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Technology Stocks : Beyond.com (BYND) the NEW software.net.... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom West who wrote (152)	4/3/1999 8:50:00 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 422

Beyond.com adds an exclusive software retailing relationship with @Home Network, the leading provider of broadband Internet access via the cable infrastructure as well as a strategic alliance with XOOM.com, one of the industry's leading Internetbased direct marketers. Beyond.com adds the Internet's premier technology content providers, CNET and ZDNet, to its stable of partners. BUYDIRECT.COM recently signed an agreement with ZDNet to become the principal online software retailer in ZDNet's sites. As part of that agreement, BUYDIRECT.COM will have significant promotion and media on the ZDNet site. Beyond.com gains additional engineering expertise in electronic software distribution, giving the company one of the industry's largest pools of engineers with digital downloading experience. The acquisition also provides Beyond.com with a strong customer base in the small office/home office market segment, complementing Beyond.com's customers in the consumer, government agency and large corporate enterprise markets.