E-Commerce Solutions Weblog - Electronic Commerce: April 2007

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Overstock.com Deploys Mercado eCommerce Searchandising Solution to Help Customers Find the Right Products Fast and Effortlessly

Overstock.com Deploys Mercado eCommerce Searchandising Solution to Help Customers Find the Right Products Fast and Effortlessly
Leading Online Clearance Store Turns to Mercado for Flexible Merchandising Capabilities and Increased Conversions through Better Search & Navigation

PLEASANTON, Calif Mercado Software, the leading provider of eCommerce search and merchandising solutions, today announced that Overstock.com, Inc. recently deployed their industry-leading eCommerce search and merchandising solution.

“Our customers want to find the right products fast and with less effort,” said Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com. “That calls for a flexible solution that provides our marketing team with a high level of control over merchandising. We were sold on Mercado’s Commerce Merchandising Console and plan on taking full advantage of Mercado’s merchandising features.”

Overstock.com carries a large assortment of continually changing products, ranging from brand-name electronics to handcrafted products from artisans around the globe. Finding the right product on such a site can be challenging, so site search that understands and interprets shopper desires, leveraging metrics such as customer ratings and reviews, is key. By facilitating easy browsing through categories that are automatically narrowed and refined, Mercado helps Overstock.com reduce the search-to-buy cycle dramatically.

Overstock.com selected Mercado’s solution in late 2006. Byrne adds, “Our relationship with Mercado has been just tremendous. We realize that we’re going to be best served by a vendor that is focused on driving the success of companies like Overstock.com, and we have been impressed with the dedication they’ve shown.”

“Mercado is proud to power search, navigation, and merchandising on Overstock.com, and we are confident they will see great results – in both conversion rates and shopper satisfaction,” said Corey Leibow, CEO of Mercado Software. “We look forward to a long and rewarding partnership with Overstock.com.”

About Mercado Software

Mercado (www.mercado.com) is the leading eCommerce search & merchandising solution specialist for multi-channel retail and B2B organizations. By enabling a superior buying experience and equipping business managers with a powerful platform on which to execute merchandising strategies, online businesses can aggressively grow revenue and foster customer loyalty. Sears Holdings Corp., Guess?, Inc., Williams-Sonoma Inc., OfficeMax, Macy's, ShopNBC, Delightful Deliveries, and Organize.com are some of the companies benefiting from Mercado’s solutions. For more information about Mercado Software, please visit www.mercado.com or call (888) 376-1400.

About Overstock.com

Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTK) (www.overstock.com) is the Internet leader for brand names at clearance prices. Overstock.com offers its customers an opportunity to shop for bargains conveniently, while offering its suppliers an alternative inventory liquidation distribution channel. Overstock.com, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah is a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ Global Market System. Overstock.com is a trademark of Overstock.com, Inc.

In respect to Overstock.com, Inc. this press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, forecasted benefits of the software deployment, like increased conversion, easier customer search and navigation, reduction in the search-to-buy cycle, as well as all such other risks as identified in Overstock.com’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005, and all its subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which contain and identify important factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained in its projections or forward-looking statements.


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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Dynasty and NextMart to Create Powerful Brand for Targeting China's Young Urban Males & Females

Dynasty and NextMart to Create Powerful Brand for Targeting China's Young Urban Males & Females
April 2 Dynasty Gaming Inc. (TSXV: "DNY"; OTCBB: "DYNFF") today announced the signing of a joint venture agreement with China's NextMart Inc. for the creation of a powerful new brand, in the form of a highly profiled e-commerce website, that will focus primarily on China's approximately 200 million young urban males and females aged 18 to 25.

Dynasty chief executive Albert Barbusci stated, "This universe of young
urban adults represents our ideal demographic. It comprises people who are
currently spending over $7 billion annually on entertainment and
non-essentials, and who represent 90 percent of China's total broadband
subscribers. By jointly creating this powerful brand, we will participate in
the benefits associated with a tightly controlled website, the management of
user data, and the marketing and promotion of our online Mahjong and other
Asian games. This audience, often acknowledged as potentially the most
powerful universe of consumers in the world, will provide enormous traction
for our online Mahjong and other gaming products."

Many of China's young urban males and females have adopted for themselves
the American nickname "Bobos", a derivative of bourgeois bohemian. Under the
banner of Bobo Media, the new brand will be promoted through YUMales, an
e-commerce site that will be promoted as 'the Internet for young men'. It will
feature XSTV, a popular and highly successful extreme sports brand and
television program that has won numerous industry awards, including Emmy
nominations, as well as having achieved some of the highest U.S. audience
ratings for an extreme sports show. In addition to its already large following
of young males, many young urban females are expected to be attracted as a
result of the keenness of females to chat with extreme sports enthusiasts who
post their video clips on the YUM site. Dynasty's Mahjong and other electronic
games, together with a loyalty program through which points can be earned,
will be a major feature of the YUM site.

Barbusci added, "Creating a specialized and controlled vertical that
showcases our online games is a very significant first step but there are
others that will follow, such as the sale of advertising. The opportunities
available to us for gaining market dominance and financial returns through the
creation of this brand are almost unlimited."

Dr. Bruno Wu, chief executive of NextMart's parent company, Sun Media
Investment Holdings Ltd., stated, "This agreement allows us to do what we do
best: develop very sizeable online communities for targeted audiences as a
means of providing in-demand products and services from which revenues will be
generated. The creation of a powerful and dynamic e-commerce site, targeting
China's population of 18 to 25 year old urban males and females, will provide
our respective organizations with a platform for reaching a universe of people
keen to make their own decisions and to follow their own ideas. This
demographic represents the new China; it is made up of many people who embrace
the late Deng Xiaoping's proclamation that "to get rich is glorious". Through
a combination of our brand building skills and Dynasty's marketing and gaming
expertise, we can play a role in the realization of that proclamation."

The TSX Venture Exchange has in no way passed upon the merits of the
proposed transaction and has neither approved nor disapproved of the contents
of this news release.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements with
respect to the Corporation. These forward-looking statements, by their nature,
involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those contemplated. We consider the assumptions on which these
forward-looking statements are based to be reasonable, but caution the reader
that these assumptions regarding future events, many of which are beyond our
control, may ultimately prove to be incorrect.

About Dynasty Gaming Inc.

In cooperation with Beijing-based 95Joy, Dynasty Gaming, through its
wholly-owned subsidiaries, is aggressively pursuing agreements with major
companies in the People's Republic of China for the development, marketing and
distribution of government-approved online applications for its proprietary
Mahjong software. Success to date includes the establishment of a relationship
with Beijing Junnet Online E-Commerce Limited (www.junnet.cn), one of the
largest prepaid card distributors in China, for the marketing and distribution
of prepaid cards for accessing a play-for-points version of Mahjong on sites
in China. Dynasty has also entered into a partnership with Sohu.com Inc.
(www.sohu.com), one of China's most widely used interactive online sources for
information, entertainment and communications incorporating a leading portal
with more than 100 million registered users.

Dynasty's relationship with Sun Media Investment Holdings Ltd.
(www.chinasunmedia.com), China's largest privately owned multi-media provider,
represents a powerful channel through which to create enhanced awareness of an
online version of Mahjong, a national sport in China. Agreements also exist
with Betex (www.betexgroup.plc.uk) covering sports lotteries and SSI
(www.sino.com) covering welfare lotteries, which further expand the range of
distribution channels through which Dynasty-sourced content will be marketed
and managed in China. An agreement with Las Vegas From Home.com Entertainment
Inc. (www.lvfh.com) allows Dynasty to provide all of its marketing channel
partners with its own Mahjong game together with LVFH's full suite of popular
Asian-style specialty games. Commencement of multi-site online play of Mahjong
in China is expected to begin in April, 2007. Competition for seats at a World
Cup of Mahjong event, scheduled for June 2007 in Macau, PRC, will serve as an
incentive for a large universe of players.

Dynasty Gaming's 92.1 million common shares, issued and outstanding, are
widely held by Canadian and U.S. investors. Full information on Dynasty Gaming
can be found at www.dynastygaming.com and on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) under
Dynasty Gaming Inc.

About NextMart Inc.

NextMart is an online trade media and merchant company that builds
direct-buyer communities and services them with digital media offerings,
online exhibitions and customer loyalty programs. NextMart also builds
e-enabled distribution systems, transaction platforms and business communities
in fast-growing Chinese vertical markets, connecting buyers and sellers with a
suite of turnkey digital media, e-commerce and information management
solutions. Companies leverage NextMart's web-based business media communities
to access vital industrial intelligence and forge trading relationships with
suppliers and buyers that promote cost efficiencies and increased distribution
reach. To learn more, please visit www.sunnewmedia.net.

Pizza.Net to Provide Restaurants With Premier Payment Solutions for On-Line Pizza Ordering

Pizza.Net to Provide Restaurants With Premier Payment Solutions for On-Line Pizza Ordering

April 02, 2007 -- On-line pizza ordering is the prime focus of the National search engine, Pizza.Net, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pizza International, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: PZZL). To provide restaurants with on-line payment solutions, Pizza.Net has selected Intuit's Innovative Merchant Solutions (IMS) to provide on-line payment solutions on the Pizza.Net web site.

Now with IMS, restaurants can process their orders on the Internet. In addition, Pizza.Net, combined with IMS, can also provide pizza restaurants a full suite of solutions including QuickBooks, credit card processing terminals, and web-based processing solutions.

Tim Simpson, CEO of Pizza International, Inc., said, "The majority of the 62,000 plus restaurants in our database are small mom-and-pop locations. Our search engine gives customers the ability to find their local pizza restaurants on-line, browse the menus and the payments are processed through IMS. We're very excited about working with IMS to deliver our solution."

"Anyone can have a small web site today, but the cost of on-line menus with ordering and real-time processing from home or office computers and mobile devices, is cost prohibitive to set up and maintain for most restaurants," said Simpson. "This makes it possible for any pizzeria or Italian restaurant that offers take-out or delivery to really compete."

About Pizza International, Inc. (PZZL.PK) company

Pizza International, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: PZZL) (www.pizzainternational.net) was formed to answer current and future Internet preferences of families with children, couples, single adults, seniors, students, executives and office personnel seeking quality products and services that are easily accessible. Based on the fact that change is escalating, the company focuses on innovations and necessities capable of keeping up with technology and consumer demands. The company mission is to acquire or create unique Internet enterprises that offer but are not limited to the expedited access to entertainment, food, financial services, travel, learning, news and targeted information, and innovative consumer products through e-commerce. They also will provide a community of services that make Internet communication easier and safer. The first two acquisitions have included www.Pizza.Net, the largest Internet pizza search engine soon to incorporate on-line ordering and www.LookItsMeOnTV.com, offering custom photo personalized DVD cartoons that put any child in the picture.

Legal Notice Regarding Statements Including Those That are Forward Looking.

The statements in this press release regarding real or implied expectations with regard to the future impact on the company's results from acquisitions or developed properties are forward-looking statements and are within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The statements in the above document may also contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although every effort has been made not to include statements that involve risk and uncertainties, that may be the case and such statements are subject to change at any time. There are no anticipated results detailed in the above statements, however, actual results may differ materially from expected or implied results.