HOUSTON, Oct. 6, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Extensions, Inc. (Pink Sheets:EXTI) (www.ext.com), a Social Networking Development Company, today announced that Jeff Black has joined Extensions, Inc. as its new President.
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Extensions, Inc. ("EXT") is excited to welcome Jeff Black as its new President. Jeff brings to EXT a wealth of ideas and experience that will help propel the company forward. He joins the company as it prepares to launch technologies to hasten the convergence of social networking, the fastest growing segment of internet, and search engines, currently the most profitable segment.
At school Black studied business and computer science and artificial intelligence programming. In 1983 he went on to work at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he was one of its innovators for fourteen years. During that time, he was part of the team that developed and launched AltaVista -- the world's first internet search engine. Later, Black served as Vice President and General Manager of AltaVista's most profitable unit -- the Business Solutions Group. In addition, Black was also involved in launching Digital's Internet Business Unit, Electronic Publishing Unit and several key technologies, including: its firewall and tunneling software, its wireless 802.11 hardware, and its On-Demand Printing solutions. During his tenure there, Black received five Software Excellence Awards (reserved for the top 1% of software engineers), a Letter of Accommodation from the Chief Scientist at the Pentagon, and he also received a "Top Secret" (TS/SCI w/ SBI) clearance at the National Security Agency for his work on classified projects for various government agencies.
Black left Digital to form his own company, iAtlas, which provided the first geographically centered internet search engine. At first, he simply wanted to determine how many businesses were actually present on the World Wide Web, thinking that this information in and of itself might be of value to someone. In his spare time Black developed the network searching and database tools to complete the task, and assembled the first directory of all businesses using the internet. Black then left Digital and started iAtlas to take the information he was continually collecting, including both internet and real-world business addresses, and merge it with a search engine.
Since his days with Digital, Black has founded and sold several successful internet companies, including Hotels.com and iAtlas, the first localized search engine. He holds six patents for emerging technologies he has developed. Black has also worked for BizExpense, Inc. and the Conomae Corporation, and was the founder of Internet Marketing, Incorporated, or IMI.
All of this makes Jeff Black a perfect match for the direction and vision of Extensions, Inc. Extensions and its wholly owned subsidiaries Newswire.net, Inc. (www.newswire.net) Overtise, Inc. (www.overtise.com) and Cancer.im, Inc. (www.cancer.im) are poised to revolutionize the way the internet is searched and used. Just as iAtlas changed the way businesses are searched, and AltaVista changed the way information is retrieved, the tools developed by Extensions will attempt to change the way wisdom and knowledge are stored, accessed, and enhanced.
To Learn more about Extensions, Inc. please visit www.EXT.com, www.NEWSWIRE.net, www.OVERTISE.com, and www.CANCER.im
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