Health information Web sites have grown 21% as a category in the past year, according to a recent report from ComScore. For the month of July, ComScore reported that WebMD Health remained the leader within the health information category with approximately 17.3 million visitors.

This Halloween, candy marketers will have to compete with thousands of other tasty products to satisfy consumers' cravings.

PleaseDressMe.com, a new T-shirt search engine, launched on September 1. There is no easy way to search for specific T-shirts on the myriad sites that sell them, said AJ Vaynerchuk, a senior at Boston University who started the site with his brother Gary Vaynerchuk, a wine video blogger; and friend Joe Stump, a lead architect for Digg.com.

Publicis Groupe has acquired Seattle-based digital marketing and events agency PBJS. PBJS was formed about two and a half years ago, following the merger of Insight Creative and Optimobius Inc., and currently employs 26 people. Its clients include Microsoft, AT&T, Intel, Sephora and the Boys & Girls Club of America.

The US Postal Service will require all he US Postal Service will require all bound printed matter (BPM) mailings be paid by permit only as of September 11. Postage payment for all BPM mailings, which include "carrier route, presorted, and non-presorted (single-piece) flats and parcels, regardless of volume," will be limited to permit imprint, the USPS said.

With the goal of creating a better Web experience for users, Google released the beta version of its new open source browser Chrome. "People are doing a lot more online," Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management at Google, said during a webcast press event held today. As the Web has evolved from simple text pages to interactive applications, browsers also need to evolve, he said.

The number of online advertising networks, companies that aggregate and sell advertising inventory on behalf of a group of publishers, has continued to grow in recent years. But is there room in the market for all of them? Experts in the space say maybe.

Google is far from being unseated as the dominant player in the US search market. Accord­ing to ComScore data for July, Google led the core search market with 61.9% of searches conducted in the US.

The Aegis Group plc, the parent company of Aegis Media and Synovate, has reported 8.2% organic revenue growth for the first half of 2008. Due to slowing demand in Spain, the US and the UK, the marketing communications group said its revenue outlook for the second half of 2008 is less certain.

The US Postal Service is seeking public comment on a proposal that would require detached address labels (DALs) accompanying saturation mailings of periodicals or Standard Mail flats to be automation-compatible and barcoded.