dissemination of advertising for others via the Internet; promoting the goods and services of others by preparing and placing advertisements in an electronic magazine accessed through a global computer network; providing a website which features advertisements for the goods and services of others on a global computer network; promoting the goods and services of others by conducting on-line promotional contests via computer networks and global communications networks; business management and advertising services for others, namely, assisting others in composing and placing advertisements on computer networks and global communication networks; providing information in the fields of business and commerce over cable networks, wireless networks, computer networks and global communication networks, namely, business news, business marketing information, information about the goods and services of others and shoppers' guide information; organizing, arranging, conducting and promoting of trade shows, exhibitions and business conferences in the fields of personalized and interactive entertainment, television programming and computer hardware and software for accessing same; providing on-line auctioneering services; providing a website whereby buyers of goods or services locate and receive quotations from multiple competitive sources and sellers of goods or services identify and bid on multiple new sales opportunities; on-line trading services in which sellers post items to be auctioned and buyers bid on such items electronically; providing home shopping services by means of television featuring a wide variety of consumer merchandise such as books, clothing, computers, software, gifts, groceries and food, toys, music, electronics, flowers, greeting cards, sports and outdoor equipment, home furnishings, home appliances, home improvement and gardening hardware items, wine and candies, video equipment, magazines, watches and games; electronic billboard advertising; administration of a discount program for enabling participants to obtain discounts on goods and services through use of a discount membership card; promoting the goods and services of others through the distribution of discount cards; retail and mail order services featuring a wide variety of consumer merchandise of others offered over broadcast, cable and satellite networks, computer networks, wireless networks and global communication networks

consulting services in the field of design, selection, implementation and use of computer hardware and software systems for others