EXHIBIT 99.1

                                  Press Release


                        NETCURRENTS COMPLETES $34 MILLION
                     INSTITUTIONAL EQUITY PRIVATE PLACEMENT

               H. C. WAINWRIGHT NAMED AS COMPANY'S INVESTMENT BANKERS

BURLINGAME, CA - (BUSINESSWIRE) - MARCH 6, 2000 - NetCurrents, Inc. (NASDAQ:
NTCS), THE PREMIER INTERNET INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, announced today that it has
closed a private placement of its Common Stock to raise up to $34 Million at an
average price of $6.50 per share. Brown Simpson Strategic Growth Funds of New
York City and Palo Alto, California are the institutional investors funding this
transaction, which was arranged by H.C. Wainwright & Co.

The Private Placement combines an immediate equity funding of $8.5 million in
Common Stock, with callable warrants exercisable at prices from $6 to $9.

Concurrent with the closing, NetCurrents appointed H.C. Wainwright, a 130-year
old, Boston-based investment banking firm, as its Investment Bankers. Wainwright
will assist NetCurrents in planning its long-term financial strategies,
arranging future financings and assisting in the identification and analyses of
potential acquisitions.

Irwin Meyer, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of NetCurrents,
stated, "The winning combination of H.C. Wainwright and Brown Simpson affords us
to grow our business by providing the necessary funding to execute our recently
revised national sales and marketing initiatives. The availability of this
significant funding allows us to not only enhance our management team, it
provides us with the necessary resources to rapidly expand into new geographic
markets. By also adding to our technology team, we plan to expand the depth and
breadth of services currently offered to our clients and to aggressively develop
new applications for our proprietary technology, Fast Internet Real-time Search
Technology (FIRST)."

Matthew Balk, Managing Director of H.C. Wainwright, New York City Regional
Office, added, "We, along with Brown Simpson, have spent considerable time with
NetCurrents' management, and are solidly convinced that they have a sound and
exciting platform on which they could build future growth. H.C. Wainwright is
pleased to have been selected to be NetCurrents' Investment Bankers, and we look
forward to playing an active role in its efforts to emerge as the leading
provider of comprehensive monitoring, analysis and management of information on
the Internet."

Evan M. Levine, Managing Principal of Brown Simpson Asset Management, LLC,
further stated, "We have been actively investing in the Internet sector during
the past year and have done extensive due diligence on NetCurrents. We not only
believe that they have a very strong proprietary, real-time technology for
gathering and analyzing information on the Internet, but they also have an
outstanding management team capable of fully realizing the Company's extensive
potential. As the Internet continues to expand, we are confident that the need
for NetCurrents' products and services will grow exponentially."


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ABOUT H.C. WAINWRIGHT & CO., INC.

Founded in 1868, H.C. Wainwright & Co., Inc. is a leading integrated investment
bank serving institutional, corporate, government and individual clients. At its
headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, as well as, regional offices in Maryland
and New York City, H.C. Wainwright offers securities underwriting; sales and
trading; investment and merchant banking; fixed income securities sales and
trading; financial advisory services; equity research; venture capital; and,
asset management services.

ABOUT NETCURRENTS, INC.

NetCurrents, THE PREMIER INTERNET INTELLIGENCE AGENCYanalyzes communications
from more than 50,000 targeted Internet locations in real-time. The Company
provides clients critical information and counsel to protect their corporate
image, measure consumers' perceptions, and counter misinformation on the
Internet. Due to the sensitivity of businesses that require this type of
technology and analysis, the confidentiality of NetCurrents' clients is assured.
For more information and technology provided by NetCurrents, call: (650)
401-3200, or visit our website at www.netcurrents.com or email us at
info@netcurrents.com.

This news release contains forward looking statements within the meaning of
Section 37A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. These forward looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ from
those indicated in the forward looking statements, including the Company's
ability to continue to successfully market and provide services, maintain its
working relationship with H.C. Wainwright, hire and keep its management team and
grow its business as intended, and general economic conditions and other risks
that are discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10K-Sb). The Company
undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise the forward looking
statements whether as a result of new information future events or otherwise.

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              DODI B. ZIRKLE, CONTINENTAL CAPITAL & EQUITY CORPORATION
                                  407-682-2001
                            dodi@insidewallstreet.com