America Online, Inc. Acquires When.com.DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 1999 -- Acquisition of Leading Calendar Service and Technology Enhances Member Experience, Builds Community and Offers New E-Commerce Opportunities America Online See AOL. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :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. ), the world's leading interactive services company, today announced its acquisition of When Inc., known as When.com, a leading provider of free Internet calendaring and event services. The Company said it completed the acquisition for an undisclosed amount of stock. When.com's award-winning, easy-to-use calendar will further improve AOL members' ability to customize their interactive experience by allowing them to enter their appointments and key dates and to track public events that they're interested in, such as movie openings, sporting events, album releases, concerts and other cultural activities. Once a person enters his or her personal interests, events in these areas, drawn from a database of more than 750,000 listings, are automatically added to the personalized calendar, providing timely alerts as well as opportunities to purchase tickets and merchandise related to those events. America Online said that it will continue to develop When.com's technology and plans to launch a new, re-branded calendar this summer. The Company also said it will enhance When.com's group calendars which allow, for example, members of a particular organization, club or community to share the same calendar and information. In addition, the Company said that it plans to develop an integrated client so members can access and work with their calendar without the need to be online. AOL plans to make the calendar available across the Company's family of brands. Netscape and When.com launched a co-branded calendar on Netscape Netcenter in January 1999. "Once individuals and groups begin to use When.com's calendar to schedule and share their personal events, being online will become an even more important part of people's daily The People's Daily (Chinese: 人民日报; Pinyin: Rénmín Rìbào), a daily newspaper, is the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, published worldwide lives," said Bob Pittman, President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of America Online, Inc. "When.com's calendar is the perfect personalization tool to help build community and to connect shopping opportunities with a person's individual interests and community events. The calendar will allow us to further expand our electronic commerce offerings by helping partners and advertisers target purchasing opportunities around key events in people's lives, such as birthdays, anniversaries and other important dates that people store on their calendar." Barry Schuler Barry Martin Schuler (born September 7, 1953 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is American Internet pioneer, perhaps best known for making the Internet easy to use consumers while working for America Online for seven years, and being the CEO for three years. , President of America Online's Interactive Services Group, said: "The calendar is not only a great convenience feature but a more intuitive way to receive and exchange information. Online calendars will become virtual community centers where you will be able to find out when the next baseball game Noun 1. baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League is scheduled and where the movie you've heard about is opening in your area. We're excited that When.com's talented team is joining AOL to help us develop new features, programming and content for the calendar and related areas." When.com President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Ted Barnett said: "We're very excited to join America Online, where millions of people will be able to use our calendar to make their lives easier and more rewarding. With its focus on community, AOL has led the way in providing tools to enable its members to share their experiences. We look forward to continuing to develop our service with AOL's resources and branding expertise squarely behind us." About When.com When.com, located in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. , is a free Internet calendaring service that delivers personalized, comprehensive event information from leading content partners enabling anyone online to integrate this information directly into a personal or group calendar and act on it immediately. Providing a choice from more than 750,000 premium events in 12 key consumer categories, When.com automatically tracks and notifies consumers of event content based on personal preferences. Founded in 1998, When.com was privately held and venture-backed by 21st Century Internet Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups, including eBay. In 1995, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999 and resulted in one of Silicon . About America Online Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 16 million members, and CompuServe, with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; and the Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. and Communicator browsers. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the Company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. |
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