Digital River Launches Online Store for Toshiba

August 19, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - Digital River, Inc. (www.digitalriver.com), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced that it signed an online retail agreement with Toshiba's Digital Products Division (DPD), a world leader in laptop computers and division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. Based on the agreement, Digital River recently built and launched a co-branded online store for Toshiba, enabling it to market and resell thousands of software titles from Digital River's extensive downloadable software library.

The new store is easily accessible via www.toshibadirect.com as well as through a desktop icon and in the Start menu of all new Toshiba laptop computers.

"Adding a well-known, industry-leading company like Toshiba to our client base further strengthens our reputation as a provider of world-class e-commerce solutions among major companies around the globe," said Dave Alampi, Digital River's vice president of marketing. "

For the first time, Toshiba is offering downloadable software in addition to boxed software. Consumers visiting the company's software download store will find a variety of promotions, including cross-sells of complementary software and up-sells to newer or more advanced versions of software. They can purchase any of the thousands of software titles using a credit card, check, money order or wire transfer as well as immediately download the software.

"Toshiba was looking for a single company that could satisfy all of our requirements for launching and managing an online software store," said Taro Hiyama, vice president marketing, Toshiba's DPD. "

Digital River, Inc., a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, builds and manages online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation.

Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in Chicago, Mountain View, California, London, and Cologne, Germany. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call 952-253-1234.