Biztravel.com Announces First Strategic Licensing Agreement.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 3, 1997-- bizReservations Now Available to 40,000 Counsel Connect Members Biztravel.com, (www.biztravel.com) the 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 company for frequent business travelers, and Counsel Connect, (www.counsel.com) the online community and information service for lawyers, today announced that Biztravel.com will offer its bizReservations(R) service to Counsel Connect members through its first co-branded licensing agreement. bizReservations is a next-generation booking engine that uses "smart" technology to maximize frequent travel awards and optimize optimize - optimisation other travel preferences. "Biztravel.com is committed to bringing its high technology, personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. travel services to key audiences such as lawyers, consultants and other frequent business travelers who can benefit from its services. Counsel Connect members - lawyers, judges, and legal staff - are busy professionals who need the personal power and control over their travel plans that bizReservations can deliver," explained John L. Williams
This agreement is the first of many for Biztravel.com "Licensing the bizReservations product is an important growth strategy for Biztravel.com and will significantly increase our membership base," added Williams. bizReservations will be available free of charge to Counsel Connect's 40,000 members and can be accessed from within the site's table of contents, products and services area, and various other links within the site. "We are very excited to partner with Biztravel.com. Counsel Connect members closely mirror Biztravel.com's audience: decision makers who take frequent business trips and belong to multiple travel frequency programs," said Mark Obbie, Counsel Connect's president and CEO.. "Now our members have direct access to Biztravel.com's unique, highly secure travel services, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week," added Obbie. In addition to providing Counsel Connect with its bizReservations service, Biztravel.com will also host a Counsel Connect Travel Bulletin Board; each week, Biztravel.com will post a relevant travel article from the company's online magazine, bizTraveler. Editor-in-Chief Ted Carter, one of the foremost travel experts, will answer questions from Counsel Connect members regarding sites to see when on business trips, alternative hotel accommodations, travel tips in foreign countries, maximizing frequent flyer frequent flyer Hospital practice A popular term for a Pt who is regularly admitted to a particular ER or health care facility, for various reasons awards, and other relevant topics. The forum will also be a place where Counsel Connect members can share travel tips with other members. Counsel Connect members can benefit from other valuable Biztravel.com services through a series of hot links to Biztravel.com. When information about a selected city is available through Biztravel.com, the letter "I" will appear on the customer's travel itinerary. Clicking on the letter will hot link the customer directly to bizCityInfo, the area within Biztravel.com where this valuable hotel, restaurant and mapping information resides. To learn about travel deals, Counsel Connect members can click on the hyperlink A predefined linkage between one object and another. See hypertext. hyperlink - anchor "exciting specials and promotions" listed on the bizReservations main menu and directly access this information on the Biztravel.com site. At Biztravel.com, Counsel Connect members can track and manage multiple frequency programs via bizMiles; secure travel news, opinions and advice in bizTraveler, the company's on-line magazine; receive news about frequent flyer and promotion specials in bizFlyer; and view weather forecasts, restaurant guides, turn-by-turn driving instructions and street maps in bizCityInfo. About Biztravel.com: The Biztravel.com web site has earned numerous awards for its combination of valuable services, appealing design and ease-of-use. The company is backed by Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking , News Corporation and Informix Corporation, as well as three top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] : Accel Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates. About Counsel Connect: For nearly four years, Counsel Connect has been the leading online community of lawyers. Earlier in 1997, it moved to the Web, at www.counsel.com, where it continues to provide its 40,000 members with online discussion groups and seminars in more than 200 areas of law, personalized daily news reports, libraries of legal briefs Legal Briefs is an interactive television program aired on CablePulse24 and CourtTV Canada, hosted by Lorne Honickman, a lawyer and journalist, as he discusses the ins & outs of the Canadian legal system and provides free legal advice. and memos, and collections of the most valuable resources for lawyers on the Web and within Counsel Connect, organized by practice area. Counsel Connect is a division of American Lawyer Media ALM (formerly American Lawyer Media), is a leading integrated media company, focused on the legal and real estate communities. ALM owns and publishes 33 national and regional magazines and newspapers focused on the legal and real estate communities, including , which in August was purchased by Wasserstein Perella & Co. Inc. from Time Warner Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), formerly known as AOL Time Warner, is the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in New York City, with major operations in film, television, publishing, Internet service and telecommunications. Inc. CONTACT: Biztravel.com Joanne Serling Ildiko Novak 212-527-0800 jserling@wmc.com inovak@wmc.com Wilson McHenry Company or Counsel Connect Mark Obbie John Brady The name John Brady could refer to multiple people:
212-973-2800 mark.obbie@counsel.com jbrady@counsel.com Counsel Connect |
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