INDUSTRY:  Entertainment Software

COMPANY PROFILE:
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment software for personal computers and advanced console game systems such as the Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64. Founded in 1979, Activision posted revenues of $260 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1998.

Activision maintains publishing and development operations in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan and Australia, and distribution subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and Germany. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company’s World Wide Web site which is located at https://www.activision.com.

AMERICAN EXPRESS

INDUSTRY: Financial Services

COMPANY PROFILE:
American Express Company is a diversified worldwide travel and financial services company founded in 1850. It is a leader in charge and credit cards, Travelers Cheques, travel, financial planning, investment products, insurance and international banking.

ANIMALHOUSE.COM

INDUSTRY: Internet Entertainment.

COMPANY PROFILE:
Slated to launch back-to-school in September, 1998, animalhouse.com is the quintessential online community designed to meet the cultural, social and educational needs of college students. The site offers insider information on campus life with more than 50 percent of the content created and continually updated by students across the country at more than 800 colleges and universities.

Other added features include style and content from Tommy Hilfiger, free e-mail through CommTouch, online shopping mall with exclusive-to-animalhouse.com discounts through iMALL, travel information from Rough Guides, online calendaring through Appoint.net, Inc., content from USA Today, CBS SportsLine, Tribune Media, Daily Variety and Women.com, with search capabilities provided by Infoseek and software provided by Microsoft.

ARROW ELECTRONICS

INDUSTRY:  Electronics component distribution

COMPANY PROFILE:
Arrow Electronics is the world's largest distributor of electronic components and computer products, with 1998 sales of $8.3 billion. Headquartered in Melville, New York, Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 600 suppliers and 175,000 original equipment manufacturers and commercial customers through more than 200 sales facilities and 27 distribution centers in 34 countries.

Detailed information about Arrow's operations can be found at http:/www.arrow.com.

BURLY BEAR NETWORK

INDUSTRY: Cable Television Network

COMPANY PROFILE:
Burly Bear Network, the largest college cable television network, is designed specifically for the national college audience. The network was developed in 1994 by a group of recent college graduates. Burly Bear was acquired by Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video, producer of "Saturday Night Live," and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien." Burly Bear provides reality-based programming that focuses on students nationwide and captures the unique college experience. Burly Bear Network is distributed to more than eight million households in college communities representing over four million college students. The network is available to students at over 400 colleges and universities.

BIG BANG COMMUNICATIONS (BBC)

INDUSTRY: PR, Marketing Communications

COMPANY PROFILE:
Create messages and creative platforms for clients from a variety of businesses. Design messages and creative that translates into PR, advertising, Web content, execute marketing communications and PR.

CNNSI.com is Time Warner’s sports Web site featuring up-to-the-minute scores, news, statistics and analysis of the U.S. and World and men’s and women’s sports, as well as fantasy sports, live video-streaming and a local sports section for more than 150 cities. The site features the renowned journalism and photography of Sports Illustrated; content from Turner Sports, including NBA, golf and motor sports; and CNN/Sports Illustrated, the 24-hour sports news network. CNNSI.com is the home of Sports Illustrated on the Web and the sports site for CNN Interactive.

COLLEGIATE MEDIA MANAGEMENT, INC.

INDUSTRY: Education/Internet

COMPANY PROFILE:
CMM operates the www.study24-7.com Internet Web site, which will officially launch on Monday, January 18, 1999. The Web site allows college students throughout North America to post their calass lecture notes to the Web site for monetary compensation. In turn, the student "NoteTaker" promotes his/her "Virtual Class Community" to his/her classmates. NoteTakers also receive a class chat room and discussion group, in addition to their lecture note site.

COUNCIL OF PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRMS

INDUSTRY: Public Relations

COMPANY PROFILE:
Trade association representing America's leading public relations firms. The Council is dedicated to building the business of public relations by advocating that public relations is an effective and valued strategic business tool, and by helping member agencies and their clients set the standards for the profession.

DAEWOO MOTOR AMERICA

INDUSTRY: Automotive

COMPANY PROFILE:
Daewoo Motor Company is committed to becoming one of the world’s top 10 automakers and having a strong U.S. presence by the year 2000

Daewoo Motor America, a subsidiary of the Daewoo Group, has set this bold vision for itself and is poised to succeed. As the second-largest and fastest-growing automotive manufacturer in Korea, Daewoo has doubled its business volume over the last three years and continues to expand internationally through global partnerships and overseas investments.

The launch of the Daewoo product line in both the U.K. and Central America was met with great critical acclaim, and Daewoo is confident that this success will continue in the U.S. market, a critical market in reaching sales objectives.

Daewoo’s innovative business philosophy, its commitment to manufacturing leadership and its focus on customer needs are well documented through Daewoo’s worldwide growth.

Daewoo Motor America has headquarters and its Western Regional office in Compton, California, and has three other regional sales offices: Ridgefield Park, NJ; Atlanta, GA; and Chicago, IL.

Daewoo Motor America is part of the Daewoo Group, a highly diversified manufacturing and service company, based in Seoul, Korea. With more than $68 billion in sales for 1996, Daewoo was ranked as the 24^th largest company worldwide by Fortune magazine, and is truly one of the most rapidly growing global companies in the world. For more information, visit www.daewoous.com.

eCRUSH.com

INDUSTRY:  Dating / Networking

COMPANY PROFILE:
eCRUSH.com -- a high-tech way to find out what the other sex is thinking.

Got a crush? Want to find out oif it's mutual -- without making a fool of yourself? Cyber-savvy college students everywhere are doing just that by logging onto https://www.ecrush.com and finding out the answer to that nagging question: "Would they go out with me?" -- with no danger of the other party learning of your affections unless they feel the same about you.

Users log onto eCRUSH and, in complete confidentiality, enter the names of anyone they would be interested in dating. The eCRUSH database searches for matches -- two people who list each other as crushes. When a match happens, both people are simultaneously informed of each other's interest.

To maximize chances for a match, eCRUSH gives users the option of having an anonymous email sent to their love interests, informing them that they have been "eCRUSHed" and encouraging them to enter their own crushes if they want a chance to find a match.

ERNST & YOUNG LLP

INDUSTRY:  Accounting, Tax and Consulting

COMPANY PROFILE:
Ernst & Young LLP provides assurance and advisory business services, tax services and consulting for domestic and global clients. The firm has 29,000 people in 87 U.S. cities. Visit the Ernst & Young web site at https://www.ey.com.

HOTMAIL

company offers globally accessible, easy-to-use and feature-rich personal e-mail to its members. Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft Corp. in December 1997 and is now part of the Microsoft Interactive Media Group. Hotmail is a leader in consumer advocacy and is widely recognized for its strong anti-spam measures. To sign up for Hotmail, go to https://www.hotmail.com/.

J-BIRD RECORDS

INDUSTRY:  Record Label, Music Industry

COMPANY PROFILE:
J-Bird Records was founded by record executive Jay Barbieri (Polygram/EMI) in 1996 and is devoted to promoting new musical talent to a global marketplace via the Internet. For the approximately 250 artists on its roster, J-Bird designs, manufactures, distributes, markets, promotes and sells their albums on the WWW. J-Bird also features artists on individual web pages that include RealAudio soiund samples, biographies, tour schedules, and a 24-hour J-Bird Internet radio station. J-Bird’s growing roster includes multi-platinum recording artists Billy Squier and The Guess Who, Lovechild (featuring Jenn Wertz formerly of Rusted Root), Jazz Hall of Fame guitarist Jimmy Stewart, well-known hit maker Andrew Gold, the world famous Harlem Gospel Choir and the Butch Vig-produced The And.

For more information, visit www.j-birdrecords.com.

JOCKEY INTERNATIONAL, INC.

INDUSTRY:  Men's and women's underwear and women's hosiery

COMPANY PROFILE:
Jockey International, Inc. is a manufacturer of men's, women's, girls' and boys' underwear and women's hosiery, which are sold in major department and specialty stores across the country. The products are also available internationally from Athens to Zanzibar. Located in Kenosha, WI, the 122-year-old company is committed to quality, fashion, innovation and value.

J.R. O'DWYER COMPANY

INDUSTRY: Public Relations, Publishing

COMPANY PROFILE:
The J.R. O’Dwyer Company publishes four O’Dwyer publications that keep you on top of breaking PR news and three 500-page directories that are PR’s basic research tools (PR firms, corporate PR departments, and biographies of PR pros). All O’Dwyer products are sold at half price to students or professors. The O’Dwyer newsletter and monthly magazine have been on NEXIS in full text since January, 1989, the only PR publications carried by NEXIS.

LT, Inc. / LifeTIMES.com

INDUSTRY: Internet

COMPANY PROFILE:
LifeTIMES.com is an online network of personalized communities created by our members. We offer free services to help people connect with family and friends to share news and interests and stay in touch. Members can create online gathering places called Circles to schedule important dates, post a scrapbook, chat privately, and share special events with each other across the miles. Our free services include a group calendar with email reminders, a shared address book, a shared noteboard and a list of favorite websites, shared online photo albums, and a private chat room. For special occasions, celebrations and holidays, we also offer a unique gift catalog of items from artisans, craftspeople and regional vendors.

LifeTIMES.com was founded by former TIme Life executive and XOOM.com Publisher Bob Ellis. Ellis currently serves as chairman at LifeTIMES.com. Executive offices are located in Washington, DC and can be contacted at 202-237-0087 or via the website at https://www.lifetimes.com.

LEUKEMIA SOCIETY OF AMERICA

INDUSTRY: Non-profit, Healthcare

COMPANY PROFILE:
The Leukemia Society of America is a national voluntary health agency dedicated to curing leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma -- and to improving the qua1ity of life of patients and their families. The Leukemia Society of America has 57 chapters nationwide.

	Public Awareness: Attract and develop professional and volunteer resources and raise the funds necessary to accelerate our programs and achieve our mission.
	Research: Support the best researches investigating the causes, treatment and cures for leukemia and its related cancers.
	Advocacy: Advocate for more government research funding and public policy to benefit patients and their families.
	Patient Services: Provide support programs for patients and their families and assistance to help them meet the costs of treatment.
	Information Resource: Serve the community through information, referral and education programs.
	Education: Educate health professionals about the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment.

NOVAWIZ, INC.

INDUSTRY:  Internet

COMPANY PROFILE:
NovaWiz is a New York based Internet company with R&D based in Israel and the United States. The company founded in January 1999, currently employs over 60 people. NovaWiz’s dedication to enrich the Internet experience is manifest in the company’s leading product - Odigo. Meaning 'guide' in ancient Greek, Odigo fuses a unique search technique based on users' real-time interests with a variety of popular communications utilities. The result is very powerful portable tool.

THE PEACE CORPS

INDUSTRY:  Government/Education

COMPANY PROFILE:
In the 37 years that the Peace Corps has been sending volunteers overseas, almost all have been college graduates. Today, 97 percent of Peace Corps volunteers hold at least a bachelor`s degree, while 15 percent have a graduate degree.

Currently, nearly 6,700 Peace Corps volunteers are serving in 80 countries, working to help fight hunger, bring clean water to communities, teach children, help start new small businesses, and stop the spread of AIDS. Since 1961, more than 150,000 Americans have joined the Peace Corps.

PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES, INC.

INDUSTRY:  Entertainment

COMPANY PROFILE:
Playboy Enterprises, Inc., is an international multimedia entertainment company that sells and markets branded products and services in almost 200 countries. The company’s six business groups are Publishing, Entertainment, Product Marketing, Catalog, Playboy Online and Gaming.

POPWALL.COM

INDUSTRY:  Internet

COMPANY PROFILE:
PopWall.com is an e-commerce destination servicing the college and high-school communities. The company, based in New York, was founded in 1998 by David Bayer and provides cutting-edge, high-quality products at prices students can afford.

Bayer came upon the idea for PopWall.com after he was unable to find a poster on the Web that he wanted for his dorm room. Amazed that there were so few sites specializing in things college students want to buy – given the tremendous amount of time they spend online – Bayer founded PopWall.com after graduating from Columbia University last year. He teamed up with Fred Geisler, who owned PosterMat, a famous poster outlet located in Manhattan. Bayer, a recent college graduate, realized the full potential of his Web site, and scoured the country looking for items he knew to be hip – chili pepper lights, inflatable furniture, and glow-in-the-dark beaded curtains – and brought them together in one place.

The site offers hundreds of the hippest must-haves, ranging from bean bag chairs and inflatable furniture to Indian-print bed covers and life-size cutouts of Jar Jar Binks. The site also offers message boards for students across the country to share their experiences and tips on everything from navigating course registration to arbitrating roommate disputes.

PRINCESS CRUISES

INDUSTRY:  Cruise-line

COMPANY PROFILE:
Princess Cruises is one of the top three cruise lines in the world. With the addition of Sea Princess, it will have a fleet of 10 ships sailing to approximately 230 ports around the world on 70 different itineraries, more than any other major cruise line.

SHANDWICK INTERNATIONAL

INDUSTRY:  Public Relations

COMPANY PROFILE:
"The International Leader in Global Reputation Management." Offers capabilities in media relations, new product introductions, crisis planning and management, corporate communications, communications training, employee communications and labor relations, public affairs and government relations, trade show marketing and communications, speechwriting, full service graphic design an new media services including development, design, programming, training and marketing for Internet, World Wide Web and new media needs.

SHOWTIME NETWORKS

INDUSTRY:  Entertainment, Cable Television, Movies

COMPANY PROFILE:
Showtime Networks, Inc. (SNI), which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Viacom Inc., owns the premium television networks SHOWTIME, THE MOVIE CHANNEL and FLIX. SNI operates and manages the premium television network SUNDANCE CHANNEL, which is owned by SNI, Robert Redford and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. SHOWTIME en Espanol, a separate audio feed of SHOWTIME, is available for the Spanish-speaking audience. SNI also markets and distributes sports and entertainment events for exhibition to subscribers on a pay-per-view basis.

SHOWTIME (SHO) is an award-winning and critically-acclaimed 24-hour network featuring a dynamic line-up of theatrical movies, original pictures and series, championship boxing and family entertainment. Showtime Networks has exclusive studio deals with Paramount Pictures, PolyGram Films, Castle Rock Entertainment, Miramax's Dimension Films, Artisan (which previously was LIVE Entertainment), TriStar Pictures, Goldwyn Films, a renewed deal with MGM and a multi-picture deal with Miramax.

SIXDEGREES

INDUSTRY:  Internet

COMPANY PROFILE:
sixdegrees is a leading global online community where more than 2.8 million members in over 165 countries come to meet new people through their friends. Inspired by the theory that every person in the world is connected to every other person through a path of no more than six relationships, sixdegrees is able to connect nearly every one of its members to each other through the people they know in real life. Members use unique, proprietary sixdegrees tools, including personalized bulletin boards, special interest groups, live chat rooms, people search tools and a services marketplace, to meet, interact and transact with each other. Launched in January, 1997, the privately held company derives its revenue from the sale of advertising throughout the site, as well as through transaction fees.

SPINRECORDS.COM

INDUSTRY:  Entertainment / Internet

COMPANY PROFILE:
SpinRecords.com is rapidly becoming a number one resource for new and established artists and their fans by harnessing the power of the Internet. The site is dedicated to providing all types of services as a farm-label to unsigned and undiscovered talent. Internet users can easily download near CD-quality music in Quicktime, MP3, RealAudio, Windows Media and other formats and play it back on their computers or on one of the many portable digital audio players on the market.

SpinRecords.com is committed to exploring this field of infinite possibilities in pursuit of musical excellence. SpinRecords.com is selecting the best independent bands and musicians and putting them directly in front of their fans. SpinRecords.com offers its artists an unprecedented 60 percent of the profits they generate from the sales of their music and merchandise.

Solutions Media is a technology research and development firm, focused on the development of an intuitive, highly polished and efficient media-management system that will eventually run on the High Definition Television (HDTV). The interface, being ported to run on cable set-top boxes later this year, is a clien-server system that allows all functionality to be managed by the client, putting the majority of the computing burden on the server. The product is expected also to be available in an "in-the-browser" version later this year.

TEACH FOR AMERICA

INDUSTRY:  National non-profit organization – Educational

COMPANY PROFILE:
Teach for America is the national corps of outstanding and diverse recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in under-resources urban and rural public schools. Over the past nine years, more than 4,500 talented, dedicated individuals have joined Teach for America. They have had a tremendous impact on the lives of some of our nation’s most disadvantaged students, and they have helped to build a movement to advance educational opportunity. Every Teach for America corps member has surpassed traditional expectations in the pursuit of the vision that one day, all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

TOTAL SPORTS

INDUSTRY: Sports Information, Print & Internet Publishing

COMPANY PROFILE:
Total Sports is a sports information company that compiles and displays sports data for display in print and in real-time for the Internet. The company produces over 30 sports web sites and currently sends every Major League Baseball game over the Web in real time.

Total Sports was formed a year and a half ago and in that time has:

Cybercast the 1997 World Series, two NCAA basketball tournaments, the Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, two College World Series, and 2,000 major league games.

Created the Total College Sports Network, an on-line college network of leading conferences (Big 12, SEC) and colleges (Duke, Georgia Tech, Tennessee, Texas).

Published Total Football and Total Baseball, the official encyclopedias of the National Football League and Major League Bsaeball, and will publish Total Hockey, the official encyclopedia of the NHL this fall.

More information is available at https://info.totalsports.net.

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ONLINE

INDUSTRY:  Internet Entertainment

COMPANY PROFILE:
Universal Studios Online, a division of Universal Studios New Media Group, develops original content for Universal Studios’ Web site (https://www.universalstudios.com), as well other Internet-related outlets, and promotes Universal’s properties for the global digital market. Universal Studios is a unit of The Seagram Company Ltd., a global beverage and entertainment company.

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