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Quepasa.com Announces Launch of Navidad.com for the Holiday Season
(Business Wire 11/15 15:31:17)
Business Editors
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999--In time for the holiday
season, quepasa.com (Nasdaq: PASA), the premier online community for
U.S. Hispanics, announced today the launch of Navidad.com. Featuring
articles on Latino holiday traditions, Navidad.com: a quepasa.com
Christmas provides its members with links to shopping, message boards
and other Holiday related sites.
Through quepasa.com's "Compras," Enlaces de Navidad" and
"Hablando de Navidad," quepasa.com's members will have the opportunity
to discuss with others their traditions and share information relating
to customs, food, ornaments, religious practices and stories.
"Navidad.com is a wonderful addition to the quepasa.com
community," said Gary L. Trujillo, Chairman and CEO of quepasa.com.
"Navidad.com is a place where people will have the ability to do most
of their holiday shopping online and also to share holiday traditions
from Hispanic cultures worldwide."
Navidad.com is part of quepasa.com's business strategy to provide
e-commerce opportunities to its members while still providing content
that is culturally relevant.
About quepasa.com
Quepasa.com provides the rapidly growing U.S. Hispanic market
with information and interactive content available in both Spanish and
English. The site was founded in 1998 and includes a search engine,
free e-mail, free Web pages, Spanish-language news feeds, worldwide
weather information, chat rooms, games, maps, and message boards.
Quepasa.com has entered into strategic partnerships with leading
providers of media, content and technology including: Reuters
NewMedia, Inc., Associated Press, Hispanic Business Magazine,
Screaming Media, Inc., GlobalEnglish Corporation, AutoNation, Inc.,
Net2Phone, Inc., Telemundo Network Group, Fox Sports World Espanol,
WeatherLabs, Inc., Inktomi, GTE Internetworking and Exodus
Communications.
Certain statements in this release regarding the Company's
expected future business and prospects constitute "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are based upon
current expectations and involve certain risks and uncertainties that
could cause actual results to differ materially from any such
statement, including risks and uncertainties discussed in the
Prospectus as amended, of quepasa.com, which discussions are
incorporated herein by reference.
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CONTACT: PepperCom
Lane Buschel, (212) 931-6130
lbuschel@peppercom.com
or
quepasa.com
Michele Vahsen, (602) 716-0100 ext. 259
mvahsen@quepasa.com
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