Asia.com Partners With China's Largest TV Network to Provide 2000 Olympics Coverage.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 2000 Exclusive Partnership With China Central Television (CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television ) To Deliver Interactive Content and In-Depth Reporting Online And Via WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. Asia.com, Inc., a leading provider of wireless and Internet business services in Asia, today announced a partnership with China Central Television (CCTV), the national TV network of the People's Republic People's Republic n. A political organization founded and controlled by a national Communist party. of China. CCTV will take advantage of Asia.com's leading wireless and Internet technology platform and utilize its leading local content provider eLong.com, to create the "Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. of 2000" Web site. In addition to in-depth sports news coverage provided by CCTV, the site will feature interactive games, online chats with sports stars, event schedules, trivia games with prizes and athlete biographies. The partnership of China Central Television's experienced reporting staff with Asia.com's Internet expertise will provide an unparalleled level of coverage of the games. Asia.com's advanced wireless application protocol (WAP) technology will also be leveraged, allowing fans to have up to the minute updates over their WAP-enabled personal electronic devices. Asia.com is majority owned by WORLD.com, Inc., which is a leading global incubator of premier domain properties and is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Mail.com, 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 : MAIL). CCTV's team of reporters will cover the games in Sydney, Australia, and provide up to the minute reports and analysis to the new site. Asia.com will apply its design and technology capabilities to make the site the premier location on the Internet for Olympics coverage in China. CCTV is the primary source of news and entertainment in China, reaching 84 percent of the population, or 900 million people. It broadcasts eight channels and 138 hours of programming a day to audiences at home and abroad. "We are pleased to be working with CCTV to bring the Olympics even closer to the people of China," says Allan Kwan, 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. of Asia.com. "The opportunity to introduce a new level of technology to this age old tradition is truly an honor." About Asia.com Asia.com, Inc. is the leading provider of wireless and Internet business services across Asia. The Company enables businesses to leverage the power of wireless technologies and the growth of Internet to increase sales, create efficiencies, improve communications, and decrease costs. Asia.com has developed a scalable, flexible technology and a powerful online and wireless platform. Asia.com currently has twelve branches in China and over 900,000 registered users with six million daily page views. By targeting fast growing areas of the economy including travel, finance, real estate, entertainment and outsourced business services, Asia.com is leveraging its Internet and WAP technology to truly revolutionize rev·o·lu·tion·ize tr.v. rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·es 1. To bring about a radical change in: Television has revolutionized news coverage. 2. the way business is conducted in Asia. Asia.com is a majority owned subsidiary of WORLD.com, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mail.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAIL). About WORLD.com WORLD.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Mail.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAIL), is a leading global incubator of premier domain properties. The Company's strategy is to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. the tremendous value of its cyber-realty assets by integrating its extensive portfolio of category-defining domains into a collaborative network of companies throughout the world serving the worldwide business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketplaces. The first properties developed were Asia.com and India.com. Other properties from its portfolio of over 1,000 domains include Europe.com, USA.com, Japan.com, London.com, Paris.com, Rome.com, lawyer.com and doctor.com. WORLD.com is headquartered 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 , New York. About Mail.Com Mail.com, Inc. is a one-stop resource for Internet messaging services, providing reliable feature-rich e-mail and Internet fax Using the Internet to send faxes. Fax servers accept an incoming fax message and route it to a fax server in the same locality as the destination fax machine. The fax server then makes a local telephone call to send the fax. services to businesses, ISPs, Web sites and direct to consumers through its flagship Web site: http://www.mail.com. Mail.com has a technology infrastructure of IP network facilities in 20 key countries and currently serves more than 14 million e-mailboxes and 8,500 corporate customers worldwide. This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the future events or the future financial results of Mail.com. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. , including the matters set forth in Mail.com's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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