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Walt Disney International Europe and the Buena Vista Internet Group (BVIG) announced Monday that they've promoted two executives to senior posts -- as the company continues its aggressive foray into European e-commerce ventures Andrew Barron was named executive vice-president of new media and business development for Walt Disney International Europ...
As its debut on the stock market approaches, Tunes.com is stepping up efforts to expand its online music offerings. Through a deal with Musicmaker.com (Nasdaq: HITS), Tunes.com plans to offer new digital audio downloads from Musicmaker.com on its Web site. At the same time, Tunes.com has relaunched RollingStone.com with plans to begin selling digital downloads from the music magazine site...
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...
After the beating that most Internet stocks have taken in the last few trading sessions, eBay's (Nasdaq: EBAY) earnings report, released Monday, had a calming effect for investors, but only for a little while The online auction leader beat analysts' estimates by a penny per share on Monday, reporting net income of $5.1 million (US$) or four cents p...
Joining a number of other portals on the Web looking at small businesses as a large market share, Netscape Communications (NYSE: AOL) announced Tuesday that it has developed an online solution for small businesses on its Netscape Small Business Channel The company said it teamed up with Netopia, Inc.(Nasdaq: NTPA) to offer E-Store on its Netscape V...
One thing Wall Street hates is uncertainty. So last week, when companies such as IBM and Microsoft put a damper on their spectacular earnings -- by making statements that they couldn't predict what impact Y2K would have on the rest of the year's earnings -- the stock market nose-dived Particularly hard hit was the Nasdaq, which tumbled 98 points, o...
B2B Explorer, a new search engine aimed at business users, was launched Monday Calling itself an "Internet-based Business Search Engine & Directory," the site is free for users and companies posting information in the directory. Listings include detailed company descriptions, company contact information and a secure e-mail link to a company contact...
Independent online security firm and think tank L0pht Heavy Industries has released an advanced intrusion detection program designed to augment computer network integrity and protect systems against attacks from hackers The product works by alerting users to a hacker/cracker-related or other system compromise. "AntiSniff is a whole new breed of net...
The angels are coming to America Online (Nasdaq: AOL). The Victoria's Secret Angels, that is Victoria's Secret parent company, Intimate Brands, Inc. (NYSE: IBI), announced today that Victoria's Secret will become an anchor tenant in the lingerie department of the apparel commerce centers in the new Shop@AOL, Shop@AOL.com, Shop@CompuServe, and Shop@...
The online community Web site eCircles.com announced Monday that it received an additional $18 million (US$) in private equity financing, topping off a first round financing of $6 million it received back in March The financing package was provided by venture capital firms CMGI (Nasdaq: CMGI), Nexus Group Ltd. and Adobe Systems, which provides the ...
Freeserve, the U.K.'s top Internet-service provider, is poised to make its debut on Wall Street today in an attempt to raise money that could be used to thwart attempts by America Online to become the dominant online player in Great Britain Its parent company, Dixons Group Plc, will reportedly sell about a fifth of Freeserve on the London and Nasda...
America Online announced today the rollout of a new 17 category-specific shopping platform -- the result of years of analyzing its members online shopping behavior The leading online interactive services company said the marketplace would introduce its shopping services in October. The new shopping platform embraces AOL's existing network. Shop@AOL...
When IBM announced its profits soared 65 percent for its second quarter, the company confirmed what most analysts already knew: "Big Blue" has regained its luster -- and then some The world's No.1 computer maker's net income for this quarter rose to $2.39 billion (US$) on revenue of $21.9 billion -- compared to $1.45 billion on revenue of $18.8 bil...
One could forgive the judges of AdWeek IQ's Interactive Marketing Award for being blinded by the glossy luminescence of Victoria's Secret's supermodels. Many American males, after all, have lost their power of deductive reasoning after looking at the lingerie company's skimpy offerings Surely, however, AdWeek IQ will say they were all business when...
House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley's (R-Virginia.) 1999 track record for moving e-commerce friendly bills has two new additions. The committee's Finance and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee passed Bliley's electronic signature and information access acts on Wednesday H.R. 1714, The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce ...
iCorps Technologies launched an array of Linux-related services this week. The services are aimed at small-to-medium-sized businesses and will provide applications development, consulting, installation and support "Linux is a low-cost, stable and secure operating system (OS) that's exploding with growth and being supported by more and more leading ...
In announcing that it will team up with a leading directory of heavy equipment for sale, Online auction house uBid, Inc. (Nasdaq: UBID) is hoping to do for turbines and lathes what eBay did for Beanie Babies and blue porcelain jugs Elk Grove Village, Illinois-based uBid said Friday that it formed an alliance with leading heavy equipment sales direc...
The online auction space became significantly more crowded on Thursday when direct e-commerce company Xoom.com (Nasdaq:XMCM) launched a person-to-person auction service This launch could pose a big threat to leading auction site eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) for two reasons. First of all, Xoom.com already reaches more than 8.8 million members. Second and per...
As House Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee members skeptically questioned the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) approach to privatizing domain name registration Thursday, nearly all of the panelists invited to comment said they back ICANN's activities Network Solutions Inc., which has criticized ICANN's proposal to...
Computer Associates, Inc. (NYSE: CA) issued a barrage of Linux-related announcements from its CA World 1999 conference in New Orleans this week, including the release of the MasterIT e-commerce/Web Management solution The MasterIT product will manage Linux machines running on supported Web servers, including Apache and Netscape. According to a comp...
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