Message-ID: <8729809.1075851528990.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:12:16 -0700 (PDT) From: textsf@stockfirst.com To: alewis@ect.enron.com Subject: BREAKING NEWS - Stockgroup Partners With North American Quotations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: STOCKFIRST <textsf@stockfirst.com>@ENRON X-To: alewis@ect.enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ALEWIS (Non-Privileged)\Deleted Items X-Origin: LEWIS-A X-FileName: ALEWIS (Non-Privileged).pst **********BREAKING NEWS********** from STOCKFIRST and TheInvestorOnline www.stockfirst.com www.theinvestoronline.com _____________________________________ Stockgroup Partners With North American Quotations NAQ Signs Agreement to Resell Stockgroup's Financial Software and Content System Stockgroup Information Systems Inc. (OTCBB:SWEB), a financial media and technology company, and North American Quotations Inc., a leading market data provider, announces the signing of a resellers agreement. Under the agreement NAQ will be an authorized reseller of Stockgroup's financial software and content system. Stockgroup provides more than 25 proprietary software objects including real-time quotes, delayed quotes, stock charts, interactive java charts, technical analysis, technical charts, mutual funds tools, position-based portfolio managers, stock watch lists, intraday market indices, stock screeners and many other tools. The Stockgroup financial tools solutions include NAQ supplied data on all North American exchanges and include information from their proprietary database of 21,000 public traded companies. The Stockgroup modular solutions are available as fully hosted solutions, via XML or in a client-side format, which reside on the customer's servers using application interface protocols. NAQ's data feed customers are primarily brokerage firms, web site operators and web developers, in addition to retail investor customers for the NAQ real time trader service. ``NAQ has been an outstanding supplier to Stockgroup and our companies have been great partners for years. We are excited about our new agreement where we can combine our software and NAQ's data feed to provide NAQ's customers with a completely integrated financial information solution,'' stated Marcus New, CEO of Stockgroup. ``We are excited to be working with Stockgroup,'' stated Carole Olkowski, CFO of NAQ. ``Not only are we providing sophisticated financial decision-making tools to our customers, Stockgroup also offered our clients the best, most cost-effective solution in the marketplace. They have done a tremendous job working with our data feed.'' In addition to the reseller agreement, Stockgroup will market NAQ's Real Time Trader Professional investor application through Stockgroup's smallcapcenter.com investment research community. _____________________________________ About NAQ NAQ, Inc. is a privately held corporation formed in 1982. In 2001, NAQ converted all its data sources to direct Exchange Feeds at its Ticker Plant in London, On, Canada. NAQ provides State-of-the-art wholesale data feeds for the financial industry. NAQ also markets Real Time Trader Professional for Real-time streaming data and top of the line analysis and charting for individual and professional investors. NAQ now carries over 600,000 symbols in its database in real-time. About Stockgroup Stockgroup Information Systems Inc. is a financial media and technology company. It is a leading provider of private labeled financial content and software solutions to media, corporate, and financial services companies. Stockgroup employs proprietary technologies which enable its clients to provide financial data streams and news combined with cutting edge fundamental, technical, productivity, and disclosure tools to their customers, shareholders, and employees at a fraction of the cost of traditional internal methods. Stockgroup is also a provider of Internet communications products for publicly traded companies. Its financial web site www.smallcapcenter.com is a state of the art online research center for the investment community. To find out more about Stockgroup (OTCBB:SWEB), visit our website at www.stockgroup.com _____________________________________ Contact: Stockgroup Information Systems Inc. Rob Attwell, 800/650-1211 rob.attwell@stockgroup.com or NAQ, Inc. 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