COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Feb. 17, 1999

Feb. 17, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 7

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ACCRUE SOFTWARE INC.
Accrue, a supplier of e-commerce analysis software based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced that New York-based Hearst New Media and Technology has chosen Accrue Insight to generate detailed reports and analyses about traffic to Hearst New Media's sites on the World-Wide Web. Hearst will use Accrue Insight to monitor its web sites, collecting customer data and then reporting on which pages drew what kind of viewers.

Accrue also announced that Insight complies with the standards for independent verification of web site activity as set out by ABC Interactive, the web auditing service of the Audit Bureau of Circulations of Schaumburg, Ill. Customers will be able to use Accrue Insight to gather data for auditing instead of having to install ABC Interactive software on their servers.

Accrue is on the Web at http://www.accrue.com/.

COLORDIGITAL.COM
Dr. Joseph Webb, a consultant to the graphic arts industry based in Harrisville, R.I., has announced that the ColorDigital.com web site is now accepting articles about experiences in digital printing. Webb's goal is to establish a treasure trove of information about the ins and outs of digital printing.

ColorDigital.com is offering the right to post links to other sites and to trade advertising banner space with other sites. Articles, links and ad space swaps are being offered free.

Webb is a founder of TrendWatch, which is partnering with The Cole Group to produce the TrendWatch/Cole Group Newspapers surveys, a five-year research project to determine the buying trends in newspaper capital equipment and consumables.

ColorDigital.com is at http://www.colordigital.com/.

COMPAQ COMPUTER CORP.
AltaVista Co., the wholly owned subsidiary of the Houston-based Compaq, announced yesterday that it would acquire Zip2 Corp. of Mountain View, Calif.

Zip2, a longtime provider of Internet directory services for newspapers, will become an operating division within AltaVista, which is based in nearby Palo Alto. Zip2 customers include Classified Ventures, The New York Times Co., Knight Ridder, Morris Communications and newspapers in the Hearst, Times Mirror, Media General, Pulitzer Publishing and Freedom Communications groups.

The board of directors of Zip2, which includes representatives from Hearst, Knight Ridder, Morris and New York Times Co., has unanimously approved the transaction, which is a cash purchase for all of Zip2's outstanding shares.

The companies said the transaction is expected to close following the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.

AltaVista is on the web at http://www.altavista.com/, while Zip2 is at http://www.zip2.com.

INFINET
InfiNet, the Norfolk, Va.-based on-line services provider keyed to the needs of newspapers, has announced it is supporting Celebro CityServer, a software package from Gannett Media Technologies International of Cincinnati.

With Celebro CityServer, newspapers can manage local directories on their web sites while InfiNet handles the heavy lifting of being on-line from Norfolk. CityServer will enable a newspaper to provide specialized guides in any category it chooses, from restaurants to entertainment, providing specific local information such as a cafe's smoking policy.

InfiNet will assist in deploying Celebro CityServer to sites operated by Gannett Co. Inc. newspapers. Gannett owns GMTI and shares ownership of InfiNet with Knight Ridder of San Jose and Landmark Communications of Norfolk.

InfiNet is on the Web at http://www.infinet.com/. GMTI is at http://www.gmti.com/.

MANAGING EDITOR INC.
Managing Editor, a supplier of advertising and workflow production solutions based in Jenkintown, Pa., has announced 10 recent sales of its Roundhouse Ad Tracking System.

The customers include the 200,000-circulation ST. PAUL (Minn.) PIONEER PRESS, 30 seats; 175,000-circulation DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE of Rochester, N.Y., 19 seats; 60,000-circulation STATESMAN JOURNAL of Salem, Ore., 13 seats, and 66,000-circulation CORPUS CHRISTI (Texas) CALLER-TIMES, 20 seats.

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

MEDIASTREAM INC.
MediaStream, an archive services provider based in Philadelphia, has announced that five newspapers have contracted with MediaStream to have its NewsLibrary manage paid access to their archives on the Web. Participating papers send material to MediaStream, which handles billing, collection and marketing for the papers.

The newest participating papers are the RIVERSIDE (Calif.) PRESS-ENTERPRISE, at http://www.inlandempireonline.com/; ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER of Santa Ana, Calif., at http://www.ocregister.com/; LANCASTER (Pa.) NEW ERA and INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL, at http://www.lancnews.com/; ALBUQUERQUE (N.M.) JOURNAL, at http://www.abqjournal.com/, and SAN ANTONIO (Texas) EXPRESS-NEWS http://www.expressnews.com/.

MediaStream, a unit of San Jose-based Knight Ridder, is on the Web at http://www.krmediastream.com/

NEWSINC.
The newspaper industry has discovered how to go along to get a lot, writes NEWSINC. Editor/Publisher David M. Cole in the Feb. 15 issue. Recent cooperation among newspaper companies in on-line acquisitions and distribution agreements mirror the "co-opetition" found in other industries.

Inside, another example of co-opetition is detailed by Senior Editor Pete Wetmore, who writes that the plan for the SEATTLE TIMES to shift to mornings and compete head-to-head with the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER could in fact be a win-win situation for all involved. Wetmore also details another case of co-opetition between the LOS ANGELES TIMES and MediaNews Group, presents more earnings reports from multimedia companies for the fourth quarter and all of 1998 and talks with a couple of analysts about prospects for 1999

Correspondent Julius Duscha attends the Western Conference of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, where he finds change brought about by the maturity of age and economic reality.

For more about the Feb. 15 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

REED TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION SERVICES INC.
Horsham, Pa.-based Reed, a member of the Reed Elsevier plc publishing technology group, has announced that it has taken full charge of marketing and supporting NewsView Solutions, the text and image archiving products created by Tribune Solutions of Lewiston, Idaho, and later acquired by LEXIS-NEXIS of Dayton, Ohio.

Product development will continue under Tribune Solutions' Glenn Cruickshank, the creator of NewsView who is now based in Salt Lake City. NewsView Solutions products are used by more than 100 companies in eight countries, with 17 installations completed in 1998.

Reed is on the Web at http://www.reedtech.com/. NewsView is at http://www.newsviewsolutions.com/.

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