Travelzoo North America President C.J. Kettler Steps Down and The Search Begins, Elysium Internet Directories Begin Showing Strong Results in All Three Major Search Engines

City of Industry, CA --(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 06/19/2008 - Internet Information Provider industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO), a global Internet media company, recently announced that C.J. Kettler has stepped down as president of North America, effective immediately. Shirley Tafoya, Travelzoo's senior vice president of sales, has been named president of North America on an interim basis. "We thank C.J. for her leadership over the past seven months as we look forward to accelerating execution of the company's strategy," said Ralph Bartel, chairman and chief executive officer, Travelzoo.


Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading local search engine, recently announced the launch of its own ratings and reviews engine. Local.com ratings and reviews allows users to create an account and enter ratings and reviews for any business listing that appears on the site. The site gives users the ability to enter comments, rate a business using a five-star rating system and view all of the reviews they have previously submitted. Ratings and reviews entered on the site will appear immediately on business listing profile pages, subject to a user validation process. "According to Jupiter Research, 77 percent of online shoppers use ratings and reviews when making a purchase," said Kim LaFleur, Local.com vice president, product management.

Elysium Internet, Inc. (OTCBB: USBF) (Pending name change), an emerging direct navigation Internet media Company, recently announced that as a result of its domain redirect strategy and domain acquisition program its targeted professional directories are now showing up on page one of all three major search engines, and in some instances they are the first site in the organic, non-paid section of the search results for important search keywords. Elysium Internet CEO Scott Gallagher commented, "Direct navigation or natural traffic is the most sought after type of traffic in the Internet advertising space. Our directories are becoming highly ranked for key search terms very quickly due to the success of our overall strategy.

eDiets.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIET), leveraging the power of technology to bring diet, fitness and healthy lifestyle solutions to everyone, has appointed Laura Klein as the Company's Chief Information Officer effective immediately. Bringing over 8 years of senior business experience to eDiets.com , Ms. Klein served as the CIO and VP of IT at Sheridan Healthcare Inc., as well as holding significant technological roles at Elencee LLC, Green2Go.com and Sun Microsystems. At eDiets, Ms. Klein will be responsible for the company's technology strategy and operations. Reporting to her will be database, quality assurance, infrastructure and development functions. Ms. Klein will report directly to eDiets CEO and President, Steve Rattner.

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