April 16, 2009 (FinancialWire) -- In the spirit of our groundbreaking interview with Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) CEO, Patrick Byrne, three years ago, FinancialWire(tm) is lining-up a new, ongoing series of exclusive "C-Level" interviews, which will focus on the issues and challenges facing executives of today's lesser-capitalized public companies.

Now, more than ever, the lines of communication from public company management to the company's shareholders and potential shareholders need to be open, accessible and consistently utilized. FinancialWire(tm)'s C-Level series will provide just such a conduit for that open dialogue to occur.

The series is being supported by Investrend Forums (http://www.investrendforums.com), and public company executives desiring to participate, or shareholders desiring to ask executives to reach out, should write to specialprojects@investrend.com with "C-Level" in the subject line.

Here is an excerpt from FinancialWire(tm)'s March 13, 2006, exclusive with Patrick Byrne:

"With 10 percent of all issues currently on the naked short-sales Regulation SHO list, market watchers have been trying to track the various end-arounds that market manipulators employ to circumvent their legal responsibilities in the U.S., including the secretive and nefarious Stock Borrow Program at the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp., equally secretive ex-clearing arrangements between brokerages, and deep-pocketed offshore hedge fund accounts, now comes Canada saying it has not, so far, been adhering to U.S. short-selling rules.

"The most prominent battler against manipulative trading, Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com has told FinancialWire to expect important new developments..." (full article archived at http://www.investrend.com/articles/article.asp?analystId=0&id=23773&topicId=160&level=160).

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