PR Newswire
September 11, 1996, Wednesday - 19:44 Eastern Time
Mercury Center Unveils 'Good Morning Silicon Valley';
New Feature of San Jose Mercury News' Web Site Offers Breaking Business and Technology
News with Comprehensive, Must-Read Coverage
SECTION: Financial News
LENGTH: 537 words
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO, Seybold Booth #3219, Sept. 11
Keeping up with ever-changing business and technology news can be daunting. Mercury
Center, the electronic extension of the San Jose Mercury News, today introduced
Good Morning Silicon Valley, a new feature that offers "up-to-the-nanosecond" coverage
of Valley business and technology news.
Promising to become the single source for the most important business and technology
news, Good Morning Silicon Valley also will provide coverage of companies beyond
the Bay Area -- anywhere that people are working on cutting-edge technology or
grappling with the changes technology is creating. Mercury Center, which recently
experienced a record-breaking number of visits, is located at www.sjmercury.com.
Good Morning Silicon Valley includes sections such as:
* First Light: An early-morning news report highlighting what's on the
site and linking to others.
* Morning Report: Primary section covering technology news of the day,
culled from the wire services, the Web and other news sources.
* Tech Stocks: A daily stock market report -- and analysis -- on how
technology firms fared on Wall Street, published just after the closing bell.
* Tech Ticker: The online version of the Mercury News' popular Tech Ticker
news column ... posted the night before the paper is published.
* Archive: What happened earlier in the week? Archive tracks high-tech
coverage of the past week.
"Mercury Center aims to make Good Morning Silicon Valley the most
important resource for people who need to know immediately what's going on in
Silicon Valley business and technology," said Bob Ryan, Director of Mercury
Center. "Even weekly and daily publications covering technology are quickly
outdated. Because the information in Good Morning Silicon Valley is
constantly updated, news will always be fresh."
In addition to information from the Mercury News, Good Morning Silicon
Valley includes its own staff of online reporters and editors. This week,
Good Morning Silicon Valley is highlighting news from the Seybold conference
in San Francisco. Along with information straight from the show floor,
visitors to Good Morning Silicon Valley are treated to interviews with
Jonathon Seybold and other newsmakers.
The electronic extension of the San Jose Mercury News, Mercury Center
features the full text of the daily newspaper, unpublished stories, searchable
classifieds, breaking news, comics and Web-only information. Not only was the
Mercury News the first newspaper to put its entire daily editorial content
online, Mercury Center also was voted the best newspaper on the Web at the
1996 Interactive Newspaper Awards. Mercury Center also offers Internet access
-- a convenient dial-up connection along with a package that includes a
Netscape Navigator Web browser, 24-hour technical support and access to
Mercury Center on the Web.
SOURCE San Jose Mercury News
http://www.sjmercury.com. The mailing address for Mercury Center is 750 Ridder
Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95190. Readers may order Mercury Center at
websales@sjmercury.com or by calling 800-818-6397 or 408-920-5200.
CONTACT: Marilyn Ritchie of San Jose Mercury News, 408-920-5014, or mritchie@sjmercury.com
LOAD-DATE: September 12, 1996
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
DISTRIBUTION: TO BUSINESS EDITOR AND TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
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