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In The News

  • WebMagic® has not included all our press citations on this page. In particular, dozens of publications throughout the world that have given us hundreds of column inches of coverage from Spring 2000 to the present is not mentioned here.
  • Most of this coverage praises our individual sites such as our large coin-operated video game encyclopedia (the Internet’s largest) located at KLOV.com.
  • WebMagic also has been profiled by the Los Angeles Times, Forbes ASAP, CNNfn, The New York Times, Netscape Net center, Reuters, Jam! Showbiz, MSNBC, Info beat, Wired, USA Today, Business Week Online and CBS Market Watch.

Forbes.com

November 30, 2001

Pets.com has new CEO Julie Wainwright to thank for today’s announcement that Amazon.com and venture capital firm Hummer Winblad have together taken a 50% stake in the online pet supply retailer, which launched in November 1998.

Raging Bull

February 7, 2000

Pets.com hails from rather humble beginnings, when in 1994, a savvy 31-year-old entrepreneur, Greg McLemore, registered this first-tier domain name. Not until 1998 did McLemore’s Web design firm, WebMagic, launch Pets.com, incorporating content, community, and commerce. . . . Pets.com

San Jose Mercury News

May 27, 2001

McLemore declined [to sell WebMagic’s Pets.com business]. Within days, the Pets.com founder scored a $10 million investment deal led by the VC firm Hummer Winblad…

Business Wire

February 11, 2000

Pets.com today announced that it has completed an initial public offering of 7,500,000 shares of common stock at an offering price of $11 per share. The shares commenced trading today on Nasdaq under the symbol IPET.

NBC Nightly News

April 14, 2000

WebMagic CEO Greg McLemore speaks on the NBC Nightly News correctly predicting the upcoming demise of hundreds of Internet companies while Amazon.com would survive.

Business Wire

January 20, 2000

Pets.com today announced that it has put up for auction an authentic Pets.com Sock Puppet on Amazon.com Auctions. Direct from Pets.com’s recent Super Bowl commercial shoot, the genuine Sock Puppet, one of only a few originals, is available for bidding

Newsweek

Greg McLemore, a 31-year old entrepreneur from Pasadena, California, registered the Pets.com address and launched the site as an online...

Yahoo! Finance

Pets.com is the largest pet company on the Internet, specializing in popular and rare pet accessories, products and food. ....

Washington Post

Greg McLemore, 30 . . . scuttled plans to attend graduate school in order to create the electronic retailer Toys.com,...

Inc. Technology

Winter 1999 Special Issue Greg McLemore is president and CEO of WebMagic Inc., an incubator based in Pasadena, Calif., that...

Raging Bull

Pets.com hails from rather humble beginnings, when in 1994, a savvy 31-year-old entrepreneur, Greg McLemore, registered this first-tier domain name....

Cybergrrl

Check out Toys.com, the online superstore for toys.

Entertainment Weekly

For those with children, Toys.com charts the availability of the season's hottest playthings and lists cool stocking stuffers for under...

Interactive PR and Marketing News

Web Watch Chart Editor's Pick -- Touting the site as the 'Internet's largest online toy store,' Toys.com's major coup was...

Red Herring

. . . former CEO of Reel.com decided Thursday to join Pets.com . . . a Pasadena-based online retailer. ....

Internet Shopper

Toys.com . . . offers a huge selection, search engine, articles for shoppers, and more. Ordering is secure and you...