Chief Marketer Staff

• New Products and Services

  Orbitz for Business: a new online method for business travelers to plan and book their own trips.–Orbitz, Chicago.

• WA AG Sues MN Telemarketers Over Alleged Anti-Spam Violations

  Washington State Attorney General Christine Gregorie is suing the operators of a Minnesota-based debt consolidation company for violating the state’s four-year old anti-spam law.

• DoubleClick Profitable in Second Quarter

  DoubleClick Inc. reported second quarter net income of $4.1 million, a turnaround from the $37.9 million seen in second quarter 2001. The company generated

• Revenue Up, Income Down at UPS

  UPS reported second quarter net income of $611 million, down from second quarter 2001’s $630 million. The Atlanta-based shipper’s revenue rose from $7.49

• Short Cuts

  Vanessa Castagna has been named J. Co. Penney Corp.’s executive vice president, chairman and CEO of JCPenney Stores, catalog and Internet. The position

• Correction

  DIRECT Newsline inaccurately reported that Kansas is the only state to seek a private operator for its do-not-call list. The Direct Marketing Association

• DIRECT Listline

  Easy Guide to Computers & The Internet This newly available list consists of 21,088 buyers who have paid $16.95 for “The Quick & Easy Guide to Understanding

• CMGI Acquires iLogistix for $46 Million

  CMGI, Inc., the e-mail marketing services provider, has acquired substantially Software Logistics Corp., a California corporation doing business as iLogistix,

• Loose Cannon: DM’s Slice of the Scandal Pie

  One of the reporters here at DIRECT claims that every scandal in the 20th Century

• Federated Completes Sale of Fingerhut Receivables

  Federated Department Stores, Cincinnati, has closed its previously announced sale of $1.2 billion in Fingerhut receivables to CompuCredit Corp. Terms