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Canada Online: AOL Canada CEO on being wired in the Great White North
Although Canada lags behind the United States in Internet use in general and in e-commerce in particular, about twice as many Canadians bank online as
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WILD IN THE STREETS: Kozmo.com Sends in the Marine
It was a plot that could have been lifted from one of the videotapes Kozmo.com’s delivery service shuttles throughout six markets: Rowdy youths disrupt
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USPE Considers More Layoffs
More layoffs are being considered after mega sweepstakes mailer United States Purchasing Exchange was required last month to pay $30 million in a multistate
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MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: Scholastic to Buy Grolier
Scholastic inc. has entered into a definitive agreement with Lagardere SCA to purchase publisher Grolier Inc. for $400 million in cash. The acquisition
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Where Manufacturing Meets the Web
Unibex Inc. believes that online buying and selling of industrial products will become the norm once small and midsize firms adopt the practice.The Washington-based
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NEW Blood: FINDING NEW CUSTOMERS DURING A PROSPECTING CRISIS
when Fingerhut Cos. needed to acquire new customers a couple of years ago, it decided on a radical solution. Instead of trying new lists and new media
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Blinded by the Site
We’ve always been keen on the potential of compact discs as a direct marketing medium. A CD is nearly a perfect vehicle: The prospect gets one in the
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BOOK REVIEWS: Two Cult Classics
It’s a Herschell Gordon Lewis fest, with one book by Lewis and the other about him. Besides inspiring a cult following as DIRECT’s very own Curmudgeon-at-Large,
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Darwin Was Right
The Scopes trial was three-quarters of a century ago. Charles Darwin published “The Origin of Species” 66 years before that.Here we are, supposedly evolved
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A `MADE’ AGENCY: Mob Hit
The television trailer for CBS’ Mafia-themed “Falcone” may not have produced a hit show, but it has produced a hit Web site.The spot included a scene