WebMD to Acquire QualityHealth.com and Technology and Advertising Leaders Launch Community Initiative to Promote Standards around Video Player Development

City of Industry, CA --(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 09/16/2008 - Internet Information Provider industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. WebMD Health Corp. (NASDAQ: WBMD), the leading source of health information, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire QualityHealth.com and its owner, Marketing Technology Solutions Inc. (MTS). The acquisition will add performance-based marketing programs to WebMD's extensive product portfolio and expands the breadth of its offerings to the biopharmaceutical and healthcare markets. Using proprietary data analytic technology, QualityHealth.com effectively delivers targeted health information and personalized programs to its consumer members based on individual need. Established in 1999, QualityHealth.com is one of the 10 largest health websites, with approximately 5.5 million unique monthly visitors. QualityHealth's traffic will complement WebMD's reach of more than 48 million unique monthly visitors and over 1.1 billion quarterly page views, further differentiating WebMD's brand and expanding its high quality, health engaged audience.


MIVA Media, a leading digital advertising network and a division of MIVA Inc., (NASDAQ: MIVA), recently announced the planned launch of a new online advertising platform. The new platform is intended to fully replace MIVA's legacy Pay-Per-Click systems across the US and EU and provide significantly enhanced features to the Company's thousands of advertisers and publishing partners. The new platform is expected to extend MIVA's existing Pay-Per-Click offering by including a broader range of online advertising and marketing formats. It is intended that once fully rolled-out the new platform will provide a complete one-stop solution for publishers looking to monetize their web properties and advertisers looking to run branding, customer action and retention campaigns online.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced Openvideoplayer.com, a community site and industry initiative intended to facilitate the development and sharing of open standards and best practices for video player applications that support a wide range of advertising technologies. Leading advertising technology companies, ad servers, video solution providers and platform companies have joined to provide industry best practices for online video player development.

Equity Solutions Inc. announces it is currently featuring IAS Energy, Inc. (OTCBB: IASCA) www.iasenergy.com on USEquityNews.com. On July 7, 2008, IAS Energy announced that www.video1314.com had record web site traffic with over 14.3 million monthly hits to its site in June, 2008. "We are on track to becoming one of the top destination sites in Asia," said Samuel Kam, Vice President of Internet Development for IAS Energy, Inc. "We are now averaging more than half a million clicks to our site each day and expect this to increase substantially in the coming months through the introduction of more user-friendly interfaces in the future." Video1314.com is a fast growing Chinese Web 2.0 platform (similar to www.youtube.com) that allows users to share videos, music, audio as well as sell goods and services using videos in its marketplace. Since its launch, Video1314 has attracted millions of users and is fast becoming one of Asia's top Web2.0 destinations. Video1314.com currently serves the Greater China region, which includes mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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