Beyond.com Surpasses 65,000 Affiliates; Annual Growth Makes Beyond.com A Leading Software Affiliate Network.Business/High-Tech Editors SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000 E-commerce services provider Beyond.com (Nasdaq:BYND) announced today that it has more than 65,000 members in its affiliates program, making it one of the largest affiliate networks on the Web. In addition, the company announced that it has successfully completed beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the of the Beyond.com KickAds(TM) program, an ad serving push technology that automatically sends updated marketing information to affiliates. The company plans to make the program available to all of its affiliates in the second quarter of 2000. Beyond.com's affiliates program has grown 280 percent in the last year, from 23,000 members last March. Beyond.com receives approximately 35 million impressions per month through the affiliate network. It is the largest affiliate network for websites that want to provide software purchasing access to their visitors. "We are extremely pleased with the success and growth of our affiliates network and look forward to implementing the KickAds program to further enhance our affiliates merchandising capabilities," said Kendall Fargo, vice president of corporate operations and services for Beyond.com. "This year's growth emphasizes how mutually beneficial the affiliates program is. Our affiliates receive the benefits of providing their visitors with useful product information and purchasing ability, without the hassles of conducting the e-commerce transactions themselves. In turn, our affiliates help drive heavy software buyers to our website." The affiliates program allows websites to sell software and computer related products to their visitors through the Beyond.com website at http://www.beyond.com, earning a referral fee for all purchases. Beyond.com handles the entire order process and fulfillment, while allowing the affiliate to determine the design, navigation and editorial content of their store. Some of Beyond.com's current affiliates include Bizzed.com, Citibank, CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information Techshopper, Crucial Technology (a division of Micron), Discover, Earthweb, Ecircles, Family Education, Gamezone, iWon, Prodigy, Schoolpop and U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report Weekly newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. U.S. News was founded in 1933 by David Lawrence (1888–1973) to cover important domestic events; he founded World Report in 1945 to treat world news. The two magazines were merged in 1948. . About Beyond.com Beyond.com is an e-commerce services provider that builds and manages Web stores for businesses and sells software and computer related products to the government, corporate and consumer markets. The company's eStore division allows software publishers, hardware manufacturers and systems OEMs to launch a full-featured e-commerce store in a few weeks. Businesses can choose from an array of offerings, including website design and construction, transaction processing, physical and electronic order fulfillment, customer support, marketing, and merchandising support and reporting. Customers include CADopia.com, Compaq Computer, Executive Software Inc., HP Shopping Village (a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard), Intelligolf, McAfee.com Inc., Palm Computing, Symantec Corp., Systran Software Inc., Telex and Trend Micro. Beyond.com's government division provides digitally downloadable software and related services to a growing list of government agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service (IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. ), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (or OCC) was established by the National Currency Act of 1863 and serves to charter, regulate, and supervise all national banks and the federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States. (OCC OCC See: Options Clearing Corporation OCC See Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). ), Bureau of Engraving and Printing Noun 1. Bureau of Engraving and Printing - the agency of the Treasury Department that produces currency Department of the Treasury, Treasury Department, United States Treasury, Treasury - the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal (BEP BEP Black Eyed Peas (band) BEP Brevet d’Études Professionnelles (French: vocational qualification) BEP Business Entry Point BEP Break-Even Point BEP Bit Error Probability BEP Bureau of Engraving & Printing ), Defense Logistics Agency Noun 1. Defense Logistics Agency - a logistics combat support agency in the Department of Defense; provides worldwide support for military missions Defense Department, Department of Defense, DoD, United States Department of Defense, Defense - the federal department (DLA DLA dog leukocyte antigen. ), National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency (now National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; US government) NIMA never in mitosis gene a (molecular biology) NIMA North Idaho Mycological Association ) and Patent and Trademark Office (PTO PTO abbr. 1. Parent Teacher Organization 2. or p.t.o. please turn over 3. power takeoff PTO or pto please turn over Noun 1. ), a division of the Department of Commerce. Beyond.com also operates its own online store (http://www.beyond.com/), where customers can find an expansive selection of software and computer related products. Beyond.com Corporation trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ("BYND"). More information on the company can be found in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Safe Harbor Statement Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. This includes statements relating to expectations about Beyond.com's affiliates program and the anticipated launch of its KickAds program. Such statements are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties, including the risk that Beyond.com cannot integrate the KickAds program into its affiliates program. 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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