i have found Compaq and Snap.com to be the 2 deals that IDT has not officially announced since the mention in the S1/A filing. i am pasting here many excerpts from the S1/A to show both announced and unannounced deals. some of these excerpts duplicate the partners' names, but each excerpt explains a bit more on the partnerships for better understanding.
" We currently have strategic relationships with Netscape, Compaq, Yahoo!,
Excite and others. We depend on these relationships to:
. distribute our products to potential customers;
. increase usage of our services; . build brand awareness; and
. cooperatively market our products and services. "
" We have strategic alliances with Netscape,
Snap.com, Yahoo!, ZDNet, and InfoSpace.com, and intend to continue to pursue
relationships with other companies. "
" We have developed a sophisticated PC2Phone software application that enables
the use of our Web-based Internet telephony services. We distribute this
software free of charge through the Internet and through agreements to include
our software with products sold by our strategic partners. In January 1999,
Netscape agreed to embed our PC2Phone software on an exclusive basis into all
versions of Netscape's Internet browser released during the term of our
agreement, including Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator. Netscape
also agreed to include a Net2Phone icon on the Netscape Navigator Personal
Toolbar.
We also have entered into strategic marketing and distribution relationships
with leading Internet companies, including, Excite, InfoSpace.com, Snap.com,
Yahoo! and ZDNet. We have also entered into arrangements with leading computer
equipment and software companies, such as IBM, Compaq, Packard Bell-NEC Europe
and Creative Labs to include our software with their products. "
" . For example, our software will be embedded into future versions of
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Internet browser and a Net2Phone icon will be prominently positioned
next to AOL's Instant Messenger icon on the Netscape Navigator Personal
Tool Bar. In addition, our software is included with IBM's Internet
services and may be pre-loaded on computers sold by Compaq
internationally. We intend to build upon these relationships and enter
into new distribution relationships with other leading companies in
order to enhance the distribution of our software worldwide. "
" Yahoo!, Excite and InfoSpace.com
In 1998 we signed an agreement with Yahoo!, which was recently renewed
through 2000. Our Web-based Internet telephony service is integrated into
Yahoo!'s People Search online telephone directory. As a result of this
integration, an Internet user who performs a search on Yahoo! People Search can
simply click on a displayed telephone number to initiate a call to that number.
Under this agreement, we also have the right to have our banner advertising
appear when an Internet user performs a word- or category-search for "Internet
Telephony" or related phrases on Yahoo! Additionally, we have contracted with
Yahoo! to integrate our PC2Phone service into Yahoo!'s Yellow Pages and White
Pages online directories.
Our Web-based Internet telephony software is also integrated into Excite's
Web sites in its International Network, which includes the United Kingdom,
Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Australia, Sweden and the Netherlands. As a
result, an Internet user in any of these countries will be able to click on any
telephone number that appears on any page on these sites to initiate a call to
that number using our PC2Phone service. In addition, our services will be
prominently featured within the Excite International Network via advertising
and promotion on various channels, including each member's homepage, business,
technology/computer and travel channels, as well as the localized versions of
My Excite, What's New/What's Cool and Mail Excite. We are negotiating with
Excite to have our services integrated into Excite's United States Web sites as
well.
In addition, our Web-based Internet telephony software is integrated into
InfoSpace.com's network of white and yellow page directory services. This
network of sites includes all the white and yellow page listings in Netscape's
Netcenter Web site, the Microsoft Network, the GO Network and Xoom.com. "
" Other Strategic Relationships
We also have entered into other important strategic relationships with other
leading Internet and computer hardware and software companies, including:
. Compaq. Our software is featured as a download from a special Compaq Web
site accessible directly from the Compaq-branded keyboard, may be pre-
installed on Compaq-branded computers distributed internationally and
may be included with their other products.
. Snap.com. Promotions for our services and a link to our Web site will be
prominently displayed on the Snap.com Web site, and we are their
preferred provider of PC-to-phone services.
. ZDNet. We are the preferred provider of Internet telephony services for
ZDNet and our Web-based Internet telephony service will be integrated
throughout the ZDNet Web site.
. Quicknet Technologies. Our PC2Phone software is integrated into
Quicknet's telephone handset product called Internet PhoneJACK.
. Bigfoot International, WorldPages/Web YP and Internet 800 Directory. Our
PC2Phone service is integrated into these three popular online
directories, which allow Internet users to call any listed telephone
number simply by clicking on the displayed number. "
" We promote our services through online and Internet-based advertising venues
and traditional print advertising in domestic and international publications.
We will also be advertising our services on the NBC television network. Another
way we sell our services internationally is by entering into exclusive
agreements with resellers in other countries. We sell these resellers bulk
amounts of minutes of use of our products and services to be resold in the
resellers' respective countries. For example, in Asia, we have agreements with
Daewoo and Naray Mobile Telecom in South Korea and Marubeni in Japan. In Europe
and the Middle East, we have agreements with CAPCOM in Spain and Dot.LB in
Lebanon, among others. To facilitate distribution and attract users in foreign
countries, we have developed our software in eight languages (English, Spanish,
Japanese, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian and German) and intend to increase
the number of languages as our distribution broadens. "
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