AuctionRover.com Extends its Search Syndication Lead -- Leading auction search capabilities powers FashionWindow.com.Business Editors RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2000 AuctionRover.com(TM) - the leading one-stop, resource for online auctions - today announced a strategic partnership with popular online portal - FashionWindow.com, the online destination for fashion, style, and beauty news and commerce. The agreement establishes AuctionRover as the exclusive auction search engine for FashionWindow. The newly formed partnership reinforces AuctionRover's position as the leading auction search portal for the Internet. AuctionRover provides a comprehensive, categorized and searchable index of more than 80+ leading online auction Using the Web to match buyers and sellers around the globe. eBay pioneered this marketplace and Amazon.com, Yahoo! and others quickly followed. Variations of the theme are also available from priceline.com and Microsoft's Expedia, which ask the buyers to name their prices and see if the sellers will match it. There are even "haggling" sites from NexTag.com and others, which let you negotiate the price. See eBay, Amazon.com, priceline.com, sniping software and bid shielding. sites - such as Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), etc including the first licensed search of auction giant eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). "AuctionRover is extending its lead as the online auction resource with partnerships like FashionWindow," said Scot Wingo, AuctionRover.com CEO and co-founder. "This partnership with FashionWindow allows us to provide their customers with value added auction services." AuctionRover.com is a leading site for auction resources on the Web. AuctionRover's proprietary technology gives buyers a simple tool to search for products and services being auctioned on the Internet. AuctionRover helps auction sellers address the problem of managing inventories, keeping track of multiple auctions, and completing transactions. This powerful set of tools assists sellers in posting, ad creation, and post sale management, enabling them to more efficiently reach consumers across the Web and across multiple auction sites. "AuctionRover extends itself as a leader in simultaneously searching and indexing content from many of the Internet's leading auction services," said Peter Klamka, President of PTN PTN - Paint The Night PTN - Patrolman/Patrolwoman (law enforcement title) PTN - Personal Telecommunications Number Service PTN - Personal Telephone Number PTN - Photonic Transport Network (IEEE) PTN - Post Tender Negotiation PTN - Preservation Trades Network, Inc. PTN - Private Telecommunications Network PTN - Private Trading Network PTN - Product Technical Note PTN - Product Transfer Notes PTN - Public Telephone Network Media, the publisher of FashionWindow.com. "We are very excited about our new partnership with AuctionRover, the leading online auction resource site." About AuctionRover.com Founded in July 1999, AuctionRover.com, located in Research Triangle Park, N.C., is the one-stop resource empowering the online auction community. AuctionRover also has relationships with eBay, Metacrawler A metasearch engine from InfoSpace, Inc., Bellevue, WA (www.infospaceinc.com) that was developed at the University of Washington and released on the Internet in 1995. Its technology was acquired by Go2Net, Inc. in 1997 and by the InfoSpace Network in 2000. Other Internet properties from InfoSpace in the area of online directory search include Dogpile.com, Webcrawler.com and webFetch.com. See Web search engines., DogPile, GotoWorld.com, Akamai Technologies, Stamps.com and iShip.com. On March 9, GoTo.com (NASDAQ: GOTO) announced a definitive agreement to acquire AuctionRover.com. For more information, visit AuctionRover.com at http://www.auctionrover.com. About Fashionwindow.com Fashionwindow.com (OTC Bulletin Board: PTNM) is the leading Web portal for fashion, style, beauty news and commerce. In addition to numerous online retailers, Fashionwindow.com also has relationships with CNN, Lycos, Inktomi, IXL, Neiman Marcus, Adsmart, Affinia.com, Hot Jobs, and Visto.com. Fashion Window's parent company, PTN Media, is owned in part by Claudia Schiffer and American Nortel Communications (OTC Bulletin Board: ARTM ARTM - Acquisition Reform Training Modules ARTM - Analysis & Reporting Training Module ARTM - Availability Reporting and Tracking Module (replaced by STASS FY96)). |
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