Further, the company said it has signed a distribution agreement with honesty.com, a provider of services for on-line auction bidders and sellers. The agreement provides on-line auction sellers with a complementary sales channel for their goods.

honesty.com has integrated the Advertise123.com service into its site so that now on-line auction sellers can easily place classified ads in the print and on-line versions of newspapers across the country.

Also, the company said its financial results for the year ended December 31, 1999 were revenues of $1.68 million compared to $1.56 million in the previous year.

Approximately 16 percent, or $267,000, of 1999 revenues were Internet generated and represent the company's initial e-commerce related revenues.

The company reported a net loss of $2.87 million, or $(1.90) per share versus a net loss of $69,000, or $(0.05) at year-end 1998.

Lastly, the company said that revenues for the first quarter 2000 increased to $571,000, more than 40 percent over the first quarter 1999 revenues of $407,000. A significant portion of these revenues were directly attributable to more than 6500 classified ad transactions generated by advertisers through AdStar.com's Internet portal, Advertise123.com, and privately-labeled Advertise123.com powered sites. This compares to the approximately 3400 classified ad transactions that were placed through the Advertise123.com system in all of 1999.

The company reported a loss of $973,000, or $(0.34) per share, which was in line with expectations as the company brought on additional staff and built the infrastructure to develop the first-ever on-line sales channel for the multibillion-dollar classified advertising industry.

The Marina Del Rey, Calif.-based company is on the Web at http://www.adstar.com/.

In addition, the system will manage content and provide the workflow for all print publications produced by the MORNING POST, as well as the information served on the Web through its website.

The MORNING POST is on the Web at http://www.scmp.com/, while Bedford, Mass.-based Atex is at http://www.atex.com/.

GDT also announced a strategic investment in Nova Publishing Products Inc. of Auburn, Calif., a system integrator and software supplier for the newspaper industry.

GDT will increase its R&D capabilities at offices in Pleasanton and Rocklin, Calif., while Nova will expand its marketing, sales and customer support activities for both companies under the name GDT-Nova. Both corporations will remain separate entities, but will share resources while focusing on their respective capabilities.

The companies also said that they had sold Competent Consulting's FaxAction inbound Fax/OCR/Web/Email system to five daily newspapers. Sites include FLORIDA TODAY in Melbourne, Fla. (89k), the IDAHO STATESMAN in Boise, Idaho (66k), the TULSA (Okla.) WORLD (162k), the BRIDGEWATER (N.J.) COURIER-NEWS (circ 44k) and the STATESMAN-JOURNAL in Salem, Ore. (69k).

Nova is on the Web at http://www.novapub.com/, while GDT is at http://www.gdt-inc.com/.

KRT Interactive provides dynamic Web content with news and features that can be localized to complement any on-line publication.

These Web packages build traffic with well-written, stylishly illustrated, fast-loading content, including breaking news, technology, entertainment, weather and health.

The company is on the Web at http://www.krtdirect.com/.

Coinciding with the release of Adobe InDesign 1.5, Managing Editor now offers InDesign connectivity built into its industry standard Page Director Advertising Layout System (ALS) and Roundhouse Ad Tracking System.

Managing Editor is on the Web at http://www.maned.com/.

Quark also said that it had developed a software bundling agreement with Extensibility Inc., a Chapel Hill, N.C. provider of enabling technologies for XML schemas, With the purchase of avenue.quark, a new tool for converting Quark XPress content into XML, customers will receive a trial version of XML Authority, an XML schema creation, conversion and management solution.

Lastly, Quark said it and I.M.A.G.E. Inc. of New York had made their first domestic sale of Quark Digital Media System (QuarkDMS) to Edward Don & Co., a business-to-business distributor of food service equipment, furnishings and supplies which publishes thousands of catalog pages a year.

The Revere Group is on the Web at http://www.reveregroup.com/, Extensibility is at http://www.extensibility.com/ and I.M.A.G.E. is at http://www.www.imageinc.com/, while Quark is at http://www.quark.com/.

AFTENPOSTEN will be the first publisher in Europe to install SII's new Insiight Digital Asset Management System (IDAM) software to integrate and automate its current disparate advertising booking, tracking and management systems into a single, enterprise-wide, digital workflow.

AFTENPOSTEN will also use IDAM to integrate the various forms of digital interaction which currently exist between the newspaper and its customers, and to launch a range of Internet-based advertising services for key customers designed to increase ad booking, scheduling and tracking efficiency.

In addition, the newspaper's existing 200-seat SII Advertising System will be upgraded to the SII CZAR-II System to bring additional automation and flexibility.

The company also said it had upgraded Iowa's CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE to SII's System/77, while Florida's ORLANDO SENTINEL had recently purchased two Compaq ServerNet systems to replace its aging Tandem K1000 servers.

SII is on the Web at http://www.sii.com/.

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