American Business Information Expands Online Business Database Services With Distribution Through GTE's Superpages Service.OMAHA Omaha, city, United States Omaha (ō`məhä, –hô), city (1990 pop. 335,795), seat of Douglas co., E Nebr., on the west bank of the Missouri River; inc. 1857. , Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 1998--American Business Information Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ABIIA/ABIIB) today announced an agreement with GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) New Media Services, a part of GTE Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : GTE), to offer ABI's business database services through GTE's SuperPages Service, a national online directory and shopping service (http://superpages.gte.net/). Beginning July 23, anyone using SuperPages will be able to instantly purchase online customized mailing lists An automated e-mail system on the Internet, which is maintained by subject matter. There are thousands of such lists that reach millions of individuals and businesses. New users generally subscribe by sending an e-mail with the word "subscribe" in it and subsequently receive all new or business credit profiles on any of the 10 million U.S. businesses in ABI's database through ABI's new DataExpress Services. Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f can now find the following DataExpress services on GTE's SuperPages service: List Express: SuperPages users can print, download or order custom mailing lists. Users can perform simple or complex searches from GTE's Yellow Pages search form to locate virtually any business in the U.S. to build a detailed list. For example, options include searching all businesses within the same category, allbusinesses in a certain geographic area or all businesses of a certain size. Profile Express: For $5 per report, interested customers worldwide can find a detailed business credit profile on any U.S. business, no matter what time of day or night. The report includes employee size, sales volume, key executives, lines of business, headquarters/subsidiary information, credit rating code and other fields of information for marketing and business purposes. "Over 24 million visitors went to SuperPages during the first half of 1998 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. business-related information," said Vin Gupta, chairman and chief executive officer of American Business Information. "GTE is a leader and pioneer in the Internet Yellow Pages industry. We look forward to helping GTE expand the business services within GTE's SuperPages service with our List Express and Profile Express products. They will represent a significant distribution channel and revenue stream for ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. ." GTE's SuperPages service began in January 1996 as an online Yellow Pages directory with business data supplied by ABI. With millions of business listings and thousands of advertisers, GTE SuperPages service, offered by GTE New Media Services, is a rich, comprehensive shopping tool designed for people who want the convenience of finding information and purchasing products and services online. "The DataExpress services are invaluable tools for anyone looking for information on specific businesses or industries. These services can be used to generate sales leads, research companies online, develop a customized database or mailing list - the options are virtually endless," said Patrick Marshall, vice president - New Media Services of GTE Directories Corporation. "ABI has a proven reputation as the premier supplier of accurate, up-to-date information on all businesses, small and large. This agreement will further expand SuperPages' presence as a premier online directory and information resource." American Business Information is a leading provider of business and consumer marketing information products and data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a services in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada. Nearly two million customers use the company's products and services for market research, customer analysis, sales leads, direct mail, telemarketing telemarketing, the practice of selling goods or services to customers by means of the telephone or of surveying consumer preferences in telephone conversations. and credit reference. Founded in 1972, the company headquarters are located at 5711 South 86th Circle, PO Box 27347 Omaha, NE 68127-0347. American Business Information Inc. can be contacted at (402) 593-4500 or on the World Wide Web at www.infoUSA.com. Effective Monday, August 3, 1998, American Business Information will change its corporate name to infoUSA Inc1. and begin trading on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbols "IUSAA" and IUSAB."
CONTACT: American Business Information, Inc., Omaha
Shelly Vaughn
Director, Investor Relations
Phone: (402) 596-8929
Fax: (402) 331-4950
Email: shelly.vaughn@abii.com
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