Manta Expands Content Set to Include Business News from Newstex

Business news adds to comprehensive view of 45M companies.

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) September 12, 2006 -- ECNext (www.ecnext.com) announced today that MANTA now includes news from Newstex, providing its users access to current business news articles, company press releases and a news archive covering the past three years. As MANTA (www.manta.com) continues to expand its view on a company, having business news articles adds to the comprehensive user experience MANTA is providing.

MANTA is ECNext’s premier website for business information that provides users detailed, timely, and authoritative corporate intelligence (http://www.manta.com/) critical to business success. MANTA provides basic company profile information for over 45 million global companies and free detailed company profiles for over 13 million companies when users register for free with the site.

Users have overwhelmingly found MANTA to be a valuable resource for researching prospects and new customers, exploring business opportunities, and investigating client credit histories enabling them to conduct business smarter and more efficiently. Now by adding business news articles available on a pay-per-view basis, MANTA further supports the business professionals’ need for accurate and relevant information (http://www.manta.com/) about companies and industries.

“MANTA delivers comprehensive content to help busy professionals quickly research companies, business opportunities, and people,” said Larry Schwartz, president of Newstex (www.newstex.com). “Delivering our Newstex Newsfeeds to ECNext customers through MANTA is an important component of our strategy to deliver our content through the information products that people rely upon every day.”

With millions of articles, both current and archived, available from over 500 leading journals, magazines, newspapers, and newswires, MANTA users are able to access article archives from leading publishers on a pay-per-view basis providing a more complete view of company information.

“MANTA continues to expand its business information and provide a more comprehensive view of the business or market the user is investigating,” said Pamela Springer, president and CEO of ECNext. “By partnering with Newstex, we have complemented the millions of company profiles, financial reports, and industry reports already available on MANTA.”

ECNext (http://www.ecnext.com/) is the leading company for marketing and selling premium business information on the Web. ECNext’s technology and search-driven marketing programs connect users with publishers enabling them to find relevant content they need via MANTA, publisher-branded websites, and its paid search services.

About Newstex

Newstex offers Content On Demand, including tailored, real-time news and commentary from thousands of branded newswires, newspapers, magazines, financial and business sources, official government feeds and blogs. Newstex collects full-text digital news and commentary feeds, standardizes the content format, adds stock ticker symbols, PeopleTickers and topical categories, and instantly delivers the result via easy-to-integrate XML or RSS newsfeeds. For more information, please visit www.newstex.com.

About ECNext

Founded in 1996, ECNext (www.ecnext.com) is the leading company for marketing and selling premium business information on the Web. ECNext’s technology and search-driven marketing programs allow publishers to sell highly relevant content to users when they need it. Located in Westerville, Ohio, U.S.A., ECNext’s publishing partners include Thomson Gale, McGraw-Hill, and Dun & Bradstreet.

For more information, contact

David M. Scott

Freshspot Marketing for Newstex

617-513-9548

Michelle Mader

Marketing Communications Manager

ECNext

614-682-5115

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