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Monday, March 16th, 1998 Group Seven Communications, Inc. Enters Agreement to Acquire Caribbean Lifestyles Magazine. Group Seven Communications, Inc., announced it has completed an agreement to acquire Caribbean Lifestyles Magazine. Group Seven Communications, through its various subsidiaries publishes or distributes three publications for the U.S. market. The addition of Caribbean Lifestyles is in keeping with the company's goal of publishing or distributing ten niche market publications by the end of 1998. Caribbean Lifestyles is a English language magazine, focused on the Caribbean American community in the United States. The magazine will be distributed to newsstands in key Caribbean markets and to subscribers, both in the Untied States and throughout the Caribbean. The editorial focus of the magazine is lifestyles of the Caribbean Community with sections covering entertainment, living, cooking, health, travel and special events. Group Seven Communications, Inc., is a multi-title publisher and communications company. The Company's Spanish-language titles include Deportes Hoy, the nation's first Spanish language sports daily newspaper, and Musicaliente, a Spanish language music fan magazine. Group Seven also owns an interest in Single Living magazine and is a leading publisher of licensed printed paper products, including trading cards based on certain exclusive, proprietary sports and entertainment licenses. Big Entertainment Announces Agreement to Access Russian Archives to Develop Books Big Entertainment, Inc. announced that its book licensing and packaging division, Tekno Books has signed an agreement with a Russian charitable organization to provide access to materials captured by the Soviets from the Germans at the end of World War II. In addition to publishing agreements, the Company expects to license documentaries, television specials, and feature films based on the materials. For all documents related to the Holocaust, copies of all such materials will be donated to appropriate Holocaust-related charitable organizations. Selections of these organizations will be made by a Board of Advisors, the members of which will be distinguished leaders of religion, industry and politics. Big Entertainment is a rapidly growing media company which owns and licenses intellectual properties and operates retail outlets. 'Manufacturing Marketplace' Web Site Undergoes Major Redesign Cahners Business Information's Manufacturing Marketplace, the leading world wide web-based community for manufacturing professionals, announced at the National Manufacturing Week conference a major redesign of its web site. The upgraded site now offers an improved navigation toolbar that enables users to quickly locate any of the vast offerings available, such as a fully-searchable database of more than 30,000 manufacturers and service companies. Manufacturing Marketplace also announced it has added editorial content from the leading Chilton manufacturing-related magazines, bringing the total number of manufacturing publications that furnish original news articles and features to 25 titles. Chilton recently became part of Cahners Business Information. As the largest U.S. publisher of business-to-business magazines, with more than 130 titles in 19 markets, Newton, Mass.-based Cahners Business Information (a member of the Reed Elsevier plc group) also provides industry-based research, on-line services, economic forecasting, reprints, database marketing and custom publishing projects. Go2orlando Web Site Goes Live At www.go2orlando.com Orlando and Central Florida, one of the world's most popular vacation destinations, now has a new Internet site, "Go2orlando," located at www.go2orlando.com. Go2orlando launched on Sunday, March 15, unveiling hundreds of pages of compelling travel and tourism content focusing on Central Florida. With Orlando as its unofficial capital, Central Florida continues to reign as one of the top vacation destinations in the world, attracting more than 40 million visitors annually. As a service of Orlando Sentinel Interactive, the site is supported by its editorial and design team. "Our goal is to help visitors get the most out of their time in Orlando," said Mike Bales, general manager of Orlando Sentinel Interactive. "It's a fun place -- especially if you have access to credible information. And that's what Go2orlando provides," he added. Go2orlando's regular features include hotel, restaurant and event guides, up-to-the-minute destination information, theme park updates and video clips, vacation sweepstakes, family travel ideas, tourism news, message boards and interactive brochure racks. Vacation planning and booking will be featured, with suggested one-, two-, and three-day vacation itineraries. Go2orlando presents information in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German. Omnitree Web Directory Expanded From 1,400 To 70,000 Domains Norwegian OmniTree launched an upgraded version of its web directory. From supplying information exclusively about computing and related products, OmniTree with its version II takes a serious step into the general web directory market. Version II contains far more topics than its predecessor and thus directs itself towards a wider audience than previously. The service is now available at http://www.omnitree.com and the directory now contains more than 70,000 domain names. In addition to covering a larger number of topics the web pages are now laid out in a new format and with a new navigation interface. This interface provides a direct access to all of the pages behind every registered domain. As soon as you have navigated to a domain, a tree structure displaying the pages behind the domain in question is immediately shown. This overview is automatically generated every time a new domain is registered into the system. The software, in most cases using the title of the pages themselves, automatically selects the names of the underlying pages as the title for the corresponding level. OmniTree Norge ASA is a software company specializing in programs to be used on and in connection with the Internet. The company is located in Kristiansand in the south of Norway supplying software and consulting services to local as well as national/international customers. Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter.  www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2011 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
