Beyond.com Launches Gifts Tab for Easy Holiday Shopping; New Features Include Gift Recommendation Guide That Helps Customers Choose the Perfect Gifts for the Holidays.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 1999-- Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the software superstore su·per·store n. A very large retail store that stocks highly diversified merchandise, such as groceries, toys, and camera equipment, or a wide variety of mechandise in a specific product line, such as computers or sporting goods. Beyond.com(TM) (Nasdaq: BYND) today launched a Gifts tab, a new area of the Beyond.com website dedicated to helping customers easily find, buy and send software, computer accessories, video game console A specialized desktop computer used to play video games. The three most popular game consoles are Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3), Nintendo's GameCube and Microsoft's Xbox. Game software is available on CDs or DVDs, although earlier game machines used cartridges containing read only memory systerom its selection of more than 1.6 million software and other digital products. With the launch of the ient gift giving," said Trinka Dyer, vice presid Harris Interactive Harris Interactive (NASDAQ: HPOL) is an American market research company that specializes in public opinion research using both telephone and surveys on online panels. The company is the product of a 1996 merger between the Gordon S. Black Company and Louis Harris & Associates. , Inc., an Internet market in 1999, a 400 percent increase from 8 percent in 1998. Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. , Inc., is forecasting a worldwide holiday e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. market of $12.2 billion.
The new Gifts tab's other features include:
-- Beyond.com electronic Gift Certificates, a store ed to help customers use
their computing devices its
customers a better place to buy software. illion software and other digital
products, inc
Symantec Corp.; hardware; computing devices; aica Online Inc., CNET Inc.,
Compaq Computer CorYOND.COM and BEYOND
DOT COM. Beyond.com Corporaafe Harbor Statement
Certain statements se include statements relating to anticipated customer
demand for online software purchases and plans for gift-wrapping
purchases. Such statements, by their nature, are subject to
substantial risks and uncertainties, including risks that customer
preferences change or that Beyond.com's handling of gift orders will
change. Beyond.com's business is subject to risks including reductions
in or cancellations of customer orders, changes in relationships with
software suppliers, changes in relationships with strategic partners,
changes in the product mix sold by the company, competition from other
online software resellers or publishers, inability to raise sufficient
capital on satisfactory terms, or at all, and other factors described
in the company's filings with the SEC.
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