Chief Marketer Staff

• Agencies

  List and Database News

  Finnish Prime Prospects This opt-in e-mail list contains 176,540 individuals taken Ethnic Technologies’ databases. Selections: Age, children, credit, dwelling, gender, income, mail order buyer, occupation, phone number, state/SCF/ZIP Price: $65/M …

• Listline e-Newsletter

  Response Media Products Inc. has assumed management of the Information
  Products Company Impulse Buyers file. Some 1.5 million records from the
  last 12 months are available.

• Interchange Corp. to Acquire Inspire Infrastructure

  Interchange Corp., a paid search services firm, will acquire Inspire Infrastructure 2i AB, a Swedish Internet and wireless local-search technology company, for nearly $22 million in cash and stock.

• Microsoft to Acquire Sybari Software

  Microsoft plans to buy Sybari Software, a company specializing in anti-spam and anti-virus software, for an undisclosed sum

• Judge Sentences NH Phone Jammer to Five Months

  A federal judge in Concord, NH sentenced Allen Raymond, the former president of a Virginia telemarketing service involved in the phone jamming Democratic Party telephone lines during the 2002 election, to five months in jail, fined him $15,600 and ordered him to perform 200 hours of community service

• Soft Catalog Sales Damp Shopsmith’s Quarter

  Shopsmith Inc. reported a third quarter net loss of $27,000 on sales of $3.7 million. The results mark a turnaround from the $24,000 in net income the Dayton, OH-base d marketer generated on $3.6 million in sales a year ago.

• Soft Catalog Sales Damp Shopsmith’s Quarter

   

• Agencies

  E-Channels Take Greater Role in Playboy’s Fortunes

  Playboy Enterprises Inc. reported fourth-quarter net income of $14.5 million, compared to a $6.7 million loss the previous year.

• Earthlink Sues Two Over Spamming

  EarthLink is suing two individuals for allegedly sending out fraudulent and deceptive commercial e-mails in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.

• PacifiCare Taps AAAZa for Asian Advertising

  PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. has chosen Los Angeles-based AAAZa Inc. to handle its Asian American advertising account.