IQ News: Bits

Entrepreneur magazine (www.entrepreneurmag.com) has reassigned its ad sales account to WebRep, San Francisco, from EdVenture. WebRep now handles 85 percent of Entrepreneur's online inventory. Entrepreneur will retain 15 percent for package deals. Petry Interactive has signed on as sales rep for Web sites Fox News and Universal Pictures. Softbank Interactive Marketing had handled Fox News; WebRep handled Universal. PointCast Japan was scheduled to be launched today. The beta test version will offer a Japanese edition of the PointCast Business Network. Advertisers include IBM Japan and Japanese packaged-good marketer Ajainomoto. Hotmail's free email service will be available at more than 830 Kinko's locations as part of a new distribution deal. The pact allows Kinko's customers access to Hotmail's email, file handling and instant message capabilities as part of Kinko's regular computer usage fee. SportsLine USA is expected to announce Tuesday the launch of a Michael Jordan Web site. Advertisers were not known last week. CompuServe announced details for its new business-oriented Web site called C From CompuServe (www.compuserve.com) last week. The site will have areas for guests, members and subscribers supported by advertising, transactions and subscription fees. Content will include forums and research databases for guests and members. Subscribers, who will pay between $5 and $10 per month, can receive email, voice mail, fax and pager services. ABC Interactive, the software arm of ABC, has launched a Web site to promote its three new CD-ROM games. Designed by Razorfish, New York, www.abcinteractive.com provides gamers a place to purchase the games, download updated versions and engage in multi-player tournaments on the MPath game site. Excite is looking to boost its commerce offerings through the $35 million acquisition of Netbot, makers of shopping-assistant technology Jango. Excite plans to implement Jango within the Excite Shopping Channel this fall. Clarification: A Sept. 22 article in IQ News incorrectly stated the company overseeing General Motors' "GM Buy Power" online car-selling program. Plano, Texas-based Electronic Data Systems, a GM spin-off, has designed the program.wFootaction USA, Irving, Texas, is launching a Web site Nov. 1 replete with sports content, a product catalog and chat. The site, www.footaction.com, is being developed by DDB Interactive, Dallas. Atlanta Internet Bank has selected K2 Design, N.Y., as its interactive agency of record. K2 will handle AIB's $1 million-plus branding campaign due to break later this year. Total Entertainment Network, San Francisco, last week formed a professional online gamers league. Sponsors include 3COM, U.S. Robotics, GTE Internetworking and Logitech. Web audience tracker RelevantKnowledge, Atlanta, announced that Yahoo! was the most visited site in September, with 14.6 million individual visitors. Other top sites include: Netscape, Microsoft, Excite and America Online.

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