COMTEX and UPBEAT Team Up to Distribute Entertainment News Online; It's 'Showtime' for Infomediary's Customers.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 COMTEX News Network, Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). BB: CMTX CMTX Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, X-Linked ), the leading business-to-business infomediary (INFOrmation interMEDIARY) An information provider that gathers content from several sources and functions as a data aggregator for a target audience. , announced today its agreement with UPBEAT Entertainment News, a leading entertainment news source produced exclusively via the Internet, to provide subscribers with updated entertainment news. UPBEAT will provide COMTEX with news, reviews and feature articles on music, movies, books, DVDs, video rentals, television programs, sports, interactive games, and pop culture. UPBEAT also produces humor and advice columns. As the name suggests, UPBEAT's columns are written with a positive spin. COMTEX will include UPBEAT's content in a number of its news offerings, including its subject-specific CustomWires(R), editorially selected Newsroom stories and Publisher Full Feeds. "This agreement allows UPBEAT Entertainment News to tap into COMTEX' vast network of Web sites and online businesses," said Bridget Petrella, Publisher of UPBEAT Entertainment News Online. "COMTEX provides us with an efficient way of distributing our fun and diverse content to end users looking to keep on top of what's hot in entertainment." "We're very upbeat about this partnership," said Charles Terry, 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. of COMTEX. "COMTEX will now reach out to web businesses looking to provide visitors with lighthearted stories on the latest trends. Whether you're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. entertainment news, financial reports or current affairs current affairs npl → (noticias fpl de) actualidad f current affairs current npl → (questions fpl d')actualité f , COMTEX has a content solution to help you deliver relevant news to your end-users." About UPBEAT Entertainment News UPBEAT Entertainment News Online has often been described by critics as "Entertainment Weekly meets Reader's Digest Reader's Digest U.S.-based monthly magazine. Founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace, it was first published in 1922 as a digest of articles of topical interest and entertainment value condensed from other periodicals. with a slight touch of People Magazine" thrown in for good measure. Their wacky lighthearted content is hip, cool and oh so sophisticated. It includes a variety of multifaceted topics from Celebrity Profiles to Sports, Music, Film, Books, CDs, Television, Interactive Gaming and of course, Colorful Humor and Offbeat off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. Insight. UPBEAT's Nationally Syndicated writers have received numerous accolades. Some of UPBEAT's critically acclaimed writers include, Alan Carter Alan Carter (born May, 1966 in Sydney, Australia) is a fictional character from the television series . He was played by Nick Tate. The chief Eagle pilot of Moonbase Alpha, he was on his fourth tour of duty on Moonbase Alpha as Chief pilot when the Moon broke away from Earth , whose credits include Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, People, USA Today, The NY Daily News etc., Brian Cherry, Book Author currently being featured on Amazon.com, Brian Fritz and Eric Gargiulo, our resident Pro Wrestling experts and mega-cool Pro Wrestling Radio Talk show hosts with attitudes, Rick Bayan, our resident cynic cyn·ic n. 1. A person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness. 2. A person whose outlook is scornfully and often habitually negative. 3. and author of 'The Cynic's Dictionary', a fascinating look at life through the eyes of a self-professed cynic, UPBEAT's multi-faceted West Coast Editor, Beth E. Cochran, whose credits include Soap Opera Magazine Soap Opera Magazine was a weekly periodical devoted to interviews and recaps of American soap operas. The magazine was run for many years by American Media until the company, who had lost money for years, decided to cease publication of the magazine, focusing instead on and Brentwood Magazine, and numerous others. UPBEAT Entertainment News Online is listed with the Bacon's Media Guides as well as Lifestyle Media and The Bulldog Reporter. Several comprehensive entertainment packages are now available at affordable prices. Multi-site volume discounts are also available on several of our individual and packaged columns. About COMTEX News Network, Inc. COMTEX News Network, Inc. (OTC BB: CMTX), a full service, business-to-business infomediary, aggregates and redistributes diverse, real-time global news and information to resellers in the Internet, Wall Street and corporate markets. COMTEX' innovative technology gathers nearly 20,000 stories a day from over 10,000 diverse, global sources to create its subject-specific, value-added headline and vertical-market news products for distribution to over 750 information services See Information Systems. and re-distributors throughout the world, reaching millions of end users. COMTEX' products include CustomWires(R), Newsroom Enhanced Products, Newsroom Direct, Publisher Full-Feeds and Processing Services. Select publishers include All Africa, The Associated Press, Business Wire, Bridge Information Systems, Knight Ridder/Tribune, Newsbytes, ON24, PR Newswire, South American Business Information, The Sports Network, UPI UPI abbr. United Press International and Xinhua. Located in Alexandria, VA, COMTEX can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.comtexnews.net. Note: All product and company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Except for the historical information contained herein, this press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated herein, including the occurrence of unanticipated events or circumstances relating to the fact that COMTEX is in a highly competitive industry subject to rapid technological, product and price changes. Other factors include the possibility that demand for the company's products may not occur or continue at sufficient levels, changing global economic and competitive conditions, technological and other risks, costs and delays associated with the start-up and operation of major capital projects, changing governmental regulations and other risks and uncertainties, including those detailed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. COMTEX undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. |
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