Bamboo.com and Microsoft Partner to Deliver Virtual Tour Gallery; Tour NBC's ``Will and Grace" Studio Home in Addition to the Many Unique Residential Homes Across the Country.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1999-- Bamboo.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 : BAMB), a leading provider of 360-degree virtual tours Virtual Tours The phrases panoramic tour and virtual tour are often used to describe a variety of video and photographic based media. The word panorama indicates an unbroken view, so essentially, a panorama in that respect could be either a series of photographs or panning video , offers an exclusive look inside the set of NBC's hit sitcom "Will and Grace" on MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). HomeAdvisor.com. The entertainment set, or "home," of one of today's hottest television shows, which begins its second season on NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. this evening, is available for exploration at the Virtual Tour Gallery on MSN HomeAdvisor. The virtual tour of the characters_ apartment may be viewed on the MSN HomeAdvisor site, http://www.homeadvisor.com. "Our virtual tour of the Will and Grace `apartment' is the only inside look that provides moving panoramic images of the set of one of TV's most popular shows," said Kevin B. McCurdy, founder of bamboo.com. "We applied the same technology and service used to provide 360-degree virtual tours of residential real estate properties to allow viewers to tour the Will and Grace set as though they were actually standing in the living room of the characters_ New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. apartment." Bamboo.com and MSN HomeAdvisor have a distribution agreement that allows real estate professionals to order a bamboo.com 360-degree virtual home tour for a property and have it appear along with their listings on HomeAdvisor. The tours are priced at $99.95 for 360-degree moving pictures of four interior and/or exterior scenes of a home. Bamboo.com provides a full service that includes image capturing, processing and posting on the HomeAdvisor site. Bamboo(TM) Virtual Tours simplify the home buying and selling process, and save real estate professionals and their clients valuable time. "HomeAdvisor is excited to provide bamboo Virtual Tours of homes throughout 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. to the millions of MSN visitors each month," said Ian Morris, group product manager for MSN HomeAdvisor. "Our Virtual Tour Gallery is attracting home buyers in record numbers, sending thousands of qualified leads to our partners." About bamboo.com Based in Palo Alto, CA, bamboo.com (NASDAQ: BAMB) is a leading provider of 360-degree virtual tours on the Internet. Bamboo.com maintains key relationships with major real estate Web sites and multiple listing service (MLS See multilevel security. ) providers, including HomeStore.com, REALTOR.com, HomeSeekers.com, Microsoft HomeAdvisor, HOMES.com, CyberHomes, LoopNet, Moore Data Services and 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) . As a result of these alliances, bamboo(TM) Virtual Tours can currently be viewed on America Online (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. ), Yahoo!, Microsoft Network (MSN), Excite, Netscape Netcenter, GO Network/InfoSeek, NBC, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition and others. Company investors include Intel Corporation, Trident Capital, the Walden Group and VantagePoint Venture Partners. For more information about bamboo.com, visit http://www.bamboo.com or call toll free 1-888-7BAMBOO. Editors, please contact Antenna Group, Inc.: Heidi K. Zuhl at 415-977-1915, or press@bamboo.com. About MSN HomeAdvisor HomeAdvisor is the Internet's complete guide for finding homes and loans, combining Microsoft(R) technology with services and expertise from some of the most trusted names in the real estate industry. It empowers consumers through every step of the home-buying process and is the first Internet site to fully integrate content and services such as neighborhood, crime and school statistics with homes, loans, editorial content and expert advice. Winner of the Inman Innovator Award as the best residential real estate site, HomeAdvisor is a PC Magazine Top 100 Web site and Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. It was created and launched by Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV guide. "Best of the Best" winner. Part of the MSN network of Internet products and services, HomeAdvisor launched in July 1998 and is free on the World Wide Web at http://www.HomeAdvisor.com/ (connect-time charges may apply). This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbors created by those sections. Actual results may differ materially. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties described from time to time in bamboo.com, Inc.'s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In particular, see "Risk Factors" in the Final Prospectus Final Prospectus A legal document stating the price of a newly issued security, the delivery date, and other facts that are important for investors. Notes: The final prospectus must be given to every investor who purchases a new issue of registered securities. included in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 declared effective by the SEC on August 25, 1999 (www.sec.gov). http://www.sec.gov |
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