Information Today
Volume 15, Number 6 • June 1998
Comtex Forges Relationship with PointCast, Introduces Stream Reader

Comtex Scientific Corporation, an aggregator, integrator, and syndicator of value-added, real-time financial and business newswires, has announced a strategic relationship with PointCast Incorporated, a leader in broadcast news via the Internet and corporate intranets. The companies recently coordinated their efforts to create 13 new Industry Daily Digests for the PointCast Network, available immediately for free download with version 2.5 at http://www.pointcast.com. In addition, Comtex has announced that it now offers a real-time Internet delivery solution called Comtex Stream Reader.

Comtex Industry Digests on PointCast

Every day, Comtex newsroom editors will track and send the top news in the following vertical industry segments to PointCast: computer networks, oil/energy, insurance, banking and finance, utilities, aerospace and defense, automotive, tele-communications, computer hardware and peripherals, airlines, household/consumer, leisure and tourism, and publishing.

Comtex currently has relationships with 40 newswire sources, and will use a broad selection of them for the Industry Daily Digests. For U.S.-based coverage of industry developments, Comtex editors will monitor sources including Business Wire, The Content Factory, PR Newswire, and United Press International (UPI). For industry intelligence originated in diverse regions of the world, editors will choose from sources including Africa News Service; Canadian Corporate News; InfoLatina S.A. de C.V.; ITAR/TASS News Agency; M2 Communications, Ltd.; South American Business Information; and Xinhua News Agency.

"Comtex provides the depth and breadth of coverage we need in order to offer our viewers Industry Daily Digests for key industries," said Joe Perna, director of content at PointCast.

Comtex Stream Reader

Comtex is promising a new level of integration support with the introduction of the Comtex Stream Reader, a real-time Internet delivery solution for leading information services. Comtex specializes in creating leading-edge solutions for top distributors of financial and business information.

The foremost benefit for Comtex distributors is the ability to have real-time aggregated content from a single source, through one Internet connection and with one reader, in one format. This allows the world's financial and business information leaders to have more time to focus their development resources on product initiatives to better serve their customers.

"The Comtex Stream Reader fulfills the expressed needs of our distributors," said Charles W. Terry, president and CEO of Comtex, "for a seamless, real-time connection to our diverse newswire sources."

Source: Comtex Scientific Corporation, Alexandria, VA, 703/820-2000; http://www.comtexnews.com.

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