InternetNews Staff

The Silver Company, a public relations and interactive marketing firm, was hired by Maquette Online Media to conduct interactive ad sales efforts for Kitchenette.com, an online food, dining and entertainment Web site. Silver will assist in developing collateral advertising sales materials and implementing national ad sales campaigns for the site. Billings were not disclosed. Bob […]

US Interactive moved its New York offices to the 12th floor of 28 West 23rd Street. The new space is nearly triple the size of the company’s prior 22,000-square- foot prior location on 27th Street. Currently, USI’ s New York office employs 50 creative, technical, new business development and upper management employees.

Switchboard Inc., a subsidiary of Banyan Systems and provider of online white and yellow pages directory services, said it licensed its SideClick Web site searching technology and management tools to the Toronto Star’s Web site. SideClick links will be embedded throughout major content areas of TheStar.com such as Automotive, Travel and Real Estate to enable […]

Westech Virtual Job Fair in launched a career site, Career Index , that, according to the company, “indexes the Web’s best jobs sites to bring user access to over 1 million help wanted ads worldwide.” “Now job seekers have access to all the best jobs on the Web with one interface,” said Paul Burrowes, site […]

As expected, the words about the new RelevantKnowledge ad network report were barely out of our processor when along came a release from Flycast Communications Corp. boasting that the figures show nearly 20 percent growth in a month for the firm. RelevantKnowledge released the report but withheld the numbers, saying it wanted to avoid controversy […]

Travel company Thomas Cook announced the relaunch of its interactive foreign exchange service, fx4business.com, and said it will expand its Virtual Trading Desk into the United Kingdom on August 3. First launched in February 1997, fx4business.com was rated in that year as the best Internet foreign exchange service by the Dow Jones Business Directory. Virtual […]

The Australian Government announced a major strategy paper outlining its approach to e-commerce and what it calls “the information economy.” As part of the strategy, the Australian Government will also hold a series of summits in regional Australia over the coming months to offer country areas the chance to learn of the opportunities offered by […]

PSINet Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of global Internet Service Provider PSINet Inc., today announced plans to further expand its Canadian presence with the acquisition of Interlog Internet Services Inc. Under terms of the deal, PSINet reportedly will add 50,000 subscribers in southern Ontario to its service, increasing its reach to 100,000 individual subscribers throughout […]

In the second acquisition of its kind for the company this month, Internet services provider Verio Inc. said today it will acquire Florida-based Web hosting company Hiway Technologies Inc. in a cash and stock deal valued at approximately $351 million. The move is aimed at strengthening Verio’s strategy of targeting the small- and medium-sized business […]

Excite and Intuit announced this week the introduction of the new “Small Business by Quicken.com” channel on Excite’s portal. In addition to the Excite network, the channel is also available on Intuit’s Quicken.com Web site as well as on Excite’s other flagship service, WebCrawler. The new channel is a joint effort between Intuit–makers of Quicken, […]

Total E, a one-stop online entertainment superstore from Columbia House, entered into an exclusive advertising and co-sponsorship agreement with Entertainment Drive (eDrive), an entertainment information destination. Under the terms of the agreement, Total E becomes the exclusive online music and video advertiser on eDrive and will add eDrive’s Celebrity Q&A to its site. Financial details […]

RelevantKnowledge Inc. said it issued its first monthly Ad Network Report, calling it “the only analysis that accurately measures the potential and actual reach among ad networks.” Oddly, no specifics from the report were issued. A spokeswoman for the company said that was a deliberate move, taken to avoid the sort of controversy that ensued […]