Captivate Network Partners with CEOExpress and Knowledge@Wharton.Business/Technology Editors WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2000 For executives juggling careers, family and leisure, keeping up on business news, industry trends, and management strategies can be a challenge. Captivate Network, Inc., the digital media company that delivers content and advertising via wireless technology to elevators, has made this task easier with the addition of CEOExpress and Knowledge@Wharton to its consumer Web site Captivate.com. Captivate Network launched Captivate.com this past spring as a complement to its elevator screen network. Captivate.com provides business professionals with more detailed information on the news and advertising appearing on its elevator network, as well as interactive services that assist the busy professional with, for example, ordering top business books, making restaurant reservations and planning travel. The new partnerships with 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. Express and The Wharton School's Knowledge@Wharton make the site a top Internet resource for business information and analysis and provide Captivate.com users with a rich variety of tools to help simplify the life of the business professional. CEOExpress is a site designed to help executives cope with the problems of information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. and time constraints In law, time constraints are placed on certain actions and filings in the interest of speedy justice, and additionally to prevent the evasion of the ends of justice by waiting until a matter is moot. by organizing the best and most useful content on the web. Captivate.com customers have access to the range of CEOExpress services, including business and international news, office tools, business research, and many other products, services, and information. Published bi-weekly by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. , Knowledge@Wharton is an online resource for business practitioners that offers the latest business insights, information and research, including analysis of current business trends, interviews with industry leaders and Wharton faculty, articles based on the most recent business research, book reviews, conference and seminar reports, links to other web sites and more. "Both CEO Express and The Wharton School speak directly to Captivate.com's business professional audience," said Mike DiFranza, President and CEO of Captivate Network. "By continuing to add superior services such as CEOExpress.com and sources of unique business insight such as Knowledge@Wharton to Captivate.com, we strive to become the leading business resource for active executives in and outside of the elevator." About Captivate Network Captivate Network, Inc. (www.captivatenetwork.com), the leading media company that delivers content and advertising via wireless technology to elevators, was founded in October 1997 and is privately held. Dedicated to providing business professionals with quality programming and advertising though its network of Class A office towers nationwide, the company has secured over 600 buildings to date. Current venture capital investors include ABS (Automatic Backup System) See backup program. Capital Partners, Advent International Advent International - a long-established and leading global private equity investor Background Advent was founded in 1984 by Peter Brooke and Clint Harris to focus on international private equity investing. , Olympic Venture Partners, Primus Venture Partners, Inc., AEW AEW Airborne Early Warning AEW Air Expeditionary Wing AEW Airborne Electronic Warfare AEW Agr' Eau' Wat (Canadian agricultural consultant) AEW Amckerns Explosion Wars (Half Life community) Capital Management, as well as several of the nation's largest commercial real estate companies. The company is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts Westford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 20,754 at the 2000 census. History Westford was first settled in 1635. Originally a part of neighboring Chelmsford, West Chelmsford soon grew large enough to sustain its own and currently employs 125 people, with plans to expand to 155 by year-end. About CEOExpress Company CEOExpress Company was founded in 1998 and is privately held. A top executive, consultant and highly regarded speaker at major industry, university and business events, Patricia Pomerleau established CEOExpress Company to develop targeted professional Web communities that provide unparalleled service and save people time. She is recognized as an authority on the impact of emerging technologies on the future of Fortune 500 organizations. . Investors include Peter J. Solomon, the former co-chairman of Lehman Brothers' Investment Banking Department, counselor to the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Treasury under President Carter, and chairman and founder of Peter J. Solomon Company, one of Wall Street's most successful boutique investment banking firms. CEOExpress.com is counted among the most popular Web destinations for business users to access information, products and services. The site is a three-time Forbes "Best of the Web" winner and Inc. 500 CEOs recently named it one of the top 15 sites they go to for news and information. CEOExpress.com has also been featured as one of the most valuable business sites by Bloomberg, Business Week, Fast Company, Fortune, Industry Week, Upside Upside The potential dollar amount by which the market or a stock could rise. Notes: This is basically an educated guess on how high a stock could go in the near future. See also: Bull, Downside , Inc., The Industry Standard, San Jose Mercury News The San Jose Mercury News is the major daily newspaper in San Jose, California and Silicon Valley. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group. Its headquarters and printing plant are located in North San Jose next to the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880). , The Wharton Journal, Computerworld, Patricia Seybold Group and other world-class media and market research outlets. For more information, visit the site at www.ceoexpress.com. About The Wharton School The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton, making it the world’s oldest business school. is recognized around the world for its academic strengths across every major discipline and at every level of business education. Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the nation, Wharton has approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration , and doctoral students, more than 8,000 participants in its executive education programs annually, and an alumni network of more than 75,000 worldwide. |
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