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Short Take: Webstakes.com teams with PC Flowers&Gifts

Online prize club webstakes.com and PC Flowers&Gifts have signed a one-year deal to develop a new gifts, flowers and food channel on the Webstakes.com site. The company, which now focuses on Internet-only sweepstakes and giveaways, said the deal will enable them to tap into the growing gifts and flowers market, which Forrester Research now ranks ahead of music and consumer electronics an online growth market.

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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Online prize club and PC Flowers&Gifts have signed a one-year deal to develop a new gifts, flowers and food channel on the Webstakes.com site. The company, which now focuses on Internet-only sweepstakes and giveaways, said the deal will enable them to tap into the growing gifts and flowers market, which Forrester Research now ranks ahead of music and consumer electronics an online growth market.