Beth Cox

Babbage’s Etc., a retailer of PC and video games specialty retailing, launched thegamestop.com, a new e-commerce “supersite” that puts a Web interface on Babbage’s Etc.’s buying power and distribution infrastructure. The site offers researching, buying or updating of game products and news about the gaming industry. The site also permits shoppers dissatisfied with an online […]

Direct e-commerce company XOOM.com Inc. joined the increasingly crowded auction fray XOOM.com Auctions, an online person-to-person auction service. The auctions service provides members with another online purchasing option and strengthens the company’s core business of direct selling via e-mail by allowing XOOM.com to attract more online consumers to its site who it can then target […]

Audio and video delivery solutions company INTERVU Inc. posted a second quarter net loss of totaled $4.0 million, or $0.34 per share, compared with a net loss in the corresponding period last year that totaled $3.1 million, or $0.34 per share. Revenue for the 1999 second quarter increased more than five-fold to $1.7 million, from […]

ezlogin.com, a provider of free “Internet JumpPages”, signed a deal to offer its first 10,000 members a free VeriSign digital ID to secure access to personalized Web services from its Web site. JumpPages enable online users to access, manage, and share personal Web services and bookmarks from anywhere with maximum ease, security and privacy. The […]

Ad network Flycast Communications Corp. reported second-quarter loss $6.4 million, or 54 cents per diluted share, compared to a pro-forma loss of $1.9 million, or 27 cents a diluted share, a year ago. Revenues for the second quarter were $6.4 million, up from revenues of $1.2 million for the second quarter of 1998 and an […]

TrimFast Group Inc., operator of nutritioncafe.com, will advertise energy bars on World Championship Wrestling’s home page. WCW.com is owned by Turner Broadcasting and receives 30 million hits per month. Spending was not disclosed. TrimFast Group will introduce its new WCW Ultra Energy Bars on the banner ads, which will feature Hollywood Hulk Hogan, Goldberg and […]

The Austrian parliament has passed an amendment to the telecommunications law that makes it illegal to send bulk/broadcast or advertising e-mail without the recipient’s prior consent, according to the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE). The provision was endorsed by all major parties, and will take effect as soon as it’s published in the official […]

Powerize.com Inc., an aggregator and distributor of business and financial information, has selected advertising, public relations and ad sales agencies to help the company build brand awareness, sponsorship sales and traffic. Margeotes Fertitta & Partners in New York has been chosen as Powerize.com’s advertising agency. Margeotes is developing a multimedia advertising campaign that will roll […]

Conducent Inc. and eGames Inc., a publisher and developer of family PC games, released both retail and downloadable computer games enabled with interactive advertising. Advertisers are able to position a dynamic message and call to action vehicle in front of gamers and create an interactive dialogue when their clickable ad sends a user to the […]

Internet postage company Stamps.com named Wieden & Kennedy as its advertising agency of record. The agency — known for its work with Nike, Microsoft, ESPN and Coca-Cola — will be responsible for driving the creative strategy and development of Stamps.com’s brand through an integrated national advertising campaign scheduled to launch this summer. Billings were not […]

NetGravity Inc. posted a second quarter net loss of $2.1 million, or $0.12 per share, compared with a net loss of $3.0 million, or $0.59 per share for the second quarter of 1998. The company reported record revenues of $5.6 million for the second quarter, up from revenues of $2.3 million for the same period […]

The Spam Recycling Center (SRC) delivered a database of 150,000 unsolicited commercial e-mail messages to Congressman Gary Miller (R-CA) and the Federal Trade Commission in an effort to encourage a ban on spam and to help the FTC track down and prosecute e-mail con artists. The messages were collected from Netizens over the past two […]