Coopers & Lybrand to move Virtual Tax Community to Internet.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 25, 1996--Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P., the international professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firm that created the first virtual community tailored for tax and financial professionals, has announced it is significantly expanding and moving its Tax News Network(R)(TNN TNN The National Network (formerly The Nashville Network) TNN The Nashville Network (now The National Network) TNN The Nerd Network (online gaming clan) ) service onto the World Wide Web. With a scheduled launch date of mid-January 1997, transfer of existing users to the new Web service is now underway. More than 1,500 companies, including more than one-third of the Fortune 1,000, subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; the electronic tax and business news service, which was established in 1993 to fulfill a growing need among the firm's clients for immediate access to crucial tax and business information. "We're giving tax and financial professionals a powerful array of new options to help them formulate effective strategies and make crucial decisions," said Jerry Leener, Coopers & Lybrand's partner in charge of tax technology. "Business users don't have time to sift through the vastness of cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. . TNN on-line will bring together all of the information that is important to them and will help them interpret it." Not only can users access relevant and timely information quickly with TNN, they can also reach out electronically to Coopers and Lybrand's experts as well as their peers to clarify specific issues, exchange ideas and debate the latest tax developments. The Front Page, a key new feature which will be updated throughout the day, will synopsize syn·op·size tr.v. syn·op·sized, syn·op·siz·ing, syn·op·siz·es To make a synopsis of; summarize. [Greek sunopsizein, to sum up, from Greek sunopsis, relevant stories, provide Coopers and Lybrand analyses and offer hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the links to full texts of stories in business and trade media as well as daily bulletins and publications from Coopers & Lybrand. Users will be able to tailor the Front Page, as well as other TNN components, to their specific needs. "This aspect alone," Leener said, "will keep tax and financial professionals up to speed on the latest developments in the field." Summaries of major tax and business developments will be e-mailed to members on a weekly basis, he added. For more information about Tax News Network, please contact Sara Walsh, marketing manager, by e-mail at swalshnn@colybrand.com or telephone (202) 822-4935. One of the world's leading professional service firms, Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P provides services for enterprises in a wide range of industries. The firm offers its clients the expertise of more than 16,000 professionals and staff in offices located in 100 U.S. cities and through the member firms of Coopers & Lybrand International, more than 70,000 people in 140 countries worldwide. CONTACT: KCSA KCSA Krannert Center Student Association KCSA Kentucky Crushed Stone Association (Frankfort, KY) KCSA Kyiv City State Administration KCSA Kalamazoo Christian School Association KCSA Kentucky-Canadian Studies Association Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Stephanie Battles/Jacqueline A. Rabin/Henry P. Feintuch 212/682-6565, ext. 228/213/212 212/697-0910 fax KCSA@aol.com (e-mail) or Coopers & Lybrand Maggie O'Donovan Bolton 212/259-5358 moxdonov@colybrand.com (e-mail) |
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