InternetNews Staff

New York City-based TMP Worldwide merged its online recruitment properties, The Monster Board and Online Career Center, creating Monster.com, a global online network for careers and career advertising. TMP said the merger reflects its ongoing effort “to dominate the online careers market space” and grow its Internet business. TMP’s Interactive Division, of which Monster.com is […]

Lot21 Interactive Advertising in San Francisco appointed Internet ad guru Rich LeFurgy, a 20-year advertising industry veteran, to its board of directors. LeFurgy will focus on Lot21’s strategic direction, mergers and acquisitions, business development and advertising strategies. LeFurgy is the chairman and a founding member of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), a group dedicated to […]

Newly merged USWeb/CKS said seven company executives have been appointed Executive Partners for the firm, each responsible for managing a specific geographic region. The newly appointed Executive Partners are as follows: The Northwest region will be led by both Keith Schaefer, formerly managing partner of the USWeb San Francisco office, and Kimberly Johnson, formerly EVP […]

Hartford, Conn.-based BrainBug LLC, an advertising and interactive agency, added two national and four regional accounts to its client roster. The new clients are CuraGen Corp., Yale Ambulatory Services, Connecticut Innovations Inc., The Litchfield Insurance Group, Metaserver Inc. and ProCourier Inc. Billings were not disclosed. For each of the new clients, BrainBug said it will […]

Network Holdings International, Inc. launched a nationwide television advertising campaign in support of its subsidiary companies, TravelMax International and Links Direct Inc. The advertising campaign, beginning today, will be carried out exclusively over the PaxNet Cable Network. TravelMax International is the largest subsidiary of Network Holdings International Inc. It. provides travel and travel-related products and […]

SUNCOM Telecommunications Inc. in Vancouver, BC said that its VirtualSellers.com signed an exclusive marketing agreement with American Information Systems Inc. (AIS) to market its services to more than 160,000 Web sites listed in AIS’ NetMall. Under the terms of the agreement, VirtualSellers.com will be exclusively promoted to NetMall merchants by AIS for the purpose of […]

New York City-based K2 Design Inc. has been chosen as the interactive agency of record for NCR, a provider of information technology solutions for businesses that are building one-to-one relationships with customers. Under the arrangement, K2 will develop a comprehensive Internet strategy for NCR, including online branding, technological recommendations, and communications that can enhance the […]

Online broker E*Trade Group Inc. Wednesday said it had expanded its investment in E-Loan Inc., a privately-held Internet mortgage company. The details of the investment were not released. E*Trade exercised warrants granted to it last year when it signed a three-year agreement with E-Loan, making the service the brokerage’s exclusive multi-lender partner. Christos Cotsakos, E*Trade’s […]

Centraal Corp., creators of the RealNames Web addressing system, Wednesday signed a strategic distribution and reseller agreement with Inktomi Corp., developers of Internet infrastructure software. The news comes one day after Centraal announced it had prevailed in a lawsuit filed against it by competitor Netword LLC. Inktomi will license RealNames, making it available to its […]

Internet travel and information service TheTrip.com in Denver launched a TripMiles Reward Program in conjunction with Visa U.S.A. The new program allows travelers to earn miles each time they purchase airfare on TheTrip.com using their Visa card. To kick off the program, during the month of January, travelers earn triple the miles for every dollar […]

eCHARGE Corp., which markets a transaction system that applies e-commerce charges to consumer phone bills, delivered a new payment option for the Microsoft Wallet. The new extension offers merchants and consumers increased safety and convenience for online commerce. Merchants and consumers may download this component here. eCHARGE integrates seamlessly with the Microsoft Wallet, enabling merchants […]

DoubleClick Inc. said its DART (Dynamic Ad Reporting and Targeting) system served more than five billion ads across 6,400 sites worldwide last December. User sites included: AltaVista, CBS Sportsline, NBC, MTV Europe, theglobe.com, The Street.com and The Wall Street Journal. The growth has indeed been dramatic. In September of 1998, DART served three billion ads. […]