HOTBAR.COM Partners with CNET Providing Users Instent Access to Top Content with a Personalized Toolbar
Adding "CNETGuide" Gives Millions of Hotbar Users One Click Access to Information from Industry Leader's Internet Technology News
Tel Aviv, MAY 1, 2000 Hotbar.com, Inc., a global pioneer in providing browser enhancement software that skins the Web browser and adds functionality, and CNET.com (Nasdaq: CNET), the leading technology Web site, today announced an agreement for a "CNETGuide" to be added to Hotbar.com's already popular toolbar.
Hotbar.com makes the online experience more enjoyable and efficient by turning the Web browser into a dynamic, personalized browser. Through its portable portal, Hotbar users have access to 3,000 of the leading Web sites and convenient Internet based services, including PC-to-phone, which allows users to make a free phone call to the U.S. and Canada. In addition, Hotbar.com's light 120 kilobyte plug-in enables users to color their current browsers with a gallery of nearly 20,000 background images or skins that can be instantly selected and interchanged from the Hotbar.com site.
The new "CNETGuide" will allow millions of Hotbar users to instantly access CNET content from Hotbar's toolbar with one click. By clicking on the Guides button on the Hotbar toolbar, users will have access to headline news from news.com, shopping sections from CNET and links to download.com, search.com and gamecenter.com. Additionally, users can customize their Guide button to include CNET's recently acquired mySimon.com.
"Having CNET, a powerful, content-driven Web site join Hotbar's growing family of services confirms the power of our platform," said Hotbar.com co-founder and CEO, Oren Dobronsky. "We are committed to offering our users a dynamic tool for their browsers."
CNET joins high profile partners The Industry Standard, iVillage.com and CDNOW with developed Guides on the Hotbar.com toolbar. Two additional Guides, a daily scoreboard guide filled with America's most popular sports scores, as well as an astrology Guide, are also extremely popular with users.
"CNET's goal is to provide every user on the Internet access to our leading industry news and information," said Matt Comyns, Vice President of Business Development for CNET. "Hotbar is a personalized dynamic tool that users can take anywhere with them while they surf the Net now they can also take CNET's information along on their Web journeys."
"Our agreement with CNET demonstrates our commitment to quality content and its management," said Hotbar.com Co-founder and President, Gabriella Karni. "CNET provides the best in technology news and resource information we are excited to offer this to our users."
About CNET Networks, Inc.
CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNET), is the leading content network providing news and information to buyers and sellers around the world. CNET Networks is a platform for two Internet brands, a computer product database, and television and radio programming for both consumers and businesses. CNET, www.cnet.com, is the world's most trusted source of information on computers, the Internet and technology, serving millions of users each day. CNET's Web content has been localized for seven Asia Pacific markets: Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan and Australia. CNET Data Services licenses its multi-lingual product database to U.S. and European online computer retailers, resellers and e-commerce companies. CNET's award-winning television and radio programs are broadcast in 100 countries worldwide, as well as on CNBC and other national distribution in the U.S. In February 2000, CNET acquired mySimon, www.mysimon.com, the Internet's largest comparison shopping service, with more than 200 categories and over 2000 merchants. CNET currently has investments in cash and marketable securities valued at more than a half-billion dollars.
About Hotbar.com, Inc.
Hotbar.com Inc., a privately held company with 40 employees based in Tel Aviv, Israel, was founded in 1999 by Chief Executive Officer Oren Dobronsky and President
Gabriella Karni. The company's dynamic, personalized Internet browser software plug-in
was launched in December of 1999, allowing web surfers a more enjoyable and efficient browsing experience. Thousands of Hotbar Skin centers exist on the Web to date, featuring personal "skins" created by Hotbar.com users. The company is the 129th most popular Web site on the Internet for March 2000, as ranked by the Alexa 1000. For more information, please visit www.hotbar.com |
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