BW0020 MAY 24,1996 5:10 PACIFIC 08:10 EASTERN ( BW)(PROFILE/ASAP-SOLUTIONS) Corporate Profile for ASAP Solutions Inc., dated May 24, 1996 Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services. Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Co., Prodigy, Comtex and many others. -0- *T Published date: May 24, 1996 Company name: ASAP Solutions Inc. Address: 5963 La Place Court, Suite 111 Carlsbad, Calif. 92008 Telephone No.: 619/930-0711 Chief Executive Officer: Ghassan Y. Yacoub Chief Financial Officer: Harold W. Slusser Investor Relations Contact: Harold W. Slusser Business number: 619/451-1777 Public Relations Contact: Vera Novosel Business number: 619/930-0412 Industry: Information *T Company description: ASAP Solutions Inc. is a San Diego-based, privately held information company that specializes in organizing electronic communities. Founded in 1994, the company was first to establish conduits within emerging markets using the Internet and the World Wide Web as a global distribution medium. ASAP Solutions co-founded IndiaWorld with Ravi Database Consultants Pvt. Ltd. (RDC). IndiaWorld currently supplies daily electronic news, information and commerce to/from India. ASAP Solutions is a founder and exclusive operations arm for StarWorld Online Inc. in the United States. In this role ASAP Solutions is enabling StarWorld an early lead in establishing and operating interactive global communities that receive and communicate fresh, high-quality and reliable information from within the world's largest emerging markets. MexicoWorld is the second emerging market community constructed in partnership with CIASA. Within the next few years, ASAP Solutions and its partners plan to focus on establishing interactive communities on the Web/Internet for other types of communities that share common interests. By utilizing new and innovative technologies, people with similar heritages or long-term interests dispersed throughout the world will be brought together. ASAP Solutions is continuously seeking co-marketing, licensing and revenue-sharing agreements with local and cosmopolitan companies that are interested in the opportunities of information distribution and electronic commerce. --30--MEW/la* MHU/la CONTACT: ASAP Solutions Inc. KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET PROFILE: REPEATS: New York 212-752-9600 or 800-221-2462; Boston 617-236-4266 or 800-225-2030; SF 415-986-4422 or 800-227-0845; LA 310-820-9473 BW URL: http://www.businesswire.com