quicken.com http://www.quicken.com, a leading online finance
site, brings together tools, resources and expertise to help
empower consumers to make confident investment and financial
choices. Once consumers have determined their financial needs,
Quicken.com can help them reach a solution for all areas of
personal finance management, including investments, insurance,
tax and mortgage. All of which is available for FREE!
Quicken.com is competitive with Microsoft Investor (NASDAQ:
MSFT) and Yahoo! Finance (NASDAQ: YHOO). Quicken.com
content is also distributed through American Online (NYSE: AOL)
and Excite (NASDAQ: XCIT). About Intuit
Intuit
Inc., a financial software and Web-based services company,
develops and markets QuickenÒ, the
leading personal finance software; TurboTaxÒ, the best-selling tax preparation software; and
QuickBook, the most popular small business accounting software.
Intuit's Quicken.com Web site offers a complete set of personal
finance news, information, and tools, including retirement
planning resources and the leading mutual fund and insurance
sites. About Excite/WebCrawler
Founded in 1994,
Excite, Inc. is an Internet media company that offers the Web's
first free online service. The Excite Network consists of two
flagship brands, Excite (http://www.excite.com), and WebCrawler
(http://www.webcrawler.com). Excite offers topic-based channels
of information where consumers can find topical news and
content, reviews and guides, free email, instant messaging, chat
and search. WebCrawler offers consumers a channel-based service,
while maintaining its strength of "simple search" and the
distinctive look and feel of the WebCrawler service to which its
user base remains loyal. Localized versions of Excite are also
available internationally for the United Kingdom, Germany,
France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Australia and Japan. Based in
Redwood City, CA, Excite, Inc. has strategic relationships with
America Online, Inc., Intuit Inc., Tribune Company, CUC
Investments Inc., Apple Computer, Inc. and Netscape
Communications Corp. # # #
Intuit, the Intuit logo, Quicken, QuickBooks, QuickBooks Pro,
TurboTax, MacInTax, ProSeries and InsureMarket, among others,
are registered trademarks and/or registered service marks of
Intuit Inc. or one of its subsidiaries. Quicken.com,
QuickenMortgage, Quicken Business CashFinder and Quicken
Financial Planner, among others, are trademarks and/or service
marks of Intuit Inc. or one of its subsidiaries. Other parties'
trademarks or service marks are the property of their respective
owners and should be treated as such.
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