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Software Publishing Corporation Holdings is now shipping Harvard Publisher, a desktop publishing solution that aims to provide the facilities of a high-end DTP application while retaining the ease of use of consumer-oriented products. The package is a significant extension to the well-known Harvard range which includes Harvard Graphics 98. Harvard Publisher’s design wizards add agility […]

Hype! Inc., one of Canada’s top Internet marketing and communications firms, is to be acquired by Rare Medium, Inc., a strategic Internet services firm that extends brands and business models to the Web. Established in 1994, Hype! creates e-commerce and branding solutions that fuse Web-to-legacy connectivity, database design, and innovative, interactive elements. They have received […]

Netscape Communications Corp. is now shipping its Mission Control Desktop 4.5, a new collection of enterprise tools, with its Communicator Pro management suite. The software gives users improved control and manageability over the intranet client environment. Mission Control Desktop 4.5 is designed to improve enterprise functionality of Netscape Communicator 4.5 which was released last week. […]

Real-time stock quote provider Freerealtime.com Inc. Thursday announced plans to offer brokerage services to its members through a partnership with FarSight Financial Services LP. The companies expect the new services, which will launch next year, to generate $24 million in revenue during the first three years. No details were given on how revenues would be […]

Internet Gift Registries Inc. (IGR), an online gift registry and retailing company, is merging with Ucopia, an Internet wedding gift registry service. The merger adds depth to Denver-based IGR’s The Wedding Network, which already incorporates more than 35,000 products and services and captures registrations from more than 1,200 engaged couples each month. Financial terms were […]

MovieStreet Inc. in San Francisco, operator of the KidFlix.com online family video store, will partner with barnesandnoble.com to create a co- branded children’s bookstore. The online store will provide specialized editorial content designed to help parents choose videos that will encourage their children to read more books. The bookstore will be located at the KidFlix.com […]

Avenue A Media in Seattle launched a new service, Sales Process Management, designed to generate incremental sales by recognizing past visitors, delivering customized ads and returning prospects to the content they were interested in when visiting a client’s site. Sales Process Management can track, customize, and return visitor information across the entire Internet ad space […]

Trademark and intellectual property firm Thomson & Thomson (T&T) introduced a tool to help marketers monitor and protect the integrity of their brand names in conjunction with the common practice of keyword purchases on search engines. The free tool, Bannerstake, is designed to provide users with a display of the banner advertisements associated with a […]

Online advertising in Canada is soaring, according to the Ernst & Young Internet Advertising Survey. Findings indicate that 1998 first-half revenues equal (CAN)$8 million, while revenue for all of 1998 is projected at (CAN)$20.7 million. The survey predicts that industry revenues in 1999 will increase by 82%, to (CAN)$37.7 million. “Revenues will continue to build […]

NetZero, a new, ad-backed, free-to-the user ISP, said Jaguar Motor Cars, NexTel Visa, a co-branded Visa card, and Sprint have signed on as advertisers. Other early advertisers include Launch.com, Auction Universe and Uproar, an online gaming company. NetZero’s patent-pending zCast software provides a targeting system that generates geographic, demographic, psychographic and behavioral information in real […]

The Internet Advertising Bureau said second quarter spending on Internet ads rose 20 percent to $423 million compared to the same period a year ago. Figures from the IAB’s “Advertising Revenue Reporting Program” showed Internet ad spending rose for the ninth consecutive quarter. According to the report, which was presented by PricewaterhouseCoopers at the IAB’s […]

Encoding.com, an organization dedicated to converting audio and video for the Internet, launched a Rich Media Advertising Service made to enable interactive agencies and new media companies to incorporate audio and video into their Web ad campaigns. “With the most advanced encoding facility in the world and our proprietary optimized encoding process, encoding.com enables agencies […]