Chief Marketer Staff

• Group 1 to Acquire Sagent for $17 Million

  Group 1 Software will acquire the key assets of Sagent Technology for about $17 million. The Sagent acquisition will give Group 1 additional enterprise

• Financial Telemarketers Settle With FTC

  A group of allegedly fraudulent telemarketers has agreed to pay more than $131,000 in consumer redress to settle charges with The Federal Trade Commission.

• New Products and Services

  Information Quality Suite: Enables firms to manage customer, supplier, and operational data with advanced support of coding standards worldwide–Firstlogic,

• Lillian Vernon Corp. Acquired By Ripplewood Holdings

  A private equity fund Ripplewood Holdings LLC will acquire Lillian Vernon Corp. in an all-cash transaction valued at $60 million. The sale is expected

• VISA REVS UP NASCAR TIE-IN

  Visa will give cardholders the chance to hop behind the wheel of a racecar with the Ultimate NASCAR Experience. Each time they use their card through

• Homeland Security Dept. Taps Former DoubleClick Exec

  The Department of Homeland Security named former DoubleClick privacy executive Nuala O’Connor Kelly as its chief privacy officer Wednesday, making her

• SCHWEPPES SETS SAIL A YACHT SWEEPS

  Pack your bags. Schweppes plans to set sail one lucky winner this summer with its Coast in Style summer promotion. During July and August, consumers can

• WYDEN AND BURNS REINTRODUCE SPAM BILL

  (DIRECT Newsline)–A tough anti-spam bill favored by Internet Service Providers was reintroduced last week in the Senate. The CAN Spam bill authored by

• List and Database News

  Job Shop Technology E-Mail List ePost Direct has won the management of this file of 13,555 design engineers, executives and purchasing agents in aerospace,

• NEWS BRIEFS

  PEPSI: is launching a vanilla-flavored cola this summer to put pressure on its rival Coca-Cola Co and its Vanilla Coke product, which has sold 90 million