Coral Gables Resident Wins $10,000 on iWon.com, The Internet's Largest Guaranteed Cash Giveaway.Business Editors IRVINGTON Irvington, town (1990 pop. 59,774), Essex co., NE N.J., an industrial suburb of Newark; settled 1692 as Camptown, renamed 1852, inc. 1898. Tools, castings, photographic equipment, paints, building materials, and plastic and paper products are among its manufactures. , NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 27, 1999 New Destination Portal Awards Coral Gables's Kristen Thomas-Larson $10,000 Daily Cash Giveaway; Six Days Until $1 Million Winner is Announced iWon.com (www.iwon.com), a CBS-backed destination Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the portal combining world-class search, content and functionality with the Internet's largest guaranteed cash giveaway, today announced that Kristen Thomas-Larson from Coral Gables, Florida Often called "The Gables," Coral Gables is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, southwest of Miami, in the United States. The city is best known as the home of the University of Miami, and as an example of City Beautiful urban planning. , won its $10,000 Daily giveaway. Ms. Thomas-Larson will also be eligible to win iWon.com's $1 million Monthly giveaway and the $10 million Tax Day giveaway on April 17, 2000. "Kristen Thomas-Larson is the latest of many lucky people to win iWon.com's $10,000 Daily cash giveaway," said Co-CEO Bill Daugherty. "With iWon.com, people like Ms. Thomas-Larson are now being rewarded for doing what they're already doing online, such as checking their email, checking their hometown home·town n. The town or city of one's birth, rearing, or main residence. Noun 1. hometown - the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence; "he never went back to his hometown again" weather and searching the Internet. We're thrilled thrill v. thrilled, thrill·ing, thrills v.tr. 1. To cause to feel a sudden intense sensation; excite greatly. 2. To give great pleasure to; delight. See Synonyms at enrapture. that Ms. Thomas-Larson became a Daily winner and is now a part of the iWon.com family of winners." Kristen Thomas-Larson is iWon.com's eighty-first $10,000 Daily winner, and the eighth winner from Florida. Previous $10,000 Daily winners hail from 79 cities representing 31 states across the country. iWon.com, which is similar in concept to Yahoo!, Excite, Lycos and other Internet portals, is giving away, to its users, $10,000 every day, $1 million every month and $10 million on Tax Day (April 17, 2000). By simply using the site to search the Web, check email, go shopping or perform other regular Internet activities, iWon.com users earn entries with practically every click. This marks the first and only portal to offer such a powerful consumer reward feature. All $10,000 Daily winners are posted on the site each day, while the $1 million Monthly winners and the $10 million Tax Day winner will be announced in prime time on the CBS Television Network CBS Television Network Major U.S. broadcasting company and network. It began in 1928 as the Columbia Broadcasting System, a small radio network directed by William S. Paley. . Participation in the program is free, and entries accumulated ac·cu·mu·late v. ac·cu·mu·lat·ed, ac·cu·mu·lat·ing, ac·cu·mu·lates v.tr. To gather or pile up; amass. See Synonyms at gather. v.intr. To mount up; increase. by users are displayed and updated on a real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. basis through an innovative and patent-pending entry tracking system that appears at the top of each page. About iWon.com iWon.com, based in Irvington, NY, is a CBS-backed destination Internet portal combining world-class search, content and functionality with the Internet's largest guaranteed cash giveaway. Located at www.iwon.com, iWon.com is giving away, to its users, $10,000 every day, $1 million every month and $10 million on Tax Day (April 17, 2000). Users collect entries into the Daily, Monthly and Tax Day giveaways for practically everything they do on the site - from searching the Web and reading the news to checking their emails and tracking their stocks. The more you use iWon.com, the more entries you collect and the greater your chances of winning. Participation is free. |
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