More Data for Online Shoppers, and Plenty of Pictures, Too (New York Times)Two shopping services, Mpire.com and Slide.com, present new variations on the traditional method of finding items online.

Kanoodle Renames Itself Seevast (RedNova)By Fred O. Williams Kanoodle, the online advertising company founded in Amherst, has acquired a Florida vendor of Web site addresses and renamed itself Seevast. The company has acquired Moniker.com in Pompano Beach for an undisclosed sum, Seevast CEO Lance Podell said Tuesday.

In U.K., online advertising overtakes magazines (CNET)Report says Net moves to fourth-largest display advertising market as media consumption among 16- to 24-year olds shifts.

ClickShift Completes Expansion of Management Team to Drive Company into Next Phase of Growth (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)SAN BRUNO, Calif.—-Aug. 14, 2006–ClickShift, an emerging leader in online advertising optimization, today announced the addition of Eddie Smith, Jeff Goodman, and John Pacholski to the company’s management team.

Business News IN BRIEF: Microsoft Steps Up Online Ad War (RedNova)Microsoft began the latest round of an increasingly bitter war for online advertising with the launch of adCenter, a new facility that the computer giant claimed would enable advertisers to better target their internet marketing efforts.

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