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[venturecapital]

hallo zusammen!
in abwesenheit von zündi habe ich heute mal die ehre, den neuen thread zu eröffnen. natürlich nicht ohne eine neue nachricht:

Monday June 12, 9:44 am Eastern Time

Company Press Release

SOURCE: InfoSpace.com

OmniSky Selects InfoSpace to Provide Advanced
Wireless Internet Services To the Palm

Agreement Marks Launch of Next Generation Mobile Services to a Personal Digital Assistant

REDMOND, Wash. and PALO ALTO, Calif., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- InfoSpace (Nasdaq: INSP - news), a leading global
provider of information, communication and commerce infrastructure services for wireless devices, merchants and Web sites,
and OmniSky, a provider of branded wireless services for handheld mobile devices, today announced that OmniSky has
selected InfoSpace`s platform that provides a comprehensive, integrated suite of services to deliver a new suite of wireless
Internet services to OmniSky customers.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000420/INFOLOGO )

Palm Pilot users who purchase a wireless modem and service from OmniSky will now have the ability to access a wide range
of new services that will change the way they shop, communicate, access information and otherwise manage their lives. These
services bridge the wired and wireless worlds by providing handheld users with the ability to access and personalize the
information they receive on their handheld.

``InfoSpace`s advanced services designed for the mobile user are helping us to develop a closer relationship with our customers
and build their loyalty to OmniSky services,`` said Patrick McVeigh, chief executive officer of OmniSky. ``InfoSpace`s
technology and services enhances our users` ability to shop, communicate and access information in new ways.``

``Our vision has always been to enable universal access to advanced Internet services over any wired or wireless device and
teaming with OmniSky again shows our commitment to working with the industry leaders,`` said Naveen Jain, chairman and
chief strategist of InfoSpace. ``We have successfully delivered our cutting edge commerce, communication and information
services to a variety of devices including PDA`s, PC`s, mobile phones and Web appliances.``

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000612/wa_infospa.html

gruß
V.C.

[internetti]

Hi V.C.
schöner Titel !
Da haben wir diese Woche ja ne Menge Gelegenheiten, News vor zündi zu präsentieren, was sonst ja nicht
so einfach ist
Also dann: Auf ein Neues
gruß
internetti

[venturecapital]

nichts berauschendes, aber da es ja heute von INSP keine nachrichten gibt (der sell off heute liegt im übrigen m.e. an der charttechnischen situation, wäre schon wichtig gewesen, die 60$-hürde zu nehmen)...
Wireless revolution: Hold the phone



Updated 9:51 AM ET June 13, 2000

by Jason D. O`Grady, Go2Mac.com, Special to ZDNet

Wireless networkers of the world, unite! Why cell phones will go where PCs have
never been.

The wireless revolution is upon us, in the boardroom as well as the playroom. Handheld
computers are turning up everywhere, and your 10-year-old daughter has a cell plan with
more minutes than you do.

OK, that may be a bit of an exaggeration -- but not by much. If you look closely at
wireless trends and listen to what the analysts are saying, a completely wireless society will
become a reality sooner than later.

The big question is: Will the United States join the vanguard of this revolution, or is it on the
verge of being left behind?

Japan, a country with a poor Internet infrastructure, has the most digital wireless customers
of any country according to data released by the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry
and mobile phone operators. NTT DoCoMo Inc., and DDI group have a total of more
than 10 million cellular subscribers, well ahead of even the most optimistic projections.

Finland is even more advanced when it comes to wireless technology. More than 70
percent of the country`s 5 million people use cellular telephones. (It doesn`t hurt that
wireless superpower Nokia is based in Helsinki.) Sweden, home of Ericsson, has also led
the wireless revolution for years. Worldwide, wireless phones currently outsell PCs by
about 2.5 to 1 annually, and the gap is widening.

Wireless subscriber statistics from International Data Corp.:

1999 2003 US 560,000 73,100,000 Western Europe 91,000 72,000,000 Asia Pacific
460,000 143,400,000 Japan 3,800,000 40,900,000

How you do it today

There are several ways to utilize wireless services to connect to the Internet today, each
with its own benefits and caveats. The first and probably the most popular in the United
States is the wireless modems available to users of Palm-powered portable computers.

The $449 Palm VII is the first Palm-powered handheld that can connect to the Internet in a
simple self-contained package. Modeled after the wildly successful Palm III series, the
Palm VII features an integrated antenna and modem that allow users to connect to the
Internet quickly and without having to buy expensive peripherals.

The problem with the Palm VII is that the wireless access portion of the service, easily the
most lucrative part of the service, is only available from one provider -- Palm.net. Even
worse, e-mail was initially only available from the Palm.net account assigned to users when
they signed up.

Since the device`s nationwide launch back in October, some POP-3 email clients have
been released that allow you to retrieve your e-mail from any POP-3 or IMAP compatible
mail server. ThinAir 1.4 is probably the best Palm Query Application (PQA) that provides
this function. (In fact, it is probably the single best reason to own a Palm VII.) Corsoft
iPopper 1.0 does a respectable job as well.

Another wireless Internet access solution is the Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) PC
Card modem. Available from Novatel Wireless and Sierra Wireless, PC Card modems
are popular with mobile technologists and professional salespeople who have to work from
the road. However, these modems are expensive, and the coverage area is still sporadic
and unreliable -- even in large metropolitan areas.

The wireless technology with the largest growth potential is WAP-enabled cell phones. By
this time next year, every cell phone sold will include a microbrowser that is capable of
retrieving e-mail and shopping on the Web. While anticlimactic for Internet professionals,
the microbrowser will finally bring the Internet to the mainstream, allowing non-computer
types to order books and CDs, and make airplane reservations on a sub-$100 piece of
hardware.

To the ramparts!

Most people are afraid of computers because they are intimidating. You probably aren`t
intimidated by computers if you`re reading ZDNet, but many people feel like they have
been left behind by the computer revolution. No matter how easy and GUI the computers
become, there is a certain segment of the population that will never use a computer no
matter how hard we get them to try.

Enter the phone. Odds are pretty good that your grandmother knows how to use a phone,
even if she isn`t that excited about surfing the Web with its clutter of acronyms, lingo and
blinking-everything.

By 2003, IDC predicts, wireless phones will pass the 1 billion-user mark, outnumbering
PCs and televisions combined. Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), a standard for
surfing the Web on cell phones, will be embedded in every digital cell phone that ships by
this time next year. When this happens, the technological momentum will swing in favor of
the consumer, and the amount of e-commerce transacted in the Internet will grow
exponentially. Companies of all sizes can`t afford to ignore the WAP revolution lest they
miss out on a substantial revenue stream.

The cons of wireless

The problem with wireless technology is that it is still in its infancy. Pioneers, or early
adopters, always have the distinction of paying the most for the latest technology that is
often not ready for prime time. Unfortunately, today`s
hurry-up-and-get-something-to-market attitude combined with consumers` demand for
faster/smaller/cheaper product has shrunken manufacturers` timelines to unrealistically low
levels.

In addition to shrinking production schedules and product life cycles, wireless technology is
still very expensive for the average consumer. In addition to the up-front hardware cost
($50 to $500), there is a pretty hefty usage fee for the devices. And as with any metered
service, the fees are recurring and usage-based. The recurring revenues are so lucrative
that service providers will often sell you the hardware at a loss to get you to subscribe.

To go wireless, you have to add a new $15 to $50 monthly service fee to your monthly
bills. What burns most people is that you cannot add wireless services to your current
dial-up, long-distance, cellular, cable modem or DSL service for which you`re already
paying a monthly premium. Wireless services cost more, and demand is so high, there is
simply no incentive for the ISPs and telcos to bundle these services together.

In addition to the expense, wireless coverage is still sporadic at best. I often get dropped
when I`m using my digital cellular telephone while traveling through major metropolitan cites
such as Philadelphia and New York. (Remember when call clarity was a major selling
point of digital wireless service?)

And besides the technical hurdles that wireless technology faces, recent studies have raised
health concerns about the impact of radio frequency (RF) and cellular signals on the human
body. While I don`t think I could survive without my cell phone, Palm computer and Apple
PowerBook, you have to give some serious thought to the health issues involved. While the
jury is still out the health issue, I will continue to thread my cellular microphone/headset
cord carefully through my shirt each morning, just to be on the safe side.

gruß
V.C.

[internetti]

Alert: William Blair initiates coverage of INSP at LT Buy
(Headline only) Briefing.com - 08:34 AM EDT
gruß
internetti

[oasis]

Long live William!!!!

[venturecapital]

die gerüchteküche hat mal wieder ein paar news zu bieten (allerdings halte ich das doch für sehr unwahrscheinlich, was sollte jain wohl mit dem verein wollen? aber lest selbst...)
gruß
V.C.

June 14, 2000

No sale! Boxlot.com collapses
By Richard Byrne Reilly
Redherring.com, June 14, 2000
An online auction site plagued by mismanagement, infighting, and a chronic dearth of paying customers, Boxlot.com, is holding its own going-out-of-business sale.

"They`re done," says an investor in the company, who requested anonymity. "They`re history."

Drained of cash and unable to raise more, company executives have begun the painful process of closing their doors, according to several sources. Employees at Boxlot.com`s San Francisco office received walking papers last week. A flyer announcing a liquidation sale will post on the Boxlot.com Web site Friday, June 16, promising killer deals on computers, desks, tables, and printers.

"It`s been a bumpy ride, and we`ve been expecting this for a while," a Boxlot.com employee told Redherring.com. He added, "I`m going to grab a sandwich and a beer and then I`m going to the beach."

When reached by telephone, president Barry Berkov said, "I have nothing to say," then brusquely hung up. Boxlot.com CEO Fred Cary refused to comment.

UNABLE TO CARY THE DAY
Mr. Cary, who incurred the wrath of investors and employees during his tenure as CEO, failed in a recent bid to raise a much-needed $22 million in venture funding, according to sources. He also failed to procure a $2 million bridge loan that would have provided crucial help.

Analysts say Boxlot.com`s demise may foretell the fate of other online auction houses who in various ways compete with eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), and other established Web sites. The initial euphoria that greeted these startups, including venture capitalists who generously showered them with millions in venture funding, now may be coming to a close.

Negotiations continue over the fate of Boxlot.com`s assets. Sources say Naveen Jain, founder and CEO of Infospace.com (Nasdaq: INSP), is interested in buying Boxlot.com`s Auction XL technology platform for $26.5 million next week. Mr. Jain couldn`t be reached for comment.

The fate of Boxlot.com executives is unclear. The company faces a mountain of unpaid bills and jilted investors. Mr. Berkov acknowledged some of the problems in an interview last month, saying, "We`re having some financial problems," then adding, "we owe people some money." He declined to provide details.

STRETCHED TOO THIN
Boxlot.com`s shift in business strategy, switching from operating solely as an online auction to becoming a software developer, consumed badly needed financial and technical resources. Mr. Cary hoped to develop the auction`s Auction XL software platform while simultaneously embarking on an acquisition spree, buying Stampauctions.com, Auctionvine.com, Philatelists.com, and others. Revenue was reportedly weak, and the projected customer base never fully materialized.

Boxlot.com was founded by two collecting buffs from Vermont who envisioned building an online empire selling dolls, figurines, books, and toys. They moved the company to San Diego, California, cobbled together a management and IT team, and launched the company in 1997.

A fitting epitaph to the Boxlot.com saga is perhaps spelled out in a mock-up Web page for their going-out-of-business sale: "Act fast, and come get a bargain."

[SlayTrack]

aus thestreet.com

nein, ich bin nicht short.



: Herb on TheStreet





Why One Short-Seller Is
Attracted to InfoSpace
By Herb Greenberg
Senior Columnist
6/15/00 6:29 AM ET



Thursday Thwack:

Short story: When I asked Paul McEntire to join me at
the RealMoney.com seminar later this month, it wasn`t
because he`s a longtime source. (He isn`t.) Or that he`s
widely known in the short-selling community. (Wrong
again.) It was because his relatively new Bearguard Fund
is one of only a few public mutual funds that exclusively
shorts stocks. Given the lack of popularity of short-selling,
it`s no surprise his fund has less than $10 million in assets.
"I know that sounds diminimus," McEntire says, "on the
other hand, virtually all of my competitors are out of
business."

Good point, and with a portfolio of 75 stocks, backed by 11
years experience of shorting stocks in private funds, I
figured he had more than just passing knowledge of
short-selling. What really hooked me, though, was that
unlike many of my sources, who focus on various levels of
scams and aggressive accounting, he finds many of his
shorts by running quantitative screens that look for
extreme ratios.

What about fundamentals? "We mostly look at the
fundamentals of losing money," he says. And a catalyst?
Isn`t there some catalyst that will make your stocks fall?
"The main catalyst," he says, "is that every time a
company has to announce earnings and sales is a time for
people to begin wondering if the stock is overvalued."

Or maybe there has been tremendous insider selling, which
is one reason he`s short InfoSpace (INSP:Nasdaq - news
- boards), the Internet information infrastructure services
company (say that three times fast!). Here`s a stock, he
says, that has a $11.5 billion market cap and quarterly revs
of $19 million. "That`s an extremely lofty market cap for a
company with such small revenues," McEntire says.
"Furthermore, they`re losing money and insiders have sold
something like $500 million in stock. The CEO himself sold
781,000 shares for $110 million. There`s nothing wrong,
illegal or unethical about doing that, but it just doesn`t
make any economic sense that the founder is pulling out so
much. He could take proceeds from the stock and produce
more in revenues than the whole company!"

But with InfoSpace, which is highly promotional, couldn`t
the stock rise as much as fall? Sure, he says, "but with
one-fourth of 1% of my portfolio in it, that doesn`t seem
too dangerous, and besides, we`re willing to wait." To be
sure, McEntire has been short CopyTele (COPY:Nasdaq
- news - boards), a favorite of short-sellers, ever since he
has been shorting stocks. "But that`s the exception," he
says. "If you`re confident that over a five-year period a
company will return to the values justified by its sales, then
you short the stock."

Whatever works. InfoSpace officials, by the way, didn`t
return our calls.

[:-)))]

Hi,

das mit den Shortis ist nichts neues bei INSP...trotzdem gut, das es hier gepostet wird, schliesslich gehört es dazu.
Im übrigen bin ich nicht sonderlich beunruhigt, Jain hat nicht mal 2% seines Anteils verkauft...ein bisschen Kasse machen für andere Projekte (?) ist legal, und wenn er sich ne mega villa gekauft hat...


Grüße AL

[venturecapital]

...zumal der fonds an sich weniger als gar nichts bewegen kann, bei der summe.
0,25*1% von 10.000.000$ ist 25.000 $ oder etwa 500 aktien. ist ja lächerlich! soviele hab ich ja bald.
das einzig traurige ist, daß er damit das sentiment verschlechtert und vielleicht der ein oder andere (s. yahoo board) jetzt auch auf der short-welle mitreiten möchte.
gruß
V.C.

[zuendi]

hi spacers,

da bin ich wieder
gut erholt und gebräunt



viele grüße
zündi

[internetti]

Hi zündi
welcome back. Da wähnten wir unsere Chance, mal vor Dir zu posten und was macht INSP? Hält sich bedeckt mit Nachrichten. Hattest Du Nachrichtensperre verhängt? *g*

Gruß
internetti

[zuendi]

hier was von merrill zum OmniSky deal 13.06.:

Infospace announced a strategic investment in a company called OmniSky, alongside Akamai and AT&T. Previous investors include NewsCorp, Aether and 3om Ventures. OmniSky Corporation is a wireless service that provides the Internet portal service for Palm and acts as a ´link to the enterprise´. It allows users to securely access their primary e-mail, extract a rich selection of content from the internet and corporate intranets, and share their schedules remotely. The service is currenty avaible for the Palm and, over time, will be extended to Windows CE (Pocket PC) divices, pagers, and WAP (wireless application protocol)-enabled phones. The service was lanched in May 2000.

OmniSky has agreed to pay Infospace a licence fee of 1-5 million over a period of 2-3years and $1-2 per subcriber to incorporate the INSP advanced services for commerce such as e-wallets and transaction processing and portal services such as AT&T to move towards seemless communication across mobile and other devices.

We reiterate our Buy rating.

[venturecapital]

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[zuendi]

harmon zu INSP:

Infospace (INSP) has one of the Web`s best business models but revenue must catch up to the valuation or else it could lose support for market cap. Certainly wireless holds promise for it but INSP seems a little rich at the moment.


zündi

[venturecapital]

recht hat der mann! allerdings denke ich, daß das wachstum bei INSP sich nochmal beschleunigen wird. wireless steht ja grade erst vor dem urknall. insofern bin ich optimistisch, daß INSP recht zügig in die bewertung reinwächst und auch wieder spiel nach oben bekommt.
hier noch ein artikel über wireless in japan, ist uns zwar größtenteils bekannt, die fakten sind aber immer wieder nett zu lesen. wäre übrigens toll, wenn jain mal NTT DOCOMO als kunden gewinnen könnte.
gruß
V.C.

Monday June 19, 11:34 pm Eastern Time

Internet use in Japan surges,thanks to cell phones

By Reed Stevenson

TOKYO, June 20 (Reuters) - Japan is increasingly embracing the Internet as a part of
everyday life, but the world`s second-largest economy is doing so in its own way.

More than a third of Net surfers access it using wireless technology.

The explosive growth of Internet-compatible mobile phones, where users browse the Web
on a screen the size of a business card, is being credited for the doubling of Internet usage in
Japan in 1999.

One in five Japanese -- just over 27 million people -- has an Internet connection, according to a report issued on Tuesday by
the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT).

Industry data shows about 10 million logged on through mobile connections, 13 percent of the population or penetration rate.

Private analysts have cautioned that government data tends to underestimate Internet usage because of its rapid growth.

The number of users is expected to triple to 76.7 million by 2005, three-fifths of Japan`s population, according to the MPT.

By comparison the United States, which has roughly twice the population of Japan, is said to already have more than 100
million Internet users, a penetration rate of about 40 percent.

Japan is a study in contrasts, where its reputation as a leading industrial power was once at risk of being tarnished because of
its tardy entry into the Internet age.

BRAVE NEW WORLD IN MINIATURE

But by leveraging its expertise in miniaturisation and the high rate of mobile phone usage, Japan has spawned a new industry
based on Internet-compatible cellular phones.

Two out of every five Japanese now owns a mobile phone and last year, the number of mobile phone subscribers outstripped
the number of conventional land lines.

By 2005, nearly 80 million Japanese are seen subscribing to some form of mobile service, the MPT report estimated.

The next step for Japan would be to transform such growth into a vibrant electronic commerce (e-commerce) market.

The MPT survey estimated the Internet market for finished goods was worth 350 billion yen ($3.3 billion) in 1999 and
projected a 20-fold surge by 2005.

That still pales in comparison to the U.S. e-commerce market for finished goods, which was estimated at $340 billion in 1999.

Japan`s mobile Internet-access market, however, is trapped within its archipelago, since its systems are not compatible with
wireless systems overseas like the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard.

In a move that will open its markets and allow it to export and move into overseas markets, Japan plans to adopt the new
WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) mobile phone standard next spring, which will make its cellular phones
compatible with those in other countries using the standard.

Despite the popularity of mobile phones in Japan, the MPT survey showed it still lagged other nations, such as Hong Kong,
South Korea, Singapore and Scandanavia -- all of which use the GMS standard.

EARLY GROWTH HINDERED BY STRUCTURE

Internet growth in Japan could have come much sooner and its obstructive telecommunications infrastructure is partly to blame.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) controls more than 90 percent of local lines connecting homes and businesses.

Such domination, analysts say, has made it more expensive for Internet users to surf the Web at home.

Ironically, it was NTT`s more innovative mobile phone subsidiary, NTT DoCoMo , that played a major role in stimulating
Internet usage by developing an easier and more cost-effective way to browse the Web on mobile phones.

But NTT is under ever-increasing pressure. The United States has put NTT`s interconnection charges at the centre of its latest
trade dispute with Japan, demanding the giant carrier slash its interconnection fees.

Both sides are reportedly hoping to settle the issue before a U.S.-Japan summit expected around July 20, just before the Group
of Eight Okinawa summit, which Japan has been touting as the ``IT (information technology) Summit``.

NTT has already bowed to some pressure and last month halved its flat-rate unlimited Internet access fee.

If the Japanese telecommunication market is opened wider to foreign competition, NTT`s rates could come down even more
and spur further growth.

($1 equals 106.14 Yen)

[zuendi]

DoCoMo als kunden zu gewinnen dürfte sehr schwierig werden. die haben schon seit einiger zeit ihren i-mode im einsatz und das sehr erfolgreich. letztens kam irgendwo eine meldung, dass DoCoMo sich an einigen content-providern, die auf wireless abzielen, in den staaten zu beteiligen um ihren i-mode auch in den staaten zu etablieren.

aber vielleicht übernehmen sie einige teile der INSPplattform, so wie es OmniSky auch getan hat.


zündi

[wallsaint]

Infospace links unter :


http://www.yippee.de/stocks.php3?t=insp

[Fuchs Ede]

Für alle Fans von US-Internet-Gott Naveen Jain :


http://members.tripod.com/~Visagoth/naveenpics.html





Fuchs Ede

[zuendi]

The Man behind All Those E-Ads
InfoSpace`s Naveen Jain puts in a 120-hour workweek finding new applications for his Net tech star

In the driven culture of technology startups, marathon workdays and scorn for vacations have become a mark of entrepreneurial machismo. By that measure, Naveen Jain, the 40-year-old chairman of InfoSpace Inc., cuts a Schwarzenegger-like figure among the techno-crowd.

Since founding the Redmond, Wash., company four years ago, Jain has worked 20-hour days to build it into one of the biggest Internet companies you`ve never heard of. InfoSpace makes deals with all sorts of content providers--from news services and yellow-pages suppliers to weather forecasters and online mapmakers--and sells that information as a packaged service to Web sites. Now, for his next act, Jain is using that same business model to grab a piece of the growing market for wireless-Internet services. The all-consuming work pace leaves little time or even inclination for play.

Oh sure, Jain goes on vacation. When he took his family to a Club Med in Mexico last March, his wife and three school-age kids played in the sand, swam in the pool, and soaked up sun. But Jain was busy running up a $1,000 phone bill. ``I had a terrible time,`` Jain says. ``I didn`t know what to do.``

That drive has built an Internet company that`s not only growing fast but also making money--if only a little bit. InfoSpace has racked up four straight quarters of profit, if you exclude one-time charges. In the first quarter ended Mar. 31, InfoSpace earned $1.89 million, or 1 cents a share, excluding acquisition and stock-option charges--compared with a loss of $5.3 million, or 3 cents a share, a year earlier. And revenue continues to soar at hyper-growth levels, climbing 260%, to $19 million, in the quarter. That performance has helped InfoSpace withstand the spring swoon in Internet stocks: Regaining some of its losses, it is trading close to $60, its price back in January.

NEW NO. 2. In April, there was some speculation that Jain might be slowing down: He handed over his CEO duties to Arun Sarin, former CEO of Vodafone AirTouch PLC`s U.S. and Asia Pacific regions. But Jain, who serves as chairman and chief strategist, insists that he will keep up his 120-hour-a-week schedule. Adding Sarin was simply a way to put more firepower in the top ranks. ``Zero responsibilities have changed,`` Jain insists. Both he and Sarin are jetting around the globe to set up new deals. With two top executives, Jain jokes, InfoSpace is able to cram 48 hours into a 24-hour day.

Current customers include America Online Inc. and Lycos, which run InfoSpace`s classified advertising on their Web portals. Go.com uses the company`s white pages. Snap.com uses its yellow pages and mapping services. Each time surfers click on an InfoSpace service, they`re shipped to a Web site run by InfoSpace. The company gets licensing fees from the sites, and it shares advertising revenue from traffic that`s sent to its services. While other companies offer similar services, none offers as broad a range to as many customers as InfoSpace.

Now, targeting the market for wireless-Internet services, InfoSpace wants to provide the technology that connects users to e-mail, traffic reports, stock quotes, and e-commerce sites. It has created new services designed specifically for wireless gizmos and also is reformatting existing Web content to work on smaller devices.

Because cell phones send out signals that reveal a user`s location, the business potential is exploding. It doesn`t make much sense for a small restaurant to develop a Web site. But a wireless service can attract a hungry cell-phoner with the information that an Italian restaurant is within two miles--and can offer a $2 digital coupon as an added lure. InfoSpace has developed the technology to do that and wants to persuade wireless providers to include the service. Ultimately, InfoSpace hopes all sorts of retailers--from florists to dry cleaners to restaurants--will take advantage of the service. InfoSpace and the wireless carrier would share a cut of the sale from customers that use the promotion.

OBSCURE. The opportunities seem vast. By 2004, 1.3 billion people are expected to have wireless access to the Web, up from just 5.7 million last year, according to International Data Corp. That`s why grabbing Sarin, with his background as a top-notch cell-phone exec, was important. ``He definitely brings credibility, contacts, and wireless experience,`` says Crispin Vicars, senior director at Yankee Group Research Inc.

To be sure, Jain isn`t the only one who sees the potential. Such powerhouses as America Online Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. have mapped out strategies to go for the same wireless infrastructure-services business as InfoSpace. But if InfoSpace has an advantage, it`s that the company is happy enough being the obscure unit that runs the service in the background. The strategy is working well so far. InfoSpace has lined up a Who`s Who of wireless carriers--AT&T, GTE, Bell Atlantic, US West, and Vodafone, to name a few. ``It`s a very coherent strategy,`` says Jack Ripsteen, an analyst at Chase H&Q in San Francisco.

What InfoSpace has lacked has been management depth. Jain has led the company since the beginning--not just in title, but through the force of his personality. And he has struggled to find a second-in-command. In January, 1999, he hired Bernee Strom, a founder and principal at Gemstar Development Corp., which developed VCRPlus+ video-programming technology. But early this year, she moved to a job as president of InfoSpace`s venture-capital fund, set up by Jain to forge links with companies strategic to InfoSpace`s business. The $30 million fund, open only to InfoSpace and its employees, has invested in such companies as Catalog City, Gift Tree, and Emarketplaces, a B2B Web site.

Jain makes no apologies for his hard-driving lifestyle. A native of India who moved to the U.S. 21 years ago, Jain refers to himself as a ``cult leader`` who doesn`t have much of a life outside his work. It`s a pattern he developed during his seven-year stint at Microsoft Corp. He led the marketing efforts on the company`s first version of Windows NT, its industrial-strength operating system. Later, Jain helped develop Microsoft Network, the company`s failed bid to compete with AOL. And while he often cites Microsoft Chairman William H. Gates III as a personal hero, he`s quick to point out that even his old boss is slowing down. ``I`m not backing off and learning golf,`` Jain says.

``FOURTH CHILD.`` Does Jain`s family mind his logging all those hours? Anu Jain, who is vice-president for community affairs at InfoSpace, worries a bit that her husband is missing out on their children`s upbringing. But she has been married to him for 12 years and realizes that`s just who Naveen Jain is. And for her, the company--whose success has made the Jains worth $3.2 billion--is like family. ``I look at it as our fourth child,`` Anu Jain says. And Naveen`s dedication to his work is instilling values that are important for their children. ``Naveen`s a great role model,`` she adds.

It seems to be working. Not too long ago, Jain asked his 10-year-old son if he wanted to work at InfoSpace someday. The boy was unambiguous. ``He said: `That`s your company. I want to start my own,``` says Jain with a laugh. It`s enough to make a father proud.

By Jay Greene
By Greene covers Internet companies from Seattle.

[zuendi]

gerüchte verbreiten sich, dass INSP in den nasdaq100 aufgenommen werden soll. selbst der marktschreier frick verbreitet irgendwas auf seiner hotline. ist aber gegen meine überzeugung, eine solche hotline anzurufen und dem penner den lebensunterhalt zu finanzieren..deshalb weiß ich nicht genau, was er da von sich gibt.
angeblich soll INSP dort lycos ersetzen, die ja nach der übernahme durch terra ausscheiden werden.

das wär echt der hammer.
einziges hindernis wäre das kriterium, dass ein wert erst nach 2jähriger notierung am nasdaq in den 100er-index aufgenommen werden kann. und dies ist bei INSP erst mitte dezember diesen jahres der fall...

mal abwarten


zündi

[:-)))]

Hey Zündi,

alter Urlauber...jetzt machst Du uns aber den Mund wässrig!!!
Naz100 - das wäre echt ein Hammer...hoffen und harren wir mal der Dinge!!

CU AL

[zuendi]

wie gesagt, es sind gerüchte


zündi

[venturecapital]

denke, heute gehts abwärts. die amis sind auf dem "oracle-king of wireless"-trip. liegt nicht zuletzt an der story über oracle von upside.com.
wenns jemanden interessiert, hier der link:
http://www.upside.com/Upshot/395003c50_yahoo.html

gruß
V.C.

[zuendi]

die machen wohl witze.
der king of wireless ist jawohl jain



zündi

[zuendi]

CSFB had positive meeting with INSP mgmt.yesterday morning.
1)Wireless carrier rollout firmly on track.
2)Has commitments from most of top wireless carriers in U.S.and now has access to 88% of the market.
3)Expect continued positive catalysts as INSP expands carrier presence both domestically & overseas and broadens its platform functionality.
4)Mgmt.indicated the early uptake on wireless internet services was encouraging.
5)We remain firm believers in the INSP`s value proposition for wireless carriers.While INSP currently trades at 64x our 2001 revenue estimate,we look for further revenue clarity and momentum later in the year as INSP,s wireless launches gain traction and visibility.
6)rating:BUY.


ungeprüft! aber von einer eigentlich guten quelle!

[fasel]

Hi Leute!

Wir testen gerade die 60 $, hoffentlich schließen wir darüber.



freu:

fasel

[venturecapital]

zündi: wann fliegt lycos denn aus dem nasdaq 100? die fusion ist doch auch noch gar nicht komplett durch und abgesegnet oder? wäre auf jeden fall ein echter hammer, wenn INSP reinkommt...
gruß
V.C.

[zuendi]

der terra-lycos deal soll wohl irgendwann im dritten quartal abgeschlossen sein.

aber erwartet nicht zuviel. es ist halt nur ein gerücht
aber fett wärs schon


zündi

[zuendi]

AT&T Wireless and InfoSpace to Develop and Market New Merchant Program To Deliver Promotions to AT&T Digital PocketNet(SM) Subscribers
AT&T Wireless to Provide its Customers With the Ability to Receive Promotions

And Discounts From National Retailers, E-Tailers and Local Merchants

BELLEVUE, Wash., and REDMOND, Wash., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- InfoSpace (Nasdaq: INSP), a leading global provider of information and commerce infrastructure services for wireless devices, merchants and Web sites, and AT&T Wireless Service, Inc. (NYSE: AWE), the world`s premier wireless voice, data and fixed wireless communications company, today announced the companies have teamed to develop and market the delivery of promotions and discounts to AT&T Digital PocketNet(SM) service customers. Participants in this new merchant program include national retailers, e-tailers and local merchants.

"Using InfoSpace`s promotion technology, we can help turn wireless phones into true commerce devices by being able to offer our customers the ability to electronically receive promotions," said Kendra VanderMeulen, senior vice president of product development and Internet strategy, AT&T Wireless Services. "We are leading the way with the next generation of mobile commerce that will fundamentally change how our customers interact with their phones, allowing them to receive great discounts while providing merchants with the opportunity to deliver cost-effective promotions."

"There is a tremendous opportunity for InfoSpace, AT&T Wireless and merchants to deliver promotions to wireless subscribers," said Arun Sarin, CEO, InfoSpace. "More than $3.7 trillion is conducted through the 10 million local merchants each year in the US alone and most of the transactions are through service-based merchants such as dry cleaners and restaurants. Our ability to deliver this mobile commerce solution will enable AT&T to facilitate that transaction to a broad range of merchants, helping them provide value to their customers through the wireless distribution channel."

InfoSpace`s innovative mobile commerce technologies will allow subscribers to choose the promotions and discounts they receive with their AT&T Digital PocketNet service while maintaining their personal privacy. To take advantage of the promotion, users can purchase the goods or services through participating merchants using a registered credit card. Using this underlying infrastructure, promotions are matched and automatically credited to the customer`s credit card statement through secure transaction processing without the use of special codes or paper coupons. It is a seamless process for both the subscriber and the merchant.

To find out how to participate in the wireless promotions partnership program, interested merchants and resellers can contact AT&T Wireless and InfoSpace by emailing [e-mail].

AT&T Digital PocketNet service is available in more than 3,000 cities across the United States. Access to more than 40 web sites on the AT&T Digital PocketNet Basic Plan is free from AT&T Wireless with the purchase of any digital voice plan from AT&T. Services such as email, calendar, contacts and to-do lists are available for a flat-rate, all-you-can-use monthly fee, along with a voice plan.

[zuendi]

InfoSpace Inc. Reiterated Near-Term `Buy` at Merrill

Princeton, New Jersey, June 22 /11:13 (Bloomberg Data) -- InfoSpace Inc. (INSP US) was reiterated near-term ``buy`` by analyst Henry Blodget at Merrill Lynch. The long-term rating was also reiterated ``buy.``


http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?s=AOVItKhI3SW5mb1Nw&T=m…

[venturecapital]

das wird bei ihm wohl jetzt auch jede woche zur gewohnheit...
vielleicht sollte er mal auf "strong buy" wechseln. schade, daß der markt heute so schwach auf der brust ist. wäre charttechnisch toll gewesen, die 60$ endlich mal zu knacken. vielleicht ja morgen...
gruß
V.C.

[zuendi]

Intel Dot.Station Web Appliance Now Available to Service Providers
Product Available with Remote System Management Capability

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 2000--Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Dot.Station web appliance, a communication product for the family that integrates access to the Internet, e-mail, a built-in telephone and home organization applications. Intel is in discussions with service providers worldwide to deliver the final product to consumers packaged with their services.

The Intel Dot.Station web appliance also comes with the Intel® System Management Suite, a unique capability that allows service providers to remotely manage and upgrade the new appliances as the Internet evolves. The Intel Dot.Station and the Intel System Management Suite form the foundation for Intel`s complete web appliance solution for service providers.

``The Intel Dot.Station is the result of extensive consumer research and close cooperation with our customers,`` said Claude Leglise, vice president, Intel Architecture Group and general manager of the Home Products Group. ``We believe we have designed a product that not only meets the needs of service providers, but also appeals to consumers who don`t own a PC and want access to the Internet.``

Intel Web Appliance Product Family

Intel`s web appliance product family is made up of Intel Dot.Station web appliances and the Intel® System Management Suite. The products are designed to meet the needs and expectations of consumers and service providers alike.

For consumers, the Intel® Dot.Station web appliance is an easy-to-use communication product that offers web browsing, e-mail, a built-in telephone, and convenient home organization features for the entire family. The Intel Dot.Station web appliance supports popular Internet plug-ins, providing consumers with a ``no compromise`` Internet experience.

The Intel Dot.Station incorporates a large, high-resolution screen that displays the full width of a Web page. A built-in tutorial provides easy-to-follow instruction on how to use the appliance and the user interface presents all the features in plain view for easy, ``one click`` access. The appliance can be easily and quickly updated remotely by the service provider using the Intel System Management Suite, ensuring consumers keep up with the Internet as it evolves.

Meeting Service Providers` Needs

e-Commerce retailers, banks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), telecommunications companies and other companies providing various services will be able to use the software management tools to manage customer accounts, update software, and perform remote diagnostics. This features helps service providers contain costs while providing a high level of customer service.

Service providers can upgrade the appliances with new Internet plug-ins and software as they become available. This makes it easy for consumers, who don`t have to worry about how or when to upgrade their Intel Dot.Station web appliances. It keeps the device up-to-date, removes errors from do-it-yourself upgrades, and reduces the likelihood of customer support calls.

Services and Content

Intel is working with content companies to provide seamless integration of portal, communication, family organization and e-Commerce services with the Intel Dot.Station web appliance. Service providers have the ability to customize the content and services with their brand.

Availability

The Intel Dot.Station web appliance and Intel System Management Suite are available to service providers now. For more information on the Intel Dot.Station web appliance and Intel`s web appliance product family, check out the worldwide Web at www.intel.com/go/webappliance/.






........powered by INSP

[venturecapital]

schade, daß INSP in der pressmitteilung nicht erwähnt wird. aber vielleicht berichtet ja noch irgend jemand heute nachmittag darüber. für die, die sich nicht mehr an die kooperation INSP und INTL erinnern können, hier zur gedächtnisauffrischung der link:
http://www.infospace.com/info/articles/pr010500.htm
gruß
V.C.

[zuendi]

robertson stephens heute zu INSP:

INFOSPACE ROLLS OUT SERVICES

Will wireless carriers pay InfoSpace a flat fee per subscriber for its wireless data services forever? Doubtful. Will InfoSpace continue to generate large amounts of wireless revenue after that? We believe it is likely, through a combination of services and products that only InfoSpace can currently provide. Part of the strategy was revealed this week with the expansion of its relationship with AT&T (T $35-7/8) to include promotion and transaction capabilities. Users of AT&T PocketNet will be able to receive customized promotions from local merchants, then act on them by simply using a credit card. InfoSpace can offer this through its unique combination of wireless and local merchant relationships, Web content and transaction technology. Over time, we suspect that such usage-based revenue will subsume the fixed fees that currently account for most of its wireless revenue. We believe the carriers` payments to InfoSpace will decline, but both parties could earn more revenue through advertising and commerce. With no major numbers from InfoSpace`s wireless business expected before the fall, it`s hard to gauge the trend on the stock through the summer. However, we continue to see InfoSpace remaining centrally positioned in this exploding market.

[zuendi]

Merrill Lynch zu INSP vom 22.06.


• INSP announced a new initiative with AT&T to incorporate their merchant services business with the AT&T Pocketnet
offering. AT&T will offer Pocketnet subscribers the ability to receive promotions and make purchases on Infospace’s
network of 400,000 local merchants. Infospace indicated that AT&T is planning to promote the service heavily.
• This announcement benefits Infospace in 3 ways. First, it should drive up new merchant adoption rates because local
merchants will be incented by the AT&T partnership. Second, it increases the stickiness of Infospace’s relationship with
AT&T. In order to use the service, subscribers have to enter billing information in the Infospace database (which is
done via AT&T). Third, it should help drive incremental revenues to AT&T in the way of transactions which, in turn,
should improve the INSP value proposition to the carriers.
• AT&T has agreed to pay Infospace a license fee (about $1mm over three years) and a percentage of the transaction (not
disclosed). We re-iterate our Buy/Buy rating on the stock.

[zuendi]

New Oracle Portal Builds the Only Enterprise Portal `Home Page` E-Businesses Will Ever Need

Provides Each User a Personalized Collection of Software Services Served Up By a Single, Easily-Managed Framework


REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest provider of software for e-business, today announced Oracle(R) Portal, e-business portal software designed to collect, manage and serve up personalized software services in a Web browser. Oracle Portal offers e-businesses a simple framework to manage hundreds of different software services for employees, trading partners or suppliers. Using Oracle Portal, e-businesses no longer have to produce numerous Web sites for different audiences, and users no longer have to look in a variety of different places to get the information and applications they need on a daily basis. Oracle Portal is available immediately for download through an early access program on Oracle Technology Network.................


unter anderem powered by InfoSpace und der beteiligung iSyndicate!


zündi

[FloTrader]

http://www.oracle.com/portals/partners/index.html?infospace.…

[zuendi]

gute arbeit flo

hier der relevante teil der obigen URL:

The services InfoSpace will be offering Oracle WebDB users include instant and unified messaging, yellow pages, white pages, company online directory, government online directory, international directory, e-mail directory, maps and directions, news, classifieds, city guides, weather, local Web sites, travel, school directory, traffic, entertainment, ski reports, horoscopes, lottery results, stock quotes, company research, stock chart, global market news, address books, calendars, to-do lists, forms/message boards, Web based e-mail and page greetings.



......in every space
zündi

[zuendi]

Portals Wars II: Mobile operators take on Yahoo!
By Richard Baum

LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - If you thought the likes of America Online (NYSE:AOL - news) and Yahoo! (NasdaqNM:YHOO - news) had the Internet portal industry pretty much sewn up, then Europe`s mobile phone companies would urge you to think again.

Armed with deep pockets and a direct line to millions of customers, operators such as Britain`s Vodafone Airtouch (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: VOD.L) and Sonera of Finland are building portals in the belief that the battle for the gateways to the Internet has barely begun.

With wireless devices expected to overtake computers by 2003 as the most popular way of accessing the Internet, the mobile operators are convinced they can beat Yahoo! at its own game.

The networks will profit from call charges regardless of which portal their customers use, but owning the web sites that guide people to other services would add to their bounty significantly.

The money lies not so much in the traditional portal cash cow of advertising -- the industry is still thinking about how to make that work on a handset`s small screen -- but through controlling e-commerce in a way that lets the operators share the revenue.

The idea that most excites the industry is that of people charging online shopping to their phone bill instead of a credit card. In return for providing a link to the retailer on its portal and collecting money from its customers, the operator would skim off a commission charge.


REVERSE CASH-MACHINE

Pre-pay phones, where users buy vouchers for calltime, are ideal for such transactions, said Brian Greasley, who runs the Genie portal for Britain`s number two operator BT Cellnet (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: BT.L).

``I think of pre-pay as a reverse cash machine,`` said Greasley. ``It gives people the ability to load money into their phone -- you can buy minutes but you can also buy a CD.``

As well as addressing people`s worries about credit card security, it would open e-retailers` doors to people without plastic.

``Most teenagers don`t have credit cards but they do have pre-pay mobile phones,`` Greasley said.

Japan`s NTT DoCoMo is already doing something similar. Its i-mode mobile Internet service, which has close to seven million subscribers, takes a nine percent commission on subscriptions to content providers like newspapers and the Hello Kitty cartoon website.

At present commissions earn DoCoMo an additional 2,000 yen ($18.95) a month per subscriber, little more than loose change for the world`s second largest mobile company. But the potential is enough to have its European peers scrambling to set up portals.


VIZZAVI`S BIG AMBITIONS

Sonera has had its Zed portal running at home for almost two years and plans to roll it out in six other countries this year. Cellnet`s Genie has signed up close to one million subscribers in Britain and is expanding into Asia.

But it is DoCoMo`s larger rival Vodafone that has perhaps the greatest ambitions in the field. Its Vizzavi joint venture with French media group Vivendi is spending 200 million euros ($187.3 million) creating a portal for the partners` 70 million mobile phone and pay TV subscribers.

Yahoo! is not worried by the new competition, confident that its global audience of 145 million people means it knows what Internet surfers demand from a portal.

``The challenge I see for the network operators is do they understand what the user wants?`` said Fabiola Arredondo, Yahoo! Europe`s managing director.

Yes emphatically, responded Chris Smith, the managing director in charge of Vodafone`s Internet applications division. ``We understand our customers much better than they do.``

Vodafone knows, for example, who has subscribed to its text message services for cricket results and would be able to direct those people to cricket content on its portal, he said.

More importantly, it understands the potential of the wireless Internet and realises that the kind of content people will want in the future could be very different from the news feeds and weather forecasts of the traditional portal.

Smith`s vision of a customisable portal on a high-speed, permanently connected handset would allow him to include a window for a live game of draughts with his young son or a link to his wife`s online agenda when she is away on business.


WE KNOW WHERE YOU ARE

The mobile operators will also have the advantage of localisation technology that tells them where their customers are, Smith said, allowing their portals to direct people to nearby restaurants and businesses.

Despite all this, Vodafone will have its work cut out wooing people from the traditional portals, said John Jensen, wireless services analyst at Chase H&Q.

In countries like Britain where Internet penetration is high, people have already personalised a Yahoo! or Excite (NasdaqNM:ATHM - news) front page and will want to use the same portal on their mobiles, he said.

Some analysts think the operators would be better off co-operating with the existing portals than trying to compete.

``AOL is a great content aggregator but it knows zilch about mobile. The mobile operators know a lot about their customers but nothing about portals,`` said Eden Zoller, a senior new media consultant at independent research company Ovum.

Four European operators including the giant Telecom Italia Mobile have reached the same conclusion, striking deals under which Yahoo! will provide their portal.

Zoller reckons the ability to personalise and localise content will determine which portals survive.

``The established Internet portals like Yahoo and AOL will certainly give the operators a run for their money,`` she said.

Greasley believes Genie is already outrunning them, its early launch giving it a first-mover advantage over both the traditional portals and Vizzavi. And he thinks whatever lead the established players have on the fixed Internet will count for little in the wireless world.

``The land-grab for the mobile Internet is yet to be made.``

[zuendi]

InfoSpace Appoints Executives to Lead Wireless Efforts In Europe, Asia and South America

InfoSpace Intensifies Wireless Efforts and Continued Global Expansion Strategy

With the Promotion of Steven Shivers to Managing Director of Europe, Kumail Tyebjee to Managing Director of Asia and Kent Hellebust to Senior Vice President of Wireless Services in North and South America

BELLEVUE, Wash., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- InfoSpace (Nasdaq: INSP), a leading global provider of commerce, communication and information infrastructure services for wireless devices, merchants and Web sites, today announced that it has appointed three executives to aggressively extend InfoSpace`s market share in Europe, Asia and South America by bringing its leading platform of integrated communication, information, personal productivity and commerce services to leading wireless carriers, ISPs and portals worldwide.

This announcement comes at a significant time of growth and momentum for InfoSpace with its wireless services being adopted by more than 80 percent of the United States market. The Company has communicated its strategy to bring that wireless platform and value to wireless carriers abroad that will fundamentally change how users worldwide will communicate, access information, conduct commerce and otherwise manage their lives regardless of the country, language, or transport method, making this a truly unified world.

Today, InfoSpace has already struck deals with global providers such as Vodafone, with affiliates in more than 25 countries, and has already launched its platform of services with Vodafone Australia, Libertel and Austria One.

"This validates our commitment to aggressive global expansion to capture additional market share in Europe and Asia and continue to break new ground like we did recently with the Brazilian carriers," said Arun Sarin, CEO of InfoSpace. "These appointments will enable us to continue our international expansion strategy at a faster pace than ever and enable us to gain even more of a global leadership role. We are perfectly positioned to take advantage of the global wireless Internet explosion with an experienced management team, strong carrier relationships and great services."

Steven Shivers has been promoted to the post of managing director of Europe where he is now responsible for developing and executing InfoSpace`s European activities. Shivers lead InfoSpace`s Wireless and Information Appliance initiatives and was responsible for capturing 88 percent US market share by negotiating agreements with companies such as Verizon, AT&T Wireless and Alltel as well as Web appliance manufacturers such as Intel and PDA companies such as Palm and Omnisky among others. Prior to joining InfoSpace, he worked as a strategy consultant to many large high technology and telecom companies including Nortel, BellSouth, NCR and Lockheed Martin. Shivers holds a BS from Rice University and an MBA from the University of Virginia`s Darden School of Business.

Kumail Tyebjee has been promoted to the post of managing director of Asia where he is now responsible for the development and execution of InfoSpace`s Asian activities. Tyebjee was formerly responsible for the business development effort at Saraide where he led its international development and relationships with more than 15 carriers worldwide. Prior to joining InfoSpace, Tyebjee was a principal at A.T. Kearny where he was responsible for growing the firm`s consulting presence in emerging markets. Tyebjee`s experience also includes directing large-scale business transformation initiatives, designing and executing new business development strategies and managing product lines across numerous industries including technology, manufacturing and finance. Tyebjee holds a BS from Bombay University and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Kent Hellebust has been promoted to the post of senior vice president of wireless for North and South America where he will be responsible for InfoSpace`s North and South American wireless Internet activities. Hellebust was responsible for negotiating agreements with various Vodafone global properties, as well as creating the relationship with InfoSpace`s exclusive Brazilian partner, Telesystem International Wireless Inc. (TIW). Prior to joining InfoSpace, Hellebust was Vice President of Innovation Services for AT&T. While at AT&T, Hellebust developed integrated services across AT&T`s WorldNet, TCI and Wireless properties. He also led the AT&T wireless team that designed and launched the first wireless Web service available in the US in 1996. Hellebust holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania`s Wharton Business School.

[zuendi]

die meldung erscheint auf den ersten blick nicht sonderlich doll, aber wenigestens kommt so mehr struktur in das unternehmen.
bisher konnte man ja fast glauben, dass jain (bzw mit sarin) den laden ganz allein schmeisst.
daher ja auch die befürchtungen von anfang des jahres wegen zuwenig führungspersonal.


zündi

[venturecapital]

Monday June 26, 10:30 am Eastern Time

Company Press Release

InfoSpace and leisureplanet.com to Provide Wireless
Travel Services

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2000--

New Services Will Enable Mobile Users to Browse Real-Time

Flight Schedules and Airfares for National and

International Travel, Track Flight Arrivals, Departures,

and Other Important Flight Status Information

leisureplanet.com, a leading international leisure travel e-commerce company that is majority-owned by Leisureplanet Holdings
Ltd (Nasdaq: LPHL - news), moved forward in its strategy to distribute its services on multiple platforms by announcing that
InfoSpace will wirelessly enable leisureplanet.com`s leisure travel services and integrate them into its wireless Internet services
platform.

The services enable users to find real-time flight schedules and airfares for national and international travel, track flight arrivals,
departures, and other important flight status information. In addition, real time flight tracking services provide information for 34
major airlines. InfoSpace (Nasdaq: INSP - news) is a leading global provider of information, communication and commerce
infrastructure services for wireless devices, merchants and Web sites. InfoSpace`s wireless services have been selected by
leading wireless carriers worldwide such as Verizon, AT&T and Vodafone.

InfoSpace provides the most comprehensive platform for wireless Internet services that enables its partners to offer their
customers the ability to communicate, access information, conduct commerce and manage their lives from any device at
anytime. InfoSpace is the source that wireless carriers and other partners turn to when looking for comprehensive, flexible
wireless and mobile computing solutions. leisureplanet.com`s travel services will allow travellers to find real-time flight tracking
information for national and international travel and retrieve real-time flight pricing information from any device including Web
phones, pagers, Palm and other Web-enabled devices.

This integration is another milestone in leisureplanet.com`s objective of delivering leisure travel services to travellers around the
world wherever they are, on the device that suits them most.

Pierre Kleinhans, chief executive officer of leisureplanet.com, said, ``Our alliance with InfoSpace enables us to offer travel
services for leading wireless carriers, as part of InfoSpace`s integrated information services. leisureplanet.com`s comprehensive
leisure travel services will be literally in consumers` pockets, on their wireless Internet devices, through InfoSpace.``

Naveen Jain, Chairman of InfoSpace said, ``InfoSpace is a leader in enabling real-time communications and transactions across
a full range of devices and networks. InfoSpace is now able to offer new wireless travel services by taking real-time travel
information and enabling it to be available on any device to mobile users. This is in part how InfoSpace is fundamentally
changing the way users communicate, access information and conduct commerce from any device at any time.``

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000626/ny_leisure.html

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[internetti]

What`s Next In E-Business? - Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown`s Mark D`Annolfo Releases
Pioneering Report - `The Wireless Integrator`
Monday, June 26, 2000 09:26 AM

hab`s mangels Zeit noch nicht gelesen, vielleicht ist es interessant, betrifft den Wireless-Bereich
(INSP wird übrigens nicht erwähnt, soviel hab ich schon abgecheckt)

Hier der Link:
http://www.quicken.com/investments/news/story/pr/?story=/new…

Gruß
internetti

[zuendi]

innovatv.com and InfoSpace Launch New Broadband Offerings For Online Marketplace

Partnership Marks InfoSpace`s Initial Entry Into Broadband Services


SAN DIEGO, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- innovatv.com, providers of end-to-end technical, creative and infrastructure solutions for the delivery of interactive video content to the broadband marketplace, and InfoSpace, the leading provider of infrastructure services for wireless devices, merchants and Web sites, today announced that InfoSpace will integrate and offer innovatv.com`s broadband services into its consumer services offerings delivered to InfoSpace`s extensive affiliate network. InfoSpace`s PC-based affiliate network consists of more than 3,000 Web sites reaching 90 percent of all Internet users. InfoSpace is also marking its initial entry into the broadband industry by its agreement with innovatv.com.
innovatv.com`s on-demand format, also known as an interactive video magazine(TM), or iMag(TM), "wraps" synchronized information and Web links around high-quality, viewer-controlled video. These iMags, that are channeled into categories that include sports, finance, home& garden, cooking, do-it-yourself and others on the iMag Channel Guide(TM), will be available to InfoSpace`s affiliate network, which includes America Online, Lycos and NBC`s Snap. The solution will be customized for each site. innovatv.com features major content partners such as Bloomberg Television, Twentieth Television, The Weather Channel and Lifetime Television, as well as a growing number of local and independent content producers from around the world.

"Broadband and wireless will be high growth areas for the Internet very soon," said Naveen Jain, chairman of InfoSpace. "We are continually looking for ways to enhance our standing as a comprehensive infrastructure services provider for any device. innovatv.com is an ideal partner for InfoSpace due to its leadership in building broadband content production and distribution knowledge. InfoSpace and innovatv.com can play a significant role in this growing industry by offering the best broadband services and distribution solutions."

"InfoSpace is an established leader in providing the platform of infrastructure services for wireless devices, PC`s and other Web devices," said John MacDonald, president and CEO of innovatv.com. "By becoming its first broadband solutions partner, we`ve received a major endorsement for the way we package and deliver video content to the exploding broadband marketplace."

About iMag and iMag Channel Guide

innovatv.com`s iMag is an interactive video magazine that wraps information and Web links around high-quality video. The iMag combines the best of current technologies to give consumers the experience of fully interactive video over the Internet. An iMag combines VCR functionality with video indexing, via thumbnail stills, to give viewers unprecedented full control over the content. To experience iMags on InfoSpace firsthand, visit http://www.infospace.com (click on "Broadband" Center) with a high-speed connection. To access the iMag Channel Guide, visit http://www.myimag.com.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?s=AOVdUDBTyaW5ub3Zh&T=m…

[venturecapital]

hier ist noch ein teilweise ganz interessanter artikel über internet und wireless:
http://www.instock.de/marktberichte/newyork/artikel/29021/in…
gruß
V.C.

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InfoSpace Appoints Telecom Industry Veteran as Chief Financial Officer

Rand Rosenberg Brings In-Depth Knowledge of the Wireless and Telecom Industry And Established Relationships With Telecom Industry Leaders And Financial Institutions to Lead InfoSpace`s Finance and Corporate Strategy

BELLEVUE, Wash., June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- InfoSpace (Nasdaq: INSP), a leading global provider of communication, information and commerce infrastructure services for wireless devices, merchants and Web sites, today named Rand Rosenberg as its new chief financial officer and senior vice president of finance and corporate development effective today. Rosenberg will be a key member of InfoSpace`s executive team with responsibility for finance and corporate strategic planning.

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Rosenberg brings extensive telecom, global finance and corporate development experience to the InfoSpace team. Rosenberg began his career in telecom at the Pacific Telesis Group where he was executive director and head of corporate development. Rosenberg`s specific focus was on the creation of a portfolio of wireless assets with an emphasis on cellular. While at Telesis Rosenberg built a top tier team of professionals including Justin Jaschke, who is now founder and CEO of Verio, Forrest Miller, currently CEO of SNET, and InfoSpace`s own CEO Arun Sarin who was previously CEO of Vodafone`s US/Asia Pacific Region and head of Vodafone`s global wireless Internet business.

Most recently, Rosenberg was at Montgomery Securities where he was the founder, senior managing director and partner of the firm`s telecom/media investment banking practices. Prior to that he was at Salomon Brothers where he was a managing director and head of the firm`s global telecom investment banking in New York, London and Hong Kong. He also served as a vice president of telecom and media at Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for some of the firm`s largest clients including AT&T, GTE and EDS.

"InfoSpace has an enviable position in the Internet infrastructure industry and has established a leading position in the wireless Internet industry by building strong interdependent relationships with major wireless carriers such as Vodafone and AT&T Wireless," said Rand Rosenberg, CFO, InfoSpace. "At Pacific Telesis, Arun Sarin and I helped create an extremely successful wireless platform. I am very excited to join him once again to help InfoSpace build an even greater leadership position worldwide to capture the market opportunity created by the merger of the two fastest growing industries in history -- the Internet and wireless."

"Rand brings vast knowledge of the wireless and telecom industry along with extensive financial and corporate development expertise to the InfoSpace team. His established and strong relationships with telecom industry leaders and financial institutions will be key to the continuing growth of InfoSpace," said Arun Sarin, CEO, InfoSpace. "I am confident that Rand will build on our track record of financial excellence and fiscal discipline while continuing to scale the financial and corporate development organization as we become a truly global company."

"InfoSpace has done an incredible job of identifying, developing and delivering consumer services that are used by leading wireless carriers and ISPs and merchant services that are used by all five regional bell operating companies and leading merchant banks that have contributed to our rapid growth and solid financial performance," said Naveen Jain, chairman, InfoSpace. "Going forward Rand will continue to build upon the strong infrastructure we have built to help us realize our goal of becoming a true global infrastructure powerhouse."

Tammy Halstead, InfoSpace`s chief accounting officer and vice president of Finance, will continue to oversee corporate accounting, financial analysis and purchasing.

Rosenberg has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Whitman College in Washington State and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

Most recently, InfoSpace announced that it is intensifying its wireless efforts and continued global expansion with the promotion of Steven Shivers to managing director of Europe, Kumail Tyebjee to managing director of Asia and Kent Hellebust to senior vice president of wireless services in North and South America.

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InfoSpace Inc. Reiterated Near-Term `Buy` at Merrill

Princeton, New Jersey, June 27 /10:06 (Bloomberg Data) -- InfoSpace Inc. (INSP US) was reiterated near-term ``buy`` by analyst Henry Blodget at Merrill Lynch. The long-term rating was also reiterated ``buy.``

http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?s=AOVi03hI3SW5mb1Nw&T=m…

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aktuelles interview mit jain

http://partner.marketwatch.com/video/default.asp?clip=0621ja…

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am 30.06 um 1pm PDT ist jain bei redherring.com im chat

http://www.redherring.com/discussions/qa/

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morgen ist INSP thema auf CNBC:
http://www.tveyes.com/database/expand.asp?ln=1751910&Key=inf…

im Business Center von 6:30-7:30pm ET

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Henry Blodget/Sofia Ghachem gestern zu Infospace

• Infospace appointed Rand Rosenberg as CFO. Rand Rosenberg brings extensive telecom, global finance and corporate development experience to Infospace and we view the appointment as positive for the company and the stock.
• Mr. Rosenberg was most recently Sr. Managing Director and Head of Montgomery`s Telecom/Media Investment Banking. Previously, he was head of Global Telecom Investment Banking at Salomon Brothers. He also served as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in Telecom/Media Investment Banking. Prior to this, Mr. Rosenberg was Head of Corporate Development at Pacific Telesis.
• Infospace also announced yesterday the appointment of 3 Managing Directors to head up Europe, Asia and Latin America. We re-iterate our Buy rating on the stock and believe Infospace continues to be the best-positioned company to become the `operating system software` of the wireless Internet.

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