1.   America Online and Microsoft Network announced partnerships with Japanese firms earlier this year.

2.   And last month, Virgin announced a partnership with Pelephone of Israel.

3.   BSkyB and CLT have been in discussions for several months and may announce a partnership that could include Chargeurs to sell pay-TV services, he said.

4.   Cook said Intuit would soon announce several partnerships with major banks.

5.   Discussions already are under way with potential content providers for Prodigy and new partnerships will be announced in the coming months.

6.   Emery Worldwide plans to announce a partnership Tuesday with the Postal Service to offer residential delivery service by parcel post to manufacturers and catalog companies.

7.   For example, AOL recently announced a partnership with CUC International Inc., a Connecticut-based marketing firm.

8.   Gov. Roy Barnes is scheduled to announce the partnership at a press conference this evening, the first of its kind in the nation.

9.   He said Agents Inc. plans to announce technology partnerships with other firms in the next several months.

10.   IBM and the start-up company Salesforce.com plan to announce a partnership on Monday aimed at helping small businesses transform themselves into e-businesses.