5th Annual Miva Conference Heats Up with New Surprise Content and a Great Roster of Industry Experts.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- Miva Corporation, a leading online provider of software and services for small to medium-sized enterprises, and a FindWhat.com, Inc. company (Nasdaq:FWHT), today announced the program for its 5th Annual Conference which includes a variety of panel discussions and an excellent roster of industry experts leading the various sessions. Miva Conference 2004, being held at the Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA from September 22nd - 25th, is the fifth annual gathering of the entire Miva community, from online merchants to developers, web designers and web hosts. It's designed as a venue for sharing knowledge about the Miva platform, and for learning about new services, techniques and technologies in the Miva-enabled e-commerce world. Miva Conference is for anyone who is new to Miva Merchant, and for those who are looking to expand their already successful online businesses. New Sessions This Year: Miva Merchant 5 and the new Miva E-Commerce API, a discussion with the Miva Development team, featuring Miva's vice president of software development, Jonathan Burchmore, will assemble in front of the general audience to field questions about the upcoming release of Miva Merchant 5. Miva Merchant 5 will debut with five significant new features: streaming update service, wysiwyg store layout editor, template designer, mySQL database support and multimedia distribution system. Among the powerful new features, Miva Merchant 5 offers new opportunities for third-party software developers and web designers to expand their businesses. Building the State of the Art in Miva Merchant Hosting, will feature a panel of representatives from Miva's hosting partners, and will focus on what online merchants need to build their online businesses. The panel will field questions from the audience about how hosts can build a better environment for their customers who use Miva Merchant. "These new panel discussions are a big value boost for all in attendance at Miva Conference 2004," said Miva vice president of marketing, Derek Finley. "New information and dialog centered on our hosting partners and their customers, with unprecedented access to the authors of the Miva Merchant system, together create a rare opportunity for Miva community members to get closer to us--and to each other." Keynote addresses from four guest speakers round out the roster of presentations at the opening general session: --Craig Pisaris-Henderson, Chairman/CEO, FindWhat.com, Inc. --William S. McKiernan, Chairman/CEO, CyberSource Corporation --Greg Sterling, Managing Editor/Program Director, The Kelsey Group --Dr. Ralph Wilson, Editor/Founder, WilsonWeb.com More information about guest speakers is available on the conference website. Please visit http://www.miva.com/conference_2004/general.html. "The annual Miva Conference is an excellent forum that brings together all the constituents of the Miva community with leading edge industry experts for three information packed days," stated Jason Williams Jason Williams can refer to any of the following people:
Special August pricing for conference attendee registration has been extended through close-of-business Friday, September 17th. A full conference pass is $499, which includes three breakfasts, two lunches and two evening events: a Hawaiian-style sunset beach Sunset Beach may refer to:
paddle steamer, paddle-wheeler - a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels . A new $399 "Days Only" badge is also available for those who don't wish to attend the evening events. Miva Conference 2004 is presented by Miva Corporation, FindWhat.com, Inc., and over a dozen sponsors and exhibitors from the Miva Partner network, including technology, payment gateway and hosting partners. For more detailed information about Miva Conference 2004, please visit the conference website at http://www.miva.com/conference_2004. About Miva(R) Corporation Miva Corporation, a FindWhat.com, Inc. company (Nasdaq:FWHT), is a leading supplier of e-commerce software and services to small and medium-sized businesses. Miva provides merchants, developers and hosting companies with the information and technology they need to be successful in today's online selling environment. Based on a cross platform virtual machine which runs identically on Windows, Linux, BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. and Unix, the Miva product line ranges from Miva Merchant(TM), a point and click e-commerce site building application to Miva Script MIVA Script is a proprietary computer scripting language mainly used for internet applications such as e-commerce. Today it is developed by the Miva Small Business, based in San Diego, California. (TM), an XML based server side scripting tool. Additionally, Miva Merchant storefronts can automatically synchronize See synchronization. their product, customer and order data with QuickBooks Pro from Intuit in·tu·it tr.v. in·tu·it·ed, in·tu·it·ing, in·tu·its Usage Problem To know intuitively. [Back-formation from intuition. . This best of both worlds approach allows merchants to build their online store with nothing more than a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , and lets developers provide aftermarket Aftermarket See: Secondary market. aftermarket See secondary market. enhancements for the storefront. Integrated into the Miva product line are services that help people market their online storefront A store on the Internet that offers items for sale and is capable of handling the financial transaction online. See cybermall and digital money. and collect money on the Internet. Miva Marketplace(TM), which is powered by the FindWhat.com Network(TM), helps merchants use keyword-targeted, pay-per-click advertising to bring buyers to their online stores and websites. Once a buyer purchases a product, credit cards and online checks can be processed with Miva Payment(TM). Follow-up marketing can be done via email using Miva Mailer (1) An e-mail program. See e-mail program. (2) A message sent by an e-mail program. (3) A person or organization sending e-mail. (TM), a service that automates un-subscribe functionality and mailing list An automated e-mail system on the Internet, which is maintained by subject matter. There are thousands of such lists that reach millions of individuals and businesses. New users generally subscribe by sending an e-mail with the word "subscribe" in it and subsequently receive all new management. Miva propels business for tens of thousands of developers and online merchants on a network of hundreds of hosting partners and business portals. Top-ranked hosts like EarthLink, Interland, Valueweb, OLM olm: see mud puppy. and others depend on the Miva Platform for its complete, reliable, expandable and easy-to-use e-commerce software and services. The Miva approach to e-commerce is a key strategy for numerous well-known manufacturers and retailers like laurenhutton.com, minimotors.com, pilotmall.com, serta.com, scottevest.com, tourneau.com, xterraparts.com and many more. For more information about Miva, call 1.858.490.2570 or visit http://www.miva.com. About FindWhat.com(R), Inc. FindWhat.com creates and offers proprietary performance-based marketing and commerce enabling services that help businesses of all sizes throughout the business cycle in reaching prospects, converting prospects to customers and then retaining those customers. Its marketing division creates online marketplaces where buyers are introduced to sellers at exactly the right moment, when they are searching for products and services on the Internet; this introduction is based on a bid-for-position, pay-per-click, keyword-targeted advertising service. FindWhat.com offers this service directly to advertisers through the FindWhat.com Network(TM) in the U.S., the Espotting Network in Europe and offers a private label version of this service to large companies and portals worldwide, including Lycos and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. In addition to Miva(R), FindWhat.com also has a primary traffic division, currently offered through Comet Systems, a leading provider of connected desktop consumer software. More information on FindWhat.com is available on the Company's website at http://www.FindWhat.com. Forward Looking Statements This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that are based upon current expectations and involve certain risks and uncertainties within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Words or expressions such as "plan," "intend," "believe" or "expect" or variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Key risks are described in FindWhat.com's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for fiscal 2003 and the most recently filed quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. . Readers should note that these statements may be impacted by several factors, including economic changes and changes in the Internet industry generally and, accordingly, FindWhat.com's actual performance and results may vary from those stated herein, and FindWhat.com undertakes no obligation to update the information contained herein. |
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