Christine Gordon

Flipside Inc., a unit of Vivendi Universal , has bought interactive games play Uproar Inc. for $140 million in cash, enabling the Berkeley-based company to tout new wares across its online networks. Flipside said it will start a tender offer by Feb. 20 for Uproar’s outstanding stock, valuing the company at $3 a share. The […]

The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency may be interested to learn that environmental application service provider Ecos Technologies, has acquired Semetric Development in a move designed to establish a West Coast presence for the Alley-based company. As an ASP, Ecos provides environmental data and information management that help businesses navigate environmental regulations. The […]

In today’s marketplace, where retaining clients is as important as cementing new deals, New York-based Agency.com is counting itself lucky. The company has just extended a contract with digital satellite television service DirecTV, to bump-up its online customer service applications. Charlie Dickson, CFO of Agency.com, said the deal would allow his company to build services […]

Placing bets that banner ads are ineffective, if not post mortem, New Rochelle-based advertising service The MusicBooth has secured $2.3 million to offer users a familiar ad medium, pure audio. California-based Prime Ventures led the funding. The idea behind Internet radio advertising is pretty basic — replicate the same type of experience that listeners have […]

Internet consulting firm Worldwide Xceed Group Inc. announced Friday that Scott Mednick has resigned as a director and chairman of its board. Mednick had held both positions at the design-house-turned-professional-services-firm since July 1998. The resignation comes as no surprise to many observers. In recent months, the company has struggled to restructure its business amid growing […]

Web consulting and services firm Agency.com announced it had joined with powerhouse technology companies Intel and IBM to launch a European applied concepts lab in its London offices. The Applied Concepts Lab is slated to provide facilities and resources for developing and testing e-Business services running on IBM’s line of Intel processor-based servers called the […]

New York-based market research firm Harris Interactive will be able to access millions of MSN Hotmail addresses following the settlement of an anti-spam lawsuit, the Reuters news agency reported today. Late in July, Harris filed a federal anti-trust lawsuit against Hotmail parent Microsoft, America Online and ten other ISPs, accusing them of “unfair and arbitrary” […]

Interactive TV company ACTV , and its Digital ADCO subsidiary, have joined forces with OpenTV and Motorola Broadband to globally deploy its targeted interactive advertising service, which segregates viewers and targets advertising according to spending power. The “SpotOn” service will be available to digital cable, satellite, and broadcast television providers through a newly-formed joint venture […]

internet.com Thursday acquired Xceed‘s publishing business ChannelSeven.com in a deal that fosters the Internet portal’s desire to widen its spectrum of marketing news and analysis. Financial details were not disclosed. The combination of the e-marketing resources of the two companies strengthens internet.com’s (INTM) position in the advertising and marketing industry, said Mara Lipacis, senior vice […]