[AAA] Horizon

Headquarters: Los Angeles, Pueblo Corporate Council
Seattle Division: Horizon Group Seattle, 1 Horizon Way, Renton
Division Head: Mitchell Dowes

When Seattle embraced the Wireless Matrix Initiative, Horizon embraced the metroplex LA-style: with a kiss on each cheek and a hand reaching for its credstick. The “people loving” media corp has stepped up business in the Puget Sound area in a big way, buying up shares of local media and building a variety of innovative new social networks, forms of spamvertizing, and ways for people to get and access information. In particular, Horizon set up their new “creative retreat” center in Seattle, a kind of combination spa and office environment.

Mitchell Dowes, the local “coordinator” for the corp (because titles like “manager” or “executive vice-president” are so hierarchical) is the archetypal Horizon exec: young and ambitious, but looking more at home on a college campus than a boardroom. “Mitch,” as he prefers to be called, has a very open, democratic approach to handling his division’s affairs.

It’s no secret Horizon sees Seattle as an excellent test market for their new
products and techniques, and they emphasize experimentation and “thinking
outside the box” when it comes to trying them out. One way they have been
getting into the metroplex’s good graces is by offering their public relations
and market-research services to the local government, which has agreed to try
things out.
> Kat o’ Nine Tales

Horizon would love to take the public database services contract away from
NeoNET. Although Horizon lacks some of the computing muscle, they make
up for it in programming and presentation, and are aiming to find all kinds of
new and exciting ways for people to interact with the “infosphere” in Seattle,
exciting enough to become the standard by which others will be judged.
> Glitch