Hot Technology Companies: 117 Qualify In January

SAN DIEGO (Feb. 1) BUSINESS WIRE -Feb. 1, 1999--Facts Online announced that 117 U.S. technology companies qualified as "hot" during January 1999. To qualify, companies must have received new investments or made major acquisitions during January. In addition, the companies must have national presence or potential.

The addresses and telephones of January's selection, and thousands of other hot companies, are listed at the Facts Online web site: http://www.facts-online.com/.

The U.S. technology companies selected for new investments or acquisitions during January, 1999 are: @Home Network, Adaytum Software, Adobe Systems, America Online, Ampex, Arbortext, AT&T, Atmel, Avigen, AXENT Technologies, BankServ, Bogen Communications International, Broadcom,Brooktrout Technology, Cadence Design Systems, Captiva Software, CIBER, Cinebase Software, Clearcommerce, CMGI, Cosmocom, Covad Communications, CyberCash, Cypress Semiconductor, Data Transmission Network, DataCore Software, Dataware Technologies, EGroups.Com, Electro Scientific Industries, Ensemble Communications, EPIcyte Pharmaceuticals, Epoch Internet, Esoft, Excite, First Consulting Group, FirstWorld Communications, FutureOne, Go2Net, GTCO, HarvardNet, Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals, IMRglobal, InfoCure, InfoImage, Information Handling Services Group, Intel, IntraLase, IPivot, IXC Communications, Janis Group, JDS Uniphase, Kendle International, KLA-Tencor, Leap Wireless International, Legato Systems, Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Loral Space And Communications, Lucent Technologies, MarketWatch.Com, Mastech, McLeodUSA, Metamor Worldwide, Micronetics Wireless, Microsoft, MindSpring Enterprises, National Data, Network Alchemy, Network Integrity, NEXTLINK Communications, NMB Technologies, NuvoMedia, ObjectSpace, ONElist, PeopleMover, PictureTel, Power-One, ProxyMed, Quintessent Communications, Qwest Communication International, Real Education, Realty Information Group, RedEye Interactive, Replay Networks, Research Engineers, RightWorks, RuleSpace, Sage Networks, SBC Communications, Scriptics, Solectron, SPSS, Startec Global Communications, Stratus Computer, SunGard Data Systems, Supertex, Tel-Save.Com, TeraGen, Texas Instruments, ThermoGenesis, Thomas & Betts, TimeShift, TouchStone Software, Transactor Networks, Tripwire Security Systems, Tut Systems, US Bioscience, USinternetworking, Velogic, Verio, Viador, Vicinity, Vision Software, Warner- Lambert, Webridge, Wiltek, Yahoo! and Zevex International.

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