News

-- Chicago, Sep 5, 2000. Magnify.com, the leading provider of services that predict customer preferences and intentions in real time, and coolsavings.com inc. (Nasdaq: CSAV), a leading provider of e-marketing services used by online and offline advertisers to build one-to-one customer relationships, today announced that in a recent pilot program, CoolSavings members who received targeted savings incentives based on Magnify.com's Intelligent Customer Profile service responded 33.6 percent more than a control group. As a result, CoolSavings has signed a one-year contract to employ Magnify.com's service to help further personalize various promotional incentive solutions that the company offers to its more than 9.4 million registered members.

see http://www.coolsavings.com and http://www.magnify.com

-- Madrid, Sep 8, 2000

Mineria de datos! DAEDALUS, a spanish company is providing solutions for data mining and web mining in Spanish. Location: Madrid, Spain.

See http://www.daedalus.es/mineria/mineria.asp

-- Sep 11, 2000. Red Herring has a nice article on Usama Fayyad's start-up Digimine. Digimine is expected to announce closing of a second round of financing this week. Digimine sells its data mining service to e-commerce companies for $5,000 to $100,000 per year, depending on a customer's usage.

See http://www.redherring.com/vc/2000/0911/vc-digimine091100.html

-- SPSS ships SmartViewer Web Server 2.0 Software enables enterprise-wide distribution of and interaction with SPSS analytical reports

CHICAGO, September 11, 2000 - More than 250,000 organizations worldwide use SPSS to attract new customers, retain existing customers, increase sales and solve other business problems. With SmartViewer Web Server 2.0 from SPSS Inc. (Nasdaq: SPSS), the value of this analytical power can now readily be shared throughout enterprises and beyond, to clients and partners. SmartViewer Web Server enables information workers to quickly and easily publish, store and distribute reports created in SPSS, the leading statistical software. SmartViewer Web Server is currently shipping.

See http://www.spss.com/press