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To: PDavid who wrote (17884)	2/24/1999 3:25:00 PM
From: The Swordsman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 44908

I'd suggest that you are a bit misinformed. At the very least you'll find many PR listing the names of their major competitors. Here's one posted today, taken at random, with DELL mentioned but not even being material to the PR'd company. Except that some of the people were previously involved with DELL. No less material than the FACT that TSIG competes with N2KI, CDNow or AMZN. Please understand the dynamics of a good PR before you mis state a relatively new and still misunderstood policy. A "B" grade PR firm knows at least these fundamentals. sword REUTERS) Fingerhut <FHT.N> takes stake in Internet company Fingerhut <FHT.N> takes stake in Internet company MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Direct marketer and online retailer Fingerhut Companies Inc. said Wednesday it has acquired a 19.9 percent stake in Hand Technologies Inc., an Austin, Texas-based computer and Internet services company. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Fingerhut said the companies plan to develop a business selling computer systems and services to the mass market. Hand Technologies provides products and services for computer hardware, software and peripherals, Web design and hosting, on-site warranty service, and Internet services. "This investment in Hand is yet another example of Fingerhut's aggressive strategy to expand its reach in the electronic commerce category through investments in companies that provide quality products and quality customer service," said Fingerhut chairman and chief executive officer Ted Deikel. Hand Technologies was established in 1996 by founders Andrew Harris, chief executive officer, and Martin Slagter, president, both former senior executives of Dell Computer Corp. <DELL.O>. Fingerhut sells products and services through catalogs, direct marketing and the Internet. ((--Chicago Equities News at 312 408 8787, chicago.equities.newsroom@reuters.com)) REUTERS * end of story *

To: PDavid who wrote (17884)	2/24/1999 3:30:00 PM
From: The Swordsman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44908

Another great example. Better check your information. This one below is a beauty. Maybe we should get their PR firm? And from the same wire service we used, BUSINESS WIRE. Ignorant? Now who's ignorant? better erase your previous message. Not sounding too bright. sword Business Editors/High Tech Writers HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 1999--Intermallamerica.com, a Houston-based company that operates its own interactive shopping mall on the Internet, announced today that it attracted approximately 250,000 unique visitors to its E-commerce site in the final two months of 1998, making it one of the fastest-growing online shopping malls in the United States. Intermallamerica.com differs dramatically from its competitors -- Yahoo! Store (NASDAQ:YHOO), iMall (NASDAQ:IMAL), iCatmall, AOL's marketplace (NYSE:AOL) and Choicemall -- in that it is created to look like and feel like an actual brick-and-mortar shopping mall. Its dozens of merchants are organized on several different levels of the mall, much as they would appear in a typical shopping environment. "You can shop and find products even faster and easier in the Intermall than you can in a physical mall," explains Cheryl D. Austin, president of Intermallamerica.com. E-commerce numbers continue to soar. International Data Corp., a prominent technology market research firm, recently reported that Internet commerce will exceed $400 billion by the year 2002, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 103 percent. Cyberdialogue, another noted research organization, also reported that the online sale of mainstream luxury items -- travel, clothing, jewelry, electronics, etc. -- has skyrocketed by over 200 percent in the last year alone. According to a recent survey conducted by the leading Internet research firm, Jupiter Communications, the average online mall contains only 19 small to mid-sized stores with minimal, if any, real Web presence. Besides its appealing look and feel, and the cost-effective means for small businesses to conduct E-commerce, it has been able to attract over 100 merchants, including such big-name merchants as Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS), Bugle Boy, Omaha Steaks, Music Boulevard, eToy, Beyond.com (NASDAQ:BYND) and Cyberian Outpost (NASDAQ:COOL). "Especially large and more established companies with an extensive existing Internet presence have found that Intermallamerica.com is a very cost-effective way to channel more visitors to their sites. Through our heavy promotion of Intermallamerica.com, we are driving up the total number of visitors to all of our online vendors' sites at a fraction of the cost that many of them are used to paying on their own," adds Austin