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Tuesday April 13, 7:01 am Eastern Time
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SOURCE: Vicinity Corporation
InfoSpace.com Selects Vicinity's Mapping Services for Its Private Label Content and Commerce Solutions
InfoSpace.com's Broad Affiliate Network of More Than 1,500 Web Sites Will Now Have Integrated Access to Vicinity's Mapping Services
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Vicinity(SM) Corporation ( vicinity.com ), the leader in e-retail marketing solutions, and InfoSpace.com, (Nasdaq: INSP - news), a leading provider of private label solutions for content, community and commerce for Web sites and Internet appliances, today announced a strategic alliance under which InfoSpace.com will use Vicinity's maps and directions to provide private label content and commerce solutions to portals and large destination sites on the Internet.
Accessible through InfoSpace.com's yellow pages directories, the maps and driving directions pages will be available to InfoSpace.com's affiliates, including the Company's most recent partnerships with NBC and CNET's Snap and EarthLink using InfoSpace.com's private label content solutions.
''This agreement gives InfoSpace.com the ability to provide Internet users with one click easy access to maps and directions to businesses found in their award-winning yellow page directories,'' said Emerick Woods, president and CEO of Vicinity. ''This relevant real world content is a good fit with InfoSpace.com's quality content and commerce offerings and will enable users to get the most out of their online searching and shopping experience.''
''Vicinity's comprehensive and reliable mapping services will become an important component of our private label content and commerce solutions already available through some of the Internet's most popular Web sites and portals,'' said Naveen Jain, CEO of InfoSpace.com. ''It is through relationships such as this that we are able to provide contextually relevant information to more than 83 percent of U.S. Internet users.''
About InfoSpace.com
InfoSpace.com is a leading provider of private label solutions for content, community and commerce to Web sites and Internet appliances. InfoSpace.com's affiliate network consists of more than 1,500 Web sites. The Company's affiliates include AOL, Netscape, Microsoft, Lycos, go2net Inc.'s MetaCrawler, Dow Jones (The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition), ABC LocalNet and CBS's affiliated TV stations. In addition, InfoSpace.com has agreements with a number of providers of Internet access devices including PCs by Acer America and The Pixel Company (for Packard Bell NEC), cellular phones by AT&T Wireless and UnWired Planet, pagers by WolfeTech (for Motorola), screen phones by InfoGear, Mitel, Mitsui and Lucent, television set-top boxes by American Interactive Media, @Home, Lucent, On Command, Planetweb and Source Media, online kiosks by King kiosk platform and Lexitech kiosk platform, and personal digital assistants by AT&T Wireless, InfoGear and Unwired Planet.
About Vicinity
Vicinity Corporation (www.vicinity.com) is the leading provider of e-retail solutions that help corporations facilitate sales at their real-world locations by increasing the selling power of their Web sites. Vicinity gives its corporate customers a critical competitive advantage by arming them with robust technology, content and services allowing them to provide the most convenient, up-to-date store location and product information to their consumer audience on the Internet today. Vicinity's customer base of more than 220 companies includes Alta Vista, BellSouth, Fed Ex, Ford, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton, Levi Strauss & Co., Marriott, NEC, Pizza Hut, Preview Travel, Starbucks, Taco Bell, Toyota and UPS. The company was established in 1995 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.
NOTE: Vicinity is a registered trademark of Vicinity Corporation. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
CONTACT: Jill Wood of McLean Public Relations, 650-685-3850, or jw@mcleanpr.com, for Vicinity; or Anne Taylor, 206-443-8004, or annet@text100.com, for InfoSpace.com; or Joni Hanson of InfoSpace.com, 425-882-1602, or jhanson@infospace.com.
SOURCE: Vicinity Corporation
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