NTXY has news> nettaxi Expands Reach in Business-to-Business Marketplace; Alliance Provides Access to a Network of Over 30,000 Webmasters and Their Members CAMPBELL, Calif., Nov 11, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- nettaxi.com Inc. (OTCBB:NTXY), a community and portal Web site with more than 125 million page views and over 1.4 million unique visitors per month, today announced it has formed a strategic alliance with three direct marketing companies -- BigMailBox.com Inc., GoHip.com Inc. and Clickfest.com. BigMailBox.com is a powerful marketing tool that enables Webmasters to offer free Web-based e-mail to their visitors. GoHip.com is a vertical portal and Webmaster search tool that can be private labeled and customized to best suit the needs of the Webmaster. Clickfest.com is an incentive-based direct marketing tool that empowers Webmasters with the ability to collect customer demographic information, effectively manage an e-mail database of their users, and provide messaging solutions. "This alliance gives nettaxi.com access to a diverse network of Internet companies that can be used for the purposes of direct marketing," said Robert Rositano Jr., chief executive officer, nettaxi.com. "The ability for us to market both our current and future strategies into this growing network will provide us with tremendous advertising, e-commerce and other revenue-generating opportunities." BigMailBox offers many features of Hotmail (MSFT), Message Media (Nasdaq:MESG), Yahoo Mail (Nasdaq:YHOO), Critical Path (Nasdaq:CPTH), and Mail.com (Nasdaq:MAIL). GoHip is a vertical portal similar to Yahoo! and America Online (NYSE:AOL). Clickfest is positioned for success following the performance of other incentive-oriented Web sites like MyPoints.com (Nasdaq:MYPT) and Be Free Inc. (Nasdaq:BFRE). About nettaxi.com (http://www.nettaxi.com) nettaxi.com, with headquarters in Campbell, is a developer of commerce-enabled and content-rich communities that offer its citizens a place to build their "home" on the Internet. Through its Web site at www.nettaxi.com and its interactive CD-ROM product "nettaxi.com: The Experience," nettaxi provides access to news, entertainment, sports, financial, and travel information and services such as free e-mail, personal home pages, chat and messages. In addition, nettaxi now offers the nettaxi Mall, with many products to choose from and enhance its citizens' online shopping experience. Information contained in this news release contains "forward-looking statements" which can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "most dynamic" and "pre-eminent." Factors that could cause actual results to vary materially from the future results covered in such forward-looking statements include competition and the management of the company's growth. Such forward-looking statements are subject to other risks and uncertainties, which are detailed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |