SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- FT MarketWatch.com, the UK-based
Web Site designed and built by MarketWatch.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTW), was named
"Best Investment News Site" at the Investor's Week magazine Online Finance
Awards in London this week.
Investor's Week readers and a panel of judges from the finance and media
industries chose the site at a gala dinner on Thursday, October 12, 2000. The
site was chosen from a short list, which also included Motley Fool,
TheStreet.co.uk, Uk-iNvest, Thisismoney and Citywire.
"We hope this is the first award of many. News is the heart and soul of
our company," said FT MarketWatch.com Chief Executive Officer Zach Leonard."
"This is a tribute to our European news team," said Editor-in-Chief
Thom Calandra. "We pride ourselves on financial news for folks who like their
information fast and insightful."
Launched in June, FT MarketWatch.com is a joint venture between
MarketWatch.com Inc. and Pearson PLC's (TICKER:UK: PSON) (NYSE: PSO) Financial
Times Group. It has more than 200,000 unique users. FT MarketWatch.com is a
pan-European site offering equities news and data for active individual
investors. It has 18 journalists in five countries and also draws on
CBS.MarketWatch.com, FT.com and other Internet properties of the joint venture
partners.
About MarketWatch.com, Inc.
MarketWatch.com, a leading interactive financial media company, provides
fast, relevant information via the Internet, television and radio to help
people make and save money. The Company operates leading financial Internet
websites at http://cbs.marketwatch.com and http://www.bigcharts.com and, in a
joint venture with the Financial Times of London, launched its first
international site at http//www.ftmarketwatch.com. MarketWatch.com's financial
news and tools are licensed in custom-designed formats by major brokerages and
Internet sites. The Company produces CBS MarketWatch Weekend, scheduled on
127 CBS television stations this fall. The MarketWatch.com editorial staff
also provides daily business and economic reports on CBS Television and Radio
Network news programming. MarketWatch.com's financial news radio network is
heard on 127 stations. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in San Francisco,
MarketWatch.com has facilities and bureaus in New York City, Minneapolis,
Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas,
Austin, Tokyo, Hong Kong and London.
SOURCE MarketWatch.com, Inc.
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http://www.cbs.marketwatch.com
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http//www.ftmarketwatch.com
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