Press Release
Contact:
David Beasley
650-347-2220 x.132
dbeasley@briefing.com
Briefing.com’s professional Wall Street analysis now available
to users of Quicken and Excite's new financial channel
Burlingame, CA, November 7, 1997…Briefing.com, the only site
to provide live Wall Street analysis and commentary by
noted analysts, today announces that it will license a number of
pages of content including a regular custom article to the new
investing channel on search engine Excite. Called the Excite
Business & Investment Channel by Quicken.com (http://quicken.excite.com), the
channel is a joint creation of Excite and Intuit, the makers of
Quicken. It is a one-stop site where investors, small business
owners and individuals can find comprehensive information
related to personal and small business finance, including
investment advice, chat rooms, mortgage information and
insurance quotes. Briefing.com contributes five pages of content
to the Business & Investment channel:
Stock Ticker: Timely insight on stock market moves.
Story Stocks: Detailed commentary on individual
stocks in the news. Upgrades/Downgrades:
Public companies' most recent ratings. Economic
Calendar: Forecasts for all upcoming economic releases,
and data on the most recent releases. A weekly
feature article by Briefing's chief equity analyst Bob
Walberg. Like other well-known Briefing analysts, he
frequently provides expert commentary to such media as
The New York Times, CNNfn and Reuters. He
is also a regular guest on CNBC's Money Wheel.
Stock Ticker is updated three times per day, the feature
article once per week, and all other content once per day;
keeping Excite's 7.6 million users current on Wall Street
developments. The five pages are representative of the more
comprehensive, continually updated analysis and commentary
featured on Briefing's own site. Quicken/Excite channel users
who benefit from Briefing's abbreviated pages and would like
more in-depth financial coverage may simply link to Briefing's
home page to review their two premium subscription services:
Stock Analysis™ and Briefing Professional™ .
Tapan Bhat, Manager of the Quicken Financial Network at Intuit,
believes, "Briefing’s intra-daily commentary and other
information regarding U.S. markets is a high value add to the
type of investors who frequent our site." David Beasley,
V.P. Marketing for Briefing.com, adds, "With Quicken’s new
channel being a "center" of information for Web investors,
providing our constant market analysis seemed like a natural fit
to us." Briefing.com's Stock Analysis is a
comprehensive service for individual investors, while the new
Professional package is geared towards fixed-income
professionals such as bond traders, funds managers, corporate
treasurers and mortgage brokers. Briefing.com Professional
includes live bond market commentary, 15 minute bond and
FX quotes, leading edge Economic Analysis and much more.
Stock Analysis includes a live market analysis
section as well as the extremely popular Upgrades/Downgrades
and Splits Calendars. A subscription to Briefing.com
Professional includes the Stock Analysis service.
Briefing’s Stock Ticker market commentary is also
featured on Intuit's Quicken Financial Channel through Microsoft
Internet Explorer 4.0’s (IE 4.0) Active Desktop™ . This
new channel, also by Intuit, allows users to employ the Internet
in a new, more effective way. IE 4.0 users program the channel
to automatically deliver financial updates to their desktops
throughout the day. In addition, users of Intuit’s Quicken® 98
financial software may "click" through to Briefing Stock
Ticker commentary from the Market Watch area of the
software.
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. Briefing is of similar design
and content to the live information products currently
used by Wall Street traders over traditional networks. These
services, delivered over such vendors as Reuters, ILX, Dow Jones
Telerate, and Bloomberg, commonly cost between $200-$330 per
month. About Excite
Founded in 1994,
Excite, Inc. is an Internet media company which offers the Web's
first free online service. The Excite Network consists of two
flagship brands, Excite (www.excite.com), and WebCrawler (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. About
Intuit
Intuit, Inc., a financial software and Web-based
services company, develops and markets Quicken, the leading
personal finance software; TurboTax, the best-selling tax
preparation software; and QuickBooks, 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 the leading mutual fund and insurance sites.
Based in Mountain View, CA, Intuit continues to improve their
products and services which enable individuals, small
businesses, and financial professionals to better manage their
financial lives and businesses.
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