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(NEWZ) NewsPage.com Joins with TrainingNet to Provide Easy Online Access to Professional Training and Education One Million-plus NewsPage.com Users to Gain Immediate Access to Individualized Training Options From the Most Comprehensive E-Commerce Marketplace BURLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- NewsPage.com, Inc., the leader in delivering free, highly individualized news and information to business professionals over the Internet, today announced it will provide users online access to TrainingNet, the #1 marketplace for skills training and professional education. NewsPage.com will incorporate TrainingNet into each user's individualized Web page to provide them the most comprehensive and largest number of training and professional development options offered anywhere. The arrangement with TrainingNet helps NewsPage.com's growing user base of one million-plus active, business professionals instantly learn about relevant training opportunities and streamline selection to better manage their professional development. "Our goal is to help business men and women get ahead at work and in their personal lives," said Ilene H. Lang, president and chief executive officer, NewsPage.com. "Access to the best training and development programs available is critical for professional advancement. Now, in teaming with TrainingNet, we are providing our users with the most far reaching resources for professional development available today -- simply and easily through their individualized NewsPage.com Web page." "As we actively partner with leading Web brands to make our marketplace ubiquitous where professionals already go for development and information, NewsPage.com is a cornerstone for our strategy," said Hemang Dave, TrainingNet CEO and a founder. "With NewsPage.com, over a million users will have quick and easy access to the training resources they need to survive in today's knowledge-driven economy, along with their high quality, personalized news and information." NewsPage.com is incorporating TrainingNet into individualized user Web pages in two phases, first as a link to provide immediate access to the full complement of training and development resources in a co-branded NewsPage.com Training Center powered by TrainingNet. A second phase will add features based on individual user preferences and interest areas. The agreement between NewsPage.com and TrainingNet includes e-commerce and co-marketing opportunities. About TrainingNet TrainingNet, Inc. is the number one e-commerce marketplace for skills training and professional education - with the most comprehensive selection of all brands and forms of training, including classroom, on-site, and online training, books, videos and CD-ROMs. TrainingNet currently offers hundreds of thousands of course events annually in over 25 categories, and 1000-plus of the market's leading training providers. Through a partnership-oriented strategy, TrainingNet is making its marketplace accessible where professionals already go for career development: corporate intranets; the career sections of high-traffic Web sites; business-and professional-oriented Web sites, products and services; and TrainingNet's own public Web site. The company is headquartered in Bedford, MA, with technical operations in Vancouver, BC, Canada. For more information, contact the company at (781) 280-1100, or visit the Web site at www.trainingnet.com. About NewsPage.com NewsPage.com is a free individualized Internet service that continuously adapts to provide business people with the best news, information and services to put them ahead in work and life. Unlike other alternatives, NewsPage.com offers the Web's largest collection of uniquely individualized business, financial, industry, trade and company-specific news and information to deliver better targeted, better customized and more relevant news and information to the business professional. Visit the site and sign up for a free personalized news service at www.newspage.com. NewsPage.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of NewsEdge Corporation, (Nasdaq: NEWZ). SOURCE: NewsPage.com, Inc.