COLE'S NEWSWIRE, May 10, 2000

May 10, 2000
Vol. 6, No. 15

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ADVANCED TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
Open Market Inc. of Burlington, Mass., said it has formed a strategic relationship with Advanced Technical Solutions (ATS), a software developer and systems integrator of advertising and editorial/pagination publishing systems, where ATS will become an exclusive e-commerce remote advertising management product reseller.

Open Market will work closely with ATS over the next few months to insure a smooth transition of its E-Commerce Remote Advertising Management products, which include AdFAX, AdFAST and IPS AdOnTime.

ATS, based in Wilmington, Mass., is on the Web at http://www.atsusa.com/, while Open Market is on the Web at http://www.openmarket.com/.

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS
The supplier of publishing systems has announced installations that occurred in the early part of the year.

Baseview advertising customers in January and February include INYO REGISTER, Bishop, Calif.; NORTH TAHOE TRUCKEE THIS WEEK, Carnelian Bay, Calif.; MAMMOTH TIMES, Mammoth Lakes, Calif.; SAN FRANCISCO ADVERTISER; AURORA (Colo.) SENTINEL, METRO NORTH NEWSPAPERS, Westminster, Colo.; GAINESVILLE (Fla.) BUYER'S GUIDE; MIAMI (Fla.) TIMES; NORTHEAST GEORGIAN, Cornelia, Ga.; IDAHO PRESS-TRIBUNE, Nampa, Idaho; ROSSI PUBLICATIONS, Chicago; STAR COURIER, Kewanee, Ill.; BRAZIL (Ind.) TIMES; PERU (Ind.) DAILY TRIBUNE; PILOT NEWS, Plymouth, Ind.; CHARLES CITY (Iowa) PRESS; OTTUMWA (Iowa) COURIER; JOURNAL WORLD, Lawrence, Kansas; TONGANOXIE (Kansas) MIRROR; FRANKFORT (Ky.) STATE JOURNAL; APPALACHIAN NEWS-EXPRESS, Pikeville, Ky.; BASTROP (La.) DAILY ENTERPRISE; TURKEY PUBLICATIONS INC., Palmer, Mass.; WAKEFIELD (Mass.) ITEM; DIAMONDBACK, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.; PANOLIAN, Batesville, Miss.; BIG NICKEL, Joplin, Mo.; MARSHALL (Mo.) DEMOCRAT-NEWS; MARYVILLE (Mo.) DAILY FORUM; PULITZER COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS, St. Louis, Mo.; NATIONAL SPEED SPORT NEWS, Harrisburg, N.C.; SMOKY MOUNTAIN SENTINEL, Hayesville, N.C.; NEWS REPORTER, Whitesville, N.C.; DEMING (N.M.) HEADLIGHT; ELKO (N.Y.) DAILY FREE PRESS; LIMA (Ohio) NEWS; MARYSVILLE (Ohio) JOURNAL-TRIBUNE; YOUNGSTOWN (Ohio) VINDICATOR; HUNTINGDON (Pa.) DAILY NEWS; MARYVILLE (Tenn.) DAILY TIMES; SHOPPER PRESS OF MEMPHIS (Tenn.); DAVIS COUNTY CLIPPER, Bountiful, Utah, and DELAVAN (Wis.) ENTERPRISE. Internationally, advertising customers included FREEPORT (Bahamas) NEWS; NASSAU (Bahamas) GUARDIAN; NORTHERN DAILY NEWS, Kirkland Lake, Ont., Canada; SARNIA (Ont., Canada) OBSERVER; ANDERSONTOWN NEWS, Belfast, Ireland, and LE NOUVELLISTE, Sion, Switzerland.

Editorial installations in the first two months of the year included DOTHAN (Ala.) EAGLE; ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE, Anchorage; BEDFORD (Ind.) TIMES MAIL, Bedford, Ind.; CARO PUBLISHING INC., Caro, Mich.; DAILY DUNKLIN DEMOCRAT, Kennett, Mo.; CHILLICOTHE (Ohio) GAZETTE; MIDDLETOWN (Ohio) JOURNAL, Middletown, Ohio; TPI METRO, Philadelphia; JOHNSTOWN (Pa.) TRIBUNE DEMOCRAT; BEAUFORT (S.C.) GAZETTE; ELIZABETHTON (Tenn.) STAR and MIDLAND (Texas) REPORTER-TELEGRAM. International editorial installations included PLOETZ VERLAG/ERNST PLOETZ, Wolfsberg, Austria; METRO INT'L/NEWCASTLE, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England; KERRYS EYE, County Kerry, Ireland; ARBETET NY TID, Goteborg, Sweden, and DAGENS INDUSTRI, Stockholm, Sweden.

Circulation system installations in January and February included KODIAK (Alaska) DAILY MIRROR; HOMETOWN NEWSPAPERS, Howell, Mich.; RICHWOOD (Ohio) GAZETTE, and, internationally, ST. JOHN'S EXPRESS, St. John, Newfoundland, Canada.

Production installations for the early part of the year included ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT GAZETTE, Little Rock, Ark.; SAN FRANCISCO ADVERTISER; DAILY JEFFERSONIAN, Cambridge, Ohio; ALLIANCE (Ohio) REVIEW, and TEXAS STUDENT PUBLICATIONS, Austin, Texas.

Baseview, of Ann Arbor, Mich., is on the Web at http://www.baseview.com/.

GEAC PUBLISHING SYSTEMS
The Tampa, Fla.-based division of Toronto's Geac Computer Corp. Ltd., announced that it has acquired the assets of the Gazette Technologies unit from Gazette Communications Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, publishers of the CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE.

Gazette Technologies develops, markets and supports MarketInfo, a fully developed, highly sophisticated, media-specific data warehousing suite of software. MarketInfo is an Oracle-based client-server decision-support product that is used by newspapers to identify, manage, analyze and report on information related to individuals, households and businesses that make up a given newspaper marketplace.

Gazette Technologies' customers include Florida's ORLANDO SENTINEL, the DALLAS MORNING NEWS, the MIAMI HERALD and the Knight-Ridder group.

Gazette Technologies will be immediately integrated into Geac's Publishing Systems division.

Geac also said that its editorial layout application, CyberPage, has now been enhanced with tightly-integrated links to the creative abilities of Adobe InDesign, a page layout and design application.

Working together with the Genera relational database, the integrated layout application will allow part or whole pages to be designed and edited in InDesign and incorporated into pages and sections produced in CyberPage.

Listings of InDesign stories and shapes will be available from within CyberPage directories, with drag-and-drop capability. CyberPage's use of dynamically updating directories means an InDesign element will be seen in a CyberPage list immediately as it is stored back to the Genera database, without the user having to refresh the directory.

Geac Publishing Systems is on the web at http://www.geac.com/publishing/.

POWERADZ.COM
The Rensselaer, N.Y.-based supplier of newspaper new media products and services has announced that it raised an additional $6 million in private equity from Waller-Sutton Media Partners, L.P. and Journal Register Co. The new capital will help the company sustain its rapid growth and fuel the development of additional products and services for its newspaper affiliates, their advertisers and consumers. With the new investments PowerAdz.com has raised $15 million since December.

Waller-Sutton, a private equity investment firm focusing on growth companies in the media and communications industries, was the lead investor in this round. Waller-Sutton is also an investor in Texas-based Lionheart Newspapers, whose 67 papers use Poweradz' Zwire! as the basis for their on-line operations.

Journal Register Co., publisher of 25 daily newspapers and 200 non-daily publications, including the NEW HAVEN (Conn.) REGISTER and THE TRENTONIAN, Trenton, N.J., in addition to their equity investment, has also agreed to use Zwire! as the on-line publishing platform to the company's newspaper Web sites.

Lionheart currently publishes 49 titles which include 14 weekly newspapers, two daily newspapers, three weekly shoppers, and seven business and specialty publications. These publications are geographically concentrated around Dallas/Ft. Worth, Minneapolis and Kansas City and have a total circulation of more than 1.4 million.

PowerAdz.com also said that "most" of its 71 Zwire! affiliates that were launched in the first quarter of 2000 turned a profit; combined they netted more than $1.4 million in on-line ad sales within days of launching their sites.

The company said that sample results include annual contracts worth $174K, $95K, $75K and $52K for four regional newspaper groups and $27K, $25K, $24K and $23K for four independent newspapers.

PowerAdz.com also said that it will hire an additional 80 employees by the end of the summer, with more to follow later this year. The company said it has hired 50 new employees since Jan. 1, raising the company's total to more than 110. Most of the new staff was added at the company's national headquarters.

To accommodate the infusion of new staff, PowerAdz is completing its move to 20,000-square feet of office space in the Rensselaer Technology Park. If growth continues at its current pace, PowerAdz will expand its office space later this summer. In addition to the Rensselaer office, the company has additional offices in Coleraine, Minn. and Waupaca, Wis.

PowerAdz is on the Web at http://www.poweradz.com/.

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