Comtex News Network, Inc. (Comtex) is a provider of electronic real-time news, content and SmarTrend market products. Comtex receives, combines, filters and distributes, news and content received from more than 10,000 national and international news bureaus, agencies and publications. The resulting news and content products, with embedded stock tickers, key words, standardized metadata, uniform formatting, and custom filters, are all designed to meet the standards required by investment professionals. Comtex is a wholesaler of real-time news and related content for financial and business information distributors. Comtex has also developed a line of stock trend alert products, marketed under the name SmarTrend, which are sold directly to consumers, as well as through financial distributors. The four product lines produced and distributed by Comtex are CustomWires, Comtex TopNews and Publisher Full Feeds and SmarTrend Products.