Award-Winning Web-Development Firm EnviroMedia Acquired by Invisible Worlds.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999-- EnviroMedia Principals Rebecca and Larry Pranger Join Internet Pioneers in New Information Services See Information Systems. Firm EnviroMedia of Cincinnati, recognized by leading Internet organizations as one of the most innovative Web-development firms in the country, has been acquired by Invisible Worlds (http://invisible.net/), a San Francisco-based company that is changing the way people find and use information on the Web. The acquisition continues the growing influx of talent into Invisible Worlds. Carl Malamud, Chairman 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. of Invisible Worlds, named EnviroMedia principals Rebecca and Larry Pranger, creative and production director, respectively. The high-profile husband and wife team brought their successful four-year business to San Francisco to join Malamud and other Internet pioneers in an exciting new venture to deliver information more quickly and efficiently over the Internet. In announcing the acquisition, Malamud said, "Becky Pranger is one of the best designers on the Internet and we are thrilled to get her. As one of the world's top Web-design firms, EnviroMedia has the skills to make us a leader in information navigation systems." "Teaming with Invisible Worlds gives us a chance to create a whole new way for people to use on-line information," said Rebecca Pranger. "It's an opportunity to help re-design whole industries. I want to help our customers take a step above the Web and place that content into context." "It is a different kind of challenge," added Larry Pranger. "It's not like having just one big client. As a contractor, when you finish your work, you're done. At Invisible Worlds, we are part of nearly every aspect of inventing the company, which is exciting." About EnviroMedia EnviroMedia, a full-service interactive communications firm, was launched in January, l995, and immediately began to receive high-profile Internet honors for its work. Most recently, EnviroMedia was named to New Media magazine's New Media 500, an industry ranking that charts technology, media and infrastructure companies that play the most influential roles in digital media. The Internet Professional Publisher's Association (IPPA IPPA Irish Professional Photographers Association (Dublin, Ireland, UK) IPPA Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association IPPA Internet Professional Publishers Association IPPA Iowa Pork Producers Association ) named EnviroMedia a "top 20 interactive firm" this year. Rebecca and Larry Pranger, who were nominated as Infinet's Cool Web Design Team of the Year in 1997, also have sponsored and/or participated in landmark Internet projects such as the Internet 1996 World Exposition The Internet 1996 World Exposition web site, distributed on 8 servers around the world in a "public park for the global village," received 5 million visitors from 130 countries. . Their projects have been profiled by ABC News, The New York Times, The New York Times, The Morning daily newspaper, long the U.S. newspaper of record. From its establishment in 1851 it has aimed to avoid sensationalism and to appeal to cultured, intellectual readers. Wall Street Journal, CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company , Time, Life, People, Wired, USA Today, Internet World, Yahoo Internet Life, c/net's TV.COM, the Discovery Channel's Cyberlife and ZDTV ZDTV Ziff Davis Television . Examples of their work have been included in international traveling exhibitions sponsored by the Art Directors Club of New York, profiled by Communication Arts, and preserved on DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. in a time capsule at the city of Kobe (Japan) Museum. About Invisible Worlds San Francisco-based Invisible Worlds was founded in August, 1998, by Internet pioneers Carl Malamud and Marshall Rose to change the way people find and use information on the Web. The company is privately held and is funded by Softbank, El Dorado Ventures and private investors. |
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