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The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission told Congress Friday the dangers of drugs over the Internet currently outweigh the benefits, thanks to the proliferation of hundreds of unregulated drug retail sites. In testimony before the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, the FDA's Dr. Janet Woodcock said "It is not safe right now to purchase drugs online from a pharmacy that is not a well-known entity."
Microsoft Corp. cried foul last week when America Online gave Bill Gates and Company a taste of its own medicine The dispute flared up when AOL began to electronically block messages from MSN members contacting AOL subscribers using Microsoft's newly launched instant messenger. This angered Microsoft officials, who piously argued that instant messa...
Roberto Cibrian-Campoy, CEO and co-founder of Latin American portal El Sitio International, expects his company to grow six-fold by the year 2002. Judging by the fast track the company is on in recent months, Cibrian-Campoy might just get his wish The recipients of $44 million (US$) in private equity placement last month - one of the largest first-...
One of the Web's fastest-growing networks and a shopping site with over 29,000 merchants announced Thursday that they would form an online partnership, a move that gives both access to an ample supply of resources About.com (Nasdaq: BOUT) -- formerly known as the Mining Co. -- and ShopNow.com said the agreement calls for the shopping site to build ...
High-end brick-and-mortar furniture retailer Ethan Allen Interiors (NYSE: ETH) is doing some redecorating of its own. Today, Ethan Allen announced that it plans to start selling furniture and accessories on its Web site in late September. The company is undergoing an online makeover, with its Web site currently being redesigned "We have been watchi...
Helping parents police their children's Internet surfing may build goodwill for Internet companies, but BrowseSafe.com says it can also build profits. A large group of Internet companies, including ISPs, portal operators, computer and network designers and others, kicked off its Get Net Wise program Thursday morning. Meanwhile, BrowseSafe was trying to drum up business for its PlanetGood Web browser...
With a reach that stretches around the globe and a finger on the pulse of news events from Australia to Alaska, Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY) announced Thursday that it is forming a new global business unit to expand its reach into cyberspace Announcing the formation of New Media International, the British global news service said it intends to pursue In...
Internet domain name registration is getting plenty of attention these days, but it has been primarily focused on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' funding woes and its highly publicized dispute with domain name registrar Network Solutions. Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property found a new reason to examine the Internet domain name controversy: "cyber-squatters."
An avalanche of computer sales sparked by the "Free PC" promotion between America Online and South Korean-owned eMachines is banishing the ordinary seasonal lull experienced by most electronics retailers this time of the year According to Reston, Virginia-based PC Data, computer sales have climbed 35 percent because of the giveaway promotion and ot...
VoraxRD.com calls itself a "supplier of advanced Web-hosting services for international clients," but intends to become a revolutionary in the world of online shopping by the end of the summer The company has focused on putting streaming video to work on the Internet for companies needing to distribute or display video content to a wide audience. W...
With its new online store slated for a grand opening, Payless ShoeSource, Inc. (NYSE: PSS) is hoping that at least some of its future customers put their feet up and let their fingers do the shopping America's largest retail shoe store opened its e-commerce store Wednesday -- later perhaps than most -- but sounding ready to tackle the inherent diff...
More than a year of saber-rattling by members of Congress, who hold the future of the currently unregulated Internet in their hands, has prompted major Internet companies to make yet another move to demonstrate their own voluntary responsibility for what goes on in cyberspace. Widely publicized efforts to protect online privacy was a start, but Thursday morning companies like America Online, Microsoft, Netscape and Yahoo! hope to score major political points with the launch of a new online safety resource for parents...
Riding a wave of positive publicity for its recent efforts in cyberspace, Victoria's Secret parent company, Intimate Brands, Inc. (NYSE: IBI), is encouraging investors to put their money where their compliments are. Intimate Brands launched IBInvest Direct Wednesday, enabling investors to buy stock directly from the company The new service is avail...
Red Hat Software, Inc. has announced the availability of its e-commerce Apache Web server, with encryption capabilities and e-commerce software from Hewlett-Packard, among others "The Red Hat Linux E-Commerce Server is an ideal solution for Internet service providers (ISPs) and small businesses that would rather focus their attention on sales than ...
As analysts have recently pointed out, leading portal site Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) has no problem getting people to come to its site. Now Yahoo! is working toward getting its visitors to stay awhile. Today, Yahoo! announced a deal with online bank Telebank (Nasdaq: TBFC) that will allow Telebank customers to view their account information on Yahoo! T...
With the announcement that both Hearst New Media & Technology and NBC invested in Internet companies, Tuesday was a day for two companies that usually report the news to be in the news A subsidiary of one of the largest diversified media companies in the country, Hearst New Media & Technology announced Tuesday that it was one of four equity backers...
Q Can you tell our readers about the background of your company's involvement with Linux and the open-source movement? A MacMillan has been in what I call the computer book-publishing world since 1983. About 6 or 7 years ago, we formed a group called Macmillan Digital Publishing, and that company was focused on taking a position in the software world, building software products for all types of personal productivity, desktop applications, Palm Pilot add-ons, Office 2000 add-ons, and so on...
Amazon.com may be hemorrhaging red ink, but at the same time the growth of its customer base is exploding. Its number of registered customers grew to 10.7 million from about 3.14 million a year earlier. So despite posting a $138 million (US$) loss last week -- when it reported the results of its second quarter -- its growth strategy is still firmly in place...
internet.com Corp. (Nasdaq: INTM), an e-Business and Internet technology network, announced this week the acquisition of United Kingdom-based Web Developers Journal, adding to its offering of resources for Web design professionals Although terms of the acquisition have not yet been disclosed, the move will supplement internet.com's Web Developer Ch...
Another security hole has been identified on the Internet Information server produced by Microsoft. This one, however, is merely a new exploit of an old vulnerability that many online companies have chosen to ignore, according to Microsoft Microsoft, who originally released a security bulletin in July of 1998, issued an update last week pursuant to...
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