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E-mail marketing infrastructure player PopMail.com on Tuesday agreed to supply its services to ACSSports.com, an Internet services firm whose clients include the New York Mets, the New York Yankees, and the San Antonio Spurs. PopMail will supply ACS Sports with the company’s version of the ENN “permission marketing” e-mail service, which allows companies to gather […]

Internet marketing and promotions firm Hollywood Partners.com Inc. on Tuesday won Lions Gate Films, the distributors of “Affliction” and “Gods and Monsters,” as a client. Hollywood Partners.com will collaborate with Lions Gate, the distribution arm of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., to develop promotions for the August release of “Love & Sex” starring Famke Janssen and […]

Harris Corporation, the largest supplier of microwave communications equipment in North America announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Wavtrace, Inc., a privately-held, Bellevue-based pioneer and leading developer of broadband wireless access systems. The agreement provides for Harris, which currently owns approximately 20 percent of Wavtrace, to purchase the remainder of the […]

The telecommunications company formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE is launching a major effort Tuesday to get out the word about its new name — Verizon Communications. The August campaign will include television, radio, print and Internet ads, and a variety of outdoor advertising. The ads will run in 45 markets in […]

Infonautics Inc. , IBS Interactive Inc. and First Avenue Ventures Inc. are merging in a three-way strategic combination to create a publicly held venture technology company called Digital Fusion Inc. The mostly stock deal will create a new company that will have 1999 pro forma revenues of approximately $40 million, with 400 employees in 11 […]

In a portal deal aimed at attracting users to auction site QXL.com, the company on Monday unveiled a partnership with Lycos Europe, which will put QXL.com on Lycos’ properties for six European countries. The deal gives QXL a presence on all Lycos sites across the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. QXL will […]

Broadband access provider Excite@Home this week released how user’s are levering its high-speed network. Customers that switched to the predominantly cable-based broadband services of Excite@Home tend to spend more time online, click through more ads and actually allow pages to fully load before they more to the next site. The Excite@Home awareness study measures consumer […]

Andersen Consulting is teaming with e-commerce start-up LawCommerce.com to help develop an electronic marketplace of products, services and online technology solutions for the legal industry. Andersen Consulting also is acquiring an unspecified minority interest in LawCommerce.com. More than 30 law firms from Silicon Valley, Wall Street and across the United States will be charter members […]

Three-quarters (75 percent) of all Napster users indicate their use of the controversial sharing service has ‘widened their musical horizons, encouraging them to purchase music from different artists or from different categories of music,’ according to a survey conducted yesterday by InsightExpress, an online research service. “The multi-month legal battle culminating in Wednesday’s court decision […]

Freeinternet.com, a provider of free and anonymous Internet service, has formed a private label partnership with Onvia.com Inc, a locally operated B2B online exchange for small business buyers and sellers. The deal enables Onvia to offer its own, fully branded, free Internet service to small businesses as part of a regional marketing campaign to help […]

When updating your website, some of the most valuable information you can receive comes from those that have to use the site: your consumers. One Seattle company, NetReflector, is taking major strides to allow real time surveying for your website. “It’s critical to understand what people think of your site and your product, whether it’s […]

Napster Inc. Thursday requested U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for an emergency stay of the injunction ordered yesterday that, if allowed to take effect, will functionally shut down Napster as of midnight Friday. Attorneys for Napster Inc., argued that the injunction should be stayed for numerous reasons, including that the decision: Wrongly […]