CollegeEdge - The No. 1 Way to Get into The Right College - Available in March on Lycos.com.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1999--SNAP Technologies, Inc., makers of CollegeEdge -- the Internet's No. 1 source for getting into the right school (www.CollegeEdge.com) and Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) A technology used to make microdisplays for rear-projection TVs and head-mounted displays (HMDs). Each LCoS chip hosts a grayscale LCD shutter sandwiched between a cover glass and a mirror. ), the second most visited hub on the Internet, today announced that CollegeEdge's industry-leading resources for searching and applying to college and graduate schools will be featured as an integrated component of Lycos.com's web site. The announcement was made at the Jupiter Communications Consumer Online Forum here. Lycos comprises the world's largest online community. CollegeEdge, with significant market momentum, is the leader in the online "going to college" market as the most popular destination site for college information and services. CollegeEdge provides information on every accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. undergraduate school as well as graduate programs. Under terms of their agreement, Lycos and CollegeEdge will develop a co-branded site where those interested in pursuing higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. can find the right school, register to be recruited, apply online, and research and apply for financial aid and scholarships. "This is a record year for college applications and the primary reason is the Internet," said Young Shin, Chief Executive Officer of SNAP Technologies, Inc. "The reach of the Lycos Network will provide our college-focused products and services with tremendous visibility to an incredibly broad audience. Lycos' reach of nearly 50 percent means that CollegeEdge will have exposure to almost half the people visiting the Web." "CollegeEdge provides comprehensive content and services for the `going to college' market," said Jonathon Levine, executive producer of Lycos.com. "We admire the strong relationships that CollegeEdge has formed with leading colleges and universities, and the fact that it is the provider of online college applications for most top programs. CollegeEdge is a great fit with Lycos and our desire to best serve our college-bound audience." The new site will provide Lycos web users with frequently-requested value-added tools, such as: -- Find the right school with the CollegeEdge "Matchmaker Matchmaker - A language for specifying and automating the generation of multi-lingual interprocess communication interfaces. MIG is an implementation of a subset of Matchmaker. " -- Register to be recruited by leading colleges and universities -- Calculate financial aid eligibility -- Identify scholarships using a database of over 500,000 different awards -- Apply to most leading schools - information is available on almost 6,000 institutions -- Pack `n Go guidelines -- International student resources -- Career search for over 1,000 careers and majors -- Advice and information The co-branded site is expected to launch in mid to late March 1999. Access to college-related products and services will be free. About SNAP Technologies, Inc. CollegeEdge from SNAP Technologies is the No. 1 resource on the Internet for the "going to college" market. CollegeEdge has improved the way students explore and apply to college; the way universities recruit and enroll students; and the way guidance counselors track and manage student progress. CollegeEdge's partners include: most leading colleges and universities including Stanford, MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology , UC Berkeley and Boston College Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing ; thousands of high schools; and leading Internet companies including Excite, Inc. (XCIT); Lycos, Inc. (LCOS); Netscape Corp. (NSCP NSCP National Schistosomiasis Control Program NSCP National Space Communications Program NSCP Native (Mode) Service Control Point (Tandem) ), Business Week Online, a division of McGraw-Hill Co., and U. S. News and World Report. Founded in 1995 and backed by Silicon Valley venture capital, CollegeEdge served 15 million pages and was accessed by more than a million individuals in January 1999. CollegeEdge processed over 500,000 college-related transactions in 1998. About Lycos, Inc. Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ:LCOS) owns the Lycos Network, the second most popular hub on the Internet, combining all aspects of community, leading Web navigation resources and cutting-edge business and consumer e-commerce solutions. The Lycos Network, a unified set of properties that delivers mass reach and diversity of audience and programming, is composed of best-of-breed services: Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere?, Angelfire, MailCity, Guestworld, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Condé Nast later purchased Wired News on 2006-07-11. , Webmonkey, and Suck.com. Located at http://www.lycos.com, Lycos.com -- "Your Personal Internet Guide" -- is dedicated to helping each individual user locate, retrieve and manage information tailored to his or her personal interests. Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. maintains U.S. offices in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Pittsburgh, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , San Francisco, Mountain View, Calif. and Williamstown, Mass. International offices are located in Germany, Italy, France, Japan, the UK, Spain and The Netherlands. Subsequent to quarter-end, on February 8, Lycos, Inc. entered into agreements with USA Networks, Inc. (USAi) and Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, Inc. (TMCS TMCS Trimethylchlorosilane (derivatization reagent) TMCS Telecommunications Management & Control Subsystem TMCS Taylor Made Computer Solutions, Ltd. ). Under the agreements TMCS, Lycos and USAi's Home Shopping Network “HSN” redirects here. For other uses, see HSN (disambiguation). The Home Shopping Network (HSN) is a mostly 24-hour shopping network that is seen on cable, satellite, and some terrestrial channels in the United States. , Ticketmaster and Internet Shopping Network/First Auction will be combined to form a company to be named USA/Lycos Interactive Networks, Inc. The formation of USA/Lycos is subject to the approval of the Lycos stockholders and customary regulatory approvals. (c) 1999 Lycos, Inc. all rights reserved. Lycos(R) is a trademark of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . All other product or service marks mentioned herein are those of respective owners. |
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