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Technology Stocks : EFAX.com - easy-to-use fax-to-email technology -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Matt Brown who wrote (265)	3/15/1999 8:21:00 AM
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News: eFax.com Inks Deal With XOOM.com; eFax.com to provide XOOM.com's members with free fax-to-email service BusinessWire, Monday, March 15, 1999 at 08:02 MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 1999--eFax.com (NASDAQ:EFAX), the leading Internet provider of fax-to-email services, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with XOOM.com (NASDAQ:XMCM), allowing XOOM.com to provide its more than 6.5 million members with eFax.com's cutting edge fax-to-email service for free. XOOM.com was the 11th most visited site on the Web in January, according to Media Metrix, and eFax.com signed up more than 100,000 users of its free fax-to-email service less than one month after launching. "We see eFax.com as the leader in Internet document communication solutions," said Russell Hyzen, vice president of business development at XOOM.com. "This partnership will allow us to offer our members another great service for free." "XOOM.com, one of the world's top Internet sites, is growing at a phenomenal rate," said Ron Brown, vice president of marketing at eFax.com. "This partnership greatly increases our reach in the marketplace and builds a relationship with one of the true Internet leaders." XOOM.com and eFax.com anticipate that the relationship will produce new services for XOOM.com members sometime in the second quarter of this year. About eFax.com eFax.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:EFAX) is a leading provider of Internet document communication solutions. eFax.com has a range of products that allow users, regardless of technical expertise, to manage and distribute paper and digital documents easily. The company's flagship products are HotSend(TM), free software to read any email attachment, and eFax.com, a free fax-to-email consumer service. The company also sells hardware products, and is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif. For more information, call (650) 324-0600, 1-877-EFAXCOM, fax (650) 326-6003, or visit www.eFax.com. "Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk an uncertainties. The Company wishes to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include the following: the uncertain performance, user adoption, and financial results from products integrating fax technology with the Internet; protection of the Company's intellectual property rights and risk of infringement claims against the Company's intellectual property; the size and timing of and fluctuations in end user demand for the Company's branded products and OEM products incorporating the Company's technology; the fact that the Company's markets are characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements, and the Company's ability to respond to such changes; difficulties which the Company may experience in completing the development of turnkey designs for OEM customers, its color technology or other products; the highly competitive nature of the markets for the Company's products; the phase-out or early termination of the Company's branded products or OEM products incorporating the Company's technology; the Company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the Company's reliance on third party suppliers for components used in the Company's products; the quarterly variability in the Company's bookings and design wins; and the Company's reliance on a relatively small number of OEM customers for a large percentage of its revenue. These and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Form 10-K, Form S-8, Form 10-Q, and Form S-1. (c) 1999 eFax.com, Inc. All rights reserved. CONTACT: eFax.com Janice V. Kapner, 650/688-6841 or Neale-May & Partners Jane D'Arcy, 650/328-5555 x 116 or Amy Beth Arnold, 650/328-5555 x 113 KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PRODUCT Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: businesswire.com Copyright 1999, Business Wire Companies or Securities discussed in this article: Symbol Name NASDAQ:EFAX NASDAQ:XMCM Xoom.Com Inc © 1998 Quote.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved.