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MSNBC.com named Cherylynne Crowther as director of marketing, responsible for the marketing, public relations and research efforts for the news site. Crowther had been marketing manager at the site. Her primary responsibilities included leveraging topical news promotions and marketing with joint venture partners, Microsoft and NBC-TV. She also managed agency creative efforts and the implementation […]

InfoSpace.com into a strategic alliance to add listings from the One & Only Network to its classifieds section. InfoSpace.com will obtain access to One & Only’s database of more than 150,000 searchable personal profiles, and One & Only will acquire the reach of InfoSpace.com’s distribution network. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. Will Bunker, One & […]

Internet service provider MindSpring Enterprises Inc. continued its buying spree with the purchase of Atlanta ISP Cyber Connections Inc. The acquisition marks MindSpring’s 16th in its attempt to build a national network. Based in Atlanta, Mindspring offers service in 46 states. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. “MindSpring is proud that Cyber Connections […]

The Gartner Group this week brought together many of the kingpins of networking and telecommunications, along with a few upstarts and they all swore allegiance to Internet technologies. At Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo, AT&T Corp. Chairman and CEO Michael Armstrong, GTE Corp. Chairman and CEO Charles Lee, Ameritech Corp. Chairman and CEO Richard Notebaert, and Level 3 […]

Sympatico, one of Canada’s leading Internet service and online Web sites, and The Bookshelf, an independent Guelph, Ontario-based bookstore, launched Canada’s first full-featured Internet bookstore. In addition to selling books, “the site allows readers to listen to Canada’s greatest authors reading from their own works, scan insightful book reviews written by experts, trade information with […]

A Toronto firm will soon begin taking bids for domain names ending in .tv. The DOT TV Corp. is handling registrations on behalf of the south Pacific nation of Tuvahlu. President Jason Chapnik said the easy-to-remember dot TV suffix will be a great way to attract internet users to television or streaming video content. “That’s […]

Excite Inc. gave investors something to cheer about Thursday after releasing better-than-expected third-quarter earnings and a three-fold increase in revenues. The company reported a loss of $6.8 million, or 14 cents a diluted share, up from a loss of $8.2 million, or 27 cents a diluted share, a year ago. Revenues skyrocketed to $44 million […]

Netscape Navigator is the browser of choice among enterprise users, beating out rival Microsoft’s Internet Explorer by 20 percent, according to a new study released today by Zona Research Inc. Of the 113 businesses polled, 60 percent of the respondents indicated Netscape’s Navigator is the preferred primary browser, while 40 percent favored Microsoft’s IE. A […]

Netscape Communications Corp. Thursday announced it is beefing up Netcenter’s entertainment and family content, thanks to new agreements with a slew of companies. As part of the portal’s “Project Turbo” campaign, Netscape signed agreements with several firms including the Rolling Stone Network, Entertainment Tonight Online, Children’s Television Workshop, Ask Jeeves, BabyCenter, the Headbone Zone, MaMaMedia, […]

From Australia.internet.com GE Information Services, a global supplier of business-to-business electronic commerce solutions, has opened its new Australian e-commerce centre. The centre, to be known as ECXpress, will be based primarily in Sydney but will service the entire nation. It is expected to employ over 50 people. Other similar centers were opened in Singapore and […]

NetGravity said that America’s Health Network selected its AdServer to manage, serve and report on highly targeted ads on its Web site, AHN.com. AHN.com, which has developed an extensive database of detailed, anonymous site utilization data on its visitors, said it selected NetGravity’s AdServer because of its ability to provide multi- dimensional targeting based on […]

Ford Division in Detroit has launched an updated automotive Web site offering consumers an inside-out view of the division’s 1999 cars and trucks. Visitors can take a Quick-Time video tour of each vehicle and get updated information on pricing and products, the firm said. “Because we respect our customers’ time, we designed our new Web […]