RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 31, 2001 (PRIMEZONE) -- Technology comes to the forefront on January 9, 2002 at the Technology/Growth Stocks Forum sponsored by Informed Investors. This virtual Forum, free to investors, is accessible over the Internet via www.informedinvestors.com from 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. EST.
Senior executives will discuss current prospects and business strategies as they do for institutional investors. The segments are approximately 30 minutes each and include PowerPoint presentations. Investors are invited to email questions to executives. The forum will also be archived on www.vcall.com and www.investorconference.com.
Avitar, Inc. (AMEX:AVR) and SINA.com (Nasdaq:SINA) are representative of the scores of sophisticated companies that power productivity increases in technologies of many kinds. Adding to the depth of the Forum will be keynote speaker Don Luskin, founder of The Luskin Report.
SINA.com is a leading Chinese media and Internet services company for Chinese communities worldwide, offering on-line news, entertainment, community and e-commerce. A popular destination site for the world's largest population group, SINA.com offers a Chinese-language network of four localized Web sites that are produced and updated daily by local teams in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and North America. As of September 2001, SINA.com enjoyed 3.0 billion page views and 35 million registered users.
SINA.com recently announced its appointment of Mr. LC Chang, an experienced advertising veteran, as Vice President for marketing and sales, responsible for integrating SINA's sales and brand resources as well as taking charge of online advertisement sales and marketing in Mainland China. In addition, Mr. Chang is also appointed as General Manager of SINA East China.
Avitar, Inc., headquartered in Canton, Mass., is a diagnostics company that develops, manufactures and markets innovative and proprietary medical devices in two major areas: the oral fluid drugs-of-abuse market and the disease & clinical testing market. Oral fluid diagnostics includes both the drugs-of-abuse testing market estimated to be worth $1.5 billion encompassing the corporate workplace and criminal justice markets. Avitar's products include ORALscreen(tm), the world's first non-invasive, rapid, onsite oral fluid test for drugs-of-abuse, and HAIRscreen(tm), a laboratory-based hair test for detecting long-term drug abuse. In the $20 billion disease & clinical testing market, Avitar is currently developing products that will address the conditions of Lyme disease, influenza and diabetes, as well as pregnancy.
Keynote speaker Luskin is CEO of The Luskin Report, a Web site featuring iconoclastic and actionable real-time commentary on markets, economics and politics. Luskin's 25-year career as an entrepreneur, executive, investment manager and commentator has been built around his passion for the innovative application of technology to the challenge of investing. Prior to founding The Luskin Report, Don was CEO and co-founder of MetaMarkets.com, and manager of the path breaking OpenFund -- the world's first mutual fund to disclose all its holdings and trading activity in real-time on the Internet.
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