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  • InfoUSA’s Sales Genie Reappears

    InfoUSA has relaunched its Sales Genie system as an online subscription-based sales lead tool.

  • Bear In MInd

    Travelodge hotel chain mascot Sleepy Bear wants guests to Recreate. Hibernate and be literate. It’s sponsorship of the National Guard car running on the

  • SLOWLY but Surely

    Insert media programs are growing, but not as quickly as some would like

  • Jupitermedia Corp. Takes Legal Action vs. eMarketer

    Online market research firm Jupitermedia Corp. has sent cease-and-desist letters to eMarketer Inc. claiming inducement to breach contract and infringement of its copyright and database rights in both France and the United Kingdom. Jupitermedia, of …

  • ERA, NARC Team to Fight DR Scam Artists

    The Electronic Retailing Association and the National Advertising Review Council have launched a Web site where consumers can file complaints about infomercials and other direct response advertising.

  • 150 Snared in DOJ Web Crackdown

    Scheme against Eddie Bauer among cases reported

  • News briefs/directmag.com

    9/9 D&B agreed to sell its business in France to Base d’Information Legales Holding S.A.S. (Bil Holding) for $32 million. D&B generated roughly $38 million from the business last year. The unit has 170 employees, most of whom will remain. As part of the …

  • LOOSE CANNON: Threat Level: Leafy Green

    The Department of Homeland Security recently decided to bring its computer-assisted airline passenger screening operations in-house.

  • Letters to the Editor

    NO IDENTITY CRISIS I not only laughed out loud when I read Herschell Gordon Lewis’ recent column (Curmudgeon-at-Large, August), but also felt a tremendous sense of relief. I was beginning to think that my disenchantment with what’s normally passed off …

  • Mailer Groups Question Timing of Potter Remarks

    Mailer groups blasted the timing of Postmaster General Jack Potter’s reiteration of the U.S. Postal Service’s commitment to hold postage rates steady until 2006.