Quepasa.com and X:drive Team Up to Offer Free
Hardrive Space to the Latino Community
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1999--Quepasa.com (Nasdaq: PASA - news), the premier online community
for the U.S. Hispanic market (www.quepasa.com), announced an agreement today with X:drive (www.xdrive.com), the
Internet Hard Drive company, to provide quepasa.com members with free Internet hard drive space. Now, members can
securely edit and share any type of file, including documents, pictures, music, and videos in Spanish and English using the
Internet.
``The partnership with X:drive enhances our community-based Web site by offering quepsa.com members the ability to
share their documents and files with their friends or relatives in the U.S., Latin America and around the world,' said Gary L.
Trujillo, Chairman and CEO, quepasa.com. ``We are committed to creating a feature-filled Web site that satisfies the needs
of the entire Latino community.'
The X:drive technology gives users the ability to drag and drop, and even edit their Internet files, just like local C:drive files.
With X:drive, quepasa.com members will have 25MB of hard drive space to securely manage their online files anytime,
anywhere.
``We chose quepasa.com because of its leadership position as the premier online community for U.S. Latinos,' said Brett
O'Brien, X:drive CEO and founder. ``With quepasa.com and X:drive, the Latino community will have all the tools they
need to work with large files and have access to them anytime they want, wherever they are.'
Trujillo concurs, ``We look forward to bringing the Internet and X:drive to Latinos on the go, as well as to our members
with out computers who access the Internet through schools, local libraries, and community centers, and need a secure
place to store large personal files.'
About quepasa.com
Quepasa.com (www.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.
About X:drive
Launched on July 8, 1999, X:drive (www.xdrive.com) is the Internet's private hideaway and public meeting place. As the
first and only Internet Hard Drive on the desktop, X:drive is both a free service providing 25 megabytes of personal space
on the Internet to organize, store and share personal files, as well as a community destination for members to publish and
share rich-media content, including music, video, pictures and documents. Over 1 million members are expected to join
X:drive by January, 2000. X:drive is privately held and based in Santa Monica, California.
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.
Contact:
PepperCom
Lane Buschel, 212/931-6130
E-mail: lbuschel@peppercom.com
or
quepasa.com
Michele Vahsen, 602/716-0100 ext. 259
E-mail: mvahsen@quepasa.com
or
Murphy O'Brien, Inc. (for X:drive)
Robert Karpman, 310/453-2539
E-mail: robert@murphyobrien.com |
