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InfoSpace.com and QuikPage Form Strategic Alliance to Offer Complete Internet Advertising for Small BusinessREDMOND, Wash., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- InfoSpace.com, Inc., a leading aggregator, integrator and syndicator of Web content and services, and QuikPage, Inc., a leading web site development and hosting company, today announced a strategic alliance providing local advertising sales companies an integrated solution for their advertisers. Together InfoSpace.com and QuikPage will create one-stop web site development with distribution throughout key Internet locations. Local business can now work with their local advertising sales companies such as yellow page publishers and newspapers to create an Internet presence. This bundled program includes a QuikPage custom web site along with InfoSpace.com's extensive distribution network of web sites. The strategic alliance also allows local advertisers to offer Web sites and distribution to their customers without additional staffing or resources, and sites can be created directly from existing print ads. One of the cornerstones of InfoSpace.com's content services is its nationwide yellow pages and white pages service. The company has helped revolutionize the way consumers find businesses using the yellow pages on the Internet. Consumers can find a business by name, in a general location or by particular category. By using these directories, they will also be able to view the business on a map, get door-to-door directions and even locate similar businesses in the neighborhood. Home pages for customers listed within the InfoSpace.com yellow pages directories will be linked to their external site. QuikPage offers customers complete Web site packages consisting of design, hosting, promotion, and customer lead generation. With over 150,000 Web sites created, the company specializes in full-service Web sites for small businesses, and caters to business owners with little or no Internet knowledge. QuikPage also hosts its National Business Web Site Directory (www.quikpages.com), a leading small business Web site directory on the Internet with over 250,000 business listings. ``The partnership between InfoSpace and QuikPage will now offer a valuable service to small businesses that don't have the resources to create and manage their own Web site,'' said Naveen Jain, president and chief executive officer of InfoSpace.com. ``We intend to deliver increased reach to their customers' Web sites through our extensive yellow pages distribution system.'' ``The resources that the two companies offer are unique,'' said John Dennis, chief executive officer of QuikPage. ``Small companies desiring to open their business on the Internet with their own Web site will be served well by QuikPage's expertise in Web design and hosting, and InfoSpace.com's sophisticated distribution network.'' About InfoSpace.com, Inc. InfoSpace.com is a leading aggregator and integrator of content services that it syndicates to a broad network of affiliates, including existing and emerging Internet portals, destination sites and suppliers of PCs and other Internet access devices, such as cellular phones, pagers, screen phones, television set-top boxes, online kiosks and personal digital assistants. The Company focuses on content with broad appeal, such as yellow pages and white pages, maps, classified advertisements, real-time stock quotes, information on local businesses and events, weather forecasts and horoscopes. By aggregating content from multiple sources and integrating it with related content to increase its usefulness, the Company serves as a single source of value-added content. The Company's Internet affiliates include AOL (NYSE: AOL - news), Netscape (Nasdaq: NSCP - news), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news), Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS - news), go2net Inc.'s MetaCrawler (Nasdaq: GNET - news), Playboy (NYSE: PLA - news), Dow Jones (The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition), ABC LocalNet (NYSE: DIS - news) and CBS's affiliated TV stations (NYSE: CBS - news). In addition, the Company has development agreements with a number of providers of Internet access devices including PCs by Acer America, Gateway 2000 and Pixel (for Packard Bell NEC), cellular phones by AT&T Wireless (NYSE: T - news) and UnWired Planet, pagers by WolfeTech (for Motorola), screen phones by InfoGear, Mitel, Mitsui and Lucent, television set-top boxes by American Interactive Media, @Home, @World, Lucent, On Command, Planetweb and Source Media, online kiosks by King kiosk platform and Lexitech kiosk platform, and personal digital assistants by AT&T Wireless, InfoGear and UnWired Planet. About QuikPage, Inc. QuikPage, Inc. is the leading developer, host, and promoter of small business Web sites. The company provides a full-service Web site staff to businesses that desire a site on the Internet without the need for additional resources. Founded in 1996 with headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, QuikPage, Inc. specializes in providing easy, innovative and affordable Internet solutions for the large and rapidly growing small business market. The 120-person organization has the capacity to output 1,000 Web sites daily, and also hosts The QuikPages National Business Web Site Directory, the leading small business Web site directory on the Internet with 250,000 business sites. The company offers its customers online shopping cart and e-commerce solutions, as well as other value-added promotional services. Newsbit furnished by:
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