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To: Jenna who wrote (42103)	5/27/1999 10:50:00 AM
From: Doug Robinson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 120523

INSP-More great news, Jenna! GTC Telecom Selects InfoSpace.com's ActiveShopper Shopping Solution BUSINESS WIRE - May 27, 1999 08:54 COSTA MESA, CALIF. (May 27) BUSINESS WIRE -May 27, 1999-- ActiveShopper Gives GTC Telecom the Ability to Immediately Implement the Most Comprehensive e-commerce Solution That Offers Our Users One Place to Research, Buy and Obtain Special Merchandising for Any Product Offered Online GTC Telecom Thursday announced that it is using InfoSpace.com's ActiveShopper to provide the infrastructure for GTC Telecom's online commerce offerings within its new Web portal. ActiveShopper is the most comprehensive integrated e-commerce solution that is defining the standard for the next generation of shopping products. InfoSpace.com will provide GTC Telecom's users with access to the most comprehensive product that offers more than 2,500 merchants, catalogs and several million products and services, while maintaining the look and feel of GTC's Web site. InfoSpace.com is a leading infrastructure provider of private label solutions for content, community and commerce to Web sites and Internet appliances, reaching more than 84.5 percent of Internet users. In addition, ActiveShopper will include the newly announced ActivePromotion, an integrated private label merchandising solution for Web sites, local merchants and e-retailers that is designed to bring a unique and powerful way to merchandise on the Web. ActivePromotion offers an intelligent and convenient way to create, test, promote and offer sales across a targeted consumer base on multiple channels through InfoSpace.com's large affiliate network. In addition to ActiveShopper, ActivePromotion will be integrated with InfoSpace.com's other leading solutions such as yellow pages, classifieds and auctions. One click of a button and merchants' promotions or other sales offers will be instantly available across all of these channels providing possibly the most reach of any other merchandising product. "It has been our goal in creating our portal site to meet the current demand for a quick and easy-to-navigate informational site. Although there are several portals in existence already, we believe that GTC's portal will allow users to access information quickly and efficiently. One of the key aspects of the portal will be its interactive shopping area, in which we have chosen ActiveShopper as the backbone to support this feature. "We are extremely pleased to add this reliable software solution to the content that we have already selection from InfoSpace.com," said Paul Sandhu, president & CEO of GTC Telecom. "Internet users want to shop in the context of what they are doing and research and buy products and services all in one place," said Naveen Jain, chairman and CEO, InfoSpace.com. "ActiveShopper does just this, bringing buyers and sellers closer together and creating a one-stop-shop for Internet users, merchants and portals."