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YAHOO!Chinese On-Line Sponsorship Available Now From Ursus Telecom and
Chineseinvestors.com; First Promotion of the Strategic On-Line Partnership
Launches Today
Business Editors/Technology Writers
SUNRISE, Fla. & ARCADIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 1999--
Ursus Telecom Corporation (Nasdaq:UTCC) and Chineseinvestors.com, Inc.
unveiled the first of their on-line sponsorships today on
YAHOO!Chinese, www.chinese.yahoo.com, targeted at Chinese language
markets throughout the world.
The sponsorship is offering free trips to Asia, free calling
cards, and other incentives to their YAHOO!Chinese visitors from Asia,
the USA and around the globe, culminating in a Chinese New Year's
prize giveaway in February, 2000. The rich real-time financial content
of www.chineseinvestors.com and The Internet Phone Booth(TM) from
www.theStream.com will be prominently featured throughout the joint
promotion.
"With a potential audience of hundreds of millions of viewers
requiring services and information, Chinese language sites are among
the fastest growing portals in the world." stated Jeffrey Chaskin,
President of Ursus, "Together with Chineseinvestors.com," continued
Chaskin, "we intend to reach this yet untapped market with promotional
and incentive sponsorships which welcome Chinese speaking visitors in
their own languages and cultures."
The partnership expects to announce other portal affiliations
where Chineseinvestors.com will be supplying news and real-time
financial market content and theStream.com will be offering on-line
communications and messaging services.
"With both home page and text link promotions potentially
delivering millions of impressions over the next three months, we
believe Chinese investors around the world will realize the value that
chineseinvestors.com and theStream.com can provide," stated Warren
Wang, CEO of Chineseinvestors, Inc. Mr. Wang went on to say, " Within
the next two months we will open our representative office in the
financial center of Shanghai, which will serve Greater China. We
believe the recent trade agreement between the U.S. and China will
provide a tremendous opportunity for telecommunications companies like
Ursus Telecom. We are pleased to be working with Ursus and look
forward to building our relationship."
ABOUT CHINESEINVESTORS.COM
Chineseinvestors.com, Inc. is the publisher of
Chineseinvestors.com and is a leading Chinese language web based
provider of real-time financial market information. The company
launched its web-based operations earlier this year, and is based in
Arcadia, California. In addition to providing rich financial market
content, it publishes original news stories and commentaries covering
the global markets every business day supplied by its reporters around
the world. With over 500,000 page views growing at 100% every month,
Chineseinvestors.com plans to open overseas offices in Shanghai and in
other countries around the world.
ABOUT URSUS TELECOM
Ursus Telecom Corporation is a global facilities-based
telecommunications company that provides international services,
including long distance, direct-dial, value-added and Internet-based
services to more than 100,000 customers -- individuals, businesses and
carriers -- worldwide. The Company operates directly and through a
network of agents on five continents and over 45 countries that
account for more than 80% of the World's International traffic. Ursus
Telecom operates switching facilities and points of presence in
Sunrise Florida, Frankfurt, Lima, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg and
Tokyo. Ursus Telecom is the source of theSTREAM.com.
Together with theSTREAM.com as the Company's global marketing and
provisioning mechanism, Ursus believes it is well positioned to
prosper in the next generation of services which combine the Internet,
telephony, fax, data and video services into a single broadband
platform offering a rich multi-media experience to its customers
throughout the world.
Statements in this news release that relate to future plans,
financial results or projections, events or expected performance in
future periods are forward-looking statements and fall within the safe
harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. While management wishes to provide readers with reasonable
opinions and viewpoints with respect to the Company's progress,
marketplace acceptance, business opportunities, and fiscal
performance, such statements, opinions and viewpoints are
forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties, including risks
of changing conditions in the overall economy, the capital markets,
the computer and telecommunications industries, as well as risks of
changing consumer demand and the success of the Company's business
strategies and other factors detailed in the Company's annual and
other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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CONTACT: Ursus Telecom Corporation, Sunrise
Jeffrey Chaskin, President
Tel: 954.846.7887
jchaskin@ursustel.net
or
Continental Capital & Equity Corporation
Michael Irving
Tel: 407.682.2001,
Irv@insidewallstreet.com
or
Chineseinvestors.com Inc.
Clayton Miller, C.O.O.
claytonmiller@chineseinvestors.com
Tel 1.800.227.1982
www.chineseinvestors.com
www.chineseinvestors.com/CI_eng
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