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Using member feedback and advertiser input, Lycos Inc.-owned community site Tripod unveiled its new look today, which includes a major electronic commerce initiative. The company said the made-over site features improvements in navigability, functionality, and organization. Areas are organized into four key sections: Build, Explore, Interact, and Buy/Sell, which enables the site’s reported 2 million […]

In an effort to expand services for the rapidly increasing online real estate market, RealSelect and Intuit announced today they will enter into a strategic alliance. RealSelect is the operator of real estate site Realtor.com, while Intuit owns Quicken personal finance software. The partnership sets the stage for the companies to work together in conjunction […]

9 Net Avenue, a provider of Web hosting and Internet commerce services, named Spirals Inc. as its advertising agency of record. Spirals, a full service advertising agency, previously worked with 9 Net Avenue handling design projects and media placements. Billings were not disclosed. Spirals said it will be expanding its services to accommodate companies like […]

Centraal Corp. said that it significantly enhanced the databases that make up its RealNames System. Centraal launched the Real Name System in March as a new global naming system for navigating the Internet instead of using URLs. It began providing the service on AltaVista in May. The enhancements supplement the RealNames service by adding names […]

Narrowline, a transaction and Internet research company, and NetRatings, a Web-audience measurement and research firm, formed a strategic alliance designed to deliver a broad range of information and services to the clients of both companies. Under terms of the agreement, Narrowline and NetRatings will exchange research data and develop joint online studies, combining Narrowline’s site-specific, […]

Enhanced Services Company Inc. said it executed a binding agreement to acquire all of the assets of Zulu-tek Inc., owner of the former SOFTBANK Interactive Marketing operation, in a deal valued at $30 million. Enhanced Services, a maker of peripheral products for portable computers, will pay about $24.2 million in stock and assume $6 million […]

eMarketer, an online business resource, and ChannelSeven.com, a networking source for Web development and advertising, said they formed a marketing alliance. Sam Alfstad, eMarketer’s publisher and ChannelSeven.com CEO Bob Risse said in a statement that the newly formed network will leverage the core built by both organizations. “This alliance will provide a complete network of […]

iXL Inc., the Atlanta-based Internet solutions company, said it entered into an alliance with @radical.media to provide clients with integrated digital solutions. “The first-of-its-kind alliance provides clients with @radical.media’s award- winning traditional television production capabilities and the Internet and video technology expertise of iXL’s New York office,” the company said. Lara Stein, president of iXL’s […]

PSINet Inc. has gone shopping again, and disclosed today it is adding yet another Internet Service Provider to its international roster, Japanese commercial ISP Rimnet Corp. The acquisition’s financial terms were not made public. The company said it expects to finalize the purchase this month. PSINet said the ISP addition will enhance its profitability and […]

Judge Judy, get ready. A recent survey suggests that the Internet will cause more libel lawsuits in the near future. The survey, developed by The Affiliates, a legal staffing company, found that 68 percent of the attorneys surveyed anticipate that as a result of increased Internet usage, the rate of libel actions will rise over […]

DoubleClick Canada, a subsidiary of New York City-based DoubleClick Inc., said that it is acquiring the major assets of Soussy, a Quebec-based network of French Web sites. Effective immediately, Netgraphe, publisher of six of the Web sites on the Soussy Network, will transition to the DoubleClick Canada Network. In addition, the firm stated that the […]

GTE Wireless said it is using a network of local newspaper Web sites aggregated by Real Media to promote GTE’s new coast-to- coast coverage that uses a national network of wireless phone and pager operations. Real Media is helping GTE target this message to professional males, current cellular phone users, and sports and college football […]