Subject: Re: Clickshare launches Internet's first micropayments service From: Joe Shea Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 06:22:19 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: Clickshare launches Internet's first micropayments service From: Joe Shea Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 06:22:19 -0700 (PDT)
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	Felix, send me the whole release asap so i can run it.  Thanks!
(Any rewrite to move AR up in the story would be okay, too ;)

Best,

Joe Shea
Editor-in-Chief
The American Reporter
joeshea@netcom.com
http://www.newshare.com:9999


On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Felix Kramer wrote:

> Readers of this list have heard about Clickshare from time to time...well,
> it's finally running.
> 
> Here are the first paragraphs of a press release, the rest of which can be
> found at:
> http://www.clickshare.com/pubpack/releases.html
> 
> (We'll also be presenting at Red Herring's Web Market East in NYC on Tuesday.)
> 
> Clickshare launches Internet's first micropayments service
> "Internet Information Utility" delivers commerce a la carte
> 
>         WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Sept. 16  --  Clickshare Corporation's
> pioneering multi-site, single-ID, Internet micropayment system went live on
> Friday as users began clicking on -- and paying for -- information online.
> Purchases from Friday to Sunday by over a dozen first registrants totaled
> $62.60.
> 
>         "We're the web's first working multi-site distributed
> user-management and micropayment service," said Bill Densmore, Clickshare's
> chairman. "Now publishers can charge for valuable information on the
> Internet, rather than giving it away."
> 
>        "Now that 'The Internet's Information Utility' (sm)  is up and
> running," said Felix Kramer, Clickshare marketing director, "we'll finally
> see whether people will buy information by the click."
> 
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>  Felix Kramer, Marketing Director                   CLICKSHARE CORP.
>  felix@clickshare.com                          Direct: 212/866-4864
>  www.clickshare.com                         Corporate: 413/458-8001
>  www.nlightning.com (personal)                    fax: 212/866-5527
> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> 
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