Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. did not violate federal law when it altered its privacy practices to allow the sharing of its customer list with other businesses, the Federal Trade Commission ruled Fridasy, according to Reuters.

Perhaps it was the permeating smell of popcorn, perhaps it was the punchiness associated with the waning hours of a conference, but on Wednesday morning

ImpowerMatch: A centralized database of information about marketers’ consumer data, which can be used to create "sponsored" email offers. Marketers register

Teradata, a division of NCR Corp., Dayton, OH, has launched a suite of seven pre-packaged customer-relationship management industry tools. Each of the

MarketFirst Software Inc. and Grafica.eCRM Corp. have forged a strategic alliance, the two companies announced at the Direct Marketing Days New York conference

Ask Jeeves Inc., Emeryville, CA, has acquired certain key assets of eTour Inc., a direct marketing and Internet company. Etour retains its debt and technology assets. ...

Walter Karl has been selected to manage the Network Solutions file of 4.2 million businesses that have registered a domain name. The list is new to the

A voluntary European Union safe harbor enforcement program is being offered by the Direct Marketing Association. The program, which DMA members may join

Waterfront Living This is a new file of 11,599 last-12-month buyers from the catalog, distributed by Norm Thompson Inc. Waterfront Living offers home

Marketers warn thereÕs a fine line between personalization and privacy