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America Online, Inc. today announced the launch of its new “TeraPOP” traffic exchange point at its facilities in Virginia in an effort to increase access speeds for its members and reduce network congestion. The online service said the TeraPOP is designed to provide customers with direct access to other major Internet networks in an effort […]

Italian Internet Service Provider ITnet S.p.A. and network equipment vendor Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced they will collaborate to offer dial access services to business customers in Italy. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. With a Cisco Powered Network, ITnet will offer customers secure and high-performance Internet services, including intelligent broadband IP networking […]

U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson today ordered Microsoft Corp. to make both its chairman and its Windows source code available for the antitrust suit facing the software giant. According to a Reuters report, the Judge ordered Microsoft to make chairman and chief executive Bill Gates and 16 other top company officials available for deposition. […]

When online shoppers are looking for a good read, most head directly to Amazon or BarnesandNoble.com. But when it comes to listening to those books, Audio Book Club, Inc. may be carving out a successful niche of its own on the Web. The Boca Raton, FL-based company today announced financial results for its second quarter […]

In a move aimed at further extending its Internet presence, online investing service E*TRADE Group, Inc. today announced it expanded a marketing and commerce agreement with Yahoo! Inc., and also inked an exclusive marketing and content agreement with ZDNet. Financial details were not disclosed. Terms of the Yahoo! agreement include extensive advertising, sponsorship and promotional […]

Engage Technologies said that more than 25 companies selected Engage’s precision profiling technology and its Accipiter AdManager software service to manage their Web site advertising programs. Engage and Accipiter are both wholly owned subsidiaries of CMG Information Services and recently completed integration of their respective product offerings. The new customers represent a broad cross-section of […]

Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE) added five executives to its advertising sales and partnership marketing staffs. Regional sales managers Catherine Burnett and Cynthia Hamer joined as district managers on the East Coast, and Patricia Keating has joined as the central district manager, based out of Chicago. Michael Tive was named marketing director: ad sales, while […]

iVillage said it made additions to its advertising sales team, in a move “to extend the competitive lead” of its flagship property, iVillage.com: The Women’s Network. Led by John Glascott, senior vice president of sponsorship, the sales team will leverage iVillage’s position with senior-level ad sales staff formerly from a variety of publishing and interactive […]

CKS Group Inc. said its Portland, OR office won contracts to creating Web sites for two Hewlett-Packard LaserJet product families. The sites will offer pre-sales information and be targeted at a business audience with the objective of moving customers from general interest to Hewlett-Packard preference to an actual purchase, the company said. Billings were not […]

Spending on Web advertising in the United States will grow from $1.5 billion this year to $3.8 billion in 2000 and $8.0 billion by the end of 2002, according to the 1998 eOverview Report. The report, issued by eMarketer, an authority on business online, predicted a slow ramp-up of online advertising dollars. The primary barriers […]

PetQuarters.com, an Internet pet supply store, said that it selected Avenue A Media to be its agent for media planing, buying and ad serving on the Web. “We believe that the agreement with Avenue A Media will greatly enhance the effectiveness of our online advertising campaign and make more efficient use of the resources we […]

Granite Broadcasting Corp. and CHEK Inc. formed a new media alliance to jointly provide free Web-based e-mail on all of Granite’s television station Web sites. The service will allow users to send and receive e-mail free-for-life >from any computer via any Web browser, the companies said. Financial terms of the arrangement were not disclosed. The […]