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• Pen portrait

  - 2002-01-04

  Karl Gregory is European marketing director of consumer research at Alta Vista. Prior to this, he was head of marketing and distribution for the UK. He has also worked for Ogilvy & Mather and MindShare.I have found three most unusual combinations in this writer. There is a close attention to...

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• Short View - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article

  - 2000-10-02

  AltaVista announced plans to cut 25 percent of its workforce, hoping to reach profitability by the end of January 2001. AltaVista also plans to move away from competing with media portals and focus on strengthening its Internet search technology. The company, which was acquired last spring by CMGI for $2.3...

  Tags: AltaVista Co., INTERNET, marketing, NBCi, Portals, SEARCH

• Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive to Join Radiate Internet Roundtable

  - 2000-09-21

  Business Editors and High-Tech Writers Radiate Internet Roundtable Leading Content Provider to Participate in Audience Measurement Roundtable with AltaVista, Motorola, MediaMetrix, Nielsen//NetRatings, Inc., OgilvyOne, Arbitron, DoubleClick, PCData, AdForce, Aberdeen Research Group and Radiate MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 21, 2000 Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive WPNI is...

  Tags: AltaVista Co., Arbitron, DoubleClick Inc., Handhelds, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Join, Leadership, MARKETING, Motorola Inc., PDAs, Washington Post Co.

• The Boston Globe High-Tech Sector Report.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-08-28

  Aug. 28--PORTALS: A TEST POSTPONED: A lawsuit against Yahoo Inc. that had been seen as a key test of online anonymity was withdrawn before any formal arguments could be made in court. The suit was brought in May by an Ohio man who said he...

  Tags: AltaVista Co., Boston Globe, identity, MARKETING, WAP, Web, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Yahoo! Inc.

• MSGi Appoints Stephen J. Killeen President

  - 2000-07-12

  Business & High Tech Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--July 12, 2000 Former Alta Vista Executive to Lead MSGi Internet Group and M&A Initiatives Marketing Services Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MSGI), an Internet and integrated marketing services industry leader, today named Stephen J. Killeen, 38, President, effective immediately. In...

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• Boston.com Teams Up With AltaVista; Region's Top News and Information Web Site Forms Alliance With Leading Web Search Site

  - 1999-12-13

  BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 13, 1999-- Boston.com (http://www.boston.com) announced today an alliance with AltaVista, the leading Internet search site at http://www.altavista.com. Joining AltaVista's Syndicated Search Program will enable Boston.com to offer AltaVista's premier search capabilities to its information-seeking users. The AltaVista search box will appear on every page of Boston.com. ...

  Tags: alliance, AltaVista Co., Boston.com, INTERNET, MARKETING, SEARCH, team, Web

• Searching Tricky Company Names.(Dialog, LEXIS-NEXIS, AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Northern Light evaluated)(Evaluation)

  - 1999-09-01

  These days, searchers researching company information must use the Web as well as commercial search services such as Dialog, Dow Jones Reuters, or LEXIS-NEXIS. Often professional searchers find using the commercial services easier and cleaner than the more cumbersome and less familiar Web searches, but both...

  Tags: @Home, AltaVista Co., Dow Jones & Company Inc., Excite Inc., Infoseek Corp., LexisNexis, MARKETING, network, SEARCH, Web

• SmartPortfolio.Com Announces Investment Opinion

  - 1999-06-30

  WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE-- June 30, 1999- SmartPortfolio.Com Announces Market News: A Strong Day Ahead of Fed's Anticipated Rate Hike The following is market news from SmartPortfolio.Com, Inc., located on the web at http://www.smartportfolio.com Stock prices are reflective of June 29, 1999 at 5:00 PM, EST. ...

  Tags: AltaVista Co., Business Wire, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., CMGI Inc., E-mail, Leadership, MARKETING

• The Hyperbolic Tree Moving From `Emerging Technology' to Mainstream

  - 1999-04-05

  PALO ALTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 5, 1999-- AltaVista Company Adopts the Award-Winning Hyperbolic Tree making it available for main stream computer users Inxight Software, Inc., a Xerox (NYSE:XRX) New Enterprise Company, today announced that AltaVista Company is the newest customer of Inxight's Hyperbolic Tree. The...

  Tags: AltaVista Co., Business Wire, INTERNET, Inxight Software, MARKETING, Web, Xerox Corp.

• Centraal Touts Large Altavista Deal, Submits To Ietf

  - 1998-10-08

  Centraal Corp, purveyor of the Real Names system of natural language mappings to domain names, says it will announce an extension of its deal with Compaq Computer Corp's AltaVista unit next month that will double the number of resolutions per day it currently does. RealNames enables users to enter company...

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