Cox Interactive Media Announces Strategic Partnership With dbusiness.com.Business Editors &High-Tech Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000 CIMedia integrates dbusiness.com's breaking local business news into money channel on nine city sites nationwide; dbusiness.com gains access to highly-targeted consumers Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia), which operates the leading network of locally-focused city web sites across the country, and dbusiness.com, an Internet provider Internet provider - Internet Service Provider of business news also locally focused, today announced a two-year advertising and content distribution agreement across nine city sites. As part of this agreement, CIMedia.com is integrating dbusiness.com's local business news into the Money Channel of its city sites, enhancing the overall quality of content delivered to local users. &uot;This agreement with dbusiness.com strengthens our city sites' position as the best source for useful, local business news,&uot; said Dave Hills, vice president, sales, CIMedia. &uot;It also serves as an excellent example of our unique ability to help busy, local consumers better manage their lives while also meeting the needs of our strategic content partners.&uot; CIMedia city sites participating in the new dbusiness.com agreement are: -- AccessAtlanta.com -- Austin360.com -- GoCarolinas.com (Charlotte, N.C.) -- OCnow.com (Orange County, Calif.) -- SoFla.com (Miami and South Florida) -- SanDiegoInsider.com -- SeattleInsider.com -- GoPBI.com (West Palm Beach) -- InsideCentralFlorida.com (Orlando) Several other CIMedia city sites will be added over the next 90 days. &uot;We're excited about our new alliance with Cox Interactive Media because we gain immediate access to highly-targeted local business consumers through prime positioning and branding on its established city sites in many of our key markets,&uot; said Bob Larsen, dbusiness.com's vice president of business development and strategy. &uot;This partnership will further our reputation as the unparalleled leader in local business news coverage, extend our brand awareness and market reach, and create a broad association with CIMedia's useful financial content and interactive tools.&uot; About Cox Interactive Media Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia) has built a network of locally-focused city web sites across the country with the goal of serving residents and advertisers in each of the communities they serve. CIMedia (www.cimedia.com) was founded in 1996, is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. The company is private, 98% controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late , Inc., and is headquartered in Atlanta. The network consists of 57 sites across the country including two specialty sites, BlackFamilies.com and GreatOutdoors.com. A leading media company, Cox Enterprises, Inc. (CEI CEI Competitive Enterprise Institute CEI Conferenza Episcopale Italiana (Italian bishop conference) CEI Central European Initiative CEI Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano (Italian Electrotechnical Committee) ) includes Cox Newspapers, Inc. (newspapers, direct mail marketing, book publishing book publishing. The term publishing means, in the broadest sense, making something publicly known. Usually it refers to the issuing of printed materials, such as books, magazines, periodicals, and the like. ), Cox Broadcasting, Inc. (TV, spot sales, television production, research and publicly traded Cox Radio Cox Radio NYSE: CXR is a publicly traded company that holds a number of radio stations. Private company Cox Broadcasting, Inc., a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises owns all of the company's super-voting Class B common stock, and thus controls the company. , Inc [NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CXR CXR abbr. chest x-ray CXR, n chest x-ray; an image of the thoracic cavity, produced by an irradiation scan of the upper torso. ]), publicly traded Cox Communications Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest[2] cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6. , Inc. [NYSE: COX] (cable distribution, programming, telephone and high-speed Internet See broadband. access services) in addition to CIMedia. CEI is also the world's largest operator of automobile auctions through Manheim Auctions Manheim Automotive Services is the largest and highest volume wholesale automobile auction company in the world. As a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc., Manheim provides services including financing, title work, transportation, recovery, auto body repair, dealership management , providing financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , government auctions, online services and price guides. About dbusiness.com dbusiness.com is the leading Internet provider of local business intelligence, including news, e-commerce services, business tools, and investment and research resources for small businesses. Through its 16 local business destination sites in major markets across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , dbusiness.com is the nation's only comprehensive business resource tool for small businesses. Visit www.dbusiness.com for breaking local news and in-depth local coverage in: Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Boston; Charlotte/Research Triangle Park, N.C.; Dallas; Denver; Houston; Los Angeles; Minneapolis/St. Paul; Orlando, Fla.; Portland; San Diego; Seattle; South Florida; Tampa Bay, Fla.; and Washington/Northern Virginia. The dbusiness.com site also features Release Tracker, a database of local press releases, and Venture Tracker, a database designed for investors interested in privately held venture financed companies or companies that have gone public in the past year. dbusiness.com also publishes digitalsouth magazine (www.digitalsouth.com), the only publication that covers leading-edge technology companies and finance from the Mason-Dixon line to the Florida Keys and west to Austin, Texas. |
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