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(Promo) A documentary-style video on YouTube marking Neiman Marcus’s 100th anniversary is getting mixed reviews from Web site visitors.

A federal court has upheld what is believed to be the first conviction that included charges under the federal Can Spam Act. The judge denied the requests of the two pornographers convicted in the case, Jeffrey Kilbride and James Schaffer, for an acquittal or a new trial.

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The operators of a invention promotion scheme have been hit with a $61 million judgment, the aggregate harm to consumers, the Federal Trade Commission announced last week.

(Multichannel Merchant) It was definitely the dog days of summer for most publicly traded companies tracked by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT. With few exceptions, August sales increases were scarce or nonexistent.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a scientific instruments firm, has acquired the instrument business of direct marketer Davis Inotek Instruments LLC.

Sharper Image Corp. posted sales of $21.9 million for August, a 34% drop from sales of $33.4 million in the prior year.

Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. reported net sales of $33.9 million for August, a 14.5% increase over $29.6 million in the prior year.

Today we meet Catherine Walli, managing director of Commonwealth Lists, a Fairfax, VA-based list brokerage and management company that specializes in direct mail fundraising.