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  St. Paul Venture Capital has sold nearly 2.5 million shares of Select Comfort Corp., a bed and bedding direct marketer and retailer based in Minneapolis.

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  The Direct Marketing Association, seeking to avoid a conflict with the American Catalog Conference, has scheduled its 2004 Direct Marketing Days New York

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  Cox Target Media has promoted Melissa Fisher to the job of senior vice president of marketing and communications. Fisher joined CTM as vice president

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  Search engine company FindWhat.com has promoted Bob Protheroe to vice president of technology at the Fort Myers, FL firm. MDB Communications, Inc., Washington,

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  Rob Weisberg has joined Doner, an advertising agency in Detroit, as senior vice president of customer value management. Michael Harrison comes on board

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  Harte-Hanks Inc. has appointed Chris Stam as managing director, direct marketing for the outbound consumer teleservices operations. He will lead call

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  Direct Response Financial Services Inc. has signed a letter of intent for $1 million with TAIO Investment Ltd., a Canadian private equity investment group.

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  Yahoo Japan Corp. has applied for listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, more than five years after its initial public sale of shares. The company’s market

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  Mindshare Design, an e-mail delivery company in San Francisco, has appointed Bill McGee to the position of vice president of marketing. McGee has been

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  Patriot Communications LLC, a telecommunications service provider in Culver City, CA, has formed a new division to specialize in customer-relationship