StockWeather and Meta4 Group Launch Co-branded StockWeather Personals Service

(25 March 2004 - Tokyo) Today, StockWeather.com Inc. and WorldFriends Networks launched a Personals service for StockWeather’s investment information site, StockWeather.co.jp. StockWeather is the 6th company to cooperate with WorldFriends Networks to launch an online personals service in Japan.

The unique feature of WorldFriends Networks online personals service is to focus on internationally-minded Asians. It is currently providing its service in English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese. All affiliated companies provide the personals service with their own brand name.

With this cooperation, users of StockWeather can use a quadrilingual personals service, StockWeather Personals, provided by WorldFriends Networks to easily find new friends from 3 categories, namely language learning partners, travel buddies, and pen-pals. Users will receive matchmail, an email containing the list of other members who fulfill their requests for a match. This service can help StockWeather’s users to easily initiate a communication with members of WorldFriends Networks all over the world.

A member of StockWeather Personals can choose to be a Regular, VIP or Open Club member. Regular membership is free and members can create their own profile, search other members and see their profiles, receive messages, and send a smile to other members. VIP members can initiate contact with any members. VIP members can choose the service duration from 1, 3, 6, or 12 months starting from 3,500 yen. Open Club is 7,500 yen for 3 months.

WorldFriends Networks is planning a rapid expansion of the network and is actively seeking additional website partners. WorldFriends Networks is currently providing its service to native speakers of English, Chinese, and Japanese. A Korean version is in the works. Also an instant messenger feature will be launched soon.

About StockWeather.com, Inc.
StockWeather.com, Inc. was founded in September 1999 and it has been operating the “StockWeather” website for individual investors since January 2000. This site contains unique content such as the “StockWeather map”, which breaks down by color the rise and fall of stocks compared to the previous day. StockWeather is one of the largest sites providing information about stocks and companies and it receives around 200,000 visitors each month.

To learn more about StockWeather, please visit the following website:
http://www.stockweather.co.jp/