Alterity Partners Advises edu.com on The Sale of Assets to Student Advantage.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2001 Alterity Al`ter´i`ty n. 1. The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Partners, a New York-based investment bank focused on mergers and acquisitions advisory work for the technology sector, today announced that it had successfully advised edu.com, Inc., a commerce exchange and marketing services company that provides student-only values on consumer electronics hardware, software and other products, on the sale of certain assets to Student Advantage, Inc. (Nasdaq: STAD), the media and commerce connection for millions of students and the businesses and universities serving them. Among the assets acquired are several agreements edu.com has with a number of leading Fortune 500 manufacturers and distributors of computer, software and consumer electronics, including Adobe adobe (ədō`bē): see rammed earth. adobe Handmade sun-dried bricks formed from a mixture of heavy clay and straw found in arid regions. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft, Compaq, Toshiba and others. About Student Advantage Student Advantage, Inc. (Nasdaq: STAD - news) is the media and commerce connection for millions of college students and the businesses and universities that serve them. Student Advantage reaches students online through its award-winning websites, collegeclub.com and studentadvantage.com, and offline through the Student Advantage Membership and SA Cash Programs. The company serves its corporate partners by providing sophisticated integrated marketing solutions as well as events and promotion services through SA Marketing Group. Additionally, Student Advantage supplies information services See Information Systems. , Internet content and data management services to colleges and universities. About edu.com, Inc. Edu.com is a commerce exchange and marketing services company that enables Fortune 500 corporations to build lifetime relationships with college students. Through its unique online commerce exchange that features student-only values on hardware and software school essentials from Adobe, Compaq, Microsoft and more. In addition, edu.com provides market intelligence services that enable Fortune 500 corporations to design and deliver targeted marketing strategies based on aggregated "student-only" data and analysis. About Alterity Partners Alterity Partners provides mergers and acquisitions and private placement advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal to companies primarily in the technology sector. Alterity has advised on transactions involving such companies such as: OnHealth Networks (NASD NASD See: National Association of Securities Dealers NASD See National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). : ONHN); iVillage (NASD: IVIL); and Pets.com (NASD: IPET IPET Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (US DoD) IPET Institute of Professional Engineering Technologists IPET Interagency Performance Evaluation Team IPET Implicit Path Enumeration Technique IPET First Peter ). Alterity has managed private placements for firms such as MaterialNet and decoratetoday.com. Alterity Partners is based in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and can be reached at (212) 953-1999 or though its Web site at www.alteritypartners.com. |
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