Ananova :

Ananova Limited, part of the Orange mobile communications group, is one of Europe's most innovative Internet businesses.

Our expertise is in delivering real-time news and information to people wherever they are - using a website, e-mail, WAP or PDAs.

In April 2000, we launched our live news and information website at www.ananova.com, featuring real-time news, sport, entertainment, business and weather for the UK.

Our e-mail alerting service released at the same time now offers users breaking news on more than 2,500 subjects.

We were among the first UK companies to publish news for mobile browsing on PDAs, and recently our WAP site has received rave reviews from mobile phone magazines and WAP portals.

We've named our company after our most famous creation, Ananova, who is recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's first virtual newscaster.

Created using a unique combination of computer animation, text-to-speech and real-time information systems, the virtual newscaster has attracted worldwide press coverage.

Ananova is perfect for the interactive products of the future, when broadband access and increasingly sophisticated mobile devices open up new opportunities for the Internet.

In July 2000, we were acquired by Orange, the UK's fastest growing mobile operator. Together, as part of the France Telecom group of companies, we plan to offer a range of innovative services to mobile phone users across the globe.

Our company already holds a central position in the UK's new media industry. Formerly known as PA New Media, we're the leading provider of ready-for-publication packages of news, sport, events listings and other real-time information for web sites, WAP sites and digital TV.

Most of the UK's highest traffic web sites rely on us to make their sites dynamic. You'll see Ananova news on Freeserve, AOL, Yahoo!, Genie and Excite. Together our customers serve hundreds of millions of pages per month.

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