Circle.com Wins More Than $2 Million in New Business; Win Signifies Circle.com's Western U.S. Strength

Business Wire, April 7, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2000

Circle.com (NASDAQ: CIRC), a leading provider of end-to-end Internet services, announced today that it signed contracts for more than $2 million of new business in the last month, from several clients including Inprise/Borland, eHobbies, iClique and Visual Edge. These companies have selected Circle.com to execute everything from branding strategy and identity to Web site design and e-commerce architecture.

"Our clients appreciate that we have the depth of experience and breadth of services to be a single destination for all their online business needs," said Robert T. Wilke, CEO, Circle.com.

The new business wins represent Circle.com's strength in the Western U.S. region, with offices in Seattle, San Francisco and Denver. The Western region boasts a highly experienced team of 40 engineers, a 30-person Web strategy, design and branding group, and a 35 person strong interactive advertising team.

Stephanie Schweighofer-Jones, vice president of marketing at Inprise/Borland added, "Circle is helping us create an Internet marketing infrastructure that will enable us to create a completely integrated and meaningful experience for all our constituencies--from our e-commerce site to our corporate site to our community site."

Barry Johnson, CEO of iClique, a leading syndicator of proprietary content, custom tools, and services said, "I have hired scores of Internet design firms, and none has demonstrated the ability and willingness of Circle.com to deliver excellent design solutions in the face of very short deadlines."

A brief description of some of Circle.com's newly signed clients:

Inprise/Borland: A leading provider of Internet access infrastructure and application development tools and services for all major platforms, including Linux, Solaris and Windows.

eHobbies.com: The ultimate online destination for hobbyists offers more than 15,000 products, auctions, expert advice, how-tos and a community of hobbyists with shared interests. Key categories include model trains, radio control cars, airplanes, boats and helicopters; diecast collectibles; plastic, paper and wood models; rocketry; plus tools and supplies.

iClique: A leading syndicator of proprietary content, custom tools, and services. iClique will focus its suite of products on demographically defined Web sites such as QuePasa.com, iVillage and gay.com. The iClique products and services can be customized to incorporate the nuances of language and cultural references that build loyalty in a variety of target audiences. iClique is uniquely positioned as the one-stop supplier of these tools, services, and custom content that can integrate seamlessly into partner Web sites.

VisualEdge: At the forefront of a new category of dynamic eBusiness integration software that supports flexible and robust customer and marketplace interaction. Visual Edge software allows access to business processes and services across the enterprise from any market touchpoint for dramatic improvements in efficiency, time to market, command and control and customer loyalty.

About Circle.com

http://www.circle.com/

Circle.com (NASDAQ: CIRC) is an Internet professional services provider that creates complete end-to-end Web enabling services for its Fortune 1000 and emerging Internet-based clients worldwide. Circle.com, through its 14 offices and over 500 associates worldwide specializes in Internet-based customer relationship management systems. Circle.com is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland and is a division of Snyder Communications, Inc. (NYSE: SNC). Clients include: American Legacy Foundation, drugstore.com, GTE, Guinness, IBM, Lexmark, Lotus Development, MSNBC, MyWay.com (A subsidiary of CMGI), OfficeDepot.com, The PNC Financial Services Group, Symantec, UPS, Wall Street Journal.com.