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DataMark Holding Inc., of Salt Lake City, said its WorldNow Online Network Inc. subsidiary signed an affiliation agreement with The Ackerley Group’s KVOS-TV 12, an independent television station in Bellingham, WA. The station reaches the British Columbia Lower Mainland market, the second largest English-speaking television market in Canada. Financial terms of the arrangement were not […]

CMG Information Services Inc. in Andover, MA said it completed the $35 million acquisition of Accipiter Inc., a provider of Internet advertising management solutions. The agreement, which came to terms less than one month after the intent to purchase was announced March 12, calls for Accipiter to join CMG as a wholly owned subsidiary. Accipiter, […]

There will be 2,000 global corporate banking sites on the Internet within the next two years–a four-fold increase–according to a new study conducted by Booze-Allen & Hamilton. The management consulting firm reported that corporate banking sites are fast on the online heels of their retail banking brothers, and that 600-700 of these new sites will […]

PointCast Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, said it is forming a new executive team to oversee the company’s rapidly growing advertising sales business. Heading the team will be Douglas Boake, former vice president of international, who has been named senior vice president of sales. In addition, Lisa Gerould has been promoted to vice president of advertiser […]

San Francisco-based WorldPages.com, an Internet yellow and white pages service, said it formed a strategic partnership for banner sales with Internet ad network 24/7 Media Inc. The company also said that its Web site is now featured in the “People” area of the Netscape Guide by Yahoo! And, WorldPages said it has now sold more […]

DoubleClick Inc. in New York named Jeffrey E. Epstein as chief financial officer. Epstein had been senior vice president at CUC International prior to that company’s merger with HFS to become Cendant Corp. He was responsible for CUC’s corporate development activities and acquisitions, as well as directing strategy, finance, and operations for AutoVantage, a leading […]

Black Light Media in Portland, ME said alternative Web site Slashdot has signed on for advertising sales, ad management, promotions, and public relations. Billings were not disclosed. “Slashdot will significantly enhance BLM’s ability to reach a diverse and tightly targetable audience for our advertising clients,” said Ryan Meader, president of Black Light. “We believe that […]

A Thunder Lizard Productions conference entitled “Web Marketing 98: How to Turn Browsers Into Buyers,” scheduled for April 23-24 in Seattle, WA, takes a step back from Web advertising and looks at the larger picture. Web Marketing ’98 will focus on the “whole package,” from e-commerce to marketing your site for free (or almost free). […]

Laying to rest recent buyout rumors, Microsoft Corp. announced today it signed an agreement to acquire privacy technology leader Firefly Network Inc. As reported in Mecklermedia’s Internet World newspaper on March 30, Firefly’s performance has not always met expectations, and analysts have questioned the Cambridge, MA-based company’s ability to forge ahead without a significant cash […]

A U.S. District Court Judge dismissed nine of ten counts in a class action suit filed against Network Solutions, Inc. over Internet domain registrations, but reserved judgment on potential damages related to the Infrastructure Fund portion of registration fees. The original lawsuit filed in October 1997 by William Thomas, et al., claimed that the National […]

GTE New Media Services Inc. announced an agreement today with BigBook, Inc. under which GTE will purchase the www.bigbook.com domain and rights to all BigBook trade names and trademarks. SuperPages interactive service provider GTE New Media said the deal was made in an effort to remain competitive in the online directory business. Financial terms were […]

Quebec-based Agents Technologies Corporation announced this week it is shipping the Copernic 98plus professional search agent software. The product is designed to search 17 content-specific channel sets of leading Web sites by categorizing the most relevant sites, newsgroups, and other Internet data in a given content area, and enables users to customize by adding or […]