MaxWorldwide, Inc., an independent online ad sales company, announced on Friday that it has sold its online ad sales and representation division, MaxOnline, to Focus Interactive, Inc. According to
Mitchell Cannold, President and CEO of MaxWorldwide, the transaction brings together MaxOnline's dynamic sales force and valuable portfolio of advertisers and Web publishers and Focus Interactive's
considerable scale and resources. MaxOnline will be a separate operating subsidiary of Focus Interactive with stand-alone Sales, Marketing, Operations and Business Development groups.