CBQ, Inc. Partners with MyWay.com to Launch Customized Portals
Business Editors
ADDISON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1999--
Launches New Prioritylink.net Portal to Provide Dynamic and
Personalized Content for Small to Medium-sized Businesses
CBQ, Inc. (OTC BB:CBQI), The E-Business Marketplace, today
announced it has partnered with MyWay.com, a majority-owned operating
company of CMGI, Inc. CBQ will launch its new www.prioritylink.net
E-Business Portal, which will include dynamically generated
personalized content provided by MyWay.com, a leading provider of
custom portal solutions.
CBQ will integrate its properties, www.prioritycash.com, its
Electronic Funds Transfer platform and www.bid4it.com, its auction
site, into its new prioritylink home page. "As we move into the new
millennium, CBQ will continue partnering with major content and
technology providers that meet our niche market requirements,"
commented John Harris, CEO, CBQ, Inc. "MyWay.com will provide feature
rich content and capabilities for our new customers."
Dick Orlando, VP of ISP Solutions for MyWay.com said, "We look
forward to helping prioritylink's customers enjoy a more productive
and personal online experience. With the click of a mouse, they will
have instant access to up-to-the minute information about news,
stocks, travel, shopping and sports."
MyWay.com provides ISPs, enterprises, and affinity groups with
co-branded start pages, or portals, that can be easily customized to
match their own look-and-feel. Portals based on the MyWay.com platform
deliver the most local content on the Web, and the company's unique
"one-click" personalization capability enables users to instantly
personalize their page's content, color, features and design to
reflect their own unique lifestyles and interests. As a result of
these and other advantages, such as an intuitive layout based on user
"intents" and an easy-to-enroll process that does not require users to
complete time-consuming questionnaires, MyWay-based sites have
achieved among the highest retention and duration metrics on the Web
today.
About MyWay.com
MyWay.com, a majority owned operating company of CMGI, Inc.
(Nasdaq:CMGI), is a next generation personalized portal for consumers
and a custom built portal solutions provider for enterprise, ISP and
affinity group partners. Formerly Planet Direct, the Andover-based
company's portals and custom portal solutions enable partners to
acquire new customers by extending their brand and reach on the Web,
and retain customers by providing users with an intuitive, efficient
means to stay informed, explore interests, organize, contact others,
and search the Internet. MyWay.com's million-plus registered users
reach the site directly or through one of its more than 800
distribution affiliates. To learn more about MyWay.com or to
experience the Web your way, visit MyWay.com at www.myway.com.
About CBQ.com
CBQ, Inc., The E-Business Marketplace, is a total end-to-end
provider for implementing customer driven e-business solutions.
Through its subsidiaries, Cyberquest, Inc., Reliance Technologies,
Inc. and Priority One Electronic Commerce Corp., it can design,
implement, host, build traffic and process payments for its customers
e-business initiatives.
This news release includes forward-looking statements related to
CBQ Inc. that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not
limited to, quarterly fluctuations in results, the management of
growth, market acceptance of certain products and other risks. These
forward-looking statements are made in reliance on the "safe-harbor"
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
For further information about these factors that could affect CBQ's
future results, see the company's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission"). Prospective investors are
cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future
performance. Actual results may differ materially from management
expectations.
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CONTACT: MyWay.com
Joe Chernov, 978/247-5480
jchernov@mywaymail.com
or
CBQ, Inc.
John Harris, 972/732-1100
investors@cbq.com |
