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Adauction.com named Neil Cohen as vice president of sales and marketing, and Lori Nelson as senior director of business development. The online ad auction company also promoted Chris Redlitz to executive vice president of operations from vice president of media sales. Cohen brings 15 years of major brand marketing and sales experience for major corporations […]

InfoSpace.com Inc. (formerly InfoSpace Inc.), named Michael Kantor as vice president of advertising sales, to its board of directors. Kantor joined InfoSpace.com in August 1996. Prior to joining the company, he was with The McKinley Group/Excite Inc. InfoSpace.com is an aggregator and integrator of content services such as yellow pages and white pages, maps, classified […]

General Electric Co.’s National Broadcasting Co unit is launching a promotional campaign for its 19%-owned Snap! Internet service, in an effort to challenge Yahoo! and The Walt Disney Co.’s Infoseek service, according to published reports. The interactive edition of The Wall Street Journal reported, without naming sources, that ads created by U.K. agency Saatchi & […]

Synergy Brands Inc. said it retained Gordacom Consulting Inc. to assist Synergy in the marketing of its Gran Reserve Cigars, handmade in the Dominican Republic, via the Internet. The company said it plans to restructure www.netcigar.com to further increase sales. The site will include information regarding product history, recent product developments, the company’s vision of […]

Nearly 50 online companies are cooperating to launch America Links Up, a nationwide public-awareness and education campaign aimed at providing adults and children with the necessary information and tools to ensure a safe online experience. A cornerstone of the America Links Up (ALU) campaign, which kicks off during National Kids Online Week (Sept. 14-20), is […]

Ad-backed e-mail service Juno Online Services signed a strategic marketing agreement with Comtrad Industries, a direct response marketer, to offer Comtrad’s products to Juno’s subscribers through targeted online advertising campaigns. Under the agreement, Juno’s subscribers will receive a variety of offers to purchase Comtrad products including Virtual Source Publisher, a Web site development tool; Crystal […]

Internet telephony presents a major challenge to telecom operators’ current business model, according to a report from British telecommunications consultant firm Analysys Ltd. The report, entitled “Commercial Strategies for Internet Telephony,” profiled companies now entering the telephony markets, and discussed critical issues facing incumbent operators, new entrants, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), cable TV operators and […]

Exodus Communications, Inc. and GTE Internetworking, a division of GTE Corp., announced an agreement to work together in an attempt to increase overall network performance. Under the agreement, the two companies agreed to pair up to increase the traffic volume at current network interconnection points and expand the number of exchange points between the networks […]

Excite, Inc.’s Excite Communities service officially went public today following what the company is billing as a successful beta launch. According to Excite, the Communities section has more than 1,000 communities or sections with more than 10,000 users. The neighborhoods or groups are made up of people who share common interests such as music fans, […]

In a bid to improve the delivery of video via the World Wide Web, Intel Corp. and RealNetworks Inc. announced today that RealNetworks will license and incorporate Intel’s Streaming Web Video technology into the RealNetworks RealSystem G2. Rob Glaser, RealNetworks’ chairman and CEO, and Pat Gelsinger, Intel vice president and general manager of the Business […]

Snap!, the portal service jointly owned by NBC and C NET, announced its national brand awareness campaign will launch this week on the NBC Television Network. Promotional spots for Snap! will air on NBC across all dayparts, including primetime, latenight and in sports programming. The campaign is run by Saatchi & Saatchi, Snap!’s agency of […]

In an effort to cater to the growing number of women going online to locate information and spend money on goods and services, America Online Inc. announced this week the launch of a new Women’s Channel. In addition, the company announced a major agreement with Oxygen Media to be the cornerstone of the new channel. […]