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January 7, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Digital River, Inc. (digitalriver.com), a global e-commerce outsource provider, announced that it has acquired the customer assets of FreeMerchant.com from Network Commerce, Inc. (networkcommerce.com), inexchange for $875,000 in cash. The acquisition, which is expected to beimmediately accretive, supports Digital River's previously announcedacquisition strategy and further extends its market potential in the smallto mid-sized enterprise market.
"This acquisition is an extension of our plan to further leverage oure-commerce system to support a growing base of SME sites in our E-BusinessServices division," said Joel Ronning, Digital River's CEO. "We arecommitted to providing Network Commerce's clients superior e-commerceoutsourcing products and services through our world-class infrastructure,which now supports a client base of over 13,000 companies ranging in sizefrom small businesses to large enterprises."
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