Buybuddy Inc. To Provide ``Youth Oriented'' Wireless Comparison Shopping To Clearnet Mobile Subscribers.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 2000 Company Continues to Strengthen its Position in the Global Wireless Community By Offering Customized Solutions to Carriers Buybuddy Inc., the Internet's leading Community-Driven shopping comparison platform, and Clearnet Communications Inc. ("Clearnet"), today announced a partnership to provide youth oriented wireless comparison shopping to Clearnet clients. Through Buybuddy Mobile(TM), Clearnet clients will be able to comparison shop for a wide variety of products, beginning with music and video games See video game console. and expanding into computers, electronics, books, and more, using Clearnet dot com dot com - com ready phones. Buybuddy Mobile delivers all the essential content, services and tools to allow consumers to match their needs with the right products, receive customer support and find the best prices through online comparison shopping. "We are focused on creating the most comprehensive and valuable wireless service possible for our customers, both young and old," said George Cope, Clearnet's President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Buybuddy's unique mobile technology will allow Clearnet clients to be part of a comparison shopping community that generates valuable consumer information and empowers its customer base." Through private-label syndication of Buybuddy's Community-Driven Commerce platform, Internet Portals and wireless carriers around the world are now able to offer superior comparison shopping to their customers under a customized brand, look and feel, with local merchants, currency and community content. The Buybuddy Mobile platform is currently being used by global wireless carriers to rapidly deploy consumer mobile comparison-shopping applications tailored to both youth and business markets. "Our partnership with Clearnet further strengthens Buybuddy's commitment to providing a customized commerce platform that allows wireless carriers around the world to offer their consumers dynamic, community-driven comparison shopping," said Michael Furdyk, Wireless Development Manager for Buybuddy. About Buybuddy Inc. A Canadian Company, Buybuddy Inc. (www.Buybuddy.com) is the premier global provider of community-powered comparison shopping on the Internet. Focusing on both the Business-to-Consumer (B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. ) and Business-to-Business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) spaces, the Buybuddy web site already serves a loyal community of tens of thousands of registered users, and is delivering mobile and Web commerce solutions for Web Portals, vendor and merchant Web sites, and telecommunications carriers. About Clearnet Clearnet (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :NET.A)(Nasdaq:CLNT CLNT Concordant Literal New Testament (translation) ) is a leading Canadian wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. company that operates two state-of-the-art digital wireless networks, Clearnet PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. and Mike. Clearnet now serves approximately 700,000 clients across Canada. Founded in 1984 and public since 1994, Clearnet is an independent Canadian controlled and managed company. |
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