CNN.COM TO BE PREMIER BROADCAST NEW PROVIDER ON NETSCAPE NETCENTER & ON ICQ.Building on a series of commercial agreements and announcements made on January 10 at the announcement of the merger agreement between the two companies, America Online See AOL. Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, and Time Warner, the world's leading media company, announced that 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 be the premier broadcast news partner for Netscape Netcenter, a leading Internet service, and for ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , the world's largest online communications community. Bob Pittman, President and COO of AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , said: "As we move forward with the merger of AOL and Time Warner to create the world's first fully integrated Internet-powered media and communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. for the Internet Age, today's announcements are great examples of the quick synergies we can achieve together and the beginning of what we already know will be an extraordinary partnership. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the 1999 AOL-Roper Starch Cyberstudy, 70 percent of all online consumers regularly or occasionally get their news online. By extending its CNN Interactive content offerings to the 25 million registered users of Netcenter and the more than 50 million registered users of ICQ, Time Warner will increase the reach of CNN's extremely popular news brand, and America Online will gain world-class news content for its popular Web-based properties. The new agreement will give Netscape Netcenter users full access to CNN.com's top headlines, and to CNN's pre-eminent online news services, as part of their daily Internet experience. As Netcenter's premier broadcast news partner, CNN will be prominently featured on the Netcenter service, and will have a permanent presence on the Netcenter homepage, where users can directly link to CNN.com stories in the Netcenter News Channel. Netcenter users will soon have the option of adding the CNN.com service directly to there customized My Netscape Netscape's personal home page. See personal portal. news channel. Under a separate agreement, ICQ, the world's largest online communications community, and CNN Interactive will develop a co-branded news offering to be distributed through ICQ's Website and the ICQ client. This agreement gives CNN a prominent presence on ICQ's News Channel, and establishes CNN Interactive as the primary news content provider for ICQ's community of more than 50 million registered users, more than two- thirds of whom live outside the United States. |
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