First-quarter revenue at teen products cataloger and marketing services company Alloy (Nasdaq: ALOY) increased 27%.

New York-based apparel cataloger/retailer J. Crew slashed its first-quarter operating loss but nonetheless saw its net loss for the quarter widen.

Citing a $2 million revenue shortfall from products provided to organizations, biotech companies and government agencies developing new drugs, Holliston, MA-based researcher Harvard Bioscience (Nasdaq: HBIO) reported a loss for the first quarter.

San Francisco-based gifts cataloger Red Envelope appointed Edward Schmults senior vice president of operations.

Seattle-based stock photography provider Getty Images said on June 1 that it will sell its photos on Amazon.com. Getty, which got out of the direct response catalog business last year in favor of the Web, plans to offer printed photos of Marilyn Monroe, nature scenes, architecture, and other images for $15-$60 per print, depending their size.

Newport Corp., an Irvine, CA-based manufacturer/marketer of robotics and automation systems, on June 1 agreed to buy Spectra-Physics, the optical technology unit of Waltham, MA-based Thermo Electron Corp., for $300 million.