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Apartments Plus, a provider of interactive online apartment listings, said it changed its name to Apartments.com and its URL to www.apartments.com. The announcement follows the December 1997 acquisition of Apartments Plus by Classified Ventures, a partnership of The Times Mirror Co., Tribune Co., and The Washington Post Co. created to help newspapers expand their classifieds […]

Cendant Corp. (formerly CUC) launched a cross-marketing initiative that will provide consumers access to online listing of residential rental real estate properties in cities across North America. Rent Net and Hebdo Mag International, two of Cendant’s classified advertising subsidiaries, will embark on a joint marketing campaign to expand Rent Net’s Canadian property listings and heighten […]

CMG Information Services in Andover, MA signed a binding letter of intent to purchase Web ad management solutions company Accipiter Inc. in a deal valued at $35 million. Raleigh, NC-based Accipiter will become a wholly owned subsidiary of CMG, reporting to Paul Schaut, CEO of Engage Technologies, a CMG company focused on 1:1 Internet marketing […]

San Francisco will be the site of a full-city “immersive imaging” project that will allow potential home buyers to use the Internet to tour houses advertised for sale room by room and check out the neighborhoods where they are located. Sponsored by Cupertino, CA-based Be Here Corp., the project, called SF Sweep, will use Be […]

Simon and Schuster’s Red Rocket, a commerce site for learning-based games and toys, hired IN2 in New York City as its interactive agency of record. IN2 will develop and implement all online marketing strategies for Red Rocket and track marketing performance through real-time ROI and commerce-based campaign tracking tools, developed in-house by the agency. Billings […]

San Jose, CA-based Knight Ridder New Media’s Real Cities network and New York-based Real Media signed an agreement that will expand the network into most of the top 20 U.S. markets. “Knight Ridder and Real Media have proven track records building online advertising networks and custom sites that meet the needs of advertisers,” said Kathy […]

Dynamic Information System & eXchange Inc., which operates a help wanted classified database on the Net, said it secured commitments for $700,000 in operating capital. The Orem, UT-based company said agreements reached with a group of individual investors call for a 50% payment up front with the remainder due over the next 60 to 90 […]

MSNBC and MSNBC Cable on Monday will launch a joint, integrated, six-week $5 million “Leader in Cable and Internet News” branding campaign. The companies said the cross-medium, cross-platform promotion is designed to bring cohesion to the MSNBC brand through Internet, radio, print, outdoor, and television media. The campaign launches concurrently with the release of MSNBC […]

AGIS, the fourth largest independent network backbone provider in the U.S., has released Backbone-In-A-Box, a new service that allows businesses to operate their own backbone network at speeds up to 2.49Gbps. Described as a “revolutionary product,” it follows AGIS’ purchase of 10,000 SONET-protected route miles of OC-192 (9.95Gbps) fiber from Qwest Communications International, earlier this […]

Hall Dickler Kent Friedman & Wood, a New York and Los Angeles law firm specializing in advertising, marketing, and new media, launched the ADLAW Web site. The site offers access to the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA), sample advertising, Internet contract forms, and a handbook of key advertising issues. “We’ve built a site that is […]

TotalNEWS Inc. in Scottsdale, AZ, known for its news search engine technology, launched what it calls the “Headline Ad-Solution.” The app is a Java-based news style “ticker” designed to broadcast headlines, titles, or page descriptions, across a banner style creative. The Headline Ad-Solution does not resemble traditional advertising, the company said. By offering real-time information, […]

Bigfoot won a court order against spam king Sanford Wallace and his company, Philadelphia-based Cyber Promotions, that will require him to pay $10,000 a day if he sends junk e-mail to customers of Bigfoot or forges the domain name. The consent decree, signed by Judge Barbara Jones of United States District Court for the Southern […]