CyberShop Joins Amazon's "Shop the Web" Service.JERSEY CITY, NJ--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1998-- CyberShop(R) International, 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 : CYSP), a leading online retailer, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ), the Internet's No. 1 book and No. 1 music retailer, whereby the Company's products from electronics.net, www.electronics.net, and egift, www.egift.com, are listed in Amazon's new comparison shopping service, "Shop the Web". Using Amazon's Junglee product, "Shop the Web" allows consumers to search for items in a number of categories including apparel, electronics, toys, computers and travel. "CyberShop is pleased to be able to join with Amazon for the launch of its new service," said Jeff Tauber, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We have always explored creative ways to generate more qualified online traffic and believe Amazon's dedicated customer base, who are already comfortable with online transactions, is a natural fit with our product mix." As part of the agreement, products from electronics.net and egift will be accessible to Amazon's customers with hyperlinks directly from Amazon to individual product listings on the Company's sites. These links will also be included in a number of other high profile shopping destinations, such as Go2Net's (NASDAQ: GNET GNET Global Network of Environment and Technology GNET General Information Network GNET Gigabit Network ) "WebMarket", CNET's "Snap!" and Wired HotBot's "ShopWired", for which Junglee supplies content. CyberShop also has existing strategic marketing agreements with key portals such as America Online See AOL. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ), Excite (NASDAQ: XCIT) www.excite.com and Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) MSN Shopping MSN Shopping is a member site of the MSN portal. MSN Shopping today is an online comparison shopping site. It aggregates millions of product offers from thousands of retailers. MSN Shopping allows users to search or browse for products. . About CyberShop CyberShop, a leading online retailer, can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.cybershop.com and on America Online in their Shopping channel or by using keyword 'cybershop.' egift can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.egift.com and on America Online, on their Shopping Channel and in their 'Quick Gifts' area or by using the keyword 'egift.' electronics.net, the electronics joint venture with Tops Appliance City (NASDAQ: TOPS), can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.electronics.net. About Amazon.com Inc. Amazon.com, the Internet's No. 1 book and No. 1 music retailer, opened is virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and quickly became Earth's Biggest Bookstore (SM). Today, the Amazon.com store has expanded to offer more than 3 million books, music CDs, videos, DVDs, computer games, and other titles, plus secure credit card payment, personalized recommendations, and streamlined ordering through 1-Click (SM) technology. Amazon.com operates two international bookstore Web sites: www.amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom and www.amazon.de in Germany. Amazon.com also operates PlanetAll (www.planetall.com), a Web-based address book, calendar, and reminder service. It also operates the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the Web's comprehensive and authoritative source of information on more than 150,000 movies and entertainment programs and 500,000 cast and crew members dating from the birth of film in 1892 to the present. |
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