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Colorado company embarks on global yellow pages directory; electronic publishers to launch World-Wide Page(sm) in major markets.


ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 1995--YellowNet Corp. has entered into agreements with four independent publishers to place business telephone listings and advertisements in its new YellowNet World-Wide Pages(sm), electronically published on the World-Wide Web (World-Wide Web, networking, hypertext) World-Wide Web - (WWW, W3, The Web) An Internet client-server hypertext distributed information retrieval system which originated from the CERN High-Energy Physics laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland.  of the global computer InterNet:

o Great Western Publishing
For publishing in the western world, see publishing.


Western Publishing, also known as "Western Printing and Lithographing Co." was a large publishing company that produced books, magazines, comic books and other items. The company no longer exists.
 has contracted to make the yellow pages listings of some 400,000 businesses in Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837.  and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  available to millions of on-line InterNet users worldwide later this month.

o Mast Advertising & Publishing has agreed in principal to electronically publish the 120,000 business listings for Metropolitan Atlanta in the YellowNet World-Wide Pages(sm).

o InterNet Marketing See Internet advertising.  Associates of Englewood will list Denver's 75,000 businesses.

o Former Vail and Keystone ski executive Jerry Jones For other persons named Jerry Jones, see Jerry Jones (disambiguation).

Jerrel Wayne "Jerry" Jones (Born on October 13, 1942) is the owner of the Dallas Cowboys NFL franchise and the Dallas Desperados AFL franchise.

Jones was born in Los Angeles, California.
 of Jerry D. Jones & Associates in Beaver Creek Beaver Creek may refer to numerous places, mainly stream and towns. The USGS database records 658 waterways and 19 populated places using the name in the United States and numerous others using related forms like Beaver Creek Ditch, Beaver Creek Swamp, Beaver Creek Lake, Beaver  will provide business listings for the exclusive Colorado mountain resort area of Eagle County.

In addition, YellowNet's OmniSearch(sm) advertisements - which will contain information to augment companies' basic name, address and telephone number listings - will be marketed to businesses in those metro areas at a cost of as little as $360 per year. (The basic business listing is free of charge to listed companies.)

The agreement marks the first time comprehensive yellow pages business listings for major metropolitan areas have been included on the InterNet, a global interlinking in·ter·link  
tr.v. in·ter·linked, in·ter·link·ing, in·ter·links
To link together or join (one) with another: The policies, though distinct, are interlinked.

Adj. 1.
 of personal computer workstations. Negotiations are underway to secure territorial agreements for other major U.S. and international markets.

"In the next four weeks, we will install these metropolitan business-phone listings on the YellowNet World-Wide Pages(sm), an InterNet site that can be accessed - at no charge - by anyone with a computer terminal, modem and minimal communications software (communications, software) communications software - Application programs, operating system components, and probably firmware, forming part of a communication system. These different software components might be classified according to the functions within the Open Systems ," said John Najdovski, executive vice president of YellowNet.

"This kind of basic computer installation already is being used by 30 million individuals in the United States and abroad - with millions of new users coming on-line every month."

In addition to adding on-line convenience for individuals seeking information about local businesses, electronic yellow pages Electronic Yellow Pages are online versions of traditional printed business directories produced by telephone companies around the world. Typical functionalities of online yellow pages include the alphabetical listings of businesses and search functionality of the business database  publication opens new horizons for businesses that operate across community, state and national boundaries - including those in the travel, hotel, mail-order, apparel and food industries, Najdovski said.

"The yellow pages traditionally have been the domain of local businesses - beauty shops, automobile mechanics, restaurants and hardware stores - whose trade areas are only several miles square," he said. "These agreements make it possible for firms in these seven major metropolitan markets to list themselves in a 'global yellow pages' directory at the same time they list locally."

Companies seeking information about electronic business listings and about YellowNet World-Wide Pages advertisements may contact YellowNet at 303/781-6121. -0-

Note to Editors: We encourage you to contact the following on-line yellow pages publishers for further information: Dick Reid, vice president, Great Western Publishing, 806/354-2770; Don Seeley, Mast Advertising and Publishing Inc., 404/449-6278; Chris Jabin, InterNet Marketing Associates, 303/981-9234; Jerry D. Jones, 303/845-5020.

CONTACT: YellowNet Corp., Englewood

John Najdovski, 303/781-6121
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