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JourneyPlan Ltd introduced its JourneyPlan UK travel planning software with a launch offer that makes it free for the remaining summer timetable period. JourneyPlan combines data on air and rail services, helping users to plan any journey in the UK, with travel times, transfer details, and optimum routes, the firm said. The program is made […]

CitySearch has postponed its planned initial public offering in favor of a merger with Ticketmaster Online, an alliance that will create a powerful new player in the local content arena. CitySearch, which produces and delivers local U.S. city guides on the Web, said its board put the planned initial public offering on hold after receiving […]

Ashutosh Roy and Gunjan Sinha, the founders of the Web-based directory company WhoWhere? which was just sold to Lycos for $133 million in stock, have launched a new start up company called eGain that offers a solution for addressing the volume of customer inquiries that Web sites receive. eGain, with its eGain Email Management System […]

In the first case of its kind handled by The Federal Trade Commission, community Web site GeoCities–the firm whose initial public offering was well received on Wall Street this week–has agreed to a settlement over Internet privacy charges. The FTC charged GeoCities with misrepresenting why it collected personal information from adults and children. When users […]

24/7 Media Inc. signed Discover and The Sports Network (TSN) for its ad network, adding 15 million incremental page views per month. “We are pleased to bring on Discover and TSN because they exemplify the result of our efforts to diversify our audience base within our content channels,” said Mark Burchill, senior vice president, business […]

Engage Technologies and Net Perceptions Inc. established a strategic partnership that combines Engage’s precision profiling technology and Net Perception’s recommendation engine technology. Planet Direct and Ticketmaster are among the first clients to benefit from the integration of these technologies. “Net Perceptions’ strong reputation in the personalization marketplace coupled with Engage’s innovative precision profiling technologies provides […]

Razorfish made another move this week by merging with the European-based Spray Network, according to the Silicon Alley Reporter. The merger creates a combined international firm with 350 employees and revenues projected at more than $70 million in 1999. Financial details were not disclosed. Razorfish has been on an acquisition binge lately, having recently acquired […]

Web ad network operator Flycast Communications Corp. launched a new product suite of several core ad campaign options that incorporates expanded targeting capabilities, including targeting by geographic area. Flycast’s new product suite is comprised of four, primarily fixed-priced advertising campaign options: Run of Network, Run of Category, Category Select and Site Select. Flycast’s new targeting […]

NetGravity launched NetGravity AdCenter, an outsourced solution for managing targeted, accountable, online advertising campaigns. The company said it selected IBM Content Hosting Services to host AdCenter. Eight new customers already selected the service bureau as their exclusive outsourced online marketing management solution, the company stated. AdCenter, which went into pilot in December of 1997, is […]

Black Light Media signed Rootshell, a Web site for Internet security, as a member of the BLM Network. Rootshell promotes a community-driven security model and provides a database of known security holes and how to defend against them and is known as a source of security information for system administrators, ISPs and Web surfers. Black […]

Knight Ridder New Media delivered a new generation of Web classifieds software designed to improve the presentation and searchability of classified ads for visitors to its Real Cities network. The new software is designed to automatically identify database attributes, such as the number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms and the price of a house, from […]

InterVU Inc., a network enabler for video and other rich media, delivered a new version of its eyeQ Multimedia Manager on CD-ROM that features four additional multimedia players. The additional players are Microsoft’s Windows Media Player, Macromedia Flash and Shockwave, and the Cosmo VRML Player. eyeQ automatically installs and updates various rich media players for […]