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Short Take: New E*Trade accounts get free Earthlink access

Under a new agreement, customers opening an account with online broker E*Trade will get six free months of Internet access from Internet service provider Earthlink. Both companies plan to advertise the promotion to visitors to their sites.

Kim Girard
Kim Girard has written about business and technology for more than a decade, as an editor at CNET News.com, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine and online writer at Red Herring. As a freelancer, she's written for publications including Fast Company, CIO and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She also assisted Business Week's Peter Burrows with his 2003 book Backfire, which covered the travails of controversial Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. An avid cook, she's blogged about the joy of cheap wine and thinks about food most days in ways some find obsessive.
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Kim Girard
Under a new agreement, customers opening an account with online broker will get six free months of Internet access from Internet service provider Earthlink. Both companies plan to advertise the promotion to visitors to their sites.