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CNN INTERACTIVE AND FINDLAW ANNOUNCE ALLIANCE
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2000--CNN Interactive and FindLaw, the Internet's most highly trafficked Web portal focused on law and government, announced an alliance today. Under the terms of a three-year agreement, FindLaw will be the charter legal resource provider for CNN.com.
"CNN is pleased to be working with FindLaw to provide a wide range of legal resources and commentary," said Scott Woelfel, CNN senior vice president, general manager and editor in chief of CNN Interactive and CNNfn Interactive. "Our goal is to offer the most comprehensive news, information and services to our users. FindLaw will help us to continue that strategy by providing expertise in Internet legal resources."
As part of the alliance, FindLaw will provide co-branded content for CNN.com, including self-help legal resources for consumers and small businesses, original commentary from legal practitioners and scholars and in-depth primary materials related to important news stories, legal community functions, Supreme Court cases and more.
"CNN.com has a history of innovative, in-depth approaches to subject areas and topics that are especially useful and interesting to Internet users," said FindLaw CEO, Tim Stanley. "FindLaw is a perfect fit with this approach, and we are confident that our alliance with CNN.com will lead to an outstanding legal resource for consumers."
About FindLaw
FindLaw, Inc. (http://www.findlaw.com/), the leading Web portal focused on law and government, is dedicated to making legal information on the Internet freely available and easy to find. By far the Internet's most highly trafficked legal portal, FindLaw offers lawyers, consumers, and small businesses a wealth of legal resources and information, including legal search tools, case law (including U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1893), legal news, real-time SEC filings, community discussion areas and online continuing legal education. FindLaw is currently a privately held company backed by @Ventures, the affiliated venture capital arm of CMGI, Inc. Other investors include Amicus Investments, Angel Investors LP, Arba Seed Investment Group and Glasser Legal Works.
About CNN Interactive
CNN Interactive is responsible for the award-winning news site CNN.com, as well as nine other Web sites and the distribution of CNN news content via other platforms such as PageNet pagers and iMagic's PowerPhones. In February 1999, CNN Interactive launched CNN Mobile, the most comprehensive and advanced 24-hour global and pan-regional news and information service for GSM mobile phones. The CNN Web sites, which include CNN.com, CNNfn.com and CNNSI.com, are among the world's leading news and information Web sites. The CNN Web sites served more than 613 million page impressions in the first month of 2000 and served more than 6.7 billion page impressions in 1999.