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Canon, Dartmouth, Drexel, EMC, Gillette and StorageTek Select EarthWeb to Reach and Support IT Professionals
The IT Career Solutions Company(TM) Adds New Clients Across Several Industries
NEW YORK, Nov 6, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- EarthWeb (Nasdaq: EWBX chart, msgs) the IT Career Solutions Company(TM), announced today it has completed agreements with a number of new clients across multiple industries that include Bose, Canon, Dartmouth College, Drexel University, EMC, Gillette and StorageTek for EarthWeb's products and services. EarthWeb provides leading career development resources and technical expertise to the world's Information Technology (IT) professionals through its network of online services that include EarthWeb.com, dice.com, ITKnoweldge.com and MeasureUp.com.
"In a world powered by the explosive growth of information technology, IT professionals have become indispensable," said Jack D. Hidary, President and CEO of EarthWeb. "Our integrated IT career solutions support organizations across every industry by helping them find, develop, reach and retain the IT talent required to optimize mission-critical technology."
In the technical expertise area, EarthWeb has completed agreements with 57 public and private Universities, including Dartmouth College, Drexel University and DePaul University, to provide EarthWeb's ITKnowledge Academic (academic.itknowledge.com), a comprehensive online reference and training library of thousands of searchable IT reference books and documentation. This agreement will give a combined total of over 150,000 students access to ITKnowledge Academic through their university libraries.
"It has become a growing challenge for us to keep the newest technology books on the shelves," said Bruce Whitham, head of Information Services at Drexel University. "Technology is developing so rapidly that new volumes are coming out everyday. ITK Academic was an obvious choice for us because it has the most recent computer books for students online and students have unlimited access to these books that they may not find anywhere else."
In the career development segment, Dice.com provides IT professionals with full-time employment, contract and consulting jobs through a variety of online job resources, and enables companies and other organizations to efficiently recruit from a targeted pool of potential candidates. Recent clients such as Bose, Canon, EMC and Gillette join other Fortune 500 companies such as Apple, Bank of America, Cisco, The Gap, HP, IBM, Lucent and Oracle that are now posting their jobs on Dice.com.
EarthWeb also markets MeasureUp certification preparation and assessment products that help prepare IT professionals for IT certification exams, such as Cisco, Prosoft and Microsoft certification exams, including all of the new Windows 2000 core exams. Recent clients such as The Apollo Group and CompUSA Training Centers, join MeasureUp's broad range of clients that include EDS, ExecuTrain, NCR, Sylvan Prometric.
About Dice.com
Dice.com currently lists more than 150,000 high-tech permanent, contract and consulting jobs nationwide for a wide variety of positions from programmers, software engineers and system administrators to CIOS and other IT professionals. In addition to the salary survey, dice.com offers many value-added services to job seekers including Announce Availability, which sends job seeker profiles to over 8,000 dice.com member companies; JobSeeker, which notifies candidates by email when jobs are posted which match their customized profiles; and ResumeOnline, which gives job seekers a place to keep an online resume.
About EarthWeb's ITKnowledge
EarthWeb's ITKnowledge (http://www.itknowledge.com) is the largest online IT training and reference tool with full-text IT and computing books, career guides, tutorials and source code from leading technical publishers. Providing around-the-clock access to trusted, authoritative content, ITKnowledge allows IT professionals, managers, students and administrators to be more productive and efficient. Free product evaluations are available on the site.
About EarthWeb
EarthWeb Inc. (Nasdaq: EWBX chart, msgs), (http://www.earthweb.com), the IT Career Solutions Company(TM), is the leading online provider of career development resources and technical expertise to the world's Information Technology (IT) professionals. Through its network of online services including dice.com, measureup.com and itknowledge. com, EarthWeb provides a comprehensive set of solutions to a broad range of IT professionals, from CTOs to programmers, IT recruiters and HR managers. EarthWeb's dice.com is the leading online IT job board, as ranked by Media Metrix and Alexa.
This press release may be deemed to contain forward-looking information. Any forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements, including statements as to industry trends, future economic performance, anticipated profitability, anticipated revenues and expenses, and products or service line growth, may be significantly and materially impacted by certain risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, failure to meet operating objectives or to execute the operating plan, competition, and other economic factors. Additional risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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