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AOL.COM, Quicken.com, Excite.com, And
WebCrawler.com provide Intra-daily Market
Pricing and Analysis by Garban Information
Systems and Briefing.com
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 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(R) (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 MortgageBacked 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 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 Briefing.com
Briefing is an employee-owned company headquartered in Burlingame, CA with offices in Boston,
Chicago and Jackson, WY. Briefing is the only Internet company designed to provide professional
quality, live market analysis to individual and professional investors at an affordable price. Briefing
provides content to a number of prominent partners, including Charles Schwab, CMS InSite, Computel,
E-Trade, Quick & Reilly, DLJdirect, Garvin Information Systems, Microsoft MoneyCentral,
Quicken.com, Waterhouse WebBroker, Wit Capital, America Online and AOL.com, Yahoo! Finance &
My Yahoo!, the Excite Business & Investing Channel by Quicken.com, Intuit's Quicken Financial
Channel on the Microsoft Active Desktop, Sinafinance, and the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition.
``Barron's'', ``Business Week'', the ``Washington Post'', and ``Worth'' magazine have all ranked Briefing
as one of their ten top investment sites on the Web. The ``Financial Times'' Online Investing rates
Briefing no. 3 globally. Search engine Lycos recently ranked Briefing the number five content site in the
world under the category Money and Investments.``
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, Bloomberg,
and Bridge Telerate, commonly cost between $200-$330 per month.
Briefing.com has two subscription Internet services. Briefing.com Stock Analysis is $6.95 per month.
Briefing.com Professional is $25 per month. A no-obligation, free trial period is available for both
products.
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 - news)
and Yahoo! Finance (NASDAQ: YHOO - news).
Quicken.com content is also distributed through American Online (NYSE: AOL - news) and Excite
(NASDAQ: XCIT - news).
About Intuit
Intuit Inc., a financial software and Web-based services company, develops and markets Quicken (R),
the leading personal finance software; TurboTax (R), 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.
Contact:
Garban Information Systems
Mike Sheard, Director of Communications & Development
011 44 171 578 1312
or
Adrian Shaw
011 44 171 300 6423
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