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INTERNET.COM TEAMS WITH YAHOO! TO DELIVER ASIA.INTERNET.COM NEWS ON YAHOO! ASIA, YAHOO! SINGAPORE AND YAHOO! HONG KONG
(Westport, CT--November 18, 1999)-- internet.com (Nasdaq: INTM), The E-Business and Internet Technology Network, today announced a content agreement with Yahoo!'s English-language, Asian sites - Yahoo! Asia, Yahoo! Singapore and Yahoo! Hong Kong. As part of the agreement, internet.com is providing daily Internet technology and industry news from its Asian edition--asia.internet.com. All content will be available in English in the Tech News sections for each of the three Yahoo! regional sites. Users will also be able to link directly to asia.internet.com from the Tech News pages for additional Internet industry content and resources, as well as information from the North American edition of internet.com."We are pleased to be working with Yahoo! to provide the Asian community with daily Internet technology news relevant to their respective regions," said internet.com chairman and CEO Alan M. Meckler.
"This presents another great opportunity by which we can extend our Internet industry content globally," said Hans Lombardo, managing editor of asia.internet.com.
"Our agreement with internet.com helps provide Yahoo! Tech News users with daily Internet technology and industry information relevant to their regions," said Maury Zeff, director of production, Asia. "WeĠre very pleased to be working with internet.com to provide relevant programming to our users."
asia.internet.com was launched in January 1999 and provides original Internet industry content with journalists in Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Mumbai. It is one of the few sites providing pan-Asian Internet news in vertical categories such as Internet business, Web development, electronic commerce and ISP. asia.internet.com has already developed a reputation for providing the most timely, informative news about AsiaĠs Internet industry.
About internet.com Corporation
internet.com Corporation (http://www.internet.com), based in Westport, Connecticut, is a leading provider of global real-time news and information resources for Internet industry and Internet technology professionals, Web developers and experienced Internet users. internet.com operates a network of 78 Web sites, 70 e-mail newsletters, 101 online discussion forums and 73 moderated e-mail discussion lists with over 1.8 million unique visitors that generate more than 80 million page views monthly. Total "views", which include Web site page views, e-mail newsletter views and e-mail discussion list views, are now over 140 million per month. internet.com's global presence includes editions in Canada, China, the United Kingdom, Arabia, Australia, Asia, France, Germany, Japan, Israel and South Africa. In addition, internet.com with its related internet.com Venture Fund I and Venture Fund II has become a significant investor in a growing number of business-to-business content sites and related Internet media properties.
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding internet.com Corporation's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Prospectus dated June 25, 1999, Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year, when available.
For more information contact:
Steve Rubel
Schwartz Public Relations
(212) 677-8700 x23
steve.rubel@schwartzpr.com
Nicole Catalano
internet.com Corporation
(203)-341-2870
ncatalano@internet.com
All current internet.com Corp. press releases can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.internet.com/corporate/press.html.
