To: Evan Dimmer who wrote () | 8/31/1999 2:56:00 PM | From: TFF | | |
Buyingedge.com Expands Web Site Now Offers Comparison Shopping for Home and Garden Products
BusinessWire, Tuesday, August 31, 1999 at 10:26
SHELTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 31, 1999--Buyingedge.com, (http://www.buyingedge.com) the most comprehensive, consumer-driven, business-friendly marketplace on the Internet, announced today it has expanded its product category offerings to include Home and Garden products. The new Home and Garden category will add thousands of products from a wide variety of merchants to the existing product categories of consumer electronics, sporting goods, home office equipment and musical instruments. "We are excited about delivering on our objective to give our customers the most complete Internet shopping experience possible: more products, more categories, more options," says buyingedge.com CEO Gary Martino. He adds, "We want buyingedge.com to remain the Internet shopping destination where buyers get the best deals and merchants get the most customers." The new Home and Garden section will feature a wide array of home and garden products including: small and major appliances, home furniture, towels, linens and bedding, kitchen wares, carpets and rugs, hand tools, and power tools. With the new Home and Garden category, Martino says, "We take one more step to ensure that buyingedge.com is the premier Internet shopping destination for people of all ages." "My company sells a full range of home electronics and home appliances," says Luke Baldwin, owner of Bill May TV and Appliance, Inc., Richmond, Virginia. "I simply don't have the resources to develop an e-commerce solution to attract new customers from the Web. Buyingedge.com makes e-commerce affordable to me."
How It Works Buyingedge.com offers consumers a better way to shop on the Web; at buyingedge.com, buyers are in control. They can easily and efficiently submit purchase requests and have them automatically distributed to many merchants who sell the requested product. Merchants receive purchase requests and respond to those requests using their buyingedge.com account. Buyingedge.com enables consumers to consult with merchants, solicit the best purchase terms, and conclude the purchase at their discretion. In addition, the system provides the tools that help both buyers and merchants track, organize and analyze buyer requests and merchant responses. The result is a positive and effective experience for both buyers and merchants. Buyers can get the best deals possible and merchants, both on- and off-line, can increase their business.
About Buyingedge.com Buyingedge.com is the most comprehensive, consumer-driven and business-friendly marketplace on the Internet. Formed in June of 1999, the site (http://www.buyingedge.com) already brings more than 32,000 buying members and 4,000 vendors together for the dynamic and negotiable sale of brand name consumer goods. Buyingedge.com was formed and then successfully spun-off as a separate business entity by Information Management Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMAA), a leading provider of enterprise software. Current investors include IMA, @Ventures, Inc. (the affiliated venture capital arm of CMGI), Wand Partners, Inc., Amicus Capital, LLC, and Madrona Investment Group, LLC. Buyingedge.com has offices in Shelton, Connecticut and Redwood Shores, California. For more information, go to buyingedge.com, e-mail info@buyingedge.com or call 1-877-889-8900.
CONTACT: PepperCom Kenneth Juarez 212/931-6138 kjuarez@peppercom.com or Buyingedge.com Jacques Wagemaker 203/925-6893 jw@buyingedge.com |
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To: Evan Dimmer who wrote () | 9/15/1999 10:26:00 AM | From: agent99 | | |
Buyingedge.com Membership Increases 250% in Five Weeks; Unprecedented Growth for Internet Shopping Site
SHELTON, CT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 15, 1999--Buyingedge.com, (www.buyingedge.com), the Internet's largest reverse auction Website where the buyer rules, announced today it has, in the last 5 weeks, more than doubled its membership enrollment to more than 47,000 buyers. "We are encouraged by the thousands of people who have signed up for our service and now enjoy the shopping benefits of a reverse auction Web site", says buyingedge.com CEO Gary Martino. "Both buyers and merchants benefit at buyingedge.com: buyers get the best deal and merchants both online and off get more customers to buy their products." Since buyingedge.com opened its site to the public in July, the reverse auction Web site has steadily increased membership. In August, buyingedge.com had 18,000 registered members, in September that number had more than doubled to 47,000 members. Buyingedge.com works for both buyers and merchants. For buyers, buyingedge.com eliminates much of the time and confusion people often experience using traditional Internet shopping models. For businesses, buyingedge.com levels the playing field that e-tailers (merchants on the Web) and retailers (merchants that aren't on the Web) compete upon. "Market analysts project that consumer Internet sales are expected to grow fivefold in the next few years", says Gary Martino. "Buyingedge.com is positioned to take advantage of this explosive growth and be the market leader in the reverse auction Web site category."
How It Works
Buyingedge.com offers consumers a better way to shop on the Web; at buyingedge.com, buyers are in control. They can easily and efficiently submit purchase requests and have them automatically distributed to the many merchants who sell the requested product. Merchants receive purchase requests and respond to those requests using their buyingedge.com account. Buyingedge.com enables consumers to consult with merchants, get the best deal, and conclude the purchase at their discretion. In addition, the system provides the tools that help both buyers and merchants track, organize and analyze buyer requests and merchant responses. The result is a positive and effective experience for both buyers and merchants. Buyers can get the best deals possible and merchants, both on- and off-line, can increase their business.
About buyingedge.com
Buyingedge.com (www.buyingedge.com), the Internet's largest reverse auction Web site where the buyer rules, was founded in June of 1999. The site brings more than 47,000 buying members and 4,000 vendors together for the dynamic and negotiable sale of brand name consumer goods. Buyingedge.com was formed and then successfully spun-off as a separate business entity by Information Management Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMAA), a leading provider of enterprise software. Current investors include IMA, @Ventures, Inc. (the affiliated venture capital arm of CMGI), Wand Partners, Inc., Amicus Capital, LLC, and Madrona Investment Group, LLC. Buyingedge.com has offices in Shelton, Connecticut and Redwood Shores, California. For more information, go to buyingedge.com, e-mail info@buyingedge.com or call 1-877-889-8900.
CONTACT: Kenneth Juarez PepperCom (212) 931-6138 kjuarez@peppercom.com or Jacques Wagemaker Buyingedge.com (203) 925-6893 jw@buyingedge.com 10:10 EDT SEPTEMBER 15, 1999 |
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To: agent99 who wrote (149) | 9/17/1999 | From: TFF | | |
13D filed after close. Looks like Wand partners holding approx 50%. Although 13D is very confusing with the cross ownership. |
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To: agent99 who wrote (149) | 9/17/1999 10:17:00 AM | From: TFF | | |
from 13D..." Except for the bridge financing transaction and the investment in buyingedge.com inc., each discussed more fully in Items 3, 4 and 6, none of the Filing Persons has effected any transactions in common stock of IMA during the past 60 days." |
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To: TFF who wrote (151) | 10/20/1999 2:43:00 PM | From: Anthony@Pacific | | |
TOKYO DOPE scams again -----Original Message----- From: ID Protected by A@P ( email recieved unsoloicited ) Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 8:47 AM To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: IMAA
I was one of the "suckers" who were fooled by Tokyo Joe's Societe Anonyme with the purchase of IMAA at 13 5/8... When the stock went down to $9.00 level I emailed the society and asked if I should bail out and cut my losses short.. Their response was "only a fool would get out now"...The stock is now below $5.00 a share.
I understand from your report that the SEC is investigating? Anything I could do??
Regards, ID Protected by A@P ( S.A Current member of Tokyo Joke ) |
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To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (152) | 10/21/1999 10:26:00 AM | From: TFF | | |
IMA Introduces New E-Business Vision With the Introduction of Demand Chain Management IMA Pioneers Solutions That Redefine CRM, eCRM and CTI Marketplaces SHELTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 1999--IMA (NASDAQ:IMAA - news), a leading global provider of synchronized, multi-channel e-business solutions, today announced a revolutionary new process for supporting the huge inflow of demand that has shifted from more traditional distribution channels onto the Internet. IMA's vision, termed Demand Chain Management (DCM), will be a suite of technology solutions to enable businesses to create demand, manage demand, and respond to demand in a highly effective manner.
Demand Chain Management takes the core values of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy to a new level by applying new e-commerce technologies that are rapidly overtaking today's business world. DCM looks at the bigger picture - beyond traditional CRM response - and addresses how demand and delivery channels are changing as technology redefines the relationship between the supplier and the customer.
''The Internet has revolutionized the way businesses communicate with their customers,'' said Al Subbloie, IMA's President and CEO. ''Demand Chain Management allows companies to successfully blend all communication methods, manage diverse customer interactions, and respond to requests in an efficient, customer-centric manner.''
''IMA is announcing a revolutionary answer to business problems in the three major customer-facing markets, CRM, eCRM, and CTI middleware,'' Subbloie continued. ''The Web is forcing a major requirement shift for the enterprise towards a new breed of architecture designed for channel synchronization and demand normalization anywhere in the customer demand chain. Demand Chain Management is the specific value-added vision that brings all of the fragmentation together in a common business layer, putting the customer's demand in the center of a powerful new open architecture.''
Currently two major shortcomings exist in the CRM and eCRM software being offered to businesses. CRM solutions are not designed from the customer's point of view, and are simply a wide collection of predefined data models and processes that assist company personnel in communicating with customers. Existing eCRM software has the same design flaw as its predecessor, which is compounded by the wide variety of partial, proprietary solutions offered by various vendors. As a result, the actual demands of customers are not reflected appropriately nor made persistent in the system, and there is inconsistency in the way the business manages what really matters, their customers' requests for products and services any time, from anywhere, over any channel.
Traditional CRM and CTI software have attempted to bring synergy between voice and the web, but have failed to do so. These middleware solutions remain ''transaction-centric'', with little ability for demand to persist as a data component in a chain of events defined by a common set of business rules anywhere in the enterprise. While many companies are creating loose partnerships or merging, solutions from these fragmented players creates large inefficiencies for the enterprise because of hard wired integration of proprietary or even multiple rules engines, along with overlapping legacy architectures.
IMA's Demand Chain Management product suite will allow businesses to easily respond to consumers in a rapid and personalized manner. It not only generates demand, but automatically routes the requests (e-mail, voice, fax, chatroom, etc.) to the appropriate personnel, and can even employ a highly automated yet personalized response mechanism. To accomplish this, IMA has created the Industry's first object-oriented, Java-centric component architecture for e-business application development. This true OO component architecture offers n-tiered scalability and promotes a best-of-breed solution through re-useable e-business components, such as a rules engine, personalization, web development and legacy integration.
While IMA is shifting its business focus, the company remains committed to supporting its CRM and CTI customers across the globe. ''We will continue to offer the same level of service and support that we always have. And since our new DCM offerings will be built on open industry standard architecture, all of our EDGE customers will be able to use our new offerings to extend their current EDGE applications across their entire enterprise system,'' Subbloie added. ''Our new technology provides both existing and new clients the opportunity to continue the use of existing applications while adding greatly enhanced enterprise functionality across the full demand chain.
IMA is the only player in the market today with a vision that addresses all the technologies which make up the Demand Chain - e-commerce, business intelligence and eCRM - by focusing its products and services on this new relationship between the buyers and sellers.
About IMA
IMA provides synchronized, multi-channel e-business solutions, enabling businesses to create market demand, manage that demand, and then respond to it in the most effective manner with world-class customer interaction software solutions. Gartner Group ranks IMA as a leader in customer service and support systems and as a visionary in sales applications. Over 400 global organizations including Bose Corp., Humana, ICT Group, Lloyds TSB, Texas Utilities, U.S. Cellular Corp. and Xerox depend on IMA products and services to help grow their business through the process of acquiring and retaining customers. IMA has headquarters in Shelton, Connecticut and offices and representatives worldwide. More information about IMA's products and services can be found on the World Wide Web at www.imaedge.com, requested via email at ima@imaedge.com or by calling 1-203-925-6800. |
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To: TFF who wrote (154) | 10/21/1999 10:54:00 AM | From: Anthony@Pacific | | |
MPPP<--------------Pure JUNK with a huge market cap!!!!!!!!!! Ignore all th upgrades ,, they are scammy Crim Firms, They have no basis whatsoever for the reccomendaytion.. Noone uses MPPP<--wher you can get al the crappy miusic you want for free! |
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To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (155) | 10/21/1999 7:33:00 PM | From: BenThair | | |
You said
MPPP<--------------Pure JUNK with a huge market cap!!!!!!!!!! Ignore all th upgrades ,, they are scammy Crim Firms, They have no basis whatsoever for the reccomendaytion.. Noone uses MPPP<--wher you can get al the crappy miusic you want for free!
Did you call this a short at wss or your private site? |
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