Carsmart.com Announces a Premier Sponsor Position with GO.com.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 1999--Carsmart.com (http://www.carsmart.com), a leading Internet auto-buying service, announces a premier sponsorship agreement with Infoseek's (Nasdaq:SEEK) GO.com, part of the GO Network. Starting today, GO.com users can quickly gain assistance in buying and leasing new and pre-owned vehicles. With carsmart.com's established automotive content, GO.com visitors can feel more confident about making their automotive purchases. Carsmart.com is the exclusive new car sponsor on GO.com (http://www.go.com), giving visitors easy access to carsmart.com's benefits through GO.com's automotive center. "This dynamic alliance between carsmart.com and GO.com provides the consumer with a tremendous vehicle to facilitate the lease or purchase of an automobile," offered Jim Dittemore, director of Strategic Planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. for carsmart.com. Now GO.com users can benefit from a content-rich automotive web site, while carsmart.com gains a broader demographic with a premier Internet portal site Noun 1. portal site - a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet; "a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc. . Consumers may perform extensive research on carsmart.com to further educate themselves in making an informed buying decision. About carsmart.com Carsmart.com (http://www.carsmart.com) is an established, leading facilitator of automotive sales and leasing through the Internet. Carsmart.com aggregates an extensive collection of rich automotive content to assist consumers in researching, buying or leasing new and pre-owned vehicles. Carsmart.com can be accessed at http://www.carsmart.com. Carsmart.com is headquartered in San Ramon San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
About Infoseek Infoseek Corp. (Nasdaq:SEEK) is a premier global media network enriching people's daily The People's Daily (Chinese: 人民日报; Pinyin: Rénmín Rìbào), a daily newspaper, is the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, published worldwide lives by combining integrated Internet services with leading consumer brands. In January 1999 Infoseek, in partnership with the Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Co. launched GO Network, a major Internet site designed to connect people with the things they care about most. On Nov. 18, 1998, Infoseek completed the acquisition of Starwave Corp., which was principally owned by the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DIS (Data Instrumentation Systems) See DST. Dis god of nether world; identified with Pluto. [Rom. Myth.: Leach, 315] See : Underworld ). In connection with that transaction, Disney became Infoseek's principal shareholder, holding 43% of Infoseek's outstanding common stock. Infoseek has commerce and/or content arrangements with entities that include AT&T, Borders Group Inc., CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information Media Inc., Datek Online Inc., Microsoft Corp., PeopleLink Inc., UPS and Reuters. In addition, Infoseek licenses its Ultraseek Server search and navigation software to companies for their own intranet, extranet and Internet sites. Infoseek is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. Note to Editors: Infoseek, Extra Search Precision, Ultraseek and the Infoseek logo shown are trademarks of Infoseek Corp., which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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