Mako Capital Inc. Continues Growth Strategy Into Technological Marketplace

Business Wire, Feb 3, 1999

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 1999--Profit Magazine, which is in the process of being acquired by Mako Capital Inc. (Nasdaq:MAKO), Wednesday announced that it has been accepted into the Barnes & Noble Affiliate Network.

The Barnes & Noble Affiliate Program allows Profit Magazine's E-Commerce Web site, www.ProfitMagazine.net, to network with www.BarnesandNoble.com, which includes their software store, more than four million book titles, and a gift center. The Barnes & Noble Affiliate Program pays the highest commission of any similar E-Commerce program.

Profit Magazine is an authoritative financial and lifestyle magazine that has achieved continual, profitable circulation growth in an increasingly segmented market.

With its strong format on investment strategies, publisher Jayne Newell-Lanza stated that in addition to its continual financial and investment format, Profit Magazine's 1999 editorial will expand into women's and minority issues in the political and financial arena, which has become an important equation in today's consumer market.

Mako Capital continues with its aggressive development of positioning itself in the forefront of the Internet technological marketplace.

Further information may be obtained through the company:

Mako Capital Inc. Jayne Newell-Lanza, 800/959-9122 E-mail: MakoCap@aol.com http://www.makocapital.com

This news release contains forms of forward-looking statements that are based on the company's beliefs as well as assumptions made by information currently available to the company. Such statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, which are identified in the company's corporate financial statements and business plan.