EquityAlert.com Announces Investment Opinion, No. 5 of 5

Business Wire, August 31, 2000

Business Editors

NOTE TO EDITORS: The following is an investment opinion issued

by EquityAlert.com

VANCOUVER, B.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 31, 2000

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3Dfx Interactive Loses 17.24% on News of Quarter Results

EquityAlert.com, Inc. (www.EquityAlert.com), one of the largest re-distributors of public company and mutual fund news alerts, today forwarded free real time news alerts on a wide range of NASDAQ stocks.

Among the active issues available to our real time news alert subscribers on Wednesday, August 30th, were 3Dfx Interactive Inc. (NASDAQ: TDFX) and S1 Corporation (NASDAQ: SONE).

3Dfx Interactive Inc. lost 17.24% after announcing financial results for the second quarter ended July 31, 2000. Revenues for the quarter were $67 million, as compared to revenues of $108.6 million reported for the first quarter of this fiscal year, and also compared to revenues of $104.8 million reported in the same quarter last year.

S1 Corporation issued a press release announcing that one of its wholly owned subsidiaries, VerticalOne Corporation, announced a relationship with Yahoo! Inc. to offer VerticalOne's account aggregation service to its millions of consumers.

Additional recent press releases on active issues included Interep National Radio Sales Inc. (NASDAQ: IREP), Dendrite International Inc. (NASDAQ: DRTE) and Vertel Corp. (NASDAQ: VRTL).

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