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Spinner.com, a streaming music site, said it signed four charter sponsors–Amazon.com, QSound Labs, the Audio Book Club and Warner Brother –for its rich media ActiveAudio banner program. Spinner.com said its proprietary ActiveAudio ads give advertisers the ability to speak directly–literally–to its audience during the site’s audio programming. At the same time, Spinner.com said it will […]

The New York Times reports that the Federal Trade Commission has “all but decided” that it is going to part company with the Clinton administration over the contention that Internet businesses can regulate their own privacy policies. “We are losing patience with self-regulation,” David Medine, an associate director in the commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, […]

AOL’s Digital City Inc. signed a two-year agreement with AllApartments, a provider of apartment ad listings for consumers on the Internet. Under the agreement, AllApartments becomes a premier provider of rental listings in Digital City’s Real Estate/Rentals area, growing the current real estate offerings available on Digital City by adding more than 5 million apartment […]

Infoseek and SmartAge said they will partner to bring the benefits of banner exchange and Internet search to greater numbers of Web sites. San Francisco-based SmartAge’s targeted SmartClicks (a banner exchange service for small) technology, coupled with Sunnyvale, CA-based Infoseek’s search engine, positions the new Infoseek Clicks banner exchange to enable Web masters to drive […]

IllusionFusion! said that it adopted a new, integrated corporate strategy to capitalize on what it sees as the forthcoming boom in broadband communications services. The company said it established IllusionFusion! as its “umbrella” brand, absorbed its Media Circus Interactive unit into IllusionFusion! and effectively made all of its business units interactive-centric. The company also announced […]

Active Research Inc., a provider of technology to automate market research, launched Active Buyer’s Guide, calling it “the most unbiased, comprehensive Web-based product recommendation engine on the Internet.” Active Buyer’s Guide is designed to help consumers find products or services that best match their own values, needs and preferences, the company said. Active Research licenses […]

Foundry Networks said today its ServerIron server load balancer and transparent caching switch has been certified for interoperation with Inktomi Corp.’s Traffic Server network cache. Financial details were not announced. Inktomi and Foundry said they would jointly work together on sales and co-marketing initiatives. According to the companies, the combined products enable Internet providers to […]

A survey conducted by World Research, Inc. found that for the most part, consumers are happy with their Internet service providers (ISPs). A total of 3,590 Internet users answered questions about their ISPs, examining topics such as overall satisfaction, primary access locations, and intentions to select a new ISP. Most participants in the survey were […]

The New York Times reports that the Federal Trade Commission has “all but decided,” that it is going to part company with the Clinton administration over the contention that Internet businesses can regulate their own privacy policies. “We are losing patience with self-regulation,” David Medine, an associate director in the commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, […]

Infoseek Corp. today formally unveiled its much-discussed Express by Infoseek, a free desktop product which culls results from multiple search engines. Express simultaneously uses all of the major search sites, including Infoseek, Alta Vista, Excite, HotBot, Lycos, WebCrawler, and Yahoo! and other additional Web sites the user specifies. Returned results provide the source’s origin, and […]

With President Clinton’s grand jury testimony being broadcast on the Web yesterday, Internet sites were bracing for enormous amounts of traffic, as was the case when the Starr report was released. But reports show that most Americans tuned into old-fashioned television to see the president squirm, largely in part due to technological limitations. Measurement firm […]

In a move aimed at expanding its small business offerings, Netscape Communications Corp. today announced agreements with two content providers. Virtran and Women.com, are to provide new content and services for the Netscape Netcenter site. Financial terms were not provided. Virtran, developer of industry-specific search and transaction engines, said its agreement with Netscape includes a […]