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First Ecom.com and Digital Island to Deliver e-Business Solution
Leading Global Network Services Firm Works with Payment Processing Innovator to Provide Global Content Delivery and Transaction Capabilities in Asia
HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2000-- First Ecom.com (OTCBB: FECC - news), a global provider of electronic payment processing, and Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLD - news), a leading global e-Business Delivery Network, today announced a joint initiative to promote the further growth of e-commerce in Asia.
As a member of Digital Island's Global Partner Program, First Ecom.com will be promoting Digital Island's interactive network and content delivery services, which allow companies competing in global markets to quickly implement e-Business initiatives. Digital Island customers can also have access to First Ecom.com's multi-currency Internet Payment Gateway, which has been designed to enable banks to offer payment processing services to businesses worldwide.
``We are excited to be working with Digital Island to help further the growth of e-Business,' said Gregory Pek, president and CEO of First Ecom.com. ``The unique combination of Digital Island's technologies and global network, and First Ecom.com's multi-currency Internet Payment Gateway will help drive the growth of e-commerce transactions.'
``Digital Island clients can now take advantage of First Ecom.com's real time, multi-currency Internet Payment Gateway,' said Catherine Carlton, regional manager of Greater China for Digital Island. ``This is a major value-add to services that we offer to companies who seek to conduct e-Business without limits around the globe.'
About Digital Island
Digital Island© is a leading global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience. Strategically located Data Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 23 countries. In addition, Digital Island operates more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets. This network is expected to grow to 5,000 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net
About First Ecom.com
As a global provider of electronic payment processing, First Ecom.com provides secure, easy-to-implement and low-cost online payment processing services to merchants and banks worldwide. Through strategic partnerships with banks, ISPs, e-commerce product suppliers, system integrators and storefront solution providers, First Ecom.com will process credit card transactions made over the Internet in multiple currencies, either domestically or offshore in a tax-neutral jurisdiction.
For more information, visit firstecom.com or contact First Ecom.com at +(852) 2801-5181 or by e-mail at merchant@firstecom.com.
Contact:
Davis.Comm (for FEC)
Jeff Davis (US only), 415/837-3939
jdavis@daviscomm.com
or
Investor Relations (for FEC)
888/305-8233
or
Firebrand (for Digital Island)
Brian Paterson, (852) 2122-9762
brian@firebrand.com.hk |
