11 Dec 2000
NEW YORK: Hill & Knowlton has invested in extension11, an Internet company offering e-business, web design, learning tools and communications strategy. Extension 11 will be the agency's ISP, and will bring online solutions 'one step closer to H&K clients,' according to CEO Jason Keller.
11 Dec 2000
| by STEVE LILIENTHAL
WASHINGTON: Consumers used the Internet more than ever to find election news, but the Web sites of the two presidential candidates remained largely ineffectual, a new survey has found.
11 Dec 2000
| by MATTHEW ARNOLD
Specialty wine e-tailer SecretCellars.com has drawn a flurry of press hits with its audacious dot-com bomb contest, which calls on victims of the tech shakeout to submit their tongue-in-cheek sob stories in exchange for a chance to win a dollars 1,500 bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon popular with the...
11 Dec 2000
| by AIMEE GROVE
NEW YORK: Saatchi s two-year-old New York outpost.
11 Dec 2000
The media has always been wary of the press release. Now, it s got a whole lot more to worry about with PR Newswire s introduction of a T button. Short for transaction, this little knob will allow the consumer or investor to go shopping directly from the press release, ordering products or even buying...
11 Dec 2000
It's rare that PR folks want to associate themselves with the word 'flak' with all its connotations of connivance.
04 Dec 2000
| by MATTHEW ARNOLD
WASHINGTON: Reaching out to the online Hispanic community, WorldCom has added a searchable Spanish and English glossary to its Web site with more than 1,000 common hi-tech and Internet-related terms.
04 Dec 2000
| by JULIA HOOD
WASHINGTON: The importance of the Internet for health care communications has been underscored this week by a new report which reveals that 52 million people across the US have used the Web to retrieve health or medical information.
04 Dec 2000
| by MATTHEW ARNOLD
LONDON: Microsoft s much-vaunted Web cast of a rare UK Madonna performance drew plenty of positive press coverage. But it also took plenty of darts as frustrated Web surfers, and at least a few reporters, failed to make the connection.
04 Dec 2000
| by AIMEE GROVE
LOS ANGELES: Less than two months after the agency sold its Manhattan branch to Morgen Walke Associates (PRWeek, October 16), The Terpin Group has lost the charismatic GM of its flagship Los Angeles office to Alexander Ogilvy.