MLB Advanced Media Selects Digital River to Host All-Star Online Voting.Business Editors & Technology Writers MINNEAPOLIS & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2001 MLB MLB Major League Baseball MLB Minor League Baseball MLB Middle Linebacker (football) MLB Motor Life Boat MLB Matt Leblanc (actor) MLB Mother Love Bone (band) Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM MLBAM Major League Baseball Advanced Media ), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. , and Digital River, Inc. (Nasdaq:DRIV DRIV Drive (street type) ), a leading global Commerce Service Provider (CSP (1) (Certified Systems Professional) An earlier award for successful completion of an ICCP examination in systems development. See ICCP. (2) (Commerce Service P ), today announced that Digital River is hosting http://vote.mlb.com, the 2001 Official Online All-Star Ballot. The site has already tracked over 100,000 votes since All-Star voting commenced on May 2, 2001. The All-Star Ballot, one of the largest balloting programs conducted today, runs through June 30, 2001 at 11:59 p.m. EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT . Each fan can vote online 25 times. On a daily basis, Digital River extracts votes from its commerce system and reports the information to Major League Baseball. "We need a system that is secure, has consistently high uptime and is able to extract very specific information," said Noah Garden, Senior Vice President of E-Commerce for MLBAM. "We chose Digital River because we trust its e-commerce system to reliably capture and report the online All-Star votes. Digital River is providing baseball fans worldwide with another avenue to participate in All-Star voting," Garden said. "Digital River has a history of supporting a high volume of transactions, which made us a natural fit to host the All-Star online ballot," said Joel Ronning, 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. of Digital River. "Our world-class infrastructure allows us to not only handle MLBAM's e-commerce needs, but also manage the sophisticated analytics associated with the online balloting." About MLB Advanced Media, LP Established in June 2000 following a unanimous vote by the 30 Major League Baseball club owners to centralize all of Baseball's Internet operations, MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM) is the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball. MLBAM manages the official league site, www.MLB.com, and each of the 30 individual Club sites to create the most comprehensive Major League Baseball resource on the Internet. MLB.com offers fans the most complete baseball information on the web, including up-to-date statistics, game summaries, extensive historical information, and exclusive features about Major League Baseball events and programs, including on-line ticket sales, baseball merchandise, authenticated au·then·ti·cate tr.v. au·then·ti·cat·ed, au·then·ti·cat·ing, au·then·ti·cates To establish the authenticity of; prove genuine: a specialist who authenticated the antique samovar. memorabilia and collectibles, fantasy games, radio broadcast of games, pitch-by-pitch enactment of games, and video highlights. About Digital River Founded in 1994, Digital River is a leading global Commerce Service Provider (CSP), offering thousands of companies complete e-commerce systems and services. The Company's world-class infrastructure and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. are proven to grow businesses quickly and profitably while reducing risk. Digital River's commerce services include e-commerce strategy, site development and hosting, order and transaction management, system integration, product fulfillment and returns, e-marketing and customer service. Digital River's clients include Symantec, Fujitsu, 3M, Siemens, Nabisco, Polaris, Novell, Autodesk, SONICblue and Adaptec. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call 952-253-1234. Digital River is a registered trademark of Digital River, Inc. All company and product names are trademarks, registrations or copyrights of their respective owners. |
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