America Online, Business Week Expand Partnership.DULLES Dul·les , Allen Welsh 1893-1969. American public official. Director of the CIA (1953-1961), he resigned after the failed invasion of the Bay of Pigs. Noun 1. , Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 1997-- 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. to Be Exclusive Carrier of Free Business Week Online Content As Well As Custom-Designed Programming Agreement Includes Joint Promotion on Web and in Print Magazine AOL Networks, the 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 online services division of America Online See AOL. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL) and Business Week, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Friday announced an expansion of their online partnership under which AOL will become the exclusive online service through which consumers can view the electronic version of Business Week magazine free of charge. Beginning in January, Business Week will charge a subscription fee for businessweek.com, its site on the World Wide Web, making America Online the only way viewers can see the online version of the magazine without subscribing. The agreement also includes substantial cross-promotion, including placement of the AOL keyword for the online area on the front cover of the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. issue of Business Week. In addition to its current issue programming, visitors to the America Online site will have access to such features as The Business Week Computer Buying Guide (also known as "Maven"), the Daily Briefing, and BW Plus, a business lifestyle area, as well as regular live events featuring high profile business leaders in AOL chat rooms and auditoriums. Bob Pittman, president and chief executive officer of AOL Networks, said, "The expansion of our relationship with Business Week underscores that for media and marketing partners, AOL is unmatched in our ability to drive business to media sites and therefore, in our ability to attract exclusive, world-class news and information content for our members. "We can help build an online brand and presence better than anyone else." Harry Somerdyk, senior vice president of Marketing/Brand Development at Business Week stated, "We are delighted to continue our partnership as a preferred provider of in-depth, up-to-the-minute business news and analysis on AOL. "With its continuing growth to more than 10 million members worldwide and its growing online ratings, AOL provides us the market reach and penetration we are 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. in the increasingly important interactive business news market." America Online Inc., based in Dulles, is the world's leading Internet online service, with over 10 million members worldwide. AOL, founded in 1985, offers its subscribers a wide variety of interactive services including electronic mail, Instant Message features, entertainment, reference, financial information, computing computing - computer support, interactive magazines and newspapers, as well as easy access to all the services of the Internet. Business Week is the world's largest business magazine. Founded in 1929, it has a worldwide circulation of 1,071,000 and is read by 6.1 million business decision-makers each week. The winner of numerous award for excellence in journalism, Business Week is published by The McGraw-Hill Companies 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 , a multi-media publishing and information company serving worldwide markets in education, business, industry and government. CONTACT: AOL Networks Tom Ziemba, 703/265-3284 |
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