Three months after buying Healthology, iVillage struck again, purchasing HeathCentersOnline, another health publisher, for $11 million in cash and $1 million in stock. The company runs HeathCenterOnline, AllergyHealthOnline and HeathlyLivingOnline. iVillage, known for its focus on women, has been increasingly...
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Cablevision has retained GlobalWorks to develop multicultural advertising, including broadcast, print, online, direct and outdoor advertising for Cablevision's iO digital cable, Optimum Online high-speed internet and Optimum Voice. According to MediaPost, the effort will initially target Hispanic and African-American markets,...
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Interactive shop I-level dumped its large British Telecom client in favor of the media buying duties for wireless firm Orange, according to Revolution. The account, said to be a 4 million quid affair, comes after Orange decided to take the...
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In an otherwise completely derivative piece, The New York Times managed to eke out a response from Google on the ginning up of nationalist pique at the idea that the "Anglo" Google might become the arbiter of what gets published...
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Radar magazine, having folded two years ago, will restart publishing at the end of May, but will first launch a website this month, reported the New York Times. The site will not reproduce the magazine contents but will offer daily...
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News Corp. said it intends to ratchet up its lobbying efforts against Nielsen's local people meters, media measurement systems that more accurately measure individual's media consumption. A group News Corp. created called Don't Count Us Out has been trying to...
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With millions of ad dollars up for grabs, Yahoo News and Google News are preparing for "the Digital Age equivalent of an old-fashioned newspaper war," writes the Los Angeles Times. Yahoo News is the most-visited news site in the U.S.,...
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DM News reports that email services firm Return Path will announce its purchase of Bonded Sender, the whitelist email company that proposed last year to create a system of email postage to help stem the tide of spam. Email security...
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Search Engine Watch cites a People's Daily news report about China's search market, which reached $151 million in 2004, rising 81 percent from the previous year; that is substantially more than other, earlier reports. The market is predicted to reach...
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Blogging about your workplace sometimes results in receiving a pink slip, and bloggers have few protections. CNET reports that the Electronic Frontier Foundation' new guide for blogging in the workplace offers sage advice to bloggers and their bosses.
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comScore figures published by Internet Retailer show online retail sales shot up 45 percent for the week ending March 20, rising to $1.59 billion. 2005 has been a wild ride for e-commerce, with sales growth showing very high volatility. Figures...
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Search Engine Watch reports that Google has added a new service that offers U.S. cell phone users a robust version of Google Local. The new service, available now at local.google.com/local, is similar to the local search service available via PCs....
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