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Internet strategy services provider USWeb Corp. today said it is restructuring the company into three divisions in an effort to spur growth and acquisitions. In addition, the company separately announced the acquisition of Gray Peak Technologies, a New York-based network solutions company, in a stock swap deal estimated to be worth between $80 and $100 […]

InternNews Corp.’s News America Digital Publishing (NADP) and Alliance Capital launched an online ad campaign in which NADP’s Web sites will carry banner ads that play Alliance Capital’s “Extreme Measures” broadcast TV commercials. The streaming video ads will be combined with a direct response mechanism that allows users to request more information from Alliance Capital […]

Ad-backed e-mail service Juno Online Services said two spammers that it sued last year have settled and will pay damages. Under the settlement, Phoenix Interactive of Hermosa Beach, CA, and Global Information Services of Clearwater, FL, will enter consent decrees–court orders–barring them from using or “forging” Juno e-mail addresses, and will pay an undisclosed amount […]

The Kelsey Group and The Association of Directory Marketing are co-sponsoring a conference in Boston that will address the concerns of many companies trying to stake a claim in the Internet directories and city guides area. Keynote speaker will be Jeff Taylor, executive vice president for interactive at TMP Worldwide and of The Monster Board […]

ElectricVillage in Santa Cruz, CA, a provider of Internet commerce, community, and content solutions for radio stations, said it has engaged DoubleClick to manage ads throughout its national network of radio station Web sites. ElectricVillage said it is the first to use DoubleClick’s DART technology to serve and manage targeted ads in a true network […]

CyberGold Inc. launched Mad Trivia, an advertiser-sponsored, multi-player trivia game in which the top 50 players win up to $15 daily and the top scorer each month walks away with $100. Mad Trivia is the newest addition to CyberGold’s products that allow people to pay, earn and spend real money on the Web. The game […]

Portland, ME-based UNUM Corp., a provider of disability insurance, has selected US Interactive as its interactive agency of record. “Our work with UNUM will involve our key three divisions, including Digital Marketing, Strategic Consulting, and Technology Solutions,” said Richard Masterson, US Interactive’s co-founder and president. “We will be responsible for a re-design of their existing […]

Macromedia, Inc. this week announced that Director 6.5, a major upgrade to the company’s Director multimedia authoring tool, is now shipping. The upgrade significantly extends the functionality of the product and includes many new features such as QuickTime 3 support, integration with Microsoft PowerPoint, and the generation of Java applets. Macromedia said the new features […]

Innovation Partners and CEI announced this week the release of one of the industry’s first editors for the eXtensible Markup Language, the IRIS XML EDITOR, beta 1. The IRIS XML EDITOR enables developers to create XML projects based on a DTD which has been generated by the IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR (future versions will support […]

Netscape Communications Corp. announced that its Netscape Messenger mail source code for Communicator 5.0 will be introduced to developers on its mozilla.org Web site this week. The company said the move is a follow-up to its initial release of the Communicator 5.0 source code six weeks ago to the Web developer community. Once the Messenger […]

Calico Technology Inc., a provider of e-business solutions, and PC direct marketer Gateway Computers signed a technology and service licensing agreement. Gateway will be deploying Calico’s eSales solution across Gateway’s entire enterprise and product lines, including for Gateway’s Web customers, remote sales and telesales reps, and at Gateway Country Store outlets. Using Calico’s Web-centric architecture, […]

Stamford, CT-based online market research firm @plan opened a West Coast office in San Francisco to service left coast clients that include Wired Digital, Microsoft, Anderson Lembke, Preview Travel, Left Field, Think New Ideas, Onsale.com and Autoweb.com. “We now service more than 50 clients on the West Coast and are adding more every week,” said […]