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To: Jing Qian who wrote (13391)	8/3/1999 8:18:00 PM
From: E. Graphs	Respond to of 29970

ExciteAtHome denies merger, but sees deals biz.yahoo.com >>...Instead, Bell said at a BancBoston Robertson Stephens investment conference, his company has had talks covering only a very limited topic with Yahoo and others. ExciteAtHome is looking at ways to ''monetize'' its ''start page,'' the initial page that users see when they connect to its high-speed Internet service being rolled out nationally. ''We have been in talks with AOL, Yahoo, and lots of folks about our start page,'' he said. The start page could become among the most valuable properties on the Internet as use of ExciteAtHome's high-speed network rises. America Online Inc (NYSE:AOL - news) and other Internet services have been campaigning to get access to the system, arguing that the cable systems that own it should be governed by the open access rules of television broadcasters. But Bell said that ExciteAtHome had no plans to give away the valuable real estate of its start page, and it will seek ''fair value'' from other users wanting to use it. Bell said ExciteAtHome would try to ''avoid the fate of Netscape,'' which was the default page for Web surfers in the early days of the commercial Internet before Yahoo, Excite and others gradually took over the space by broadening their content offerings and marketing themselves aggressively....<<