SEC EDGAR DATABASE TO BE MADE FREELY AVAILABLE ON INTERNET COMPUTER
NETWORK

Thursday, October 21, 1993           

SEBASTOPOL, CA -- The Global Network Navigator, an Internet-based  online
resource center, reported this afternoon that the Internet  Multicasting
Service, in conjunction with the New York University  Stern School of
Business, will be participating in a project to provide  access on the
Internet to the Securities and Exchange Commission's  (SEC) EDGAR
database.  This project is sponsored by the National  Science Foundation. 
Today's announcement means that the key public  disclosure information
contained in EDGAR will, for the first time,  become available to the
general public over the global Internet  computer network. 

                    THE EDGAR DATABASE 

EDGAR is an on-line filing system mandated by the SEC for America's largest
corporations. It includes documents such as the 10-K and 10-Q reports
required of corporations on the New York and American stock exchanges,
filings by companies trading over the counter, and a variety of other
registration statements, ownership reports, and annual and quarterly
reports.  The EDGAR  database contains key public disclosure information
needed by  consumers, journalists, researchers, and workers in the
financial  services industries.

People connected to the Internet will be able to use a  variety of
different techniques for accessing the information in  EDGAR, including
electronic mail, ftp, Archie, WAIS, World Wide Web,  and multicasting. 
GNN News contains an in-depth presentation and  analysis of this important
breakthrough in the dissemination of  information over the Internet.  

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