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- <h2>Visa</h2>
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- Worlds Inc. and Visa have formed an alliance to develop virtual banking and
- retailing applications delivered via the Internet. Visa, the world's largest
- consumer payment system, plays a pivotal role in
- developing and implementing new technologies which benefit member financial
- institutions, their cardholders, businesses, governments and the global economy.
- San Francisco-based Visa and its 19,000 member financial institutions worldwide
- serve more than 12 million merchants and service more than 402 million cards.
- Visa also owns and operates Visa Interactive, which provides remote banking
- solutions to members and Visa/PLUS, the largest global automated teller machine
- (ATM) network. More information on Visa can be obtained through
- its home page on the World Wide Web at
- <h1><a id="visaURL">http://www.visa.com</a></h1>.
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- <h2>International Business Machines</h2>
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- Worlds Inc. and IBM have announced Virtual Reality Modeling Language+
- (VRML+), a jointly proposed extension to the emerging Internet standard VRML.
- Based in Somers, N.Y., the IBM Software Solutions Division provides multimedia,
- data management, application development, and workgroup solutions for
- mission-critical applications on PCs, workstations, LANs, and host systems.
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- <h2>Pearson plc</h2>
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- Worlds Inc. is proud to have a strategic relationship with Pearson plc,
- a major international provider of media content, renowned for distinctive
- products that deliver information, education and entertainment in ways
- that people want. The company's interests include the Financial Times Group,
- Addison-Wesley Longman, Penguin, The Tussauds Group, Mindscape, Pearson
- New Entertainment, and Pearson Television.
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- <h2>UB Networks and Tandem Computers</h2>
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- Worlds Inc. is proud to have UB Networks as our marketing partner.
- UB is a leading global supplier of network hardware and software products,
- and a pioneer in the area of distributed network management.
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- UB Networks employs 1100 people in over 50 locations worldwide.
- Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, UB Networks is a wholly
- owned and independently operated subsidiary of Tandem Computers (NYSE: TDM).
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- <h2>Knowledge Adventure</h2>
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- Knowledge Adventure is a leading producer of educational multimedia products.
- They are located in La Crescenta, California.
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