Businessweek

ABC Communications (Holdings) Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the provision of real-time financial information and electronic transaction platforms to the financial markets primarily in Hong Kong. Its products include QuotePower-Web, a Web-based real-time quotation service that provides streaming quotes to retail investors and professionals; QuotePower-personal digital assistant (PDA), a streaming stock quotes service accessible anytime anywhere using the pocket PC; QPI-Mobile, a streaming quotes on equities and forex provided on J2ME phones; QPI-Trade, an Internet-based, multi-market securities trading system for banks, brokers, and financial portals; and QuotePower-Junior, which allows the institutional customer to use the remaining space for the provision of on-line trading. The company’s products also comprise QuotePower-Chart, a charting tool; QPI Feeds that provides real-time or delayed market data available to institutional customers in streaming signals, text files, images, or database formats; QPI Snapshot Quotes for stock broking and banking customers; QPI-WAP to access financial data, including snapshot stock quotes, charts, and news by mobile users; and short messages/eMail Messaging to deliver alerts or scheduled reports to mobile users. In addition, it is involved in the wireless applications development activities, including the provision of enterprise solutions and consumer applications for wireless PDAs and mobile handsets. Further, the company owns 2 gold mines in Henan Province and 1 gold mine in Xinjian Uygur Autonomous Region covering a mining area of approximately 36.44 square kilometers. ABC Communications (Holdings) Limited was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Wanchai, Hong Kong.