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CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail) issued a statement saying that opponents of spam are facing a potentially disastrous legal development in Washington. The organization said that on May 12, Senators Murkowski and Torricelli offered an amendment to a bill dealing with the long distance industry. This amendment “threatens” to legalize and legitimize the sending […]

K2 Design Inc. in New York City has been named Interactive Agency of Record by LEXIS-NEXIS, the provider of information tools for legal, news, government and business professionals. As its initial assignments, scheduled for launch in June 1998, LEXIS-NEXIS has chosen K2 Design to develop new online brand identity, communications, and technical strategies for its […]

International Barter Corp. in Seattle said that agreements have been reached with five major search engine providers to give IBC the exclusive banner ad for the keyword “barter.” The search engine providers include Excite, Netscape Netcenter, Webcrawler, Lycos and Infoseek. The agreements mean that each time a person searching the Internet via one of those […]

San Francisco-based Andromedia Inc. said it has formed Andromedia Europe Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary that will market and sell ARIA, the company’s real-time Web site activity analysis software, throughout Europe. “We’ve received tremendous demand for ARIA from major European corporations in the media, high technology, finance, telecommunications, and automotive industries all needing to better […]

AdKnowledge in Palo Alto, CA, named Kevin Wandryk as vice president of business development. Wandryk brings extensive experience in acquisitions, mergers, intellectual property licensing and marketing of Internet products to AdKnowledge. He will be responsible for building relationships and strategic alliances with key partners for the company. Wandryk spent the last 10 years at Adobe […]

A new interactive agency, HyperMedia Solutions LLC, has been formed by The Coleman Group Worldwide, a unit of The Interpublic Group of Companies. “Our design organizations have always been at the leading edge of technology, so it’s a natural progression to think of bringing brands to life interactively,” said Chairman Owen W. Coleman. HyperMedia Solutions […]

Keynote Systems unveiled this week new performance diagnostics, including connection failure tracking, backbone performance comparisons, and centralized performance alarms in its upgraded diagnostic service, Perspective 2.0. Keynote said corporate customers can now track and manage the critical factors affecting overall site performance for users in multiple cities worldwide, including Web page download times by users’ […]

Budget Rent a Car Corp., based in Lisle, IL, a subsidiary of Budget Group Inc., said it plans to seek a new advertising agency for what is expected to be a $35 million account. The company said it will conduct a search in the Chicago area where the company is headquartered. Hill, Holliday was awarded […]

The Quigley Corp. in Doylestown, PA said it entered a marketing partnership with Yahoo! Inc. for an advertising program to launch world-wide sales of its patented COLD-EEZER PLUS cold relief lozenge product. COLD-EEZER PLUS is a version of the company’s COLD-EEZE lozenge for cold and allergy relief. The product will be sold via the Internet […]

iXL-Los Angeles, formerly called BoxTop/iXL, has acquired Digital Planet and Spin Cycle. The interactive agency said it will consolidate its two new businesses into a single office, with a staff of 160. The Los Angeles expansion is part of an ongoing effort by iXL, Atlanta, to become a dominant worldwide force in providing Internet solutions, […]

San Francisco-based Flycast Communications Corp. named a former CEO-North America for both Information Resources Inc. (IRI) and the A.C. Nielsen Co. as its new president and chief executive officer. George R. Garrick brings to Flycast extensive experience in managing technology companies in the marketing and advertising services industries. Flycast said Garrick, 45, joined the company […]

Scott Mednick, the founder, chairman and CEO of THINK New Ideas in New York City, has officially decided to leave his creation to pursue long-standing philanthropic interests. The 149-person firm, which recently expanded to the Pacific Northwest with the acquisition of Herring/Newman (and its $55 million in 1998 billings), produces full service marketing campaigns for […]