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Excite Inc. in Redwood City, CA added two senior advertising sales executives and opened a Detroit office. John Kelly was named vice president, national sales manager in New York and Joe Parke as regional sales manager for Excite Detroit. “Detroit is a critical market for advertising and for the Internet,” said Kenny Wachtel, senior vice […]

InterVU Inc. said it formed new partnerships with AdForce and AdKnowledge, and expanded its relationship with Unicast Communications Corp. as the company focuses less on ad sales and more on rich media delivery. An InterVU spokesman said the company will no longer attempt to sell rich media online advertising solutions directly to advertisers and agencies, […]

eBay, a person-to-person online trading community, is launching its first national print and broadcast advertising campaign to increase awareness and get people to try the site. Created by the Acme Idea Company of Norwalk, CT, advertising will hit the national radio waves beginning the week of Oct. 19, with a national print campaign kicking off […]

In an attempt to meet the demands of a growing worldwide online market, Netscape Communications Corp. plans to increase international coverage on its Netcenter portal. Visitors in Australia, France, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and Italy can now take advantage of localized content found on Netcenter. This expansion is part of the […]

Independent Internet service provider PSINet Inc. stepped up its drive to lure business customers Wednesday with the opening of a new global Internet hosting center for dedicated business applications services. Located in Herndon, Va., near its corporate headquarters, the new center will serve as a research and development lab as well as a showcase for […]

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Packard Bell NEC Inc. has chosen EarthLink Network Inc. as its preferred Internet service provider. EarthLink will be prominently featured on every Packard Bell and NEC computer distributed in the U.S. Packard Bell will offer a $100 rebate to new PC owners who sign up for EarthLink […]

Microsoft Corp. Wednesday debuted the latest addition to its burgeoning MSN.com portal, adding a personal finance hub dubbed MSN MoneyCentral on MSN.COM. The new area is comprised of eight catagories: investing, retirement and wills, real estate, insurance, money and banking, taxes, family finance and smart buying. MoneyCentral will also leverage Microsoft’s other financial offerings, such […]

Compressent Corp. of San Jose, California, said that its ChromaFax Receiver 1.1 color fax software is now available worldwide. It is made to enable PC users with fax modems to receive color faxes direct to their desktops. For people who own a Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet Series 700 all-in-one machine, the ChromaFax Receiver software will let them […]

Industry Canada expanded its Community Storefronts program–an Internet commerce demonstration project for hundreds of small businesses and many non-profit organizations. The safe shopping site offers consumers a wide range of goods and services, from professional services to original art. It is reportedly one of the safest ways of using a credit card online in Canada. […]

ElectricVillage in Santa Cruz, CA, an integrated online network for the radio industry, said it changed its name to OnRadio, to better reflect the company’s commitment and value to its extensive network of radio stations. OnRadio offers the radio industry an end-to-end solution for taking radio stations online and establishing them as local entertainment and […]

Big Bang Media, which bills itself as “the next-generation Internet advertising network,” said it has concluded its test phase “with an astounding clickthrough rate of 26.8%, sustained over a six-month period.” Clients participating in Big Bang Media’s test included Time-Warner, Brookstone, Kahlua, Spree and Fortune City, the company said. Big Bang Media said it uses […]

San Francisco-based Adauction.com said it now offers more than 100 branded Web publishers, with the addition of four sites that will provide ad inventory through its online media marketplace. These sites and their respective content categories include: BizTravel.com (Travel), Cars.com (Automotive), XOOM.com (E-Commerce) and HomeShark (Finance & Investing). The company also said it has posted […]