InternetNews Staff

The Deja News discussion network today debuted a series of enhancements to its site, including a redesigned user interface, three new content channels, and improved search engine functionality. The new channels launched today–Health, Science and Social Science–will be added to existing categories such as Arts, Business, Computers, Education, Entertainment, Government, Global and Local, People, and […]

Perhaps not wishing to be left out of the portal community craze, Yahoo! Inc. today debuted its own version of a community builder service. The service, Yahoo! Clubs, enables Yahoo users to create personalized Web communities with free message boards, chat, e-mail, and personalization tools. The community architecture is aimed at families, clubs, workgroups, co-workers, […]

Citron Press, the London-based print-on-demand publisher, formally launched its Book Club and plans to sell its extensive range of titles via the Internet instead of through bookstores. Citron Press introduced itself earlier this year at the London International Book Fair, promising to revolutionise publishing in the UK. Apparently delivering on the promise, it has now […]

From australia.internet.com The consumer Internet service provider arm of Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications carrier, withdrew its flat rate pricing model for its Internet connectivity service ahead of schedule, raising concerns that network congestion has forced it to re-think its overall Internet strategy. Called Telstra Big Pond Home, the division had been trialing a “Flat Rate […]

iSleuth.com said that as part of its corporate restructuring and adoption of a new business plan, it named John J. Bennett, to serve as its new chairman, president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. Thomas J. Taule, the company’s former chairman and CEO, will remain as an adviser and consultant. The company also said it […]

A steering committee for a new trade group with the working name Internet Direct Marketing Association met Aug. 12 in New York to chart its course. The members of the group, meeting during the Jupiter Online Advertising conference, started to define the objectives of the association, which is intended to serve the needs of online […]

Internet ad network 24/7 Media Inc.rose 45% in its first day of trading, and Bloomberg News called the successful IPO “another sign of investor enthusiasm for the Internet.” The New York-based company rose $6.25 to $20.25. About 5.1 million shares changed hands on the Nasdaq market. 24/7 Media sold 3.25 million shares in an initial […]

Advertising carrier Digital Generation Systems Inc. said it completed a private placement totaling $12.9 million for 4.6 million shares of the company’s common stock. In another action, the company converted all of its outstanding preferred stock to common stock at a price of $2.80 per share. These actions bring the total outstanding shares of common […]

NetRatings said the No. 1 ad category for July was Online/Internet Services; Retail Shopping was No. 2 and Promotions (incentives, coupons, sweepstake offers) No. 3. Taken together these three categories represented over 70% of all advertising impressions with at least a 5% reach, estimated for the month of July at 3.5 billion impressions, the company […]

Half the benefit (or more) of attending an online ad conference these days is getting the chance to show your stuff to agencies and development firms hungry for talented new employees. On the exhibition floor at the Jupiter Online Ad Conference in New York City last week, part of the buzz surrounded the sudden departure […]

The Online Technologies Consortium , a Singapore online industry group backed by the National Computer Board (NCB), introduced eight virtual community projects for e-commerce, and signed on 14 key local players at its members’ forum. Some of the virtual communities unveiled include Money n Me (a one-stop personal finance Web site jointly developed by National […]

Yahoo! is on a mission to get its users organized. The company debuted a new Web-based calendar tool today and announced the acquisition of a calendaring and scheduling product developer. The leading Internet hub raised the curtain on Yahoo! Calendar, a full-featured personal calendar available free of charge to registered Yahoo! users. Yahoo! said the […]