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LEXIS-NEXIS said it soon will be able to offer marketers access to more than half the college students in America. Under a contract negotiated by a consortium of universities, more than half of all U.S. college and university students will be using LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe from Congressional Information Service Inc., to gain access to a […]

IMGIS Inc., a provider of centralized ad management services on the Internet, named Christine L. Mueller as vice president of marketing and business development. Mueller will be responsible for all domestic and international marketing and business development efforts and will report to Chuck Berger, chairman and CEO of IMGIS. She brings to IMGIS more than […]

Intellipost Corp., a provider of loyalty marketing programs said that NextCard, provider of an Internet VISA card, will offer its new cardholders a rewards program through Intellipost in the industry. The NextCard Rewards program is designed to allow qualifying customers to earn “BonusMail Rew@rds Credits,” with no annual fee, by simply purchasing with their NextCard […]

Seattle-based attorney Brady Johnson filed Washington State’s first “anti-spam” lawsuit against WorldTouch Network Inc. in Los Angeles and the company’s owner, Christopher Lee Knight. WorldTouch Network allegedly sells Bull’s Eye Gold, a program designed to collect e-mail addresses and generate spam, usually unsolicited sales-related e-mail messages. Washington’s new anti-spam statute outlaws commercial e-mail that contains […]

Irish communications firm Telecom Eireann (TE) will invest over $7 million in Local Ireland, a project that aims to bring existing community content in Ireland to users around the world via the Internet. Nua Ltd., the Dublin-based company that operates Local Ireland, is expected to make the official announcement on August 9. The investment, which […]

Silicon Graphics, Inc. today announced it is collaborating with Inktomi Corp. to assist At Home Corp. with the expansion of the @Home Internet-via-cable network. Silicon Graphics said its Origin Platform servers will be used to support the deployment of Inktomi’s network caching software on the @Home cable broadband network. The Silicon Graphics-Inktomi caching combination is […]

Lucent Technologies added another company to its recent line of acquisitions today with the purchase of MassMedia Communications, Inc., a privately-held, startup developer of network interoperability software. MassMedia supplies a family of products that manage connections across data, voice and video networks. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Lucent said it currently uses […]

Rogers Cablesystems announced changes to its high-speed Internet access product and a new name to reflect those changes. Rogers WAVE is now officially Rogers@Home. Earlier this year, Rogers announced an agreement with @Home Network in the U.S. in which the companies joined forces to provide customers with a high-speed Internet backbone, as well as unique […]

NetRatings said its BannerTrack service showed that the top 10 ad banners for the week of July 12-July 18 were: Goto.com: Type in what you’re looking for Bonzi Software: Play Talking E-mail Hotmail: Click banners; easy return to Hotmail Catalog Link: Click here to request free catalogs Hotmail: Bookmark Hotmail to save typing Hotmail: Make […]

The Leap Group Inc. said Young & Rubicam Inc. will acquire the business of its multiculturally focused subsidiary, One World Communications Inc., including the Kang & Lee operations in New York and Los Angeles. Frederick A. Smith, Leap Group chairman and CEO, said the divestiture of the multicultural units will provide capital to the company […]

American Interactive Media Inc. entered into a strategic partnership with InfoSpace Inc., which will provide AIM’s streaming video Internet entertainment networks with access to InfoSpace’s directory services and infrastructure. InfoSpace also will distribute blocks of AIM programming to its syndication partners and to other sites on the Internet. Financial terms of the arrangement were not […]

New media agency Razorfish is expected to announce this week the 100 percent acquisition of Los Angeles based media, according to the Silicon Alley Reporter. Razorfish reportedly positioned the acquisition as a boost to its “Digital Change Management” solutions program. > media was founded in 1996 by Richard D. Titus and Stephen Anspach, by […]