Q&As

Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. has unveiled a new media application server platform for small- to medium-sized enterprises.

Travel industry services firm Sabre Holdings has acquired E-site Marketing, an online business offerings firm that serves the hospitality market. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Hearst Magazines and Lowe’s have built a print and online sweepstakes with a different prize pool every week.

Once again, Harry Potter mania is underway. And the publisher of the best-selling series, Scholastic, is out with a sweepstakes that will send the winners to the launch event in London

It took four strangers only 18 hours to locate one another to win a challenge posed by Hyundai.

The Judge in Omega World Travel

Robert Soloway, the man arrested last week for allegedly sending millions of spam e-mails and touting electronic messaging software and services that didn’t work as advertised, deposited more than $1.6 million in various bank accounts from 2003 to 2006—all as the result of spam and fraud, according to an affidavit from the Internal Revenue Service.

Direct marketers and vendors in this sector experienced a 15th consecutive quarter of growth, according to first quarter figures from the Direct Marketing Association’s Quarterly Business Review.

Penguins are making a come back on the big screen this week with Sony Pictures Animation’s film “Surf’s Up.” And Baskin-Robbins, McDonald’s and ConAgra, among others, are backing the film with full-scale marketing programs and promotions.

My WishList, the cyber storefront from American Express, opened its latest e-tail site yesterday