Stories about: iVillage

Media giant NBC Universal announced Monday that it will pay US$600 million to acquire iVillage, a provider of online content geared for women.

It's been said that people rarely leave bad jobs, but bad bosses. If the only thing that's making you stick around is the lousy economy, read on for some resources for dealing with the micromanager or the supervisor who expects you in the office seven days a week.

If you think you've seen more than the average number of headlines about executives vacating their posts, you're right.

Women may now outnumber men on the Internet, but online entertainment is still a man's world.

The Internet has once again emerged as a critical component in publicising and helping to drive a big consumer issue - this time one of the largest tire recalls in US history.

The old economy proved it's still got some kick Tuesday as the Dow rose 1.01 percent, or 109.88, to close at 10976.89. The increase is broadly the result of stronger-than-predicted second-quarter productivity in the U.S. economy. Analysts had expected a 4.3 percent annual rate and were pleasantly surprised with the actual 5.3 percent result. This news also bodes well for interest-rate watchers, as Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan is unlikely to raise rates now that inflation worries are placated by strong productivity.

Women's network IVillage Inc. will sell assets of its e-commerce business IBaby Inc. to Babygear.com.

The misuse of Web site traffic data in ads by iVillage has erupted into a debate over the proper reporting of ratings data.

Boring. Candice Carpenter wants you to know that the state of her company, iVillage, a women's Web site, is boring. As in, it's executing. As in, it's scaling to profitability. As in, it's exactly where she wants it to be.

Lori Thompson is frustrated with contact management software. It's not that Thompson, the senior vice president of sales at the Keds division of Stride Rite Corp., doesn't recognize the importance of organizing sales calls and client data. It's just this: The fact that her IT department made it available shows its lack of understanding about what salespeople and marketers really need to do their jobs.

With the announcement yesterday that its chief financial officer is quitting, iVillage lost its second high-level executive in the space of just one week.