CNN Interactive to Launch Japanese-Language Web Site; Signs Content-Sharing Agreement With Asahi.com.Business Editors & Technology Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000 CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. Interactive will launch its first fully localized Translated into the spoken language of the country. See localization. , Asian-language Web site in Japan early next month, it was announced today by Scott Woelfel, CNN senior vice president, general manager and editor-in-chief of CNN Interactive. Woelfel also announced that CNN Interactive has formed an alliance with Asahi.com that allows for Asahi.com and the new Web site, CNN.co.jp, to share Japanese-language news content. "CNN.co.jp will provide a rich, localized 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 experience featuring news specific to Japan in addition to the full scope of global news and information available to CNN.com users worldwide," said Woelfel. "CNN Interactive is pleased to be working with Asahi.com - one of the leading names in Japanese news - to make CNN Interactive's high-quality online content more accessible to the Japanese community." Dedicated CNN Interactive editorial teams working in Tokyo and at CNN's global headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., will bring Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f up-to-date local news and global news in Japanese, around the clock, at http://www.cnn.co.jp. Based on CNN.com's English Web site model, the new site will also offer a full scope of business news, weather, sports, entertainment news and other information-tailored for Japanese Internet users. CNN Interactive is the division of CNN responsible for the production of the award-winning news site CNN.com and the distribution of CNN news content via other platforms such as mobile phones, WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. (Wireless Application Protocol) phones, iMagic's PowerPhones in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , PageNet pagers and PointCast. In September 1999, CNN Interactive expanded its English-language Asia Pacific news content by partnering with TIME and Asiaweek magazines to create CNN.COM/ASIANOW. CNN.CO.JP will be CNN's seventh non-English language Web site, and will bring the total number of CNN Web sites to 12. The CNN Web sites -- which include CNN.com, CNNfn.com and CNNSI CNNSI Cable News Network and Sports Illustrated .com -- are among the world's leading news and information Web sites, and collectively served more than 613 million page impressions in the first month of 2000 and more than 6.7 billion page impressions in 1999. |
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