InternetNews Staff

International Barter Corp. (IBC) in Seattle, the parent company of e-commerce site Ubarter.com, signed an advertising agreement with DoubleClick. The agreement gives IBC the exclusive banner ad for the keyword “barter” on the search engines AltaVista, Look Smart and Northern Light. The agreement also secures the position of Ubarter.com in several sections of Travelocity.com. Financial […]

Apartments.com signed separate agreements with VirtualRelocation, an established relocation resource, and MoverQuotes, an online moving company database. The agreements will enhance Apartments.com’s Moving Center, which provides people who are relocating a directory of services and information. Financial terms were not disclosed. Located at www.movingcenter.com and also available through Apartments.com’s national site, the Moving Center now […]

Four major online directory companies said they are teaming up to form the At Hand Network Yellow Pages, a nationwide network of Internet Yellow Pages services. The At Hand Network is a business search service offering business listings information nationwide. It is operated jointly by the Internet publishing divisions of Ameritech, BellSouth, SBC Communications and […]

Hiway Technologies Inc. signed an agreement with LinkExchange Inc. to be the exclusive provider of domain registration services for the Web ad network. LinkExchange said it services more than one million registered users of its services, “making it the Web’s largest active community of independent site owners and Web entrepreneurs.” The company recently expanded its […]

Cambridge, MA-based net.Genesis Corp. a provider of enterprise Web site analysis solutions, said it completed a second round of financing of approximately $7 million. OneLiberty Ventures led the funding, with participation from original investors BessemerVenture Partners and Charles River Ventures. The company said the new funding will be used to finance its extensive growth in […]

Rent Net, which lists ads for 2.5 million apartments throughout the U.S. and Canada., said that it added new content channels and completed a comprehensive site redesign. New features include zip-code/neighborhood-based searching and expanded comparison shopping features plus a toll-free 800 number that connects users directly to property managers. The Rent Net home page now […]

Infomart Dialog Ltd., and WavePhore Newscast Inc. announced a partnership to launch a co-branded business information service to serve Canadian corporations. The new service, Newscast Canada, is scheduled to debut in the third quarter of 1998. This partnership aligns the strengths of two players in the information industry. Under the terms of the agreement, Infomart […]

Portfolio Tracker is a new addition to GLOBEfund’s list of financial services for Canadian investors. Portfolio Tracker is designed to track an individual’s portfolio daily performance, using the Internal Rate of Return-an accurate way of measuring ROI. Users register at the GLOBEfund site and establish a personal portfolio by recording the number of units they […]

Concentric Network Corp. said it now counts rock star David Bowie as a virtual private network (VPN) customer thanks to a new partnership with UltraStar Internet Services under which it will provide network services for the new BowieNet online venture. Concentric said it will combine its CustomLink VPN service with hosting and e-commerce capabilities for […]

Personal trading service eBay announced today the acquisition of Jump, Inc., the developer and operator of Up4Sale, an advertising-supported trading service in an auction format. eBay said the move is aimed at providing the company with an additional environment in which to introduce future trading services. Financial details were not disclosed. “The founders and employees […]

A new report from online business researcher eMarketer suggests the Internet is becoming an upscale microcosm of America. eMarketer said its 1998 eOverview Report reveals that the demographic profile of the Net user is increasingly similar to that of the U.S. population as a whole. Core demographics such as age, gender and marital status, are […]

eWatch Inc., formerly eWorks! Inc., announced today that it sold its Web site development and hosting divisions in order to focus more closely on the company’s Internet monitoring products. The company’s Web site and intranet development business was acquired by Minneapolis-based KeyTech LLC, and its Web hosting business was sold to Midwest ISP MRNet. Financial […]