Laura Rich

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IQ News: Microsoft Finds New Role For Marooned Content Czar

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Embarking on yet another new era in online media, Microsoft has named a new top executive to head up its advertising division, as Steve Goldberg, group manager of strategy and [...]

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IQ News: Insider – Let’s Do Chat

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“Can you just brainstorm with me?” Jonas Heller asks. He’s trying to recall the name of one of Hollywood’s celestial producers of live events (it was Dick Clark.) “I was [...]

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IQ News: A Sticky Web

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Companies wonder: Is online information a legal trap? Advertising is about communicating with the public. Getting across a message that’s been well-crafted, molded and reshaped to deliver that just-so message [...]

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IQ News: Will Box Top Plant Flag On Digital Planet ?

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Digital Planet, a Los Angeles-based new media shop beset by rumors of financial woes, has emerged with a new, high-profile Web client–and a likely new owner. Last week, the firm [...]

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IQ News: Not Quite a Powerhouse Yet, @Home Moonlights as Lab<br clear="none"/>

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Home Network, the high-speed cable access Internet service slowly spreading across the country, may one day be Internet advertising’s biggest outlet. But for now, the service has taken on a [...]

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IQ News: I/Pro Pushes Its System as Ad Accounting Standard<br clear="none"/>

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Internet Profiles Corp., or I/Pro, the online measurement firm which once counted A.C. Nielsen as an investor, hopes to impose an advertising industry standard that conforms with a software product [...]

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IQ News: Poppe, Modem Deny Consolidation Rumors

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Since agency conglomerates BJK&E and True North Communications finally agreed to a merger last month, many in the new media industry have been speculating about the future of the two [...]

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IQ News: New Search Engine Allows Sites To Pay Their Way To Top

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Idealab, an incubator of such new media startups as eToys and CitySearch, is turning the search engine paradigm on its head with the launch of a new site. GoTo.com, unveiled [...]

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IQ News: Grounding Cyberspace

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Web creative types concentrate on the nuts and bolts. In a lab in Salt Lake City, a computer learns by scanning Internet users’ eyes as they watch a flickering screen. [...]

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IQ News: Insider – New Media, 24/7

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David Moore has a true new media pedigree. He spent years in the “new” medium of cable TV, back “when cable wasn’t cool.” He developed Whittle-style special interest TV before [...]