GLOBAL MESSAGING SOLUTIONS,
INC. (GMSI) MAKES STRATEGIC
INVESTMENT IN COOLUNIVERSE.COM
California high-technology start-up chooses GMSI as its
exclusive messaging solutions partner
OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS
(September 1, 2000)-- Global Messaging Solutions, Inc. (GMSI)
today announced a strategic partnership and strategic investment
in CoolUniverse.com, a high-technology start-up based in San
Francisco, California that provides real-time commerce
information to wireless devices.
This
agreement solidifies a partnership in which GMSI will work
closely with Cooluniverse.com to develop their business and
provide Cooluniverse.com with cutting-edge messaging
technologies and services. GMSI also will have a significant
equity stake in Cooluniverse.com.
This
agreement will allow Cooluniverse.com to offer a very powerful
and essential application to implement within their
Internet-based and wireless-enabled services. It also will
allow Cooluniverse.com to focus on developing its business and
let GMSI host and manage the messaging services. By outsourcing
this critical application to GMSI, Cooluniverse.com will be able
to offer their customers and partners a much more robust and
feature-rich messaging system.
“We are very excited to have
formed a relationship with Cooluniverse.com,” said William J.
Brunkhardt, Chief Executive Officer of GMSI. “Cooluniverse.com
is developing revolutionary Internet-based technologies.”
“GMSI
provides Cooluniverse.com with a critical technology component
that is necessary for our business model,” said Bill
Rosenberger, Chief Executive Officer of Cooluniverse.com. “We
are looking forward to a long and prosperous relationship.”
Global Messaging Solutions, Inc. is an innovative MSP (Messaging
Service Provider) based in Overland Park, Kansas that provides
enterprise-class eMail services to ISP’s, ASP’s and other
businesses and organizations. For more information, or to
contact GMSI, visit the company’s website at
http://www.gmsi1.com or call
(913) 338-3000.
Cooluniverse.com strives to be the leader in real-time
information and commerce offerings through wireless devices and
interactive broadband media in the lifestyle and travel
categories targeted to the 21-45 demographic. Please visit
Cooluniverse.com at
http://www.cooluniverse.com or eMail
bill@cooluniverse.com.