Topps selects Powerloom to build internet exchange for trading cards and collectibles PITTSBURGH, Nov. 22 — The country's leading maker of trading cards and collectibles, The Topps Company, Inc., has chosen Pittsburgh-based PowerLoom, Inc. to build the nation's first true automated Internet exchange for the buying and selling of Topps products. The deal, valued at $1.2 million, will allow traders to buy and sell Topps cards and collectibles over the Internet instantly, in real time, in the same way Wall Street investors buy and sell stock, thus allowing card traders to realize fair market value for their transactions. "PowerLoom is proud to be working with Topps. Building Wall Street-style exchanges for e-markets is the next big wave in e-commerce. We believe this effort will forever change the landscape of online trading," said Steve Fischetti, co-founder of PowerLoom. PowerLoom, along with other market infrastructure and service providers, will create and support an end-to-end trading platform built around its RealExchange™ engine, with PowerLoom playing the lead role. The resulting e-market will be the world's first central exchange for trading Topps cards and collectibles. PowerLoom's RealExchange™ engine was built by a team of capital market experts and software technologists, some of whom came from Carnegie-Mellon University, internationally known for its software, optimization and artificial intelligence technologies. The engine is flexible and can be adapted to any type of e-market exchange. Moreover,
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