Newstream.com Expands Audience to Investment, Corporate Communications and Public Relations Professionals.Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 6, 2000 Newstream.com announced Thursday that for the first time investment analysts, corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. specialists and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most professionals may now register for access to Newstream.com, the premier Web portal See portal. dedicated to delivering downloadable multimedia news stories to registered online journalists. Visitors to the site who are not journalists may register to view all the stories and multimedia elements in their original form. Unlike journalists, however, they will not be given the option of downloading the multimedia elements in a variety of formats for re-publishing. Launched in January as a registration-only site for journalists who work and publish on the web, Newstream.com currently serves hundreds of streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. and audio clips, photographs, graphics and slides from corporations and organizations to nearly 9,000 registered journalists. The journalists -- at sites ranging from ABCNEWS.com, CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. Marketwatch, Wall Street Journal Interactive, and About.com, to niche news sites in the fields of technology, health and medicine, consumer news, lifestyles and other topics - can download the assets for free and unrestricted re-publishing on their news sites. "Our multimedia news content from companies such as Merrill Lynch, Advanced Micro Devices, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Columbia Records, Lucent Technologies and 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. , and organizations such as Tobacco Free Kids and Greenpeace, is still intended primarily for working journalists," said Nick Peters, Senior Vice President of Newstream.com. "However the exclusive content is also compelling to corporate communicators and public relations professionals, as well as to researchers seeking in-depth information on companies. They have been asking for a chance to see the stories. Now they can." Newstream.com is a joint venture of Business Wire, the leading public relations and investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. news wire service, and Medialink Worldwide Incorporated, the global leader in the production and distribution of video and audio to the Internet, television and radio for the corporate communications and public relations industries. About Medialink Medialink is the world leader in providing communications solutions to corporations through television, radio and the Internet. It provides traditional broadcast production and distribution services for its clients to thousands of television and radio stations and Internet news sites, as well as streaming media services to desktops worldwide. In addition to broadcast media services, the company provides press release and still photography services, as well as tracking and analysis of print and broadcast news coverage to help its clients understand how they are perceived in the media, including the Internet, and to gauge the effectiveness of their public relations efforts. Medialink, founded in 1986, is based in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and maintains offices in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco, Norwalk, CT and Portsmouth, NH; its international division based in London; and a network of affiliates in more than 18 countries in Europe, Asia, the Pacific Rim and Latin America. Offices can be contacted via the Internet at www.medialink.com. About Business Wire Founded in San Francisco in 1961 by its president, Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations executive, Business Wire delivers more news from more sources to more destinations than any other service in the world. With content from more than 40,000 organizations, including Fortune 1000 and Nasdaq companies. Business Wire remains the fastest-growing and largest independent commercial newswire in the world. Business Wire combines a brick and mortar See bricks and mortar. foundation with the vision of an Internet company. With 26 U.S. bureaus, Business Wire's headquarters is in San Francisco with an eastern U.S. hub in New York, an international hub in Brussels and reciprocal offices throughout the world. With the exception of the historical information contained in the release, the matters described herein contain forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Such statements involve various risks that may cause actual results to differ materially. These risks include, but are not limited to, the ability of the Company to grow internally or by acquisition, and to integrate acquired businesses, changing industry and competitive conditions, significant fluctuations in exchange rates, and other risks outside the control of the Company referred to in the Company's registration statement and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.070600/bb3 |
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