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Schwartz Communications, a public relations firm that specializes in work for high-tech companies, said it won the Lycos account. Billings were not disclosed. Founded by the husband-wife team of Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz, and now in its eighth year of operation, Schwartz Communications is the nation’s third-largest independent public relations agency for high-tech companies. […]

When it comes to sponsorship, there’s a saying in the world of professional auto racing: Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday. And Lycos apparently got the message. Lycos, which already sponsors a race car, signed on as title sponsor for the July 25th South Boston 300 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series race in Virginia. Spending […]

Microsoft, IBM and Gateway signed on as charter sponsors of CMPnet’s Planet IT, a new, members-only, online community for information technology (IT) executives set to debut in September. Planet IT will be aimed at IT executives on the Internet–buyers with millions of dollars in annual corporate technology spending authority. Spending by the sponsors was not […]

Adauction.com, the online ad auction channel, said it launched a new auction format called CountDown that “offers media buyers greater convenience and control to purchase premium Internet ad inventory at significant savings.” Complementing the company’s ActiveBid auction that runs on the third Thursday of each month, CountDown launched Tuesday. The new auction format employs a […]

DoubleClick Inc. in New York City launched DoubleClick Local, designed to meet the needs of regional and local advertisers who are trying to drive traffic to their businesses and build brand awareness. “The DoubleClick Network of top branded sites and our advanced geo-targeting technology give local advertisers a powerful new medium for local advertising,” said […]

THINK New Ideas said it was hired to develop and implement e-commerce and interactive solutions for Sunglass Hut International Inc. THINK said it will design and produce a new Internet presence for the sunglass retailer in the first phase of the project, which will launch this quarter. Phase One will include an integrated shopping module. […]

Andromedia Inc. said it posted record second quarter sales with bookings growing 130% from the previous quarter for ARIA, the company’s intelligent, real-time Web site activity analysis solution. Major new customers include iVillage, Macromedia, the U.S. Postal Service, NewsReal, and the first ARIA customers based in Europe–Germany’s Audi and the U.K.’s Associated New Media, the […]

Preview Travel, Inc. announced today that it secured strategic partnerships with American Airlines Vacations and Royal Caribbean International to offer real-time booking of vacation packages and cruises. Financial details were not disclosed. Preview Travel said it is now offering online booking of vacation packages to Orlando, Las Vegas and Cancun from American Airlines Vacations and […]

Network Solutions, Inc. further expanded its global presence today by signing eight Asian companies to its International Premier Domain Registration Services partner program. The firms include China Telecom, Hi!China, Hongkong Telecom, China Internet Corporation, Hong Kong Supernet, Dacom Corporation, Korea Telecom, and Singapore Telecom. They join six Scandinavian companies that launched the international premier partner […]

IT intelligence and consulting firm INPUT says that top performing European high-tech manufacturers spend substantially less on IT than firms which are not as successful. The unexpected finding comes in the latest report in INPUT’s IT Market Forecast program. The new report, entitled “European High-Tec Manufacturing IT Software & Services Market: 1997-2002,” analyses IT spending […]

In what marks the latest in a series of deals involving online real-estate resources, REALTOR.com announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement today to feature its service on Excite. According to REALTOR.com, its offerings will reach across Excite’s flagship services including WebCrawler, Classifieds2000 and the portions of Netscape’s Netcenter programmed by Excite. In each case, REALTOR.com […]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) gave its final approval for the MCI-WorldCom merger today, and MCI promptly announced it signed an agreement to sell its Internet business to Cable & Wireless for $1.75 billion in cash. In a statement released late this afternoon, MCI confirmed recent reports surrounding an expanded purchase by the British […]