[BusinessTeam] FW: Silicon Alley Daily for Wednesday, November 15, 2000

Message-ID: <6B75EF096AE0BE428B8CEDEA89C5F6327822EA@exchange01.lab49.com> · Thu Nov 16 17:59:04 2000 UTC

  - Vindigo Signs Up Tribune Interactive 
Vindigo Signs Up Tribune Interactive 

 by Dakota Smith 

Alley-based Vindigo has signed a deal with Chicago-based Tribune 
Interactive to farm out reviews from the media company's websites to 
Vindigo users via Palm products. 

The Tribune Interactive-owned Latimes.com, Sun-Sentinel, and 
Metromix.com (Chicago Tribune's entertainment guide) sites will offer 
movie reviews, restaurant listings, shopping guides, and the like via 
Vindigo for their respective markets. 

The deal is only for the papers' Web content; for instance, reviews 
appearing in the paper edition of the Los Angeles Times will not 
appear on Vindigo. 

The deal expands Vindigo's publishing reach. Already the company, 
launched only this past March, has signed up Zagat.com, SF Gate (the 
online companion to the San Francisco Chronicle), washingtonpost.com, 
and NYToday.com. 

"Great content and a phenomenal brand," said Harley Ungar, marketing 
manager at Vindigo of why Vindigo chose Tribune Interactive. Ungar 
added the company is in discussions to work with other publishing and 
web properties to deliver wireless content. 

"We are thrilled to work with a number of different companies," said 
Ungar. "We are essentially a publishing company so we are talking to 
lots of different media companies, and we have gotten to the 
situation where media players are coming to us." 

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