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  • CareerTrack’s Closing Has DMers Job Hunting

    CareerTrack Inc., Boulder, which provides corporate training seminars, is leaving its Boulder home base and putting about 30 to 40 direct marketing professionals–mostly

  • Three Computer DMers Report Results

    Three direct marketers of personal computers and related products released their financial results yesterday.Creative Computers Inc., Torrance, CA, reported

  • Federal Bill to Combat Telemarketing Fraud Introduced

    Rep. Robert Weygand (D-RI) has introduced a bill to make telemarketing fraud over the Internet a federal crime. The measure (HR-612) would also establish

  • FedEx to Raise Rates

    Federal Express Corp., Memphis, TN, the world’s largest express delivery service, said it will raise its rates an average of 2.8% for shipments within

  • Battle Likely At USPS Congressional Hearing

    The first Congressional hearing of the year on legislation to reform the U.S. Postal Service could turn into possible four-way “us-versus-them” donnybrook.

  • DIRECT Listline

    Santa Claus Online A new list, Santa Claus Online, contains 10,500 Christmas 1998 home addresses. These addresses were collected from a Web site to which

  • LA Newspaper Group Buys Alt Media Company

    The Los Angeles Times and Garden State Newspapers Inc., have jointly acquired California Independent Postal System (CIPS), a provider of alternative distribution

  • Short Cuts

    Margaret Iadeluca has been appointed vice president in the compiled list division of ALC of New York. In another staff change in that division, Charlie

  • Nu Skin to Acquire Big Planet

    Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. will acquire Big Planet, a Provo, UT-based Internet-based technology company that offers e-commerce and other technology services

  • Wunderman On Board At Intellipost

    Intellipost Corp., San Francisco, added Lester Wunderman, founder of Wunderman Cato Johnson, Tom Newkirk, chairman of Experian Direct Technology Solutions