CBQ, Inc. Announces Priority One Electronic Commerce Corporation and iPowerUp, Inc. Sign Contract to Provide Electronic Funds Transfer Services Through PriorityCASH Platform.

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NEW HOLLAND, Pa. and FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Jan. 11, 2000

CBQ, Inc (OTC BB:CBQI) The E-Business Marketplace, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Priority One Electronic Commerce Corporation has been awarded a contract from iPower, Inc. to process all Credit Card and Automated Clearing House transactions from their e-commerce site.

iPowerUp represents the cutting edge in Internet infrastructure in both community and content management. iPowerUp is a tool - a unique XML-intelligent technology, which has enormous broad-based problem solving capabilities for organizations, businesses, banks, and individuals.

"We looked at several Internet payment processing services and Prioritycash.com offered the most feature rich service we evaluated." Said iPowerUp's CEO and Co-Founder M. L. "Mickey" Valentine, "We expect transaction volumes to grow from a modest volume of 200 transactions a week to over 100,000 transactions a month by the end of the year 2000."

Richard Schwartz, Vice President Sales, CBQ commented "iPowerup represents another example of how Prioritycash.com can bring internet payment capabilities easily and securely to already existing e-commerce businesses. We are proud to be apart of their rapidly growing enterprise."

About CBQ

CBQ, Inc. The E-Business Marketplace is a total end-to-end provider for implementing customer driven e-business solutions. Through its subsidiaries, Reliance Technologies, Inc. and Priority One Electronic Commerce Corp. it can design, implement, host, build traffic and process payments for its customer's e-business initiatives. ChinaSoft, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CBQ, Inc., that is affiliated with Beijing Zhongruan Zhixun Technology Development Co. Services include Software Development services for Enterprise computing and Internet Development Services. China Partners, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CBQ, Inc., Its primary focus is facilitating trade and investment opportunities between U.S. and Chinese companies through its trade portal Chinapartners.net.

CBQcare.net, provides a Web-based health care management system with applications such as practice management software for patient scheduling, referrals, messaging, charting, insurance claim generation, prescription and formulary management.

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