Prospecting for Web Gold
Knight Ridder's online investments*
CAREERPATH
Joint venture among major newspaper companies for national employment advertising
CLASSIFIED VENTURES
Consortium of newspaper Web sites focused on selling cars and real estate
INFINET
Internet access provider that maintains Web sites for most Knight Ridder operations
POINTCAST
''Push technology'' company
SAVESMART
Interactive promotions for merchants
SPORTSLINE USA
Inherited small stake in online sports service from sale of golfweb.com
TESSERAE
Software startup that merges incompatible databases
ZIP2
Creates directories used in all Knight Ridder Web sites and sold to other newspapers
*Knight Ridder owns less than 20% of each company, except InfiNet (33%) and Tesserae (25%)
DATA: KNIGHT RIDDER INC., BW
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