BizBash Media Acquires Online Events Calendar Masterplanner.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- David Adler, C.E.O. and Founder of BizBash Media, the largest Web site and trade media for event planning Event planning is the process of planning a festival, ceremony, competition, party, or convention. Event planning includes budgeting, establishing date and alternate date (rain date), selecting and reserving the event site, acquiring permits, and coordinating transportation professionals, announced today that his company has entered into an agreement to purchase Masterplanner, an online event clearinghouse calendar service, from Kintera, 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 : KNTA KNTA Korean National Tuberculosis Association ). Kintera provides software as a service to help organizations reach more people, raise more money, and run more effectively. Mr. Adler also announced that the founder of Masterplanner, Elisabeth Familian, will be named the Chairperson of the new entity. Familian is the West Coast President of BizBash Media. The transaction is expected to close in early May 2007. Financial details of the transactions were not disclosed. Thousands of event planning professionals subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; Masterplanner to access data on future events, enabling them to make important decisions on when they should host major events including product launches, galas, political fund-raisers, user group meetings, board of director meetings, and major trade shows and conventions. Currently, subscribers can access event calendars in New York, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , and Washington, D.C. According to Adler, "Masterplanner is the perfect complement to BizBash as we surround event professionals with solutions to help them do their jobs more creatively and more efficiently. Like BizBash, Masterplanner provides one of the most needed services in the industry by allowing event industry professionals the ability to see when major events are taking place and avoid potential conflicts. We look forward to improving the core event calendaring service so that it will be the central place to look if you are planning event of any kind." BizBash Media is the authority for anyone who plans, designs, or influences corporate and nonprofit events. The company publishes magazines, hosts Web sites, and produces trade shows for the event industry in New York, Los Angeles, Florida, Toronto and Washington, D.C. On June 27 BizBash will host the first annual Event Style Show Expo and Awards at the California Market Center in Los Angeles It also publishes an annual National Venue Guide. Its Web site, BizBash.com, has become the largest event industry Web site, with over 350,000 unique users monthly. To subscribe to Masterplanner, please go to www.masterplanneronline.com. Please visit Bizbash.com for more information on upcoming trade shows, publications and events. |
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