Beth Cox

The National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) and the Banking Industry Technology Secretariat (BITS) released a set of electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) business practice guidelines. Developed by NACHA’s Bill Payment Council as part of BITS’ InteroperaBill initiative, the business practices will facilitate the electronic delivery of a bill from any biller to any […]

Knox Nursery is promoting its new www.homegardenerdirect.com site with a regional advertising campaign in Parade Magazine on Feb. 14 and 21. Parade Magazine is distributed in Sunday newspapers all across the country. Knox Nursery markets flowering annuals. Spending on the campaign was not disclosed. Knox said it has made available online the same annual bedding […]

MicroCap Financial Services.com Inc. retained Interactive Marketing Inc. (IMI) to assist in creating an integrated marketing strategy. Under the arrangement, IMI will help develop new strategic relationships and e-commerce opportunities including packaging the company’s products and services for revenue generating distribution. Billings were not disclosed. MicroCap Financial is an international multimedia provider of online financial […]

SuperStats.com Inc. has launched v. 2.0 of its www.superstats.com site, allowing Web managers access to real-time site tracking. With the new version, SuperStats now offers the following types of information: Traffic patterns on a site (site and page volume, popular site areas, common visitor paths) Unique characteristics of visitors (countries, languages, operating systems) Technical information […]

CBS Corp. said it will receive $100 million in additional equity in SportsLine USA Inc., in exchange for providing additional promotional and sales opportunities over five years. In March 1997, CBS and SportsLine USA first joined forces under a five-year agreement, marking CBS’s first strategic new media initiative. The original agreement has been extended for […]

STORM Systems LLC, a developer of performance enhancement and infrastructure software for the Web, has hired USWeb/CKS of Santa Clara, CA to collaborate on creating the company’s brand identity. USWeb/CKS will refine and strengthen the positioning, name and graphic expressions of both STORM’s corporate identity and product suite in preparation for the release of the […]

OpenSite Technologies said that its OpenSite Auction 4.0 is scheduled to ship Feb. 15. The latest version addresses a wider variety of business needs, makes Web auctions easier and faster to implement, and includes many security enhancements, the company said. OpenSite Auction 4.0 is targeted to businesses that want their own branded, online auction. “With […]

Dell Computer Corp. this week launched E-Value, a new online tool to provide customers with a quick and easy way to go from a Dell print advertisement directly to the Internet for the latest price and product information. With E-Value, a customer finds a specific system in a Dell print advertisement or catalog, goes to […]

New York City-based community site operation theglobe.com said that Kerri Fox has joined the company as director of marketing and Ronald DiPrete as director of corporate development. Fox had been director of corporate marketing for Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing. Prior to that, Fox worked as marketing director of Family Circle at the New York […]

Homestead Technologies Inc. announced advertising partnerships with the Rolling Stone Network, AccuWeather, VantageNet and HotBot for its “Elements,” or Web site building blocks offered to consumers. Elements are the basic building blocks for creating Web sites using the company’s Web publishing platform, and range from text and images to chat rooms and guestbooks. Homestead users […]

Apartment listing site Apartments.com and SINA Inc., an Internet portal for Chinese users worldwide, launched Apartments.com as the preferred apartment service on SINANET. Now available at realestate.sinanet.com/, Apartments.com said it is the first national online apartment guide to be translated to Chinese and integrated into SINANET.com’s range of information and service offerings. It is the […]

New York City ad network DoubleClick Inc. expects to double the number of ads it places online every six months and sees the growth of advertising-supported free personal computers and services driving its business, according to published reports. The New York company placed 5.3 billion advertisements online in the fourth quarter, and expects that number […]