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Myplay, Inc., backed by a $5 million (US$) bankroll from private investors, has launched a site that gives digital music fans access to their favorite tracks without having to carry the music with them Myplay provides Internet-based storage of digital music for access via any device that can be connected to the Web. Web surfers can now use not only...
Earlier this week, when Microsoft Corp. announced that it will employ Ask Jeeves to answer customer questions on a wide range of its applications, the Emeryville, California-based search engine's stock soared By mid-morning on Monday, 1 million shares of Ask Jeeves shares had changed hands -- pumping its price up $11 (US$) a share to about $62.
In a deal that industry observers see as part of an all-out effort by America Online to rapidly grow a struggling subsidiary's subscriber base, CompuServe will now be teamed up with AAA to deliver co-branded Internet service to AAA's 38 million U.S. members While the specific financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, the agreement will begin ...
Poised for a major re-launch later this month by new parent company CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI), global Web directory AltaVista announced today that it has launched a Swedish site The Palo Alto, California-based company said that the Swedish language AltaVista Sverige will provide search capabilities and access to the most current index of Swedish Web site...
Priceline.com, the name-your-price seller of airline tickets and other products, has added mortgage and new car buying services to its Web site The Stamford, Connecticut-based company has licensed its patented business model to Alliance Mortgage Co. and its affiliates as part of the new Pricelinemortgage service.
In a new report released this week, Hambrecht & Quist (NYSE: HQ) Electronic Brokerage Research Analyst Gregory Smith warns online trading companies that the industry's rapid growth, along with the surge of online retailing as a whole, presents "both windfalls and headaches." In "The Electronic Brokerage Industry -- Fasten Your Seatbelts," Smith arg...
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Palm Computing (Nasdaq: COMS) announced today that Nokia will license the Palm Computing Operating System (Palm OS) to run mobile phones that can access the Internet In the deal, Nokia will get a mobile phone operating system that is already widely accepted by application developers and millions of Palm users. In return, 3Com ...
The Debian GNU distribution of the Linux operating system has taken a step closer to bringing the famous "non-commercial" software to a new commercial arena by garnering backing from industry mainstays VA Linux Systems, O'Reilly Associates and SGI, Inc Debian GNU/Linux, heretofore available almost exclusively by way of download from the Internet, w...
Online brokerage Ameritrade (Nasdaq: AMTD) and Sprint PCS, the first carrier to launch nationwide wireless Internet services, announced today that they have formed an alliance that will enable Ameritrade customers to access accounts, place trades and receive stock alerts via Sprint PCS wireless phones The service, which is the first of its kind on ...
According to a research report released yesterday by the Peppers and Rogers Group, Amazon.com and American Airlines have built the largest return customer base on the Internet Rounding out the top five sites surveyed were Biztravel, Charles Schwab and Dell. Overall, financial services was the leading category for sophisticated customer loyalty prog...
Homestore.com (Nasdaq: HOMS) added another member to its family of real estate-related sites today by announcing an agreement to buy Homefair.com from Central Newspapers (NYSE: ECP) for $85 million (US$) The Thousand Oaks, California-based Homestore.com said the acquisition -- which is expected to close in 30 to 60 days -- will give it three of the...
Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) and IBM(NYSE: IBM) announced a global alliance today that places the Excite portal at the fingertips of users of IBM's Aptiva line of personal computers Under the terms of the deal, Excite@Home will be featured as the start page on IBM's keyboard for the Aptiva line, making the portal easily accessible to an unlimited num...
Phone.com (Nasdaq: PHCM), a leading maker of Internet-browsing software for wireless phones, announced yesterday at the Telecom '99 show in Geneva, Switzerland that it has signed an agreement to acquire Apion Ltd. of Belfast, Northern Ireland for $239 million (US$) in stock The Redwood, California-based company said the deal will give it a leading ...
Online postage company Stamps.com (Nasdaq: STMP) announced today that it has formed a marketing and distribution alliance with IBM. The Stamps.com service will now be delivered to the more than one million members of the IBM Owner Privileges Program, which caters to owners of IBM Aptiva PC and Thinkpad i Series systems Stamps.com's service will be ...
Separate industry-wide initiatives led by Sun Microsystems and industry powerhouses Compaq Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: CPQ), Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HWP), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) are seeking to secure online business by collectively creating an industry standard for securing personal computing environments Sun...
Since the advent of online trading ande-commerce, message boards and chat rooms have become havens for those who want to take shots at or float rumors about different companies and their top management Unfortunately, most of the popular investment boards allow these often-ruthless online critics the use of aliases to hide their true identities.
IBM chief executive Louis Gerstner warned an international audience at a meeting of the United Nations-sponsored Telecom '99 that "any customer, or nation, that gets trapped by a closed architecture runs the very real risk of being left behind." The meeting was held Sunday in Geneva, Switzerland.
According to a Frost & Sullivan research report, Internet gambling continues to expand as the U.S. government sits on the sidelines The report, "World Online Gambling Markets," examines the industry for its growth and its vulnerabilities to government regulation and competitive changes.
Web message boards and online news accounts have been filled with possible deals for and by the Redwood City, California-based company, which has 500,000 subscribers throughout the United States and Canada Web message boards and online news accounts have been filled with possible deals for and by the Redwood City, California-based company, which ha...
Internet guru Bill Gross, whose e-commerce successes include eToys, Inc. and GoTo.com, has launched iExchange.com, a site where individuals can sell their stock tips to the public iExchange.com is the latest product of Gross' Internet incubator idealab!, the three-year-old Pasadena, California-based company that has become a factory for Internet st...
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