Self-Regulate or Die

| David Kanter

Imagine a world in which no transactional data can be rented or shared without written consent. Sound crazy? Well, it could happen. Last year, over a dozen states considered bills to restrict unsolicited mail and various forms of data sharing.

December Sales Roundup

| MCM staff

Generally speaking, December sales for the publicly traded companies tracked by Multichannel Merchant were all over the place.

BabyUniverse Now The Parent Co.

| Jim Tierney

A year after BabyUniverse, an online marketer of baby/maternity products, merged with toys merchant eToys Direct, the combined company has a new name: The Parent Co.