AT&T WorldNet Offers the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition to AT&T WorldNet Members.PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1999-- The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition Adds Its Business News and Financial Information to AT&T WorldNet Services Array of Features The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition today announced that AT&T WorldNet(R) Service will offer its customers the Interactive Journal as part of a total subscription package, with the first month free. AT&T WorldNet customers who opt to subscribe will pay the Interactive Journal's standard monthly rate of $5.95 to add The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition to the subscription package, or just $2.95 monthly if they already subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; The Wall Street Journal or Barron's in print. AT&T WorldNet Service will also provide convenient billing, with charges for the Interactive Journal appearing directly on a subscriber's WorldNet bill. The offer will be promoted via the "News" section on the AT&T WorldNet homepage, as well as in "Today Online" and "This Week." WorldNet members will also be able to sign up for the Interactive Journal at www.worldnet.att.net and non-members can find out more at www.yourworldnet.com/WSJIE2. Through December 31st, the first month's subscription to the Interactive Journal is complimentary. Selected daily headline news from the Interactive Journal will also be available to all AT&T WorldNet members. "As the largest paid subscription site on the Web, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition is clearly a key Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the destination," said Michael Chaplo, vice president of marketing, AT&T WorldNet Service. "This provides our customers with a tremendous value proposition - direct access to the premier provider of unmatched business news and financial information." "With more than 300,000 subscribers, we are continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. new opportunities to bring our business and financial news to new audiences," said Tom Baker, vice president and general manager of The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. "By teaming with AT&T WorldNet Service, a leading direct Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , we are able to bring value to an important audience and extend our brand to thousands of new readers." AT&T WorldNet Service increased its subscriber base by 27 percent in 1998, compared to the industry average of 21 percent. These outstanding results (released by AT&T in February), combined with rich features such as six e-mail Ids and 30 megabytes of personal Web page space, have made AT&T WorldNet Service a favorite among consumers. Plus, with the introduction of the AT&T Personal Network, consumers can include Internet access See how to access the Internet. on a bill that combines wireless and long distance service all on a single bill. About AT&T WorldNet Service AT&T WorldNet(R) Service (www.att.net) is the number one direct Internet Service Provider in the U.S., serving 1.5 million members. It provides reliable, easy Internet access across the nation, free email, chat, 30-megabytes of free Web space, online communities and discounted games. AT&T WorldNet Service members who "refer-a-friend" to the Internet service can earn a $10 reward for every referral. AT&T WorldNet Service has been recognized as an industry leader and was recently named "Best Buy" in PC World Magazine (March 1999), winner of PC Magazine's "Editor's Choice" award (April 1999) and was praised as the top ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. in SmartMoney (April 1999). AT&T WorldNet Service consumer software for Windows 95/98, Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and Macintosh is available by download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. free of charge from the public AT&T WorldNet Web http://www.att.net or by calling 1-800-WORLDNET ext.4340 About The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition Introduced in April 1996, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition features continuously updated coverage of the full spectrum of business news both in the U.S. and around the world, prepared by a dedicated editorial staff, supported by the global resources of The Wall Street Journal. Subscribers have access to more than 22,000 in-depth background reports on companies, an archive of news articles, and personal news and stock portfolios. Subscribers can also access the vast Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Publications Library that features current and past articles from 6,000 newspapers, magazines and business-news sources. The Interactive Journal has paid circulation of more than 300,000 subscribers. About Dow Jones In addition to The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DJ) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international editions, Barron's and SmartMoney magazines and other periodicals, Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , dowjones.com, Dow Jones Indexes, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones Reuters Reuters British cooperative news agency. Founded in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, it was initially concerned with commercial news but began to serve a growing newspaper clientele after the London Morning Advertiser subscribed in 1858. Business Interactive LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a venture being formed by Dow Jones & Company and Reuters, will create one of the world's largest and essential collections of business news and information. The joint venture will combine and build on content from Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing to provide professionals in corporations around the world with critical global news and related in-depth business information that offers insight and perspective. Dow Jones is co-owner of the CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. television operations in Europe and Asia. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC in the U.S. AT&T WorldNet is a registered service mark of AT&T. |
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