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eastciti.com and CalendarONE.com Deliver Events Content on Co-Branded Pages
For Immediate Release
eastciti.com users can now log on and search for dynamic events
content provided by CalendarONE.com, and even import these events
into their personal community pages.
Singapore, 30 May 2000 - eastciti.com (www.eastciti.com), a quality
product of MediaCorp Interactive (MCI), and CalendarONE.com
(www.calendarone.com), the local Internet calendaring and eCommerce
solutions provider, announced that an agreement had been signed to
co-brand web pages focusing on events content hyperlinked to
eastciti.com.
As part of the agreement, MCI will host and maintain a co-branded
web page with current events content from the Asia Pacific region
constantly updated by CalendarONE.com. Users who log on to the
eastciti.com site are directed to the co-branded page via a dynamic
search engine linked to CalendarONE.com's database of events.
Members of eastciti.com can also download events content into their
community pages on the site. This unique capability lets
eastciti.com users plan their time ahead and gives them the
advantage of having the most up-to-date events information at their
fingertips.
This deal marks an important and strategic milestone for
CalendarONE.com. By providing local arts and entertainment,
wining and dining, as well as business events content for
eastciti.com customers and users, and with the added advantage that
comes with co-branding with one of the region's leading
entertainment portals, CalendarONE.com is well-placed to forge
strongly ahead with its regional expansion plans.
"We are thrilled to be able to team up with MediaCorp Interactive
by offering our premier events content to the eastciti.com
website," commented Mr Goh Kim Siew, CEO of CalendarONE.com.
"Local online information is essential to today's Internet user.
By teaming with MCI, we are strengthening our commitment to
providing consumers with relevant local content and information.
This partnership lends tremendous value as it allows us to widen
our reach in the events content arena as well as distinguish
ourselves as content provider for one of the region's leading
media companies." Added Mr Goh, "We will continue to partner with
premier players like MCI to provide essential events information to
today's Internet user."
Mr Amir Wan, Assistant Vice President (Business Development) of MCI
says "This agreement with CalendarONE.com gives us access to
thousands of events that take place not only locally but also in
the entire Asia Pacific region. With the goal of establishing
eastciti.com as a viable community for Singaporeans and the Asian
region, partners such as CalendarONE.com fortify this position
and increase the value to surfers. Furthermore, by allowing
CalendarONE.com to collate and sort content for the co-branded
pages, we are able to concentrate on other aspects to ensure
the smooth operation of eastciti.com, providing our users and
customers with the in-depth level of information and content
they've come to expect from eastciti.com, the No. 1 Entertainment
and Lifestyle portal."
CalendarONE.com's attractiveness to MCI lies in its comprehensive
and dynamic events content listing, covering not only Singapore but
also most of the major cities in the Asia-Pacific region.
CalendarONE.com's regional presence currently includes Singapore,
Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Melbourne, Sydney, Shanghai,
Jakarta, Manila and Taipei and as it clones itself in other cities,
eastciti.com is well-positioned to leverage on CalendarONE.com's
regional content.
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For further information on CalendarONE.com, please contact
Ms Yvette Kang (yvette@CalendarONE.com) or Mr Isaac Poh
(isaac@CalendarONE.com) at (65) 337-4554.
For further information on eastciti.com, please contact
Mr Shaun See (shaunsee@eastciti.com) at 350-3573 or
Ms Ophelia Teo (ophelia@eastciti.com) at 3503408.
About CalendarONE.com
Founded in 1996, CalendarONE.com is a leading eCommerce solutions
provider to time-based merchants. Winner of the prestigious
Singapore National IT Awards '98 in the category of 'Most
Innovative Service', CalendarONE.com provides a dynamic web-based
calendaring and scheduling application that allows time-based
merchants to manage its events, resources and facilities, and to
broadcast its inventory to the marketplace. Via its flagship
product, the eCalendar, CalendarONE.com delivers group and
community calendaring solutions to these time-based organizations
such as clubs, hotels, restaurants, training and educational
institutions.
Using its unique eCalendar application, CalendarONE.com is
proficient in the gathering and distribution of dynamic events
content covering both the leisure and business sectors in each
city. To date, CalendarONE.com has forged strategic partnerships
with branded portals such as Microsoft MSN, Lycos Asia, CNET in
Asia, Skali, ZDNetAsia and SingTel Yellow Pages.
CalendarONE.com's regional presence includes the major cities of
Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Manila, Taipei,
Shanghai, Jakarta, Melbourne and Sydney and is poised to advance
its growth and development by establishing a presence in all the
major Asia-Pacific cities. CalendarONE.com is headquartered in
Singapore and can be found on the Internet at
http://www.CalendarONE.com and contacted at (65) 337-4554.
About MediaCorp Interactive
MediaCorp Interactive started off as a TCS research and development
department for new media technology. It has come a long way and has
since established itself as a facilitator of MediaCorp's business
units in the creation and management of on-line services, building
new businesses and making strategic investments in Internet-based
companies. MediaCorp Interactive also seeks to build shareholder
value through strategic investments and partnerships with Internet
and emerging new-media companies. These investments will be mainly
in new-media, new technologies, web content creation and services.
About eastciti.com
EASTCITI (www.eastciti.com) is an Entertainment & Lifestyle Portal
providing rich content that Singaporeans love and news with uniquely
Singaporean perspective. Catering to the Asian surfer aged 14 - 29,
it offers streaming technology for audio and video fast downloads
and also broadband initiatives to satisfy all levels of Internet
surfers, including the advanced and sophisticated surfers.
Built on MediaCorp's unique strengths in entertainment content and
news. The goal of eastciti.com is to form and establish a viable
community for Singaporeans and subsequently for Asians on the
Internet. To further enhance our content, we offer community-based
services like auctions, calendars, Grouplinks (our community
sotware), directories, career search and shopping. By leveraging
collaborative content partnerships with external parties and
service providers we will continue to offer more community-based
services. Additional new features and services in the pipeline
include an online CD-store, health, food, travel and on-line
digital audio file downloads.
With all the many facets of Eastciti catering to the young and
affluent Asian consumer, we average 12 million page views a month,
in Singapore, and are growing at a tremendous rate. In fact,
according to the April 2000 Nielsen/NetRatings report, which
samples households in Singapore, we were ranked the top 20 most
popular sites and the No.1 site for Entertainment and Lifestyle
content.
This success stems from our dedication in delivering rich media
content, strong community features and a keen eye on changing
trends and demands. This will pave the way for Eastciti's growth
in Singapore and into the region.
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