InternetNews Staff

In the first 30 days since launching its new Online Observer Audience Information Service, Milpitas, CA-based NetRatings said it has signed 20 customers and sold 60 user licenses. Observer is a Web audience measurement service that integrates ad banner tracking with user demographics designed for planning and post-campaign analysis. Customers signed include: Agency.com, Alta Vista, […]

Yahoo! Inc. and Inktomi Corp. today announced they have signed an agreement in which Inktomi will integrate a Web search engine into Yahoo!’s Web directory and navigational guide within the next 90 days. The popular portal player said that the new Inktomi search engine will work with its existing navigation system in order to provide […]

The Justice Department today charged Microsoft with engaging in anticompetitive and exclusionary practices designed to maintain its monopoly in personal computer operating systems and to extend that monopoly to internet browsing software. Twenty state Attorneys General and the District of Columbia filed a similar action today. “Consumers and computer manufacturers should have the right to […]

K-Tel International Inc. today announced it signed an extensive marketing and services agreement with cable Internet provider @Home Network. The agreement’s terms call for Redwood City, CA-based @Home’s business division, @Work, to provide Internet co-location services for K-Tel in order for the company to expand its Internet marketing presence. K-Tel will gain services such as […]

Mecklermedia Corp. today announced the acquisition of One Inc., the organizer of ISPCON trade shows and publisher of Boardwatch Magazine, for $29.5 million in cash and stock. Littleton, Colo.-based ISPCON is the biannual trade show of the Internet service provider (ISP)industry, and also hosts attendees from national backbones such as MCI and Sprint, as well […]

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said the government is “interfering with the freedom to innovate” after the U.S. Department of Justice and the attorneys general of 20 states filed complaints today in U.S. District Court in Washington charging the software giant with anticompetitive practices. “Microsoft used its monopoly power to develop a chokehold on the browser […]

InterVU Inc. in San Diego launched a co-marketing agreement with Macromedia Inc. and said it will support and distribute rich media content on the Internet created and played back with Macromedia’s authoring and software tools. Under the co-marketing agreement, San Francisco-based Macromedia has granted InterVU the right to use certain Macromedia trademarks in connection with […]

K2 Design Inc. in New York City reported a net profit of $37,919, including interest and other income, for the first quarter ending March 31. That compares with a net loss of $327,855 in the same period a year ago. Revenues for the quarter were approximately $2.6 million, an increase of approximately $975,000, or 60%, […]

Quantum Leap Communications and The Leap Partnership have joined forces to create, design and execute a new Web site promoting Ameritech’s consumer ISDN service. ISDN is a digital data service that offers consumers faster access to the Internet and increased efficiency for home office access. The new Web site can be accessed here. The site, […]

MasterCard International and Excite said they formed a strategic marketing alliance aimed at building consumer awareness of the benefits of shopping online. The companies said they want educate consumers that shopping on the Web can be fast, easy and safe; build consumer awareness of the Excite Shopping Channel; and promote the MasterCard brand as the […]

Another entry in the pay-for-attention category on the Web is the recently launched FreeRide, which pays consumers to surf its ad-packed “Frequent Browser” site. Launched by advertising agency veterans Jordan Stanley and John Mezzina, FreeRide brings together on one site a host of national advertisers–each offering consumers a common incentive for browsing and buying. Customers […]

E*TRADE Group Inc. and SportsLine USA Inc. said they have entered into a comprehensive co-marketing agreement that makes E*TRADE the exclusive category sponsor of the CBS SportsLine/MarketWatch Business & Financial Arena. “CBS SportsLine has attracted a loyal following of Internet-savvy adults who have much the same characteristics as E*TRADE’s customer base. This co-marketing agreement will […]