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  • New Standards to Bear

    The pride you once took in doing things your own special way may now be your own undoing. Standards, the common agreement on how things can and should

  • Kick Starts

    Step aerobics is so early ’90s. These days, the hottest class in gyms across the country is kick-boxing. The number of kick-boxers rose 65 percent to

  • Web Watching

    ACNielsen, Stamford, CT, has launched “My Nielsen//NetRatings,” an information delivery system for Internet audience measurement and analysis. The service

  • Aurora Trades Up

    Aurora Foods has brought in two packaged goods veterans to steer the company through a legal crisis over its trade-promotion accounting practices.On April

  • Arch Deluxe

    Before the Internet came along, portals were entryways of varying design and construction – even bricks and mortar, to borrow a Web-wise word. Now they

  • Content Analysis

    Web marketing consultancy Lab 6.two.4, Salt Lake City, has launched a new service using “eye-tracking” analysis to determine behavior and survey methodology

  • ONLINE LIBERATION

    Be Free, Inc., a Marlborough, MA, provider of Internet marketing services, agreed to purchase TriVida Corp. for up to $185.9 million in stock. Culver

  • They Got Games

    Ah, the Olympics. You’ve finally reached the pinnacle of performance so many dream about, yet so few achieve. The endless hours, weeks, and years spent

  • Taffy Pulling and Pushing

    Candymaker Van Melle USA, best known for Mentos chewy mints, this month breaks a joint promotion with Mattel, Inc. for another hot brand: Air Heads taffy.