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May 23, 2001 at 5:00 am #16011

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May 23, 2001

Real-time stock quotes may soon be available on request through popular Internet chat programs under a deal this week that offers the latest sign of instant messaging’s growing maturity.

Software start-up ActiveBuddy said it has secured agreements to deliver real-time stock quotes via automated instant messenger “bots” with the Nasdaq Stock Market, the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange.

The New York-based company is testing a service to send news, weather and related information via instant text messages.

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