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In an effort to reverse its recent lackluster financial performance, computer services supplier Unisys Corp. (NYSE: UIS), announced yesterday that it will embark upon a three-year plan that will result in more than 50 percent of its sales coming from In making the announcement, company CEO Lawrence Weinbach detailed an Internet-based package of new...
San Francisco, California-based MyWeb, Inc. announced Wednesday that it has forged an agreement with Chinese television channel TVSN China Ltd. to market the TV-based MyWeb Internet service and sell consumer goods advertised on TVSN MyWeb, a TV-based Internet portal available to many Asian countries, plans to sell TVSN's consumer products online, w...
Freeserve Plc, the United Kingdom's largest Internet Service Provider, announced today that it is joining an already-crowded field by launching an online auction site next month The company announced that it is starting a joint venture with U.S.-based Classified Ventures, Inc. and will take an80 percent stake in the venture. Following the classic o...
After a year of fits and starts with its Web strategy, Toys "R" Us has announced partnership agreements with LinkShare, Tutornet.com and employeesavings.com that the company hopes will resurrect its flagging e-commerce efforts The partnerships will launch an affiliate program, deliver tutoring benefits to customers, and offer discounts to the emplo...
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing a bill that would prevent cyber-squatters from holding a company's trademark hostage The bill is a reaction to a spate of occasions where people have tried to extort money from big corporations by registering Web addresses that are similar or identical to their corporate name...
Walgreen Co., the largest drugstore chain in the United States, announced yesterday that it is attempting to keep pace with the rapidly-developing Internet pharmacy market by launching an entirely revamped walgreens.com Web site The new site provides patients with more comprehensive features than its original offering. Among the new options, custom...
Although analysts are predicting a stellar holiday season in the world of e-commerce, e-tailers are nervously waiting to find out if their operation will make the grade or fall by the wayside In a PC Data survey of 5000 Internet users, 26 percent of the respondents said that they already have begun their holiday shopping, indicating that the race h...
Open-source software solutions provider TurboLinux has entered into a strategic support-related alliance with industry titan Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ) The alliance, along with a spate of other deals announced this week, could fuel TurboLinux's thrust into the North American market after establishing a solid base in the Asia/Pacific region.
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), the Web's most-visited e-commerce site, reported a sharp rise in revenues when it announced its third-quarter results after the financial markets closed on Wednesday However, as expected, the company also reported a sharp rise in losses.
Online financial services company E*Trade Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGRP) continued its international push today by announcing that it has taken a 2.26 percent stake in Easdaq, a pan-European stock market for international growth and technology companies The Menlo Park, California-based company did not disclose the price it paid for the stake, but Easda...
Online investment bank Wit Capital (Nasdaq: WITC) announced yesterday that it is partnering with privately held enba, a European online-only financial services company, to launch a European investment banking firm The new firm, to be known as Wit Capital Europe, will be based in Dublin, Ireland and is scheduled to open in early 2000. The partnershi...
Gary Brighten, a GM engineer, logs onto the Williams Controls Web site and goes to the GM-secure area. He clicks to the file he has been working on all week, a CAD program that helps him design the farm equipment part he needs. He finishes the design and sends the program over to the sales department after filling out the online purchase order In f...
As expected, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday that would bar the intentional registration of domain names that are identical to or deceptively similar to a distinctive trademark The practice, known commonly as cyber-squatting, is usually practiced by those who intend to profit by reselling the registered names.
A new study of UK e-commerce has found that 27 percent of those surveyed have purchased goods online and 49 percent have used the Web to compare the prices of goods and services The study, released today by e-commerce consortium CommerceNet and Nielsen Media Research is the first in a series of in-depth studies into the Internet habits of British a...
Open-source software solutions developer Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT) announced yesterday that it will work with Intel's recently-established Internet Service Provider (ISP) Program to foster development through product, service and support offerings Under the terms of the agreement, Intel will include Red Hat's distribution of the Linux operating ...
As one of the pioneering Internet search engines, AltaVista is hoping that a combination of revamping its Web site and a $120 million (US$) ad campaign will be enough to catapult it out in front of Yahoo! and America Online Created in 1995 by Digital Equipment Co., AltaVista was folded into Compaq Computer Corp. as part of the PC giant's 1998 takeo...
Netscape co-founder and recently departed AOL executive Marc Andreessen made his official return to the Web world yesterday by unveiling Loudcloud, Inc., a new venture comprised of what he calls a "dream team" of Net innovators The freewheeling developer left his post as AOL's chief technology officer in September, just seven months after AOL bough...
According to a University of Texas study funded by Cisco Systems, Inc., e-commerce in the U.S. skyrocketed 127 percent from the first quarter of 1998 to the first quarter of 1999 The study, which was released today, also concluded that this unprecedented growth will have a profound effect upon the future of brick-and-mortar businesses.
Drkoop.com, Inc., the Internet healthcare network led by former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, announced today that a record 14.7 million page views for September has made it the Web's most visited health site This volume represents an increase of more than 12 percent from August page views, based on I/PRO's records.
Moving to implement its recently announcede-commerce strategy, Web application platform vendor Allaire Corp. (Nasdaq: ALLR) has announced that its cross-platform Web application server has been updated to run on the Linux open-source operating system (OS). ColdFusion 4.5 -- which features Java integration, service-level failover and enhanced XML support for business-to-businesse-commerce -- is one of the first commercial application servers for Linux, according to Allaire. The product is designed to be a platform for creating e-commerce and enterprise systems.
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