Chief Marketer Staff

• DM Services Growth Leads Harte-Hanks First Quarter

  Harte-Hanks Inc,. San Antonio, TX, had first-quarter 1999 revenue of $188.1 million, a 5.9% increase from first-quarter 1998 revenue of $177.7 million.

• Live From Strasbourg: Outcome of Privacy Talks Still Uncertain

  The outcome of the current EU, U.S. talks on the EU’s data-protection directive, and of the so-called safe harbor measures put forward by the Americans,

• Live From Strasbourg: Fedma Elects New Chair

  The Federation of European Direct Marketing on Sunday elected a new chairman, Ivan Hodac, who will serve for the next two years. Hodac is senior vice

• Yahoo Offers Opt-In Birthday Program

  Yahoo! Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has launched Yahoo! Birthday Club, a permission-based promotion Yahoo! Birthday Club delivers messages to users who have

• Short Cuts

  Dale Moore has been appointed as director of internet services at Millard Group Inc., Peterborough, NH. Moore’s primary responsibility will be to help

• Live From Strasbourg: Two New Directives to Be Introduced

  Two new directives are scheduled to be debated in the European Parliament on May 6 and 7, according to Alastair Tempest, director general of Fedma public

• Catalog City Teams With InfoSpace.com Directory

  Catalog shopping portal Catalog City, Pacific Grove, CA, today announced a strategic alliance with InfoSpace.com, an online directory, that will expand

• PC Connection Reports Strong First-Quarter Sales

  PC Connection Inc., a direct marketer of computer-related products, had a good first quarter, reporting net sales of $225 million, compared with $168.6

• Court Dismisses Suit Against Cendant

  A securities class action suit that had been brought against Cendant Corp., New York, has been dismissed. The suit had been brought against the company

• Texas Lawmakers Call for PRC Total Control of USPS

  Texas lawmakers jumped into the postal reform fray last week by overwhelmingly approving a resolution calling for the Postal Rate Commission’s absolute