InternetNews Staff

AT&T announced plans today to expand its WorldNet network during the coming year, and said recent price changes affecting the Internet service have not resulted in a loss of customers. The company said it plans to add 218 new points of presence (POPs) over the next year, an expansion that represents a 62% increase in […]

Craig Marr, formerly a partner and national director of business development at Poppe Tyson (New York), has been named vice president of business development at US Interactive Inc. in New York City. While at Poppe Tyson over the past three years, Marr was responsible for the acquisition of new clients such as Chase Manhattan Bank, […]

The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) formed a task force to develop standards for collecting newspaper classified advertising information to facilitate electronic exchange and enhance online searchability. The task force will be discussed during the 1998 NAA Classified Conference in Boston this week. Print newspaper classified advertising tends to vary in length and detail from […]

Hot Jobs Inc., a provider of online recruiting systems and services, said it signed up to use DoubleClick’s DART targeted ad serving technology for its recruiting Web site, hotjobs.com. This new feature enables companies posting banner advertisements to hotjobs.com to streamline their advertising, reaching only select pools of pre-qualified job seekers, the company said. For […]

AGENCY.COM in New York and Interactive Solutions in Boston said they have agreed to combine the two companies to form a new interactive firm. The new company will be headquartered in New York and retain the AGENCY.COM name. Omnicom Group Inc. will have a 40% ownership interest in the combined company. Financial details were not […]

Ad-backed e-mail firm Hotmail, claiming to be the world’s largest e- mail service, said that 100,000 people signed up for a Hotmail account in one day. “Hotmail membership has been on an impressive growth curve for sometime,” said Sean Fee, director of product marketing at Sunnyvale, CA-based Hotmail. “The magnitude of the 100k mark becomes […]

San Francisco-based Adauction.com named former Ziff-Davis president J. Scott Briggs as chairman and Ronald C. Conway and Chris Redlitz as members of its board of directors. The company also said it recently closed a Series B round of financing that has helped yield over $2 million in venture capital/private funding to date. The company said […]

Sprint Communications Company today unveiled a new telecommunications network that it said will give residential and corporate customers unlimited bandwidth through just one existing telephone line that can transmit voice, video, and data calls all at the same time. Scheduled to be rolled out later this year, the network, code named “Project FastBreak,” will employ […]

Arnold Communications in Boston acquired Circle Interactive LLC in Boston and merged Circle with its Arnold Interactive unit to form a standalone agency that will operate under the Circle name. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Eric Snyder, 40, and Dave Batista, 30, founding partners at Circle, will head the merged agency as […]

Game company MicroProse Inc. and Pepsi World, Pepsi Cola Co.’s entertainment-based online community, entered into an online marketing partnership. The deal will highlight MicroProse’s newest PC games and promote the interactive entertainment software company within the site. Financial arrangements were not disclosed. The first of six MicroProse games, X-Com Interceptor, will debut on June 1. […]

The ClickZ Network said it is planning to launch a highly focused, advertising and fee-supported search engine dedicated solely to online advertising, marketing and commerce. “By narrowing the focus and controlling the submission process, we’ll present our visitors with a more manageable search for the information they need,” said ClickZ Publisher Andrew Bourland. “Not only […]

It’s 1998, do you know where your teenage audience is? Chances are they’re surfing the Internet or sending e-mail. That’s the finding of the Simmons TeenAge Research Study (STARS), released by Simmons, a market research firm. According to STARS, nearly 65% of teens ages 12-19 claim to have used or subscribed to online services over […]