Acquisition Of Business 2.0 Completed By The FORTUNE Group; Comprehensive Business Resource Relaunches at Business2.com.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 2001 The FORTUNE Group at Time Inc. today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Business 2.0 magazine, including its brand and related online and conference activities, from the Future Network. The acquisition marks the debut of a unique voice for the next generation of business leaders, both in print and online. Effective immediately, FORTUNE's eCompany Now magazine will take the name Business 2.0, and its complementary website will be redesigned and relaunched at www.Business2.com (AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. keyword: Business2). Combining the strongest elements of both magazines, the new Business 2.0 magazine will be available on newsstands Aug. 13th with a guaranteed rate base of 550,000. "We have been working toward this moment since the start of the year," said Ned Desmond Desmond Ancient territorial division, Ireland. From the 11th to the 17th century, the name was often used for two quite distinct areas. Gaelic Desmond extended over part of modern Counties Kerry and Cork; Anglo-Norman Desmond extended over northern Kerry, most of the modern , editor and president of the new Business 2.0, "and we're we're Contraction of we are. we're we are delighted that we have a clear path to combine the reach of the two magazines under the Business 2.0 name. The new magazine will be even more compelling than its two predecessors, a must read for business people who want to understand where business is headed." The new website, which is live today, offers readers access to their favorite aspects of both ecompany.com and the former business2.com, along with an extensive database of more than 35,000 articles from eCompany Now, Business 2.0, FORTUNE, FSB (FrontSide Bus) See system bus. FSB - front side bus : FORTUNE Small Business, Money, and CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. . In addition to familiar columnists, the site offers the Web Guide, a hand-picked adj. 1. carefully selected; as, a hand-picked jury; the company's president groomed his hand-picked successor s>. directory of more than 11,000 topics and 50,000 sites related to business and technology, as well as Web Files, research pages that enable readers to delve beneath the surface of subjects covered in the magazine. It also incorporates Business2.com's easy-to-navigate Marketing, Technology, and E-business (Electronic-BUSINESS) Doing business online. The term is often used synonymously with e-commerce, but e-business is more of an umbrella term for having a presence on the Web. channels. Articles from the re-launched Business 2.0 magazine will be available online the week of Aug. 6th. The site will continue to be revised and updated with new features throughout the year. The FORTUNE Group at Time Inc., a division of AOL Time Warner, already publishes many of the most prominent brands in business news, including FORTUNE, Money, FSB: FORTUNE Small Business, and Mutual Funds. |
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