Business Editors/Technology Writers
BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---March 9, 2000
iiGroup, Inc. (OTCBB:IIGR), an Internet holding company formed to acquire Internet content providers and business to business Internet sites, today announced that their foreign language and travel Web site, Travlang.com (www.travlang.com) was selected by USATODAY.com as a Hot Site on January 20, 2000.
"Just as we do with top-rated movies and TV programs, USATODAY.com looks daily for Web sites that are likely to be sure hits with readers - sites that seek to astound and delight, inform or amuse - by exhibiting something remarkable in graphics, content, or both, " said USATODAY.com Technology Editor Sam Meddis. The sites selected are not endorsed by USATODAY.com. Serving almost 15 million unique visitors per month, USATODAY.com is the No. 1 newspaper site on the Internet.
Travlang is a site that has existed for nearly five years and is recognized as the leader in providing free access to over seventy foreign language translation dictionaries to over one and a half million unique visitors a month. The site provides a variety of useful tools and links to some of the best places on the Internet. This has allowed the site to sell tens of thousands of banner advertising. Travlang's free Word of the Day e-mail is sent out five days a week to over 17,000 subscribers, and provides both audio and textual translations of the day's word or phrase into any of over seventy languages that the subscriber has selected.
The statements which are not historical facts contained in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve certain risks and uncertainties including but not limited to risks associated with the uncertainty of future financial results, additional financing requirements, development of new products, regulatory approval processes, the impact of competitive products or pricing, unpredictability of patent protection, technological changes, the effect of economic conditions and other uncertainties detailed in iiGroup, Inc.'s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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