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Management Science Associates Inc., Pittsburgh, is producing a set of monthly ferrous scrap pricing index figures that will be distributed by Recycling Today and www.RecyclingToday.com. Read more... Establishing average pricing for recent scrap metal transactions is an often thankless task that has traditionally been tackled by trade publications such as American Metal Market, New York, and other publications covering the metals industry. Read more... Last week's guest on The American Entrepreneur was former Earnst and Young / Inc. "Entrepreneur of the Year" winner Dr. Alfred Kuehn. Dr. Kuehn is the founder and CEO of Management Science Associates (MSA), a company that employs scientific method to analyze the "cause and effect" of various stimuli when applied to media advertising. Read more... The ability to track ad impressions within specific demographics would help both advertisers and broadcasters run their businesses more efficiently. A system that monitors impressions quickly and automatically could be a boon to both sides. Read more... Subscribing to the philosophy that fixing an advertising deal in the middle of the contract is better than repairing it at the end, several cable networks have begun to implement an advertising management software program that should allow them to project the number of impressions an ad will deliver and track whether that forecast exceeds or falls below expectations during the course of the ad's run. Read more... Advertising time is money, and Management Science Associates Inc. of Point Breeze is marketing new software that's aimed at helping cable television networks make more of both. Read more... TRIBUNE-REVIEW - Business briefs Internet Metals Sites Reappear on the Web Management Science Associates Inc. said Monday its Metals Supply Alliances LLC subsidiary has re-launched the MetalSite and ScrapSite Internet metals exchange sites acquired in August. The sites, founded in 1995 as an internal e-commerce division of Weirton Steel Corp., shut down in June after their sponsors, including now bankrupt steel companies Bethlehem and LTV, withdrew their support. MSA, a pioneer in automated database analysis, has packaged MetalSite operations with its own MSA Process Automation Solutions and Services Inc., a steel industry process automation unit. Patrick J. Gallagher, president of MSA MetalSite, said as of Monday morning, 90 items of hot-rolled, cold-rolled and coated-coil products had been placed for sale on the site by JR Metals and Star Metal Sales. Gallagher said he expects most of MetalSite's 150 former participants to return to do business on the site. Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA) of Pittsburgh announced today the re-launching of pioneering metals e-commerce Websites MetalSite and ScrapSite to serve the Steel Industry. Read more... Management Science Associates, Inc., (MSA) Pittsburgh, Tuesday re-launched MetalSite and ScrapSite with two service centers, JR Metals and Stark Metal Sales, already having posted more than 90 items of hot-rolled, cold-rolled and coated products for sale on the site. Read more... Pioneering online metals marketplace MetalSite has been re-launched by its new owner, Point Breeze-based Management Science Associates Inc. Read more... Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Business News Briefs: 10/5/01 A start-up starts up again Jovio Inc., a Downtown software start-up that profiled television viewers to provide targeted advertising but shut down a few weeks ago, is back in business through a joint venture with Management Science Associates Inc. Jovio's 15 employees will merge into the East Liberty headquarters of MSA, an 800-employee data warehousing, business analysis and data management firm. TRIBUNE-REVIEW - Business briefs Management Science Associates Inc. Management Science Associates Inc. has signed a letter of intent with Jovio Inc. to establish a joint venture to offer viewer profiling and targeted advertising delivery services to the cable television industry. MSA technology has long been used in the advertising and broadcasting industries to automate programming, billing and sales functions. Jovio, co-founded in 1999 by Derek Minno, focuses on exposing consumers to advertising they want to see by providing cable content providers with information on consumer's viewing habits on a permission-granted basis. Minno, Jovio's chairman, will serve on the joint venture's board of directors. Jovio's 15 employees will be absorbed into MSA's East Liberty headquarters, where most of its 800 employees work. Jovio Inc. has been restructured as a subsidiary of Management Science Associates Inc. This week the two companies signed a letter of intent to develop products for the media and advertising industries. Read more... Management Science Associates (MSA), which signed a letter of intent to acquire MetalSite and ScrapSite last week, told SteelWEEK that it plans to relaunch the e-commerce sites in September. Read more... Management Science Associates Inc. (MSA), Pittsburgh, signed a letter of intent to purchase the assets of MetalSite Inc., the idle Internet marketplace. Read more... MetalSite and ScrapSite are being purchased by Management Science Associates, a Pittsburgh-based company. Read more... Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA) has signed a letter of intent to purchase the assets of MetalSite, Inc., the on-line e-business pioneer that brought Internet buying and selling to the Steel Industry. Read more... Management Science Associates Inc. (MSA) signed a letter of intent Aug. 22 to purchase the assets of MetalSite Inc., Pittsburgh. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. Read more... Management Science Associates Inc. (MSA), here, has signed a letter of intent to purchase the assets of MetalSite Inc., which includes steel e-commerce pioneer MetalSite as well as offshoot ScrapSite. Read more... Management Science Associates Inc. said yesterday that it would purchase the assets of MetalSite, the steelmaker-funded e-commerce venture that suspended operations in June. Read more... Management Science Associates Inc. has added a second failed Internet start-up company to its stable of businesses, acquiring the assets of MetalSite Inc., a once-promising electronic marketplace for steel, and its scrap steel sister, ScrapSite. Read more... Philadelphia Inquirer - Business news in brief: Internet Capital Group Inc., Wayne, and other creditors signed a letter of intent to sell the assets of MetalSite Inc., an online exchange for the steel industry, to Management Science Associates Inc., of Pittsburgh. Terms were not disclosed. MetalSite suspended operations in June, but Management Science said it expected to begin running the site again this fall. The Pittsburgh firm specializes in process automation. Management Science Associates of Pittsburgh has signed a letter of intent to purchase the assets of MetalSite Inc, which includes steel e-commerce pioneer MetalSite as well as offshoot ScrapSite. Read more... Pittsburgh-based Management Science Associates Inc. said it intends to purchase MetalSite Inc., the pioneering online metals marketplace that had suspended operations in June to reorganize and seek new investors. Read more... Management Science Associates today said it will purchase the assets of MetalSite, the steelmaker-funded e-commerce venture that suspended operations in June. Read more... Management Science Associates, Inc.'s NSNSports Network™ has signed a series of important new agreements including a corporate sponsorship for naming and broadcast rights and broadcast contracts with numerous area radio stations, regional high schools and the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL). Read more... Don Rebel and Jeff Weber didn't have an easy sales job trying to convince someone to help them pull the money-losing NSN Sports Network out of mothballs. Read more... Computer/Communications Management (C/CM), a division of Management Science Associates, Inc., has achieved Wireless LAN Specialization from Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Read more... Management Science Associates, Inc., (MSA) of Pittsburgh and ProSanos™ Corporation of La Jolla, CA, today announced a new strategic alliance to pursue biomedical informatics projects on a national and worldwide basis. Read more... ProSanos and Management Science Associates have entered into a strategic relationship to develop and market biomedical informatics, the companies said Thursday. Read more... Pittsburgh-based Management Science Associates Inc. and a California company plan to work together to develop products and services for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health care industries. Read more... Management Science Associates Inc. officially debuted its New Sports Network May 31 with an Internet broadcast of the first WPIAL championship baseball held at PNC Park. The Mt. Lebanon Blue Devils took on the Franklin Regional Panthers. Read more here about this exciting new venture! Dateline Pittsburgh - Business Notes: Management Science Associates Inc. has been named a participant in the Canadian Health Infostructure Partnerships Program (CHIPP) project to build a telepyschiatry network for use throughout Ontario, Canada (Project Outreach). 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