(PR NEWSWIRE) Corporate Vision, Inc. Acquires Partial Ownership of Interne Corporate Vision, Inc. Acquires Partial Ownership of Internet Software Company TULSA, Okla. and ST. LOUIS, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Corporate Vision, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CVIA), of Tulsa, OK, is pleased to announce the completion of first round financing for Internet software company clickgarden.com, Inc., of St. Louis, MO. The financing consisted of a stock swap of 250,000 shares of Corporate Vision, Inc. common stock in return for 900,000 shares of clickgarden.com, Inc. common stock. As a part of this agreement, Corporate Vision, Inc. has retained the option to complete an additional $2,500,000 round of funding within 90 days of this agreement. The PC-based Internet software created by clickgarden.com, Inc. is in late development stage. It will be freely and widely distributed to both consumer and business users, and will greatly enhance many of the most common Internet Surfing activities, in addition to providing many new and highly-desirable benefits to Internet Surfers. The software also embeds many e-commerce and traffic-payment relationships in a convenient, easy-to-use manner. Commissions on e-commerce transactions, and "per-click" payments for Internet traffic, will form the backbone of the revenue generated by the clickgarden.com software. It is anticipated that market-leading merchants and vendors in every category of e-commerce will be included in these relationships. Users will have the opportunity to highly personalize the nature, content and style of the e-commerce links appearing in each copy of the software, so as to provide an "exactly right for me" environment. Additionally, an opportunity to participate in rebates and other forms of user incentive programs will be included. Chief among clickgarden.com's features are the ability to easily capture any parts of any Web pages, organize the captured pages or parts-of-pages into coherent permanent "collections", apply compression and encryption as appropriate, and subsequently review, search, modify, share, print, or email these collections. If the recipient of a shared or emailed collection does not already have the clickgarden software, a simple click by the sender will cause a complete copy of the software to accompany the shared or emailed collection. Internet useage is dominated by fact-finding and research activities, whether for personal, professional, educational or corporate purposes. The new clickgarden.com, Inc. software will greatly improve these activities, and additionally will be popular for the collection of personal-entertainment items from the Web, including downloadable MP3 music and videos (multimedia players are built into the software). SOURCE Corporate Vision, Inc. -0- 10/19/1999 /CONTACT: Corporate Vision, Inc., 918-307-2243/ /Web site: iposite.com (CVIA) CO: Corporate Vision, Inc.; clickgarden.com, Inc. ST: Oklahoma, Missouri IN: CPR SU: TNM *** end of story *** |