Q&As

To a kid who likes to read, one of the most exciting days of the month at school is when the Scholastic Book Club fliers are distributed. We recently

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute is a nonprofit membership organization in California dedicated to finding signs of life

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has introduced a far-reaching privacy bill that could spell deep trouble for any business that uses so-called personally

I’M GETTING MORE AND MORE STEAMED AT HIT-AND-RUN DIRECT marketers. Who or what are hit-and-runners? They’re the ones who know a couple of action words

HERE’S A STATISTIC THAT PROBABLY SHOULDN’T SURPRISE ANYONE. Of the list companies polled by Direct in its 2006 list use survey (see supplement following

Office Depot has acquired AsiaEC, a large office supplies direct marketer in China.

Neiman Marcus, Inc. posted a net loss of $42 million for the fourth quarter compared to net income of $34.3 million for the same period last year.

Online marketers in Western Europe will sell $97 billion worth of products and services in 2006, a 37% increase over last year, according to market research firm EMarketer.

XL World, a Romanian outsourcing company, plans to hire 200 English-speaking call center employees by November.