America Online and Onvia.com Announce Strategic Alliance Across Key AOL Brands.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers DULLES, Va. and SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2000 Onvia.com Custom-Built Buying Directory to Help Small Business Owners Better Manage Their Day-to-Day Operations 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, and Onvia.com, Inc., the leading business-to-business emarketplace for small business buyers and sellers, today announced a two-year strategic alliance that will provide users of several AOL brands with Onvia.com's customized business services including a unique buying directory and request for quote functionality. Under the terms of the agreement, Onvia.com's buying and request for quote functionality will be featured on AOL, AOL.COM, CompuServe and Netscape Netcenter. Through co-branded sites across these AOL brands, Onvia.com will provide a wide range of business services designed to give busy professionals the tools they need to succeed in the new economy. In addition, Onvia.com will build a custom web-based buying directory for AOL that will initially be located within Netscape Netcenter. This comprehensive buying directory geared specifically for small business owners and other entrepreneurs will allow visitors to AOL's business to business properties to directly access suppliers and vendors throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Onvia.com will integrate AOL third party vendors in addition to AOL's Quick Checkout technology into the buying directory. This custom buying directory will link directly to Onvia.com's &uot;Request for Quote Service&uot;, an online emarketplace that connects small business vendors across 100 services. In addition, users will also be able to connect to Onvia.com's &uot;Purchase Now&uot; products and services engine which offers computer, office and other business services. &uot;In today's fast-paced environment the busy small business professional is 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. ways to work smarter and more efficiently,&uot; said Jim Martin, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Netscape. &uot;Our strategic alliance with Onvia.com enables us to deliver quality business-to-business services to those who use the AOL family of brands.&uot; &uot;This strategic alliance provides small business owners connected to America Online and a number of its brands access to Onvia.com's emarketplace,&uot; stated Glenn Ballman, 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. and Founder of Onvia.com. &uot;And as a leading business-to-business emarketplace for small business buyers and sellers, Onvia.com looks forward to providing functionality to assist AOL in building its business-to-business ecommerce platform,&uot; Ballman continued. 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 21 million members, and CompuServe, with more than 2.5 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. , AOL Instant Messenger See AIM. and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; 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; AOL MovieFone, the nation's No. 1 movie listing guide and ticketing service; and Spinner.com and NullSoft's Winamp, leaders in Internet music. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , the company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce. About Onvia.com Onvia.com, headquartered in Seattle, WA, is a leading business-to-business emarketplace for small business buyers and sellers. The Onvia.com emarketplace is designed to help small businesses succeed by providing a single online destination where small businesses can buy and sell services and products, exchange valuable news, product and service information and access productivity tools. For more information, contact Onvia.com: 1000 Dexter Ave. N., Fourth Floor, Seattle, WA 98109. Phone: (206) 282-5170. Web: www.onvia.com. |
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