E-BUSINESS NEWS.Dairy.com announces the first business-to-business online vertical exchange focused specifically on the entire U.S. dairy industry. Dairy.com was founded by a consortium of eight dairy industry organizations representing all segments of the industry. The site will feature a dairy commodity exchange, dairy farmer services, information tools, supply chain management tools and industry-focused community and content. Dairy.com is scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2001. E-Markets, Inc., Ames, Iowa Ames is a city located in the central part of the U.S. state of Iowa, about 30 miles north of Des Moines in Story County. It is the principal city of the 'Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses all of Story County, Iowa and which, when combined with the , completes its second round of investment financing. The $10 million round was led by first-round investor Neocarta Ventures, L.P. and included other first-round investors CMEA CMEA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance CMEA Cellular Message Encryption Algorithm CMEA Canadian Music Educators' Association CMEA Council for Mutual Economic Aid CMEA Certified Machinery Equipment Appraiser CMEA Colorado Music Education Association Ventures and CB/EM Holdings, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . They were joined by the Burrill Agbio Capital Fund and Genavent, a French venture capital fund created by SG Asset Management and Aventis S.A. E-Markets will use the funds to support continued development and marketing of its applications for agriculture, including the recently deployed DRCs, Decision Rules for Contracts. Through its partnership with AccuWeather, VantagePoint Network, Fort Collins, Colo., launches VantagePoint Precision Weather, an 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 service for producers and their crop consultants to view personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. , field-specific information. VantagePoint members subscribing to the service can view images of their fields from the nearest radar locations, stationed within a 50-mile radius of their fields. Engage Business Media, Andover, Mass., a full-service B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business online advertising network and division of Engage, Inc., has created an in-depth agriculture vertical audience group as part of its B2B online advertising network. "Agriculture has become one of our fastest-growing vertical markets," says Joanne Currie cur·rie n. Variant of curry2. , general manager of Engage Business Media. "We have spent a great deal of time and effort researching this market and getting to know the top agriculture Web sites as well as leading agriculture ad agencies and marketers." The network includes 16 agricultural sites. |
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