Marchex (MCHX) has sued two ex-employees for deceptively creating and running competing websites. The pair - Eric Thoreson and Casey Manion - have agreed to pay Marchex $100,000 in legal fees and deactivate their competing sites. The article by the Puget Sound Business Journal explained that the duo “had copied key Marchex computer code and were [...]

Marchex (MCHX), a company already known for its leading local search/advertising network as well as their domain portfolio, has combined Industry Brains and Enhance Interactive to create Marchex Adhere, a new pay-per-click channel that will provide advertisers and agencies with exclusive access to more than 200 premium publishers. Marchex Adhere is primed to compete with Google [...]

Marchex’s (MCHX) business review aggregator OpenList has entered a partnership with Cityloans LLC’s AtlantaLoans.com. The site will be using the OpenList business and business review data on this and other domains. “AtlantaLoans.com allows Atlanta residents, people relocating to Atlanta and others that need to find Atlanta financial service providers quickly and easily” said AJ Martin, the [...]