Press Release
B3 and Zoomify Team to Simplify Adding High-Quality Graphics to StorefrontsZoomify's patent-pending technology will enable customers of B3's buildIT storebuilder product to easily add high-quality graphics to their online stores
Sherman Oaks, Calif., June 27, 2001 - B3 Corp., an e-solutions business, today announced an agreement with Zoomify, a company providing products and services that optimize high-quality images for use online. The agreement will integrate Zoomify's basic graphics editing and optimization technology into B3's buildIT storebuilder product, enabling merchants to easily scale and upload high-quality graphic images into their Web sites.
"B3 offers the most feature-rich and easy-to-use storebuilder on the market today," said David Archambault, President and CEO, B3 Corp. "Zoomify's technology allows us to give merchants a tool that greatly improves the graphical quality of their Web sites. This partnership plays an important role in B3's commitment to developing the best and easiest-to-use products in the industry."
"Zoomify's technology provides merchants with tools that enable them to create captivating Web sites," said David Urbanic, President of Zoomify. "Our unique Web-based imaging services make enhancing, uploading and viewing high-resolution images simple, with no special development, server or client software required."
The integration of the Zoomify tools will be done in conjunction with launch of B3's new Image Manager interface. The Image Manager interface will give merchants more flexibility in maintaining and uploading their image portfolios. Zoomify's basic technology will be included in B3's buildIT and sellIT services at no additional cost. Zoomify's advanced image handling capabilities will be offered for an additional cost as part of a value-added package.
About B3 Corp.
B3 Corp. is an industry-leading e-solutions business providing a hosted, fully integrated end-to-end commerce platform featuring storebuilder, shopping cart, payments gateway and e-wallet capabilities. These capabilities were developed specifically to service large corporations with multiple divisions or organizations with large communities of small- to medium-sized businesses, such as banks, portals, telecoms and business services companies. Leveraging the company's core expertise in payments management and processing, B3 is rapidly expanding to serve m-commerce, B2B and digital distribution of music and video on the Internet. Branded versions of the B3's commerce platform are currently being offered by Bank of America (www.bamart.com), Wells Fargo Bank (www.wellsfargoestore.com) and divisions of AOL Time Warner. B3 is a privately held company with major equity investments from Warner Music Group (an AOL Time Warner company), Wells Fargo Bank and Zilkha Capital Partners, LLP. For more information about B3 products and services, go to www.bthree.com.About Zoomify
Zoomify makes high-quality images useful for Web businesses, digital imaging vendors and image-sharing enthusiasts. Zoomify's advanced user interface technologies and unique image streaming solution make large images easy to acquire, edit, stream, share and view. Zoomify streaming images are used just like JPEGs – simply save and host – no licensing strings, no server software, no limits on viewing alternatives. For more information about using high-quality images on your Web site, licensing Zoomify's unique technology for hardware, software or service integration, or about sharing your images on Zoomify's new peer-to-peer sharing service, visit www.zoomify.com.Contact
Sarah Tolle/John SonegoROGERS & ASSOCIATES
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