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Financial site CBS.MarketWatch.com signed an ad and content agreement with public Internet access provider get2net. The deal was made possible in part through a partnership agreement between get2net and AirTime Interactive, an Internet advertising sales agency. It provides for get2net’s phone-booth-like NetStations in airports and public plazas to feature placard advertising directing travelers to access […]

San Francisco-based LookSmart, a category-based Web directory, launched a year-long print advertising awareness campaign targeting potential Web site partners, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and media buyers. A series of full-page advertisements begins this week in The Industry Standard and Red Herring followed by advertisements in Business 2.0, Upside, AdWeek, AdvertisingAge, BrandWeek, MediaWeek, Boardwatch and Inter@ctiveWeek. […]

The Newspaper Association of America’s Classified Advertising Standards Task Force has introduced a common format that allows classified ad publishers, advertisers and online enterprises to readily exchange and publish classified ads. The task force that developed the standard is headed by Jack H. Stanley, The Houston Chronicle’s senior vice president/operations and technology. NAA is currently […]

San Jose, CA-based ISP Netcom On-Line Communication Services Inc. launched a campaign offering new customers a $20 online Webcertificate that can be used to buy virtually anything, anywhere on the Internet. The certificate is made possible by a co-marketing agreement between Netcom and C/Base, the Internet marketing company that operates Webcertificate.com. The Webcertificate offering is […]

Be Free Inc., a provider of online affiliate network technology and services, signed agreements with 1StopAuto.com, Consumers Car Club, Reel.com, Sendwine.com, The Vitamin Shoppe and XOOM.com. Be Free will create and manage customized affiliate marketing channels for the retailers. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. Be Free’s custom, branded affiliate networks help online retailers drive revenue […]

India’s recently liberalized ISP policy should help boost the market for companies providing online access to scientific databases, according to Mark Garlinghouse, Asia-Pacific director of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). Speaking at the recent “Web of Knowledge” seminar in Bangalore, he announced that his company was launching two Internet-enabled database services for the Indian […]

RADWARE and Bright Tiger Technologies this week announced they are partnering to offer a range of new intranet server applications. RADWARE’s Web Server Director family of hardware load balancing products are designed to distribute IP traffic between multiple servers or sites, ensuring fault tolerance and redundancy. The system dynamically balances loads to relieve congestion and […]

Walt Disney Co. and Infoseek Corp. Tuesday officially launched their much-anticipated portal GO Network following a successful beta run. According to the companies, the GO Network on its first day is expected to boast more than 8 million registered users, with an anticipated audience share of more than 36 percent. These numbers indicate the network […]

Network Solutions Inc. Tuesday said its domain registrations almost doubled in 1998, coming in just under 2 million. NSI registered 1,911,000 new domains. NSI registers domain names ending in .com, .net, .org and .edu. The .com domain is the most popular, accounting for 84 percent of cumulative total registrations. The company reported that roughly 70 […]

Centraal Corp. announced Tuesday that on Jan. 8, the Eastern District of Virginia tossed out a lawsuit filed over the summer by Netword LLC accusing Centraal of patent infringement. Both companies provide keyword technology that enables users to type keywords in a browser instead of a URL to access Web sites. On July 22, Netword […]

MovieFone Inc., the movie listing and ticketing service, signed an exclusive agreement with Clearview Cinemas, a unit of Cablevision Systems Corp., to provide information and ticketing services for more than 275 movie screens, in the New York area. Both the MovieFone (777-FILM) telephone service and its online sister service Movielink.com are involved. Financial arrangements were […]

Wireless Dimension in Seattle signed an agent relationship with GTE Wireless allowing consumers in 16 metropolitan areas to buy from the major carrier through the Wireless Dimension online shopping service. Wireless Dimension is a free and impartial service helping consumers in the top U.S. metropolitan areas research wireless products and services, identify a local authorized […]