Alexa Internet, a subsidiary of Amazon.com , which tracks Internet users' surfing patterns, settled on Friday a lawsuit that had challenged its privacy practices.

Consumers are spending more online. Total online sales increased from $3.4 billion in February to $3.5 billion in March, according to the Forrester Research Inc. monthly Online Retail Index. And, the average amount spent per person went up to $263 in March, compared with $248 in February. ...

The world’s three largest advertising and marketing agencies -- London’s WPP Group and New York City-based Interpublic Group of Companies and Omnicom

Businesses will increase their annual spending by nearly 74% in the next three years on data warehousing and business intelligence systems, according

Computer giant IBM, based in Armonk, NY, has acquired the assets of database marketing software developer Informix Software for $1 billion in cash. Once

Bigfoot for Life ALC eManagement is now managing this opt-in e-mail list, which features more than 1.5 million people who registered at the Web site to

A ballyhooed deal between Juno Online Services and TargitMail.com has blown up, resulting in a multi-million dollar lawsuit. ...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit in three U.S. District courts to stop information brokers from fraudulently obtaining consumers' confidential

SPet Industry Totalbase Marketers can reach 67,000 animal-related businesses including pet food, breeding, supply and training companies. The list is

Industry observers saw the decision restricting Trans Union Corp.'s sale of credit-based lists as either the rejection of an argument for corporate First