InternetNews Staff

Internet services provider Verio Inc. today announced it added to its Southeast regional operations by acquiring Florida Internet providers MagicNet, Inc., based in Orlando, and PacketWorks in Clearwater. Verio said it paid approximately $4.16 million in cash for the two companies which in combination had approximately $847,000 in revenue for the three months ended on […]

America Online’s Digital City Inc. and Netscape Communications Corp. today announced a two-year strategic agreement to make Digital City the exclusive content provider for the local channel of Netscape’s Netcenter site. Under terms of the agreement, Digital City will provide local content and community guides for the 50 top U.S. metropolitan markets on the Netcenter […]

The Australian Federal Attorney General, Mr Daryl Williams, has endorsed the report made in March by a government-sponsored think tank called the Electronic Commerce Expert Group (ECEG), recommending that laws should enshrine the legal status of email, electronic contracts and digital signatures. Although the main impetus behind the reforms is the federal government’s push to […]

Plesman Communications Inc. announced plans to launch e-Business Journal, a monthly printed publication intended to offer solutions for the digital economy. e-Business Journal is scheduled to start its monthly publishing schedule in January 1999. “Electronic commerce is revolutionizing the way we conduct business. The technology is changing daily,” said Paul Plesman, president of Plesman Communications. […]

Valu-net International, a division of Valu-net Corp., struck a deal with IPC Personal Computers, a division of 3D Microcomputers Wholesale and Distribution. The partners will create an online computer and accessories store featuring IPC Personal Computers and brand name accessories. Canadian consumers will have direct access to IPC’s complete catalog of pricing and availability information […]

Adauction.com said that it signed an agreement with Netscape Communications Corp. to offer ad inventory on its Netcenter portal site for the company’s monthly auctions. “We are constantly testing and evaluating new Web advertising programs,” said Mark Evans, advertising sales manager, Web site business development at Netscape. “Adauction.com is one of the most innovative Internet […]

Recruitment site The Online Career Center (OCC), said it entered strategic alliances with AT&T WorldNet Service and WorldPages. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. OCC, which provides online career information in more than 200 industry categories, will be a provider of job and career-related information linked directly from the AT&T WorldNet Service Careers […]

Sumitomo Corp. in Osaka, Japan next month will start working with Engage Technologies, a subsidiary of CMG Information Services Inc., to sell an Internet direct- marketing system, Bloomberg News quoted the Nikkei English News as reporting. The system enables companies to analyze visitors to their Web sites to develop advertising. Osaka-based Sumitomo will have a […]

The Silver Company said it was hired by Great Food Online to provide public relations for the company’s online gourmet food retail store. The Silver Company will provide public relations and corporate communications services for the company as it expands, said Bob Silver, president of the Silver Company. Billings were not disclosed. “Great Food Online […]

Nasionale Pers (Naspers), an international publishing company headquartered in South Africa, will make its Web site one of the first to offer advertisers online ad targeting using Engage Technologies’ visitor profiling technology. Naspers said it will replace its existing online advertising management software with Accipiter’s profile-enabled AdManager solution. Using this technology, Naspers will serve ads […]

Newspaper ad site consortium Classified Ventures said that The New York Times Co. signed on to deliver its classified ads for automobiles, real estate sales and rentals, and apartments to consumers across the nation. “With the addition of The New York Times Co. and its newspaper properties in Boston, New York and Sarasota, Classified Ventures […]

Sooner or later we’ll get tired of this “my network is bigger than your network” game and stop writing about it, but for now, here is another claim, based on the recent RelevantKnowledge ad network report. LinkExchange said in a press release the report shows that it reaches more people than any other network on […]