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Lotus Development Corp. signed an agreement with DC Comics, a division of Warner Bros., to allow the use of the Superman character in the promotion of Lotus’ Notes R5 and Domino products and in the company’s Super.Human.Software marketing campaign. The campaign was created by Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, the advertising and marketing agency for Lotus […]

HomeSeekers.com Inc., a provider of online residential real estate listings and related information, said it closed on $8.7 million in a private placement of its unregistered common stock to institutional and other accredited investors. The transaction was priced at $3 per share, which approximated the market price at the time of valuation. Noting that HomeSeekers […]

PowerAdz.com said that its CarCast Internet solution for creating locally branded, online automobile buying services, now powers the Web sites of The Omaha World Herald, The Buffalo Evening News and The Bergen Record newspapers. Five additional newspapers from the Freedom Communications Group have also adopted CarCast, led by the group’s flagship newspaper, The Orange County […]

Chicago-based newspaper consortium Classified Ventures launched NewHomeNetwork.com, an ad site for newly constructed homes. NewHomeNetwork.com “harnesses the promotional power of local newspaper advertising as well as a nationwide network of popular newspaper Web sites to drive buyers to home builders’ online advertising,” the company said. NewHomeNetwork.com will be available in 25 markets nationwide by early […]

New York City-based Real Media, which runs a large network of locally branded media Web sites, is partnering with Publicitas/Globe Media Inc., a print advertising sales organization. Together the firms will offer advertisers throughout the world what the companies call “Print Plus” integrated online and print campaigns. Through the Publicitas Promotion Network, 2,000 newspapers and […]

Fidelity Investments said Tuesday its online brokerage component ended 1998 with 3 million online accounts, more than triple the number during the same period a year ago. The company also announced three new Internet services to make it easier for its customers to manage their investments and finances online. Of Fidelity’s 3 million online accounts, […]

In a move aimed at creating what it called “the new media network for the 21st century,” @Home Network and Excite Inc. Tuesday announced they will merge under a $6.7 billion stock swap. The companies said they expect to marry @Homes broadband technology platform, Internet backbone, and cable distribution agreements comprising 60 million homes globally […]

Commerce One Inc. Tuesday acquired of Veo Systems Inc., a privately-held company specializing in the development of Extensible Markup Language (XML) for e-commerce applications. No financial terms of the acquisition were disclosed, but Commerce One, an enterprise procurement company, said the acquisition will accelerate the pace of open XML-based business-to-business e-commerce solutions. Veo System’s XML […]

Community site operation GeoCities signed an agreement with Be Free Inc., a provider of online affiliate e-commerce network technology and services, to jointly create an e-commerce infrastructure. The companies said the infrastructure will be designed to allow brand-name merchants to leverage the content generated by GeoCities’ 3.3 million Homesteaders, i.e.–GeoCities members who have built personal […]

San Francisco-based XOOM.com Inc. an Internet direct marketing company, signed strategic sponsorship agreements with eBay, GoTo.com and BuyDirect.com. As part of its agreement with XOOM.com, eBay, the person-to-person online auction trading community, receives premium placement throughout XOOM.com’s Web properties and has the ability to promote targeted auctions to XOOM.com’s members. Search engine GoTo.com becomes the […]

Hello Direct Inc., a developer and direct marketer of desktop telephone productivity tools, said it will acquire privately held PhoneZone.com, which publishes a Web buyers guide covering telecommunications and networking products and services. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. PhoneZone.com, founded in 1996, is a source of comparative research, analysis, and purchase information […]

Netscape Communications Corp. selected Annuncio Software’s new Internet marketing automation solution to expand its one-to-one marketing expertise and infrastructure for its Netscape Netcenter division. Annuncio Live will enable Netscape to automate, track and analyze its Netcenter online advertising, marketing and promotional campaigns and to deliver relevant information to its more than 10 million members. Financial […]