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Qwest Communications International Inc. Thursday said Verio Inc. will provide an additional $60 million towards the companies’ joint efforts in developing high-speed, broadband Internet services. The announcement extends the companies’ 15-year, $100 million original agreement and also extends Verio’s commitment terms from seven to 10 years. Verio said the new contract will provide greater flexibility […]

Honolulu-based Digital Island, a provider of e-business solutions, said that it is co-developing with Stanford University’s HighWire Press a new application that helps to automate country-by-country regulatory compliance for online pharmaceutical advertising. Digital Island’s patent-pending TraceWare technology is the foundation for the new software. Using a unique algorithm, TraceWare maps IP addresses to an atlas […]

AdForce, provider of the AdForce centralized online ad management service, appointed Harish S. Rao as executive vice president of technology and operations. Rao joins AdForce after serving as vice president engineering in the network & service management business unit at Cisco Systems. He was responsible for Cisco’s Service Management System and focused on end-to-end service […]

German computer magazine Konrad said that spending on Internet advertising in Germany jumped 24 percent in 1998 to an estimated $24 million to $30 million. The magazine said ad spending could more than triple this year, according to a Reuters report. In a summary of an article to be published on Friday, Konrad said advertising […]

Moscow-based Interreklama, which says it is Russia’s largest banner exchange network, said it has reached the 2 million exposures per day mark and is now providing 50 million exposures a month. The network reached the 1 million daily exposure mark last September. On Jan. 12, the company said, it showed 2,015,419 advertisements in one day. […]

North Carolina-based InterAdNet established a partnership with Global Recruiting Solutions (GRS) that will tie InterAdNet’s Internet tracking software, InstantAdNet, with GRS’ online recruitment software, IRIS. The combination of the two apps gives companies a seamless, integrated solution to track potential recruits from the time they click on a banner ad to when they are hired, […]

Multimedia ad firm Omni-Net.com, a fledgling subsidiary of Enhanced Services Company Inc., and an affiliate of ad network and rep firm Zulu-tek and e-commerce site BrandsForLess.com, named Internet industry veteran Richy Glassberg as president and CEO. Glassberg had been senior vice president and general manager of Turner Interactive Sales, a division of Turner Broadcasting Sales […]

INTERVU Inc., a provider of video delivery solutions, signed a one-year agreement with Saatchi & Saatchi to deliver proprietary commercials, product information and other multimedia creative works to the agency’s clients and internal offices. Under the agreement, San Diego-based INTERVU will deliver an enhanced multimedia capability to Saatchi & Saatchi’s proprietary intranet system, known as […]

Office products giant Staples Wednesday reached a deal with Prodigy Internet to offer its customers discounted prepaid access plans. Staples customers will be able to purchase Prodigy service for $14.95 a month when they pay for three months’ service in advance. The bundled browser will also include a link to Staples’ site, which features a […]

San Francisco-based Andromedia Inc., a supplier of what it calls Smart eMarketing solutions, said revenues for the fourth quarter ending Dec. 31 were up 200 percent from the previous quarter, marking the best quarter in the company’s history. For the year Andromedia said it increased revenues more than 500 percent over the previous year. The […]

Direct marketing e-commerce company XOOM.com Inc. and InfoSpace.com established a strategic alliance under which InfoSpace.com will be the exclusive provider of online white pages, yellow pages and classifieds for XOOM.com’s 5.6 million members. In addition, InfoSpace.com users will be offered membership in the XOOM.com’s Buyers Club. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. XOOM.com said it will […]

Columbia, SC:-based Unique Media Services LLC, which operates The Unique Media Network signed a sales representation agreements with Virtual Avenue and Bomis.com. “These great sites exemplify our site selection criteria and niche focus because of their community feel and their inherent size” said Unique CEO Michael Weiner, adding that the two sites “give us an […]