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- $40 Million Pours into Inktomi - By the end of the day, a flood of investors in the search-engine tech company doubles its per-share price to $36. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12876.html
- 'Free' Long-Distance Calls - A Florida company plans to offer long-distance telephone service at no charge. The catch? You have to sit through advertisements before your call connects. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13140.html
- 'Pokey' Wins His Domain Name - A 12-year-old boy battling with the company that owns the Gumby and Pokey trademarks was saved after the man who first brought those flexible creatures to life stepped in to save pokey.org. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11846.html
- 'Put a Live Face on the Dead Web' - A new crop of software aims to make the Web truly interactive. It lets customer service reps guide shoppers through sites in real time and answer questions via chat. As a new player unveils its stuff on Monday, analysts say the field is bound to grow like wildfire. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11887.html
- 3Com Down, But Not Out - Its earnings fall from a year ago, but not as much as analysts expected. Good news, since the results come during the firm's weak summer months. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15159.html
- 3Com Earnings Rise - The network equipment-maker's fourth-quarter profit rose 52 percent, matching Wall Street estimates. But the company warned of flat sales in the first quarter. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13250.html
- 3Com Hires a COO - The networking equipment maker creates a new post and hires a former DEC exec to help out the company's CEO. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13762.html
- 3Com May Sue Microsoft over Product Name - The makers of the PalmPilot personal information manager say the name Microsoft has chosen for its forthcoming handheld PC device is a little too close to its own. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9543.html
- 3Com, Siemens Muscle Up - The data communications company teams up with the German giant to make a grab for a healthy chunk of the digital voice-communications market. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16740.html
- @Home Feels At Home With TCI - In swinging a deal to become the email provider for users of the cable company's 11 million set-top boxes, @Home hopes to gain entree for its high-speed data service. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10503.html
- @Home Loss Narrows - The firm's loss is more than what Wall Street expected. But revenues and subscribers increased in line with estimates. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13754.html
- @Home Stakes Out Its Turf - Its traffic may be teeny-weeny compared to that of Web directories like Yahoo, but the advantage of fat pipes gives the Net-access-over-cable company a foothold in the current competition for marketing dollars. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11936.html
- A Financier, the Net, the Hyping of a Penny Stock - Little is known about a small company called Zulu-Tek - except that it has managed the purchase of Net advertising firm Softbank Interactive Marketing and suggests, ever so carefully, that it might be a hot stock buy. Is it a scheme? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10608.html
- A Fish Out of Water - Zapata, the fish-processing company, is expanding its line of business, announcing plans to buy or invest in 21 other Web companies. It's not joking, and Wall Street isn't laughing. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13472.html
- A Fistful of Deals for RealNetworks - The leader in streaming media software danced into the National Association of Broadcasters' convention this week waving a sheaf of contracts with major media companies. The intended message is clear: Streaming is here. [Wired News]
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- A Nasdaq for Bandwidth - The bit-haggling found on the Web today could become the economic exchange of tomorrow. [Wired News]
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- A New Tool Chest for RealNetworks - By acquiring Vivo Software, the leader in streaming video hopes to fortify its clout with content providers. [Wired News]
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- A Portal in Every Pot - Netcenter wants businesses to use its new software to create personal portals when building their Web prescence. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
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- A Set-Top Win for Network Computer - Providing software to the set-top boxes Cable & Wireless will deploy in 50 countries is a nice feather for the Oracle subsidiary to tuck in its cap. [Wired News]
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- ACLU Dream Job: Use the Net to Save the Government - Make friends. Organize activists. Protect US civil liberties. Jam your congressman's fax machine. [Wired News]
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- Ad Firm Founders Sue Softbank, ZD - Four founders and former executives of Softbank Interactive Marketing claim sabotage by parent company Softbank Holdings and subterfuge in the sale to Zulu-Tek. The suit seeks US$200 million in damages. [Wired News]
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- Adobe Surges on Quark - Based on current information, Quark has little chance of pulling off a US$2 billion Adobe acquisition, analysts say. But Adobe's stock soars anyway. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
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- Advanced Fibre Shares Plunge - The stock of the telecom equipment maker dropped 52 percent after the company announced that its CEO resigned and that earnings would be below expectations. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
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- Air Strikes May Delay Globalstar - Strained negotiations between the United States and Russia just got frostier, and may keep the satellite phone company on terra firma even longer. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16924.html
- Al-Waleed's Princely Sums - Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal's US$200 million stake in Teledesic is just the latest of the multimillion-dollar investments he's made in tech companies like Apple, Netscape, and Motorola -- and he's had some surprising results. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11680.html
- Alcatel Buys Packet Engines - Alcatel buys a Gigabit Ethernet gearmaker for US$315 million, lengthening the list of telco equipment makers buying their way into the computer networking market. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15583.html
- All Is Not A-OK on Y2K - Fresh data from the leading Year 2000 researcher doesn't exactly scream the news, but the odds that businesses worldwide will make it into the next millennium without a bug bite aren't good. By Pete Danko. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14244.html
- Amazon Earnings Extravaganza - The world's biggest online bookseller reports record revenues and a loss lower than Wall Street expected. Oh, and it's also the world's biggest online music store now. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
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- Amazon Goes Ape - Think Amazon.com's stock is too expensive? A CIBC Oppenheimer analyst says the stock's going to US$400. By the way, Oppenheimer wants Amazon's banking business. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16869.html
- Amazon Lands Wal-Martian - The No. 1 online bookseller hires another former Wal-Mart exec to deal with its ever-expanding logistical operations. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13777.html
- Amazon Loss Widens, Sales Soar - The poster child of ecommerce didn't disappoint. It racked up second-quarter revenues of US$116 million and lost less money than Wall Street expected. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
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- Amazon's Not Just a Bookworm - The online bookseller saw its stock sail up by 15 percent on Tuesday, as it pushed aside its bookbag for a minute to look into music and video sales. [Wired News]
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- Amazon: We Got the Beat - The darling of online booksellers starts offering 100,000 CDs today, but Internet music vendors CDnow and N2K say they're not worried. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12901.html
- AMD: Profits Around Corner - Advanced Micro Devices says its K6 II chip sales are picking up and should help the company get into the black by the fourth quarter. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
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- Ameritech Hit with Injunction - The FCC wants the Baby Bell to stop enrolling customers in a long-distance program it offers with Qwest, until it figures out if such marketing agreements violate telecommunication law. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13381.html
- Ameritech, SBC Defend Merger - Company officials say their plan to create a global telecom powerhouse would benefit consumers, a claim challenged by AT T and others at a hearing on the deal. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
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- Amex-Nasdaq: When Opposites Attract - The maybe-merger between the traditional American Stock Exchange and the virtual trading floor of Nasdaq shows signs of becoming a statistic in the trend toward replacing aggressive trading pits with faceless electronics. [Wired News]
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- AMP Cuts 3,500 Jobs - The world's biggest supplier of electric and electronic connectors will eliminate the jobs through firings, attrition, and early retirement in an effort to streamline its business. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
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- Amusement Acquisition: a Kodak Moment - The imaging giant swallowed up a couple of companies that make photographic systems to capture you in that moment of giddy surrender on theme park rides. But be serious, for Kodak it's all about distribution. [Wired News]
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- An Apple for Under $1,000? - With Cupertino making noises about trying to retake the home consumer market, word on the street is that a three-figure Macintosh isn't far away. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11991.html
- An Education in Consolidation - After a school year of acquisitions, some 60 percent of the edu-software market is now in two companies' hands, and critics complain that innovation is being lost to consolidation. [Wired News]
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- An NC in Every Apartment, Really - As part of a new job training program put together by the city of Oakland and IBM, residents at a public housing project will get computer skills training - and their own network computer. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10059.html
- Andreessen Invests in Replay - Netscape's co-founder puts his bucks into a company that he hopes will make the equivalent of a browser for television. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16140.html
- Another Net IPO Shines - DoubleClick is the latest in a wave of Internet companies to go public with a bang. Behind the warm reception, analysts say, is a combination of good timing, truly attractive properties, and investor savvy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10458.html
- Another Try at Auctioning Ad Leftovers - After the demise of Adbot, a new company - Adauction - is giving online ad auctions a go. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10431.html
- Antitrust Wonks Ponder Microsoft - Consumer advocates, think tank types, and lawyers meet in Seattle to decide how best to apply existing antitrust laws to the high-tech industry, particularly poster child Microsoft. By Arik Hesseldahl. [Wired News]
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- AOL Gets Tough With Spammers - In a warning to those who would give America Online a dirty name, Steve Case unveiled the online service provider's list of its top 10 most-wanted spammers - the firms that just keep sending junk email after being asked not to. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10752.html
- AOL Cagey About Blackout - The online-service giant admitted to knowing why an electrical system malfunctioned at its Virginia facilities, but refused to say more about the outage Monday night that kept its 11 million members off the Internet for hours. [Wired News]
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- AOL Confirms Netscape Talks - America Online confirmed Monday morning that it is in advanced negotiations to acquire Netscape. The deal could be worth between US$4 and $5 billion. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]
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- AOL Earnings, At Last - Two months after releasing an incomplete report, AOL finally reveals its fourth-quarter net income after settling an accounting issue with regulators. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
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- AOL Faces Fresh Class Action Suit - A pair of law firms have been given the green light to move ahead with a complaint that has been on hold since last year, charging America Online with causing damage to commercial users during its much-publicized busy-signal period. [Wired News]
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- AOL Farms Out Content - Firmly denying that last week's AOL Studios reorganization is at all related, America Online announced beefy partnerships with Intuit and E Online. [Wired News]
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- AOL Files Fresh Suit to Stop Mailbox Stuffing - The world's biggest online service provider challenges spammers who wouldn't take no for an answer. [Wired News]
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- AOL Fills Its War Chest - The online pillar may use US$500 million from a new stock offering to acquire more technology and content to keep up in the portal race. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
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- AOL on Its Knees - America Online, the dork at the back of the online class, throws money at Netscapers to keep them from going to hipper playgrounds. Some like the pitch. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
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- AOL Opens Door to Poachers - In the wake of the online service provider's decision to raise its monthly fees to US$2 above the industry's standard $19.95, ISPs launch marketing campaigns to lure America Online "graduates." [Wired News]
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- AOL Profit Multiplies by 10 - The online bellwether stock reports fourth-quarter earnings that were better than Wall Street expected. Its subscribers keep coming. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14226.html
- AOL Profit Triples - The world's biggest online service says strong membership growth, lots of new advertising, and e-commerce deals account for the big jump. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15872.html
- AOL Releases Earnings; Grabs TV - The online service announced better-than-expected earnings as well as the purchase of Internet TV company NetChannel. [Wired News]
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- AOL Revamps CompuServe - The rollout of a simplified service and Web-friendly features aims to stem the flow of customers from the once-premier online service. It's also another step in the integration of CompuServe's business-user subscriber base into AOL's multi-brand strategy. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13323.html
- AOL Settles With States - AOL said it has reached an agreement with 44 state attorneys general to pay $2.6 million in legal costs while promising in the future to give advanced notice of any price increases or substantial service changes. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12579.html
- AOL Stock Soars on Price Hike - America Online's share price jumped US$10 as the online service provider announced a $2 increase to its monthly fee - a move that could bring in well over $200 million annually. But analysts say the time may be ripe for competitors to start carving into AOL's market. [Wired News]
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- AOL Strategy Befuddles Analysts - The sprawling online service reveals its plan to lure corporate customers. But can it shake the image of a consumer-focused operation with an unreliable track record? [Wired News]
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- AOL Suits Embrace Netscape Geeks - Netscape's co-founder says his company has lessons to learn from its new owners. AOL, meanwhile, is going to the dogs. By James Glave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16598.html
- AOL Takes a New Euro Spin - In step one of a bridge-building strategy geared to strengthen connections between the American company and its European customers, AOL Europe partners with music distributor N2K. [Wired News]
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- AOL to Move into Community - The world's largest online service will enter the homepage-publishing business later this month. Analysts say it's a boon to community property values. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13678.html
- AOL's Real Estate Center 'Nothing New' - Looking to pretty up its offering in the virtual home buyers market, America Online boasts of a new house listing and mortgage service. But it doesn't look too different from its predecessor - or that of competitors. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11112.html
- AOL, Other Techs Jump - All it takes for tech stocks to rise is a fat, juicy acquisition. Microsoftie Paul Allen sets off today's rally. The Wired Index gains 12.56 to 440.77. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
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- AOL, the New Heavyweight - With Netscape, AOL would become the undisputed king of online communication and software. Suddenly, Microsoft looks like an underdog. By Craig Bicknell and Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16436.html
- AOL: Who Needs a Browser? - In shelling out as much as US$400 million for Mirabilis Ltd. and its ICQ instant-messaging software, the online service buys a Net portal that works without Microsoft or Netscape software. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12839.html
- Apple Bets the Farm on CompUSA - Cupertino took a hit from Wall Street on Tuesday as it announced that it was discontinuing its presence in all but one major retail chain. [Wired News]
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- Apple Dumps Newton - After a year of trying and failing to find a buyer for its sophisticated and expensive handheld, the company says it will cease development on the product line. [Wired News]
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- Apple Leaves Newton Bidder Bobbing - Though Apple claims it would sell for the right price, Planet Computing says Cupertino has simply not responded to its second, beefier offer to buy the Newton operating system for handheld computers. [Wired News]
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- Apple Pulls Plug on Sick Kids' Site - To cut costs, Apple killed an in-house project to help children with life-threatening diseases get connected. When ex-employees tried to keep the site going, Apple's lawyers swooped in. [Wired News]
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- Apple Reports Full-Year Profit - The struggling computer maker blew away analysts' earnings estimates, thanks to improved operations and new product sales. Is the Apple deathwatch over? By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
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- Apple Reports Solid Profit - The revived computer maker reported results that far exceeded Wall Street forecasts. What's more, Apple says things will get even better in coming quarters. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
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- Apple's Reseller Pie Sliced Twice - Apple has once again cut back its reseller channel after evaluating vendors and weeding out all but its most loyal. Some diehard fans are groaning, but most analysts applaud the move. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12494.html
- Are Iomega's Woes Just Growing Pains? - While it makes its way through at least four lawsuits, the maker of Zip and Jaz drives is on a mega-advertising blitz - and still gets a good word from analysts. [Wired News]
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- Are Local Phone Markets Finally Open? - After Qwest's two long-distance pacts met with legal action, WorldCom's announcement that it was beginning nationwide local phone service was greeted not with a lawsuit, but with open arms. [Wired News]
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- As the Macworld Spins ... - What can the star of the Apple soap opera say to keep the faithful faithful? [Wired News]
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- As The Well Turns: Wilhelm Exits - After a long search for the right investor, Maria Wilhelm has come up emptyhanded. Now she's headed back to the world of new-media consulting. [Wired News]
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- Ascend CEO Selling Shares - Ascend's CEO is ready to sell US$4.7 million of his company's stock, just as reports surface that the company is about to buy Stratus Computer. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14171.html
- Ascend to Buy Stratus - The US$822 million takeover will give Ascend the technology it needs to become a powerhouse in the telephone network gear business. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14190.html
- Asia Concerns Hammer Techs - H-P and Computer Associates said sales will slow because of Asia's troubles. Investors listened and dumped tech stocks, dragging the Wired Index down 2.75 to 450.94. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13917.html
- Asian Concerns Drag Stocks - Russian markets stabilize, but traders once again focus on Asia's economic troubles, which could hurt US profits. The Wired Index falls 3.92 points to 403.85. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14441.html
- At Home Buys Into 'Rich Media' - The cable Internet access provider buys Narrative Communications, makers of high-bandwidth online ads that jump, buzz, and whistle for your attention. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16916.html
- AT&T Buys Cable Phone Gear - AT&T signs a contract to buy US$900 million worth of cable telephony equipment, as it starts to prepare TCI's network to carry local phone calls. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15925.html
- AT&T Buys TCI - The US$48 billion purchase of TCI would give AT T instant entry into the $100-billion local phone service business. But plenty of technical issues remain. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13234.html
- AT&T Earnings Excel - The biggest US phone company says a surge in revenue from data and wireless services helped offset slowing sales from its core long-distance business. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15829.html
- AT&T Expands IP Business - The biggest long-distance carrier reveals its faith in IP telephony with a series of new initiatives that could benefit the entire industry. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15505.html
- AT&T Eyes IBM's Network - AT&T is in talks to purchase IBM's Global Network business unit, a deal that would boost AT T's corporate customer base and eliminate a competitor in one shot. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15338.html
- AT&T Opens One-Stop IP Shop - To help grow its own Internet protocol telephony business, the telco titan is offering assistance to ISPs anxious to get into telephony with a new program. It's starting in Asia, but has global intentions. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11407.html
- AT&T Plots with Time Warner - The biggest US telephone company reportedly wants to use Time Warner's cable wires for local phone service. Add that to TCI's cable network, and AT T could scare the Baby Bells. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15775.html
- AT&T to Buy Vanguard - In a bid to boost its cellular reach on the East Coast, Ma Bell agrees to spend US$1.5 billion for Vanguard Cellular Systems. Smart move, say analysts. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15419.html
- AT&T Ups Wireless Investment - Want to know which markets AT T is counting on to help it offset its dwindling long-distance profits? Follow the money. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15803.html
- AtHome: Broadband Ads Are Boss - Banner ads bite, says cable Internet access provider AtHome. The company hopes a new study will prove its flashy, broadband ads are the future of advertising on the Web. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14872.html
- Auction Universe: Sold! - The online auctioneer will be sold to Classified Ventures, a company set up by a group of newspapers to pursue classified advertising on the Internet. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16179.html
- Aussie Bourse to the Y2K Rescue - The Australian Stock Exchange offers Asian companies a place to trade their stock, just in case their home-country exchange melts on New Year's Day 2000. By Stewart Taggart. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15542.html
- Axent Buys Security Consultant - The computer security provider will beef up its software business with consulting to fend off bigger rivals. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14588.html
- Bamboozled for the Holidays - Online shoppers beware: That Chanel bag may be a cheap knock-off with a fancy logo. Then again, it may be the real thing at half the price. By Judy DeMocker. [Wired News]
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- Bankers: Prepared for a Panic? - From bank runs to power failures to inventory shortages, banking-industry insiders ponder worst-case scenarios at a White House Y2K summit. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]
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- Banking on the Java of E-Payment Systems - Some 30 companies that sell electronic payment services are working on a cross-platform protocol that will allow all digital wallets and cyber cash registers to talk to each other. [Wired News]
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- Banks Bullish on Y2K - The Federal Reserve is stockpiling cash, but that doesn't mean consumers should follow suit, say US banks. By Spencer E. Ante. [Wired News]
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- Barbie Gets Some Education - Mattel, maker of the girliest of girlie dolls, said it will acquire The Learning Company for about US$3.8 billion. But Mattel's fourth quarter will be worse than expected. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
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- Barnes & Noble and Borders Sued by Booksellers - The American Book Association and 23 independent bookstores filed suit against the two companies in US District Court in Northern California, alleging unfair business practices. [Wired News]
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- Barnesandnoble.com to Go Public - Bookseller Barnes Noble says it will take up to 20 percent of its online operation public, raising cash to fuel its battle with Amazon.com. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14543.html
- Bay Shareholders Sue Nortel - A class-action lawsuit alleges that Nortel withheld news about its financial woes until after it bought Bay Networks in order to prop up its stock price. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15633.html
- Be Free for a Fee - A little-known company gets a patent for targeted online advertising. Could it become the toll taker of the billion-dollar online-ad business? By Craig Bicknell [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16691.html
- Be Inc. in with Hitachi, Intel - Be gets its software onto high-end Hitachi workstations, and gets more money from Intel. Analysts say Be could become a strong niche player. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16251.html
- Bell Atlantic Chair Moves On - Ray Smith plans to leave by year's end, which will put CEO Ivan Seidenberg in charge of the Baby Bell as it fights to become a digital communications powerhouse. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15903.html
- Bell Atlantic to Buy GTE - Bell Atlantic, one of the most aggressive local phone companies, will try to buy GTE for US$67 billion in stock and debt. But not without a fight from regulators. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14070.html
- Bell Atlantic to Launch DSL - The phone company is expected to announce a major -- and long-awaited -- DSL rollout on Monday in a move to gain ground in the high-speed Internet access market. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15399.html
- Betting on (A Little) Interactivity - Wink Communications sends its interactive TV show south, as cable subscribers in Tennessee and Virginia become the first US guinea pigs for interactive TV. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12051.html
- Beware of Deadbeat Dealers - Consumers claim online auctioneers should do more to guarantee their transactions. The auctioneers say they're doing enough. Regulators and lawyers are watching developments. By Arik Hesseldahl. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15161.html
- Bianca's Fish Meal Shack - Zapata, the fish processor-turned-portal player, agreed to buy Bianca's Smut Shack, one of the Web's first erotic forums. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13780.html
- Big Blue Stock Drops on Report - IBM's stock dropped two points today on one analyst's bleaker-than-previous outlook for the company. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13034.html
- Big Companies to Call Over Net - The world's biggest companies will soon begin making business calls over the Net, says a new study. That's good news for companies who've bet billions on networks for Net calls. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15891.html
- Big Internet Deal Saves Tech - Cable & Wireless is reportedly close to buying MCI's Internet operations, which would clear the path for WorldCom's bid for MCI. That was good news for telecom stocks. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13701.html
- Big Internet Deal Saves Tech - Cable & Wireless is reportedly close to buying MCI's Internet operations, which would clear the path for Worldcom's bid for MCI. That was good news for telecom stocks. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13705.html
- BigBook Sells Its Name to GTE - Mum's the word from the online yellow-pages firm, but folks at GTE say the company has sold its domain name and trademark and will now focus on sales, rather than publishing. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11584.html
- Biggest Bank to Toy with Tech Underwriters - A merger between BankAmerica and NationsBank will also bring together investment firms Robertson Stephens and Montgomery Securities -- and cause a few ripples in the competitive tech-underwriting pond. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11700.html
- Biometrics Standards in Works - Tech titans like IBM, Microsoft, and Compaq are teaming up to speed the way to that day when passwords will become obsolete and electronic systems recognize our fingerprints, faces, and retinas. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11937.html
- Boob Tube or Geek Box? - As technologies emerge around the vision of a networked digital domicile, TV and PC proponents compete to be at the center of it all. Not surprisingly, Microsoft is covering both bases, as evidenced by a pair of announcements this week. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11566.html
- Booksellers Fear a Monopoly - Barnes Noble's planned purchase of book-distributor Ingram would give the firm a major boost in the industry. That's got rivals a little concerned. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16111.html
- Borders Online Opens This Week? - The Borders Group hinted that its online bookstore would open this week, but declined to discuss it in detail. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12100.html
- Borders Online Opens This Week? - The Borders Group hinted that its online bookstore would open this week, but declined to discuss it in detail. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12094.html
- Boys and Girls, Separate Doors - The number of women online is surging, and -- guess what? -- they don't use the Internet the same way that men do. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16352.html
- Branding .com - Network Solutions is simplifying domain name registration to draw new customers. But does it have the right to lay claim to the .com domain? By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12383.html
- Brazil OKs Telebras Privatization - The country's Supreme Court has ruled that a shareholders' meeting held to approve the break-up of Telebras was legal, clearing aside a challenge to the US$11.7 billion privatization plan. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13608.html
- Brazil's Telco Grabbag - Some of the world's biggest telephone companies buy pieces of Telebras, the state-owned Brazilian phone company. In return, Brazil gets a US$19 billion windfall. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14107.html
- Brazil's Telco Samba - The privatization of Brazil's state-owned telephone company, Telebras, is creating a giddy chaos for investors, politicians, and consumers -- just what you'd expect from the creators of Carnaval. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13525.html
- Brewing Battle Over Net Calls - ICG says it won't comply with BellSouth's new plan to levy access charges on Internet telephony service providers -- a tiff that could make the FCC weigh in. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14933.html
- British Telecom Builds on MCI - After realizing a US$1.8 billion profit from its investment in MCI/Worldcom, British Telecom will combine MCI's Concert business unit with an existing AT T partnership. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16214.html
- Broadcast.com Wows Wall Street - The Internet news and entertainment broadcaster could become a cyber-CBS, making its issue the hottest IPO of the year. But slow modems could hinder its growth for years to come. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13813.html
- Broadcom Makes a Big Splash - The future looks bright for the maker of chips used in cable modems, whose two-day-old stock has shot through the roof. But a slew of competitors coming down the pike could upset the upstart's head start. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11769.html
- Broderbund Acquired - The Learning Company agrees to pay US$420 million for Broderbund Software, the maker of popular games such as Myst and Riven. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13163.html
- Brokers Fight for Equal Rights - As the proposed merger between the American Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq moves forward, Amex floor brokers argue for a system that treats human and electronic traders equally. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11076.html
- BT Eyeing Deal with Qwest? - Investors push Qwest shares higher on rumors that British Telecommunications is considering a marketing agreement with the Denver firm. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13793.html
- Buddy, You're a Rival Now - The bottom line in Yahoo's jilting search partner AltaVista in favor of Inktomi: AltaVista's business too closely resembles Yahoo's portal enterprise. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12408.html
- Building Jets, Virtually - Battling with Boeing to win a US government contract for a new fighter jet, Lockheed Martin turns to networked collaborative engineering and virtual prototypes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10005.html
- Buy.com Wants Your E-Bucks - Online computer retailer Buycomp.com relaunches under a new moniker, hoping to become the single portal to retail sales on the Web. Polly Sprenger reports from Las Vegas. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16297.html
- CA Hit with Class-Action Suit - Lawyers sue on behalf of shareholders who lost out on Computer Associates' stock plunge Wednesday. The suit alleges CA misrepresented its business prospects. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14000.html
- Cable Comes Calling in LA - MediaOne will begin offering local telephone service, via cable, in Los Angeles. It's not Net telephony, but it offers another vision of the future, one in which local phone competition brings down rates. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11659.html
- Cable: Paul Allen's Biggest Investment Yet - The ex-Microsoftian billionaire lays US$2.8 billion on the line for his vision of a "connected future," through his acquisition Monday of Marcus Cable. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11492.html
- Calling all ISPs - IP telephony clearinghouses are cropping up to help ISPs expand their Internet calling services to cities around the world. By Claudia Graziano. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15536.html
- Can Big Tech and Telcos Get Along? - The push toward DSL technology will test the ability of Internet service providers and telephone companies to work together for their common good. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9935.html
- Canada's New Telco Titan - Mark this name: Charles Sirois. Canada's most aggressive entrepreneur and Teleglobe CEO orchestrated the US$3.2 billion purchase of Excel Communications. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12997.html
- Catching a Falling Globalstar - The satellite phone consortium's CEO says friction between the United States and Russia won't delay any future launches. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16613.html
- CDnow Goes to Market - The leading online music retailer has gone public. While analysts raise questions about the company's future, they agree that there's no better time than the present for a trip to Wall Street. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10211.html
- CDnow Goes to Market - The leading online music retailer has gone public. While analysts raise questions about the company's future, they agree that there's no better time than the present for a trip to Wall Street. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10233.html
- CDnow, N2K Make Merger Music - The two companies have spent millions fighting each other. Now they may join forces to take on new rivals like Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15477.html
- Changes Loom for Web Sports Rights - Television networks have long engaged in fierce bidding wars for the broadcast rights to the Super Bowl and other cash cows of sports. Is the same in store for the Web? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9694.html
- Cheaper CD Recorders, Pricier Discs - With sub-US$1,000 CD players comes a new breed of blank CD - a more expensive one. Discs for consumers are selling at two to three times what discs for professional CD recorders cost. It's meant to assuage the recording industry and its fear of royalty rip-offs. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9963.html
- Ciena Smells a Conspiracy - The telecom equipment company suspects sabotage in its recently called-off merger with Tellabs, and may have evidence that points to rival Lucent Technologies. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15058.html
- Ciena, Tellabs Cancel Merger - Tellabs scuttles its US$4.7 billion plan to acquire Ciena as Ciena's future dims. Both companies contemplate their future without each other. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15010.html
- Cisco Beats Estimates, Again - Once again, the computer networking power beats Wall Street's quarterly earning estimates. Cisco ties its growth to the proliferation of the Internet. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16056.html
- Cisco Beats Profit Consensus - The king of networking says earnings for the quarter rose 37 percent, better than Wall Street forecasts. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14227.html
- Cisco Buys More Net Telephony - The world's biggest networking company will buy Summa Four's expertise in making programmable switches that send voice calls over the Internet. By Craig Bicknell [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14050.html
- Cisco Countersues Lucent - Cisco says Lucent is misappropriating 11 of its patents relating to computer networking, in a ploy to get back at Lucent for its own claims of patent infringement. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14340.html
- Cisco Faces FTC Investigation - The FTC is investigating whether Cisco tried to divvy up the networking-equipment market with its rivals. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15430.html
- Citibanking on Netcenter - Netscape signs up Citibank as top sponsor of its Netcenter personal finance channel. It's Netscape's highest-profile move yet to beef up its Internet site. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14365.html
- CitySearch Joins Ticketmaster - CitySearch nixes its IPO. Instead, it agrees to merge with a Ticketmaster unit to create an online ticketing and entertainment guide valued at about US$700 million. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14405.html
- CitySearch, Zip2 Join Forces - A merger of two major players in the online city guide scene pushes the crowded area one step closer toward deciding upon a leader. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11491.html
- CitySearching for Profits - CitySearch may be an Internet company, but it's no Yahoo. It faces a long, hard slog to turn a profit -- something for IPO investors to keep in mind. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14354.html
- Clinton Net Draw Big, Not Huge - Broadcast.com gets a surge in traffic from Clinton's video, but not the tidal wave the Net saw 10 days ago. Still, lots of people may get turned on to streaming video from this, company says. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15125.html
- CMP Media Cuts 85 Jobs - The third largest tech publisher, facing slowing ad sales, fired 50 workers and will leave 35 vacant slots open. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13669.html
- CMP Media Cutting Jobs - The No. 3 tech magazine publisher could announce up to 200 job cuts on Monday, according to people close to the company. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13646.html
- CMP Sheds Its 'HomePC' Consumer Mag - Imagine Media snaps the title up, paying "some money" and offering CMP 1 percent of Imagine stock. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11438.html
- CNET and Bloomberg Join Forces - Financial and tech news junkies Michael Bloomberg and Halsey Minor held a New York press conference this morning to announce the start of something new: a co-branded financial news service. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10065.html
- CNET Goes Cyberian - The network of geekware-information sites is swapping traffic for bucks in a deal with online software and hardware store Cyberian Outpost. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10052.html
- CNET Reports Surprise Profit - The online publisher ekes out a profit for the second quarter on higher advertising revenue. Wall Street was expecting a loss. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13924.html
- CNET: Mine's Bigger - The publisher of online tech news is going after Ziff-Davis with a media campaign claiming its service has greater reach. The first ad gives a whole new twist to selling with skin. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11788.html
- Compaq Acquisition Centers on Service - By buying Digital, Compaq will become the second-largest computer company - and get its hands on a service organization that gives it a much-needed footing in the enterprise solutions business. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9891.html
- Corel Caves to Actress Lamarr - Corel agrees to demands by '50s screen legend Hedy Lamarr that she be paid for the company's use of her image in its software packaging. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16544.html
- Corel Embraces Open Source - The troubled software developer yesterday demonstrated a network computer powered by the Linux operating system, and said it will port all its applications to the open source OS. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12187.html
- Corporate Voice-Over-Net Adoption Crawls - Is an IP telephone call in your future? If it is, it will probably cost you less than you're used to paying for long distance, and may even cut costs for local calls. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10867.html
- Could Microsoft's Store Backfire? - Though Redmond's first storefront venture fits the successful model pioneered by Nike and Sony, it could be that the public has had enough of the software giant for the moment. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11824.html
- Court Rejects Bells' Appeal - An appeals court overturns a lower court's decision and rejects a claim by the Baby Bells that portions of the 1996 Telecom Act are unconstitutional. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14885.html
- Court Upholds Bell Restrictions - An appeals court agrees with the government: The Baby Bell phone companies have to open up their local markets to competition before they can offer long-distance service. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16994.html
- Creative Good Dream Job: Ease of Use Technologist - The caped crusader behind Creative Good is looking for a boy- or girl-wonder to teach companies how to make the Web easier for users. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9889.html
- Custom Discs Give CDnow New Spin - As competition blares ever louder among online music retailers, the leader of the pack acquires custom-CD technology and 60,000 licensed titles to keep it singing sweetly. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12697.html
- Daily Blast on Macs ... Finally - Disney's Daily Blast, the entertainment company's online offering, will finally function properly on Macintosh computers. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13526.html
- Data Between The Lines - WorldGate Communications CEO Hal Krisbergh takes a down-and-dirty approach to Internet TV. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11639.html
- Data Drives AT&T's Growth - The nation's biggest phone company says consumer long-distance revenues fell 3.7 percent during the quarter, but strong growth in high-speed data services propelled a 60 percent earnings increase. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13950.html
- Data Services Fight to Reconnect - Tuesday's satellite failure left real-time financial data providers scrambling to get their customers plugged into the information flow. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12441.html
- Database Marketing on the Web - IntelliQuest doesn't know your name, but the market researcher knows exactly what you like. That knowledge and 24/7's software add up to the best, or scariest, Web advertising system yet. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15456.html
- Datek Becoming a Stock Exchange - Look out Nasdaq. An online brokerage firm is expected to register its Island trading system as an independent stock exchange. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16755.html
- Deadbeat Domains - Brick-and-mortar stores might coast for months without paying the rent. But Web-based businesses that let their bills slide can get blacked out in a snap. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14423.html
- Dealing for Dollars - Web retailers are tumbling over one another to shell out whopping sums for exclusive deals with the best-trafficked Net directories - and the payoff may even be worth it. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11617.html
- Deductible Junkets: Meetings of the Minds - Internet Tucson III; CGDC '98; Africa Telecom 98; ACM Policy '98. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10965.html
- Deductible Junkets: Meetings of the Minds - Nano '98; Usenix '98; 1998 World Congress; WITI (Women in Technology International); TiLE 1998 (Trends and Technology in Leisure and Entertainment). [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12035.html
- Deductible Junkets: Meetings of the Minds - Agents '98; E3; International Design Conference; Eurocrypt '98; AUVSI '98 (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International). [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11374.html
- Deductible Junkets: Meetings of the Minds - Siggraph; INET '98; Herring on Hollywood; Def Con 6.0; Future Transportation Technology. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12698.html
- Deductible Junkets: Meetings of the Minds - Hot Chips 10; Crypto '98; IFIP World Computer Congress; Ars Electronica Festival '98; SPA's 14th Annual Conference. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13681.html
- Dell Saves Tech Stocks - Stellar financial results from Dell boosts the PC maker's stock 7.4 percent on Wednesday, offsetting weak performance elsewhere among technology stocks. The Wired Index closes unchanged at 422.89. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14524.html
- Dell's Magic Formula - As Dell Computer continues to pick up the pace, it's unlikely that other large PC-makers like Compaq and IBM will be able to match the company's business model. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12564.html
- Diamond Countersues, Defends Rio - The maker of the music player strikes back against an industry trade group trying to block its product. By Chris Stamper. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16586.html
- Dirty Laundry Airs on Stock Site - Legacy Software sues three private investors for alleged online defamation, and serves the suit where all can see. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16785.html
- Disney Buys into Infoseek - Disney buys a 43 percent stake in Infoseek and hands over control of its Starwave unit to the search engine. The firms will then combine brainpower to create a new portal by next year. By Dan Brekke and Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13086.html
- Disney Buys Out Starwave - A day after CEO Eisner spoke of making his company into a Web portal, Disney exercises its options to acquire Paul Allen's Internet company. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12031.html
- Do You Sohoo? - Plenty of Chinese do. Charles Zhang's Sohoo has become China's search engine of choice. Wired News talks to the founder and CEO of ITC, one of the world's top tech companies. By John Alderman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15902.html
- Does Cable Fit in Vulcan's Vision? - Paul Allen's eclectic collection of tech investments looks like so many puzzle pieces waiting to be interlocked. But the size of his US$2.8 billion investment in Marcus Cable changes the picture. Or does it? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11550.html
- Dollars Swirl Around Verio - With a fresh US$100 million investment agreement from Japan's NTT, the upstart ISP prepares for its initial public offering for another $100 million, after agreeing to hand over, yes, $100 million, to Qwest Communications for backbone access. Maybe it's on to something. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11595.html
- Domain Deal Up in Air - Compaq has reportedly offered a record-breaking US$3.35 million for the rights to the altavista.com domain name. But so far, the company says, no deal has been made. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14058.html
- Double Troubles Send APS to Chapter 11 - Blaming the death of the Apple clone market and warranty obligations for its demise, APS Technologies will soon have to tell how it plans to cover its debt. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10075.html
- Dow Recovers, But Techs Slip - Most stocks bounce back from Tuesday's beating, but technology issues fail to come back amid earnings concerns. The Wired Index falls 1.43 points to 407.27. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14249.html
- Dream Job: Computer Science Research Fellow - The Molecular Sciences Institute is looking for a computer geek with a biology streak to help them look at their work in new ways. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11668.html
- Dream Job: Fork Programmer - Hamburg's Fork, a Web design house with a twist, is looking for a wry programmer. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10999.html
- Dream Job: Plumb Design Programmer - Make data come alive as a programmer for Plumb Design's Thinkmap technology. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11961.html
- Dream Job: Sonic Solutions Engineer - These pioneers of digital tech for music editing, mixing, and CD premastering always need engineers. But only "the right" engineers. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11821.html
- Dream Job: Sound Strategist at Headspace - Headspace, Thomas Dolby's startup, makes music work on the Web - and needs a CEO. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11200.html
- Dream Job: Upside Marketing Manager - Help build the brand and fire up the sales force as Upside's marketing manager [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10963.html
- DSL vs. Cable. Again - US West announced it is adding new digital subscriber line markets, and Dell will be selling Cisco-made DSL modems in some of its computers. Is DSL here for real? Probably not. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12148.html
- E-Brokers Enjoy Their Own Run-Up - Shares of Net-brokerage firms surge after Ameritrade says its earnings will crush estimates. Traditional brokerages, meanwhile, continue to suffer. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16992.html
- E-Commerce Stocks Stay Hot - In light Christmas Eve trading, investors smile on e-commerce plays while the broader market turns in a mixed performance. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17032.html
- Earnings Jitters Derail Stocks - Profits, the presidency -- too much uncertainty. Wall Street loses ground as investors survey the landscape. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16871.html
- Earnings Outlook Hammers Stocks - A disappointingly small interest-rate cut and more warnings about weaker-than-expected earnings punish US stocks. The Wired Index drops 17.99 to 377.08. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15340.html
- EarthLink Reels In Its Losses - The rapid-growth ISP reports record revenues and its seventh consecutive quarter of shrinking losses. The company sees black by early next year. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13756.html
- EarthLink, Sprint Combine Online Services - In a US$180 million deal, the long-distance phone company merges its 130,000 online customers into the data-networking firm and takes a 30 percent stake in the enterprise. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10223.html
- Easy Net Access for Dell - The No. 2 computer maker lines up deals with Excite, AT T, and SBC Communications to make connections to the Internet easier, which creates another incentive to buy a Dell box. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15169.html
- EBay Boots Angry Users - After Wednesday's system failure, users who complained to a customer-support message board were suspended from the site. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16765.html
- EBay Opens IPO Floodgates - The day after eBay's soaring Wall Street debut, three companies file for offerings of their own. It looks like the IPO drought may be over. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15253.html
- EBay Shares Through the Roof - The online auctioneer got major props from an analyst report and has earnings due out tomorrow that are looking good. Shares are up almost 40 percent. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15838.html
- Ebilling Business Booms - Where Microsoft goes, acceptance follows -- and so it is with an emerging electronic billing and payment system that drops an online bill at your bank, and leaves your physical mailbox alone. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12008.html
- Entrust IPO Soars - A sign of investor faith in the prospects of Net security software vendors, Entrust stock shot up as much as 50 percent on the first day of trading. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14488.html
- Ericsson Begins Buying Spree - The Swedish telecom-equipment maker hints that some big acquisition may be in the offing to keep up with Internet technology. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14942.html
- Esther Dyson in Poland - In Central Europe, Esther Dyson manages minor investments in Hungary and the Czech Republic, but she's invested most heavily in Poland. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11229.html
- Etrade Brokers Its Own Deal - The online brokerage says Japan's Softbank will buy 15.6 million of its shares for US$400 million. Analysts say it's a sweet deal for both companies. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13639.html
- EU Privacy Law is Awkward for US - Europe's sweeping new Data Protection Directive has implications for US multinationals. What's up? By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15779.html
- Euro Net Users: Aux Barricades! - Outraged by the huge fees telephone companies charge, European Internet surfers are staging online strikes to demand cheaper access. Heather McCabe reports from Paris. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17067.html
- Everybody Learn Cisco - Cisco Systems has launched an ambitious program to teach teachers and students computer networking, and help solve the IT worker crunch to boot. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12064.html
- Eword: After-School Adventure - Empowered by a Web-authoring app called Cocoa, Gregory Miller has latched onto a cool new extra-curricular activity: he's CEO of his own software company. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10131.html
- Eword: The Eyeball Index - A recent report by Mediamark Research provides a new perspective on how new media audiences stack up against old media. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10051.html
- Ex-Apple Exec Named Exodus CEO - More than a year after her departure from the computer manufacturer, former chief technologist Ellen Hancock has a new job. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14922.html
- Excite Announces Stock Split - The No. 2 Internet search engine price per share leaps after its board of directors approves a two-for-one stock split. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13341.html
- Excite Banking on Targeted Ad Strategy - The company paid US$89 million for MatchLogic, a "one-to-one" ad services firm that finely targets consumers based on their interests. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9685.html
- Excite Buys Throw for $28.2M - Excite says the purchase of the Internet software company is part of its "community" strategy, to be unveiled later this year. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13760.html
- Excite Follows Yahoo into China - Partnering with the self-proclaimed premiere Chinese-language Web site, the Number Two portal player in the US gears up for overseas battle, launching a Chinese-language portal site. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12665.html
- Excite Gets QVC VP - The portal site hires a former senior executive from the TV shopping channel to add marketing muscle to its fight with America Online and Yahoo. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15427.html
- Excite Hires New President - The Net directory brings in a telecom exec to run the daily show, so current top brass can strategize. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14521.html
- Excited About Auctions - Upping the ante among the monkey-see, monkey-do portal sites, Excite's Classifieds2000 unit unveils an auction service that combs both classifieds and auction databases. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12886.html
- Fast Times for Antitrust Action - Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, on the front lines of the 20-state antitrust battle against Microsoft, talks to Wired News about how the case is likely to proceed in the coming months. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12692.html
- Fat Pipes For All - Consumer groups, ISPs, and phone companies want the FCC to rule that rivals can offer their own high-speed Net services over TCI's cable-TV lines. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15949.html
- Fat Pipes for Fat Apps - @Home Corporation paired up with Release Software to kick off "the fastest software store on earth," but for now, few earthlings will have access. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11160.html
- FCC Extends Wiretap Deadline - Regulators extend the deadline for installing new wiretaps on digital phone lines. That'll give the telcos and the FBI time to sort out what the new taps should do. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14986.html
- FCC May Propose Rules for Bells - The commission may allow the phone companies to build new data networks that they wouldn't have to share with competitors. The move could acclerate the opening of local markets. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13821.html
- FCC Taxes Digital TV Service - Broadcasters wanting to offer services other than free television programs over their digital television spectrum must pay a special fee, the FCC rules. By Chris Stamper. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16406.html
- FCC: No to Local Long-Distance - Federal regulators rule that long-distance marketing agreements between Qwest and regional phone companies US West and Ameritech are illegal. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15298.html
- FDIC: Keep It to Yourself - Some institutions have passed the federal banking overseer's Y2K compliance tests with flying colors. But the agency won't let the banks gloat in public about it. By Yukari Iwatani. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13817.html
- Fear and Loathing in Cupertino - Say one thing for Steve Jobs, he's got an iron fist. While he's brought Apple back to profitability, his control of leaks has left the press hungry for details on the company's new products. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17098.html
- FedEx Strike May Freeze E-Sales - With visions of e-dollars dancing in their heads, online retailers worry that a strike by pilots will affect holiday deliveries. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16192.html
- Fete For a Market Mood Ring - BancAmerica Robertson Stephens throws a grand Tiki party to kick off the company's stock analysis site. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14205.html
- Fickle Fortunes - In two days, the 24-year-old co-founders of theglobe.com transform from being captains of a doomed IPO to zillionaire status. This is their story. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16831.html
- Finding a Match for Netscape - As reports fly about an imminent buyout of the browser pioneer, analysts say it's an attractive marriage for several rumored suitors. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10117.html
- Firefly: From the Media Lab to Microsoft - From its origins as an MIT Media Lab spin-off, to its newfound status as another trophy acquisition in Redmond's 'Web lifestyle' strategy, Firefly has built a business on Web personalization and profiling. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11585.html
- Firings at Broderbund - The Learning Company fires 500 people, or 42 percent of all employees, at recently acquired Broderbund. "The days of the artist are gone," one analyst says. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14971.html
- First Virtual Tries to Sell Itself - The ecommerce company hopes to trade a controlling stake in its business for the cash it needs to stay afloat while refocusing its strategy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11857.html
- For Joe Net, More Consumption - The changes wrought by a Netscape-AOL combo may not be obvious to the average Web user. But they will be potent. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16443.html
- For Porn, Click Here - Can't decide what kind of porn you're in the mood for? Visit Adult 10,000, the brainchild of a Frenchman who's figured out how to make money off mom-and-pop pornographers. By Mark Cromer. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13932.html
- For Sale: Your Tastes, Interests - The debate over online privacy comes down to what information sites are collecting and how. The truth is, only a handful of companies are on the cutting edge. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13212.html
- Forbes: Cendant is 'Fine' - Despite accounting problems, a class-action lawsuit, and charges of fraud, Cendant chairman Walter Forbes told the audience of Spotlight 98 that earnings will be "good." By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13866.html
- Fore to Miss Earnings Estimates - Fore Systems is the latest networking equipment maker to hit a financial speed bump, as it tells investors that second-quarter earnings won't meet expectations. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15361.html
- Forget $600 for a PC, Try $199 - Taiwan's Acer Group says it plans to sell a line of computers priced at as little as a third of the cost of the cheapest PCs -- perfect for places like China. By Yukari Iwatani. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13220.html
- Free ISPs Revel in Beta Optimism - X-Stream Network boasts 28,000 new users since its March launch in the United Kingdom, a country where high local phone charges make no-cost Internet access particularly attractive. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12762.html
- Gates Lauds Windows 98 - Microsoft's chief compares the personal-computer industry to the history of cars, saying "We're in about the 1920s stage." By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13279.html
- Gateway Hurts PC Stocks - Weaker-than-expected earnings from Gateway and other high-tech firms drags the Wired Index down 1.34 to 438.85. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13986.html
- GeoCities Flies in IPO - The share price of the Web community company more than doubled in its first day of trading, despite a nasty market downturn. Analysts credit the magic of Internet fairy-dust. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14361.html
- Geocities Loves Inktomi Now - The online community site switches to Inktomi search technology to improve search results and capture more ad revenues. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15701.html
- GeoCities Newest Neighbor: an Adman - Tom Evans will become CEO of the homepage hosting service next month, bringing with him years of experience in print publishing and ad sales -- and a goal of generating some revenue for GeoCities. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11710.html
- GeoCities Re-Zones for Business - Just one step ahead of the competition, the free homepage host is rolling GeoShop e-commerce tools into the online neighborhood, in hopes of bolstering its bottom line. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11031.html
- German Challenge to MS Office - Microsoft got the upper hand in the browser war by giving away Internet Explorer. Now, a Hamburg firm called Star Division is trying that tactic, too. By Karsten Lemm. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16653.html
- German Dream Job: Fluent Web Designer Sought - With its "immersive" approach to design, this German-based studio needs a Web designer who's ready to dive in. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10358.html
- German Net Access Gets Cheap - Two telecom upstarts say they will offer online services in Germany that will be far less expensive than incumbents Deutsche Telekom and AOL. By Karsten Lemm. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14681.html
- Geron Extends Life of Rally - The biotech company may have figured out how to repair damaged human organs -- sending its shares, and much of the rest of the market, soaring. The Wired Index rises 2.56 to 428.54. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16108.html
- Gigabit Networker - At Alteon Networks, Hong Kong-born Selina Lo is outsmarting the gigbit Ethernet competition and escaping Cisco's hungry maw. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12233.html
- Giveaways Are Gonna Cost Ya - Marketers using incentive programs to drive traffic to their sites may soon find themselves paying a licensing fee to CyberGold, which apparently has a patent on the idea. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14612.html
- Globalstar Adds Up the Damage - Satellite phone company Globalstar says that the rocket malfunction that destroyed 12 of its satellites will take a significant bite out of its finances. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14957.html
- Globalstar Shares Crash, Burn - A rocket carrying 12 Globalstar satellites malfunctions, causing Globalstar's stock to take a nose dive. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14938.html
- Globalstar Still Grounded - Diplomatic wrangling holds up the launch of four Globalstar satellites from a Russian space base. The question is how long will the bickering last? By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16565.html
- Go2net's Low-Overhead Plan - Its US$33 million all-stock acquisition of Silicon Investor fits right into the content aggregator's vision: a network of small-staff sites that lets technology do the work. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11881.html
- GoodNoise Signs Frank Black - A series of signings by Net record companies means small, digitally distributed music vendors have found a market niche. Big labels are still scared of the Net. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13503.html
- GoTo Searches With a Capitalist Engine - Who wants a search engine that's rigged to take you to the site most willing to pay for your eyes? GoTo.com can't wait to find out. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10500.html
- Government Writes First 'Echeck' - A trial program to send electronic checks over the Internet is under way. Businesses may benefit in the future, but the system is too new to help the government meet its mandate that all federal payments be electronic by 1999. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13366.html
- Greenspan Clobbers Markets - The Fed chairman manages to spook the markets with his comments to Congress, saying current values may be "difficult to sustain." The Wired Index drops 7.19 to 458.02. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13887.html
- Greenspan Mum, But Stocks Rise - The Fed chairman wouldn't reveal short-term plans in congressional testimony, but investors still expect central banks to cut interest rates to boost economies. The Wired Index rises 0.66 to 383.62. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15053.html
- Greenspan Speech Boosts Stocks - A tiny hint that the Fed might consider an interest rate cut results in one of the best days ever in US stock market history. The Wired Index surges 23.33 to 389.71. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14883.html
- Greenspan Talk Boosts Stocks - The Fed chief gives a speech in which he doesn't say much. Since no news is good news for investors these days, stocks rise. The Wired Index climbs 2.72 to 423.82. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16081.html
- Grove Steps Down; Analysts Shrug - Those who spend their time watching the chip industry say the Intel co founder's departure really doesn't change much for his company or its competitors. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11239.html
- Grove Steps Down; Analysts Shrug - Those who spend their time watching the chip industry say the Intel co founder's departure really doesn't change much for his company or its competitors. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11247.html
- Grove: Doctors Need PCs - The elder statesman of the PC industry scolds doctors for not using even the most basic PC technology to improve their practice. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15870.html
- Hatch to FTC: Go Easy on Intel - The Utah Senator and Microsoft foe urges the FTC to be "careful" in its handling of an antitrust suit against Intel. By sheer coincidence, Intel is negotiating with Utah to build a big new plant in Salt Lake County. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15076.html
- Healtheon IPO Date Slipping - The health-care software company pushes back the date for its initial public offering to the week of 5 October, two weeks later than originally scheduled. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15074.html
- Healtheon Pulls IPO - Market conditions prompt an Internet startup from the founder of Netscape to withdraw its initial public offering. That was one good reason, analysts say. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15735.html
- Herbold: 'May The Best Product Win' - Microsoft's COO took the opportunity in a Monday morning keynote to tell us, one more time, why it's good for all of us to leave the software superpower unfettered. The government, he said, shouldn't stifle corporate innovation. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11929.html
- Here Comes AltaVista - AltaVista's fortunes were flagging under the ownership of Digital. Then Compaq bought Digital, and AltaVista got a sugar daddy with portal ambitions. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15589.html
- Hey, AT&T! Call Optus - Australian cable-TV operator Optus has figured out how to send voice calls over cable. It was a brutal experience. AT&T should ask for pointers to pull off the TCI acquisition. By Stewart Taggart. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13656.html
- High Tech Unfazed by Copyright Ruling - The Supreme Court ruled that copyright-holding US manufacturers can't block distributors who have bought their goods overseas from reselling them on the cheap at home. But the tech world says it won't affect software sales much. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10803.html
- High-Tech Fears Over India - US sanctions against India for its nuclear testing will smack the tech sector, but how hard? By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12591.html
- Hollywood Helper - Watch Titanic closely. See all those deck chairs? Someone has to keep track of the myriad props. That's where Rod Henson, Jon Gaster, and their new software company, Columbus Systems, come in. By Brian Alcorn. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14726.html
- Hope of Rate Cut Spurs Stocks - It's appearing increasingly likely that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. Stocks rise on the optimism. The Wired Index gains 1.76 to 382.86. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15030.html
- How To Make $$$$ with XXXX - The little guy can still earn a handsome wage in the online porno biz. And there are plenty of resources to help porntrepreneurs get started. By Becky Bond. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16509.html
- HP Java Fight Will Test Sun's Resources - In launching its own Java virtual machine for devices such as printers, Hewlett-Packard is telling Sun that the company can't be all things to everyone. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11119.html
- HP: Good, But Not Good Enough - The beleaguered computer maker beats Wall Street earnings expectations but falls short of its own high standards. Also: Electronic Arts buys Virgin's Westwood Studios. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14471.html
- HP: Sun Hampering Embedded Java - In launching its own Java virtual machine for devices such as printers, Hewlett-Packard is telling Sun that the company can't be all things to everyone. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11110.html
- IBM Beats Wall Street - The world's biggest computer company reports better than expected third-quarter earnings, but warns that future pleasant surprises may not be forthcoming. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15732.html
- IBM Goes Cellular, Buying Chip Designer - With today's buyout of CommQuest, Big Blue will ramp up its development of chips for license to makers of cell phones and wireless communications gizmos. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10227.html
- IBM Picks Apache - IBM will shortly announce that it has chosen to bundle Apache's Web server with its new suite of ecommerce development tools. The decision could hit Netscape hard. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13117.html
- IBM Profit Beats Forecast - IBM's second-quarter earnings barely budged, hurt by dismal hardware sales, falling memory chip prices, and Asia's economic troubles. But they were good enough to beat Wall Street forecasts by a whisker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13857.html
- ICANN Meeting No 'Lovefest' - In mailing lists and discussion groups, critics have roasted the nonprofit group selected to oversee the governance of the Internet. On Saturday, things got personal. Declan McCullagh reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16277.html
- ICQ Fans Rage Against AOL - Mirabilis posted a letter to the ICQ site, assuring users of the popular chat software that the company's acquisition by America Online is a good thing, really. Still, fears of censorship and commercialization are driving some users away. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12896.html
- Idées Fortes: Productivity Paradox - Are traditional productivity measurements blind to the information economy? As economist Robert Solow once put it: Computers can be seen everywhere but in productivity stats. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10228.html
- IDC: PC Sales Recovering - IDC predicts PC unit shipments will rise as vendors get their inventories under better control. Still, growth for the year will be far below 1997. By Karsten Lemm. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14921.html
- In CPA We Might Trust - WebTrust, a band of CPA do-gooders, wants to put its seal of approval on your ecommerce site. Question is, will it do any good? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12313.html
- In Ernst & Young We TRUSTe - The accounting firm will audit and monitor Web companies to make sure they respect the privacy of their customers. Plus, they'll keep Washington in the loop. By James Glave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15386.html
- In Mac They Trust - It's getting harder to find developers that build exclusively for the Mac platform, but the few who do seem to believe in it like a cause - even as they consider the Windows platform. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9559.html
- Infoseek Insider Sells Shares - As the portal enters the final stages of a joint venture with Disney, the company's second biggest shareholder files to sell most of its holding. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16338.html
- Inktomi Buys Shop Bot Shop - Reaching beyond its search-engine roots, Inktomi spends US$90 million to buy C2B Technologies. The goal: A souped-up shopping product for portals by 1999. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14758.html
- Inktomi Sales Quadruple - The search engine software provider's revenue surges in the latest quarter, as Internet queries at its customers' sites explode. Its loss is less than expected. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15785.html
- Inside Intel's New CEO - A snapshot of Craig Barrett, his policies, hobbies, love life, and darkest secret. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11262.html
- Inside Wifey Inc. - Affectionately known as Wifey and Hubby, a Washington state couple are turning their private bedroom antics into a new-media empire. By Mark Cromer. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14784.html
- Intel Countersues Intergraph - The chipmaker's filings on Thursday, although a run-of-the-mill tactic in this industry, could influence the FTC case against it. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13137.html
- Intel Heats Up Web Video Battle - RealNetworks' media-streaming software gets a big boost with an Intel technology that promises major improvements in Web video. Microsoft is, for now, out of the loop. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15044.html
- Intel Inside(rs) to Sell Shares - Intel CEO Craig Barrett plans to sell one-third of his stake in the company. Others are selling, too. Maybe they don't have faith an Intel rally will continue, analysts say. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15805.html
- Intel Kills Quick Web Project - The chipmaker cites "market conditions" for shelving its Web transmission software. Better to stick with the chip business, the company decides. By Claude J. Bauer. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13299.html
- Intel Not Another Standard Oil - The FTC's suit against the chipmaker may sound like more of the same in antitrust actions, but its complaint is far narrower than the government's case against Microsoft. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12856.html
- Intel Profit Drops 29 Percent - The world's biggest computer chipmaker blamed falling chip prices and fewer shipments for its reported earnings, which fell short of Wall Street expectations. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13711.html
- Intel to Buy Shiva - The world's biggest computer chipmaker expands its existing networking product line by purchasing Shiva, an expert in remote access and virtual private networking gear. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15695.html
- Intel Trial Could Start 5 Jan. - Intel will not get as much prep time as it asked for, if its antitrust trial starts in January 1999. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13627.html
- Intel's Outlook Boosts Techs - The world's biggest chipmaker reported lousy earnings, but investors looked past that to the second half, when things are supposed to improve. The Wired Index posted a new record. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13747.html
- Intel, LSI Hit US Stocks - US military strikes, which usually boost stocks, were not enough to offset the fallout from slumping semiconductor issues. The Wired Index slips 0.40 to 422.48. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14550.html
- Intergraph: Intel Hurt Revenues - The workstation maker blames Intel's alleged anticompetitive practices for hurting its second-quarter revenue. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13360.html
- Intern Dream Job: NOVA Online - The webby counterpart of the PBS TV series isn't just a new-media marketing gimmick. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9472.html
- Internet Issues Save Techs - Interest in Internet stocks keeps technology issues from a big drop for the day. The Wired Index falls 0.93 to 418.12. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14331.html
- Intertainment On Demand - Upstart Intertainer is calling on super-fast modems and an extensive video and music library to revive interactive TV. This time, content will be king. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14700.html
- Inventor Stakes Claim to MS Fortunes - Microsoft faces a new lawsuit, brought by a man who holds patents for multithreading - a process used in almost every software application. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10251.html
- Investor Frenzy over eBay IPO - Shares of eBay nearly triple in the first minutes of trading, giving new hope to a wretched IPO market. But not all Net companies will do as well, analysts said. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15212.html
- Invisible Computing - Hewlett-Packard's Donald Norman hides today's technologies behind a user-friendly curtain. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12533.html
- IPO Certainly Not COOL - Cyberian's IPO is smoking, as shares jump by as much as US$9.25 on the first day of trading. It's more evidence that investors are dying to place bets on would-be Web Wal-Marts. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14166.html
- IPO Wowser: EarthWeb Triples - Shares of the content developer triple in the first few hours of its publicly traded life, giving new hope to IPO hopefuls everywhere. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16189.html
- Ireland, the Silicon Isle - Ireland, after a false start, has become the European counterpart to Silicon Valley -- complete with high-priced programmers, scrappy startups, and labor shortages. Now, the Irish are invading US markets. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15906.html
- Iridium Pitchman - The global satellite communications operator's new marketing chief has a simple pitch: No self-respecting gadget junkie will be able to resist Iridium's lightweight handsets. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12653.html
- Is Barksdale on the Block? - Possibly seeking job: WM, 55. Ran three multibillion-dollar companies. Currently working part time, but might consider full-time position. Make an offer. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16496.html
- Japan Outlook Boosts Stocks - The Japanese government manages to get the opposition party to agree to rescue ailing banks. The prospect of a stronger financial system in Japan boosts stocks worldwide. The Wired Index rises 14.22 to 355.51. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15565.html
- Japan Pulls Down Tech Stocks - A big debt-rating agency says it might downgrade Japan's credit rating -- not a good sign for one of the biggest consumers of US technology. Wired Index dips 10.87 to 440.93. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13951.html
- Japan Shake-up Boosts Stocks - For Japan, change -- any kind of change -- is good news. Hashimoto's resignation and rocketing Internet stocks pulled the Wired Index up on Monday. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13673.html
- Japan Woes Hammer US Techs - Japan's new prime minister did little with his comments to bolster confidence in a quick recovery. Wired Index slides 9.47 points to 432.42. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14169.html
- Japan Woes Prompt Selloff - The Dow Jones has its worst day of the year, as investors worry more about Japan's impact on US corporate earnings. Wired Index falls 12.55 points to 399.96. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14224.html
- Japan's Phantom Recession - The country may be going through the worst downturn in half a century, but no one's told the Japanese shoppers still spending big yen on electronic goodies. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15876.html
- Jobs 2.0: A Timeline - Steve Jobs has been back at Apple for 13 months. The bottom line, and much else, looks different. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9672.html
- Jobs Wowed by His Own Thinking - The slogan's grammar may be screwy but the company's news is straight-forward: Things, the Apple boss says, are going great. Now that's different. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9504.html
- Jobs: Apple Still Rocking - Steve Jobs tells the Seybold crowd that Apple will be around for a long, long time. To prove it, he says Apple will come out with a portable consumer product next year. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14771.html
- Juno: A Marketing Test Lab for LCI? - A multi-million dollar deal with long distance provider LCI International will pad Juno Online's pockets, and give the telco access to some great marketing data. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11032.html
- K-tel's Greatest Hit - K-tel made itself a Net company and its stock hit the moon, leaving many observers to wonder whether there's really any there there. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12150.html
- Keeping Up With the Joneses - Competing neighbors are rank amateurs compared to Web portal companies that spend bazillions to be the firstest with the mostest. In the end, they all wind up looking alike. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11736.html
- Kertzman Jumps on Enemy's Ship - Mitchell Kertzman, former CEO of Sybase, has little love for Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle. That won't stop him from running Network Computer Inc., Ellison's baby. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16018.html
- Kids' Book Author Sues GT - Mercer Mayer alleges breach of contract in his suit against game giant GT Interactive. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12588.html
- Kodak Gets Its Digital House in Order - The photo powerhouse has been trying to do too much - but with an investment in a company that helps consumers get their photos online, and a divestiture of some high-end professional business, Rochester's looking like it's got a plan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10279.html
- Latest Portal Pickup: Domains - A British domain name registration company is out to offer its services on Web gateways the world over. By Wendy Grossman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14321.html
- Level 3 Sends a Wake-Up Call - Barely 6 months old, Level 3 Communications wants to shake up the telecommunications industry with a telephone network based on the magical Internet Protocol. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13427.html
- Liquid and Iomega Make Music - The pair join to offer secure, copyright-protected digital-music downloads on the Net. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16294.html
- Liquid Audio Plays Hardball - The music-distribution software publisher is going after violators of its intellectual property. Z Company's MP3.com and Filez.com are this week's targets. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16103.html
- Local Sites Envy Portal Power - At the City Guides Conference, small online city guides and newspapers lamented the draw of catch-all Internet directories. It's tough to compete with Yahoo. By Scott Kirsner. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13963.html
- Looking Above and Beyond.com - Online software-seller Software.net changed its name and launched a marketing blitz this week, hoping to become the leading software retailer on the net -- and beyond. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14679.html
- Looking for Love, Big Boy? - Well, you won't find it in an innocent news story. But the bait-and-switch we just pulled is becoming a common ploy for banner ads on the Web. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16782.html
- Lost in Space - Satellite communications provider Iridium won't start selling services as soon as it had hoped. It still needs time to shake down the system. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14910.html
- Love for Cisco Boosts Techs - Cisco's market capitalization spurts past $100 billion, solidifying its position as a pedestal stock. Wired Index follows along, rising 4.21 to 465.12. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13846.html
- LSI Bids $760M for Symbios - LSI says antitrust concerns won't derail its acquisition of the computer storagemaker, as they did for Adaptec. And observers question whether it was the FTC or the price that undid the last deal. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13318.html
- Lucent Blows Away Forecasts - The telecom equipment company said its profit from operations more than doubled, blowing analysts' expectations out of the water. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13907.html
- Lucent Invests in Wireless Chips - Spying sizeable revenue in digital wireless voice and data, Lucent invests in a manufacturer of wireless communications chips and software. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16233.html
- Lucent Sues Rival Cisco - Following the collapse of negotiations which had lasted a year and a half, the Bell Labs spinoff filed suit against the network device-maker, claiming infringement of eight networking patents. By James Glave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13100.html
- Lycos Finds Tripod a Steal at US$58 Million - A million twenty-something eyeballs are worth some big bucks to a second-tier search engine looking to catapult itself into the fast-growing online community business. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10042.html
- Lycos: Cash + Traffic = Good Deal - Preview Travel's latest move to gain exposure is a US$4.25 million payment for exclusive status on the Net directory, which Lycos expects to boost its page views - and pad its pockets. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11196.html
- Mac Developers Seek the Source - Worried that Apple Computer could be washed up by a Linux tidal wave, a group of developers asks Cupertino to free some Mac OS source code. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14342.html
- Macromedia's Comeback - Look closely at your favorite Web site. See all that animation in the background? It's probably fueled by Shockwave, a technology from Macromedia that's turning the fortunes of the once-struggling software company around. By Lori Patel. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15402.html
- MacWEEK Squeezed? - The Apple chronicle is going out of print -- in no small part because of Apple itself. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13958.html
- Making Ads Hit Their Mark - A new service from Millward Brown Interactive promises proof that targeted Internet ads have hit home. That could bring a big boost to ad sales online. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15707.html
- Making Money in the Net's Yaketeria - Targeting ads to match content is just one way companies are looking to turn Usenet into a revenue source. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12037.html
- Man, What a Ride - Wall Street ends a turbulent year on a sluggish note. But not to worry. A handful of Internet IPOs waiting in the wings should goose things back up very soon. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17099.html
- Market Bounces Back from Crash - AvTel's stock takes a tumble as investors respond to mistaken reports that the company will roll out nationwide high-speed Net access. Otherwise Wall Street is up on hopes the Fed will cut interest rates. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16283.html
- Market Braces for Fed, Bombs - Stocks are mixed as traders await the Fed's decision on cutting interest rates and Washington's decision on bombing Baghdad. The Wired Index sheds 4.17 to 420.63. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16223.html
- Market Kindled by Net Stocks - Yet another Wall Street analyst says the Internet is the greatest thing since chunky peanut butter. That's good enough to send share prices soaring. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16975.html
- Market Maker - OptiMark, the latest electronic trading system from Bill Lupien, goes live this summer. Spot, options, and futures markets may never be the same. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12964.html
- Market Still a Treat - The US gross domestic product rises at a surprisingly healthy rate in the latest quarter, suggesting the economy has plenty of steam left. The Wired Index rises 2.91 to 406.65. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15948.html
- Marketers Losing Taste for Spam - A newly formed organization wants to give consumers more control over that pesky inbox intruder. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16216.html
- Markets Test First Day of Y2K - Several brokerages and stock market exchanges ran experiments to see how well their computers would handle trades in the new millennium. The sponsors say, sit tight, we'll tell you more at the end of the week. By Yukari Iwatani. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13680.html
- MayaQuest Dream Job: Vacationing Technologist - Bicycle through Mayan ruins with a team of specialists. You get to carry the satellite Web link. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9738.html
- MCI WorldCom Digs Europe - The telecommunications giant will triple the size of its European network to challenge state-owned telephone monopolies in France, Germany, and Britain. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15450.html
- Media Giants Turn to E-commerce - Advertising alone ain't cutting it. So three of the world's biggest media companies will supplement ad sales by hawking their merchandise and services online. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15008.html
- Meet the Mover, Mary Meeker - The Internet's most influential analyst says the stocks aren't overvalued, so -- surprise -- they soar. That's not necessarily healthy, others say. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16970.html
- Mergers, Mergers Everywhere - And nary a stock loses ground. The prospective AOL-Netscape marriage is only one of a handful of deals driving share prices back into record territory. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16447.html
- Metromail Sale Opens Privacy Questions - The US$831 million acquisition by British retailer Great Universal Stores has electronic privacy hounds wondering how Metromail's databases of consumer profiles may be put to use. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10951.html
- Microbrowser Battle Brewing - Microsoft and an industry group are developing wireless communication technologies for mobile devices that are -- for the moment -- complementary. But the groups could very soon butt heads. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16196.html
- Microsoft Buys Into Privacy - By acquiring Firefly Network, which makes profiling technology, the software titan positions itself as a caretaker of confidentiality. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11586.html
- Microsoft Buys LinkExchange - The software company says it wants to beef up its small business offerings on MSN. Analysts say Microsoft also bought a bigger reach on the Net. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16074.html
- Microsoft Flashes on Instant Messaging - Building out its corporate communications software, Redmond acquired Flash Communications for an undisclosed sum, the software superpower announced Monday. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10487.html
- Microsoft Gains on Netscape - Netscape's browser share has slipped to just over 50 percent. Any more percentage-point losses to Microsoft and the company could forfeit its key sales weapon. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13261.html
- Microsoft Invests in General Magic - Though it's being cagey about what it's getting out of the deal, Redmond had no trouble dropping US$6 million as part of an equity investment and technology licensing agreement with General Magic, a company which promises to make computing more of a speaking experience. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10716.html
- Microsoft Loses Big in Court - Sun Microsystems gets a crucial ruling -- a federal court tells Microsoft to stop selling products that contain an incompatible version of Java. By Niall McKay and Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16322.html
- Microsoft Names New President - Bill Gates appoints pal Steve Ballmer as president, relinquishing more day-to-day duties to his senior executives. Analysts say Gates also is grooming his eventual replacement. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13890.html
- Microsoft Out of School Deal - The US$300 million plan to upgrade the tech infrastructure at 22 California State University schools won't include Microsoft or Hughes -- but it's still drawing some flack from California legislators. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11771.html
- Microsoft Plays the Polls - In its campaign against government investigators, Microsoft has polled the populace -- and the results are rosy for Redmond. Surprise, surprise. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12207.html
- Microsoft Profit Surge - Fourth-quarter earnings for the software industry linchpin jumped 28 percent, surpassing Wall Street expectations. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13791.html
- Microsoft Splashes Data into TV's Spectrum - Leaving no bandwidth stone unturned, Redmond launches trials for one-way delivery of high-speed data through television broadcasts. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10367.html
- Microsoft Targets Publishing - The software king wants to increase its publishing market share with Windows NT, its president tells the Seybold conference. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14804.html
- Microsoft's New Digs - The world's biggest PC software company will open a satellite campus in Silicon Valley next year. It's now close enough to cherry-pick talent from rivals. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14280.html
- Microsoft, Schwab Boost Index - Better-than-expected earnings from a slew of heavies like Microsoft and Schwab bolster technology issues. The Wired Index rises to 461.24. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13814.html
- Midwestern Telco Feud - In a complaint filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission, Ameritech accuses competitor Focal Communications of "bootlegging" local phone numbers. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13650.html
- MIPS Slips in IPO - Shares of the computer chipmaker stumbled on their first day -- not a good omen in the white-hot market for tech stocks. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13376.html
- More Problems for eBay - Another blackout Wednesday morning has users asking why. Technical difficulties have interrupted the online auction house's service for the second time in a week. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16728.html
- Mouse Company Sues Microsoft - Goldtouch says the world's biggest software company stole its designs for an ergonomic mouse. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16849.html
- Mozilla Stomps Ahead Under AOL - Early indications are that Netscape will continue supporting its Mozilla open-source browser program under the new corporate parent. By Chris Oakes and Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16466.html
- Mr. Whipple in High Res - Procter Gamble, the nation's biggest advertiser, is betting big on HDTV. But it's a good bet you still won't be able to squeeze the Charmin. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14776.html
- MS Loses Round in Temp Case - A group of temporary workers, suing Microsoft to be included along with permanent staffers in the company stock plan, is winning in the courts. Other companies are taking notice. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10401.html
- MS Shoots the Lights Out - The world's biggest software company reports an astounding 58 percent jump in profit from operations. Downplaying its success, Microsoft says its rivals are doing well, too. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15731.html
- MS Sued Again by Temp Workers - Microsoft faces a new lawsuit by temp workers, who say their jobs were anything but temporary. Christopher Stamper reports from Seattle. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16354.html
- MS to Peddle Software & You - When Microsoft opens up shop on the Internet this summer, it won't be hawking just its software. It will be selling a far more valuable commodity: your personal data. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10624.html
- MS Trial Slows to a Crawl - Microsoft lawyers continue to chip away at Netscape's CEO and his claims of bullying. It's not very sexy, and reporters stay away in droves. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15757.html
- Multimedia Gulch Summit Tackles SF Problems - Facing stiffer competition from other cities, San Francisco government and industry met today to figure out how to keep multimedia jobs in the Gulch. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10617.html
- Music Industry to Take on MP3 - The music industry's main trade group will call on computer companies to develop a new sound format to supplant MP3 -- the equivalent of Satan's spawn in the industry's eye. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16794.html
- N2K Label Takes a Charge - The Internet music retailer trims back its online record label and takes a big charge for the third quarter. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14495.html
- Nacchio: Mergers are Doomed - Qwest's CEO says the recent spate of phone-company mergers are court-bound and predicts his company will run circles around the established players. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13859.html
- Name-Your-Price Airline Tickets - When Priceline.com debuts this month, it will enable consumers to name a price they'd be willing to pay for airline tickets. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11230.html
- Nasdaq, Hong Kong Web Merger - Two of the world's largest stock exchanges merge online in a two-for-one site, the first in a series of efforts to integrate their offerings. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16901.html
- Nasdaq: The World's Best Backup - For the exchange to handle its billion trades a day, it takes millions of dollars of hardware, thousands of miles of cable, and one hell of a contingency plan. Karlin Lillington reports from Trumbull, Connecticut. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16714.html
- National Semi to Take Furlough - The troubled chipmaker says the triple whammy of a chip glut, plummeting computer prices, and Asian economic woes will force it to send its employees home for 10 days this fall. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14137.html
- Navigator Free-for-All - Following Microsoft's lead, Netscape announced today it will no longer charge for its browser - or the Communicator integrated browser and email suite. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9816.html
- NBC Bolsters Snap - NBC appoints four of its senior executives to manage Snap Online, the Internet directory it bought into in June. NBC also unveiled a prime-time television ad campaign to promote the service. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13843.html
- NBC Buys Into CNET, Snap - The television network acquires about 5 percent of the new-media firm, as well as a major piece of CNET's Net directory Snap, which the companies will operate as a joint venture. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12840.html
- NC World Is Dead - The online trade publication that chronicled the evolution of network computing ceases publication. Its demise highlights the failure of Sun Microsystems and Oracle to make much of their network computing vision. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13161.html
- NEC Gives Clik a Shot - Iomega says the Japanese PC-maker will soon be selling its own version of the 40 MB removable drives and disks. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11826.html
- Net Ad Firm Changes Hands - The principal stockholder in Zulu-Tek, a firm that has drawn attention with ambitious talk about becoming an Internet advertising powerhouse, says it's selling out to a Hong Kong investor. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12594.html
- Net Ad Firm's European Staff Jumps Ship - Amid allegations that parent company Zulu-Tek was not promptly paying ad partners, Softbank Interactive Marketing's entire European operation jumps to a new firm and immediately begins grabbing old clients. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10673.html
- Net Ad Sales -- Just Like TV's Early Days - Though Internet advertising revenues tripled last year, they're still only a fraction of what television pulls in. But Net ad watchers point optimistically to the industry's growth rate -- as fast as that of TV in the 1950s. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11523.html
- Net Ads Reach $351 Million - Internet advertising revenues nearly quadrupled in the first quarter compared with the same period last year, putting the industry on track for its first billion-dollar year. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13105.html
- Net Beckons, Investors Answer - A rally among Internet and tech stocks helps offset concerns stemming from Exxon's massive takeover of Mobil. Wall Street closes higher. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16566.html
- Net Credit Cards Turn Spam into Savings - Since marketing is cheaper and processing faster online, financial instituitions are forming partnerships with Net companies to offer low rates to plastic carriers. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10603.html
- Net Stock Frenzy Goes Flat - K-tel posts another whopping advance, but other Internet shares take a tumble as investors come to their senses. The Wired Index falls 3.03 to 425.45, and the Dow drops 40.16 to 8823.82. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16199.html
- Net Stocks Go Nuclear - While the rest of the market is mixed, Internet shares continue to soar on word that online holiday sales more than tripled. Like that's a surprise. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17043.html
- Net Stocks Head South - As the year shuffles to a close, investors finally give a cold shoulder to puffy Internet firms. Could it be that a little reality is creeping into the picture? By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17081.html
- Net Stocks Keep Market Warm - The weather outside is frightful, but inside traders remain cozy with hot-to-trot Internet shares. Tech stocks, meanwhile, get a big boost from Intel. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17022.html
- Net Stocks Keep Soaring - The Fed leaves interest rates alone, so investors console themselves by snapping up a few more high-priced Internet shares. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17000.html
- Net Stocks Rekindled - As if Internet shares weren't hot enough, there's word of a possible tie-up by AOL and Netscape. Both stocks catch fire. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16349.html
- Net Stocks Rocket Behind EBay - A Goldman Sachs analyst says eBay's stock will be at US$150 in a year. Naturally, in tech investors' minds, the same optimism applies to the rest of the industry. So Net stocks surge. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16161.html
- Net Stocks Slip, Drag Index - Yahoo and America Online slipped on Friday, stalling the climb of other technology shares. Seems investors are worried about second-quarter earnings. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13630.html
- Net Stocks Spark Rally - Yet another Wall Street analyst says the Internet is the greatest thing since chunky peanut butter. That's good enough to send share prices soaring. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16969.html
- Net Stocks Still Sweet - A glowing Goldman Sachs report about eBay sparks a rally among all Internet stocks. The Wired Index rises 3.59 to 433.14. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16171.html
- Net Stocks Take a Pounding - Investors rethink their enthusiasm for high-priced, much-hyped Net shares as Wall Street takes a post-holiday tumble. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16539.html
- Net Stocks, War Roil Markets - Theglobe.com soars a record 600 percent on its first trading day. K-tel plunges. The rest of the market braces for war. And it's Friday the 13th. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16246.html
- Net Stocks: The Starr Effect - Is there a link between the special prosecutor's plunging popularity and the meteoric rise in Internet share prices? Wall Street, with another up day under the belt, can only watch and wonder. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16379.html
- Netcenter Gets $10M Promotion - Netscape said it will spend US$10 million and tap Hollywood to promote its Internet directory. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13568.html
- Netcenter Gets a Face Lift - Netscape's portal upgrades its offerings, adding personalized start pages, Web-based apps, and a "smart" browsing feature. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12626.html
- Netcenter Traffic Rising - Aggressive marketing and new services have increased visitors by nearly a third in the past two months. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15036.html
- NetChannel's Troubles Attract Suitor - The Web-enhanced TV services provider, recently the subject of bankruptcy and investor bailout rumors, is reportedly the object of an unspecified bid by a British home-shopping company. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11455.html
- Netscape Acquires NewHoo - With the acquisition of the NewHoo Web directory, the Internet-software giant inherits a legion of volunteer editors. Are they worth their salt? By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16346.html
- Netscape Debuts Netcenter 2.0 - With the debut of Netcenter 2.0, Netscape hopes to seize center stage in the theater of portal players. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13327.html
- Netscape Dodges a Bullet - Despite grim predictions, Netscape reported breakeven quarterly earnings, which caused an after-hours rebound for the company's stock. By Heather McCabe. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12523.html
- Netscape Forms Web Division - Reading the scrawls on the wall, the browser/enterprise firm launches an effort to build what many rivals are trying: an omniservice supersite. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11202.html
- Netscape Globetrots en Español - In the midst of a global expansion by most of the portal sites, Netscape signs a deal with the big Latin American network StarMedia to give Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking visitors their own Net guides on Netcenter. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12731.html
- Netscape Layoffs Begin - As many as 400 people are expected to be cut from the payrolls, as the original Internet company cuts staff for the first time in its history. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9637.html
- Netscape Portals with Excite - The browser company picked a partner to help bolster its Netcenter Web site and agreed to share the profits to boot. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12093.html
- Netscape Rung by New Year's Loss - The original Internet company blamed Microsoft and other competitors for sagging sales of browsers - and a flop in the enterprise market it boasted about attacking last spring. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9476.html
- Netscape Taps Qwest's Fat Pipe - An alliance between the portal player and the upstart phone carrier will offer consumers and businesses a single place space on the Web to collect voicemail, email, and faxes. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15071.html
- Netscape Wants to Play Yahoo's Game - The software-maker announced an email service for its Netcenter and promises a slew of new features soon as it strives to become 'the major portal service.' [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11859.html
- Netscape's Ecommerce Campaign - The company lets loose with a slew of announcements that underscore its new enterprise software strategy. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12748.html
- Netscape, Citibank Ink Deal - The banking behemoth licenses the software firm's ecommerce applications as part of a bid to accelerate its online business. Since the companies declined to discuss financial terms, though, analysts are restrained in their enthusiasm. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12404.html
- Netscape, Intel Put On Red Hat - Red Hat, a tiny distributor of the Linux operating system, gets backing from two companies on a growing list that want someone, anyone, to blunt Windows' market power. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15317.html
- Netscape: 'Massively' Into Media - Is it too late to beat Yahoo? Maybe not, observers say, as the software-maker sharpens its focus on competing with some of its old buddies. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11911.html
- NetWeb Hops on Ad-Swap Bandwagon - An upstart with some big names from the online publishing world mimics the funky business model of LinkExchange, aiming to challenge the top dog in the banner-swapping game. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11661.html
- Network Solutions Backs Centraal - The world's biggest domain-name registrar plays sugar daddy to a small company pitching an alternative to URLs. By Chris Stamper. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16732.html
- Network Solutions Chief Resigns - Gabriel Battista says he's off to pursue a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," leaving the Internet name registrar in the lurch. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16269.html
- Network Solutions Europe-Bound - The company that holds the monopoly over Internet domain name registrations looks across the Atlantic to sign up more .com customers -- while it still can. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13554.html
- Network Solutions' Brand-New Bag - As the company's monopoloy on domain-name registration runs out, it puts the finishing touches on a brand-new business plan. But can it compete in an open market? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12114.html
- Networking Gurus Plant New Seed - The founders of Cascade Communications unveil their latest venture, which aims to make optical telecom networks more efficient. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16686.html
- New Century Network Won't See New Day - The combined force of nine of the country's top old-media companies failed to make the splash they expected when the Net was new, so the group has laid off 60 employees and closed up. An ad firm is picking up the pieces of whatever business is left. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10833.html
- New Characters to Join Microsoft in Court - Judge Jackson invited the Justice Department and Microsoft to bring on experts who could settle the Explorer/Windows integration issue. Tuesday, they take the stage. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9621.html
- New Economy: China, Big Time - Don Xia's ChinaBiG appears to have an advantage any monopoly would envy: the government's blessing. But some see this blessing as decidedly mixed. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11164.html
- New Economy: Silicon Wadi - Israel's economic minister to North America, David Rubin, acts as marketing director for his country's high tech sector. Other countries should be so fortunate. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11669.html
- New Economy: The CEO as Brand - Facing rapid turnover, high-tech business leaders are entering the Brand of Me era, marketing themselves like their celebrity counterparts in music and sports. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10447.html
- New Internet Protocol Sees Light - After four years in the lab, the next generation of the protocol that runs the entire Internet is open to the public. Now comes the hard part. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16643.html
- New Justice Infotech Guru No Geek - Jeffrey Blattner, the new coordinator of the Department of Justice case against Microsoft, runs Windows 95 but can't hack code. That's perfect, observers say. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10866.html
- New Media: Information Affluence - Noah Samara could be the next Rupert Murdoch as he brings Net access, television, and phone service to the developing world. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10691.html
- New Media: Amusement PARC - Palo Alto's Interval Research Corporation is ploting the future of technology in the music industry. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11967.html
- New Media: Digital Glasnost - NTV founder plots to deliver Russia into the digital 21st century. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11851.html
- New Media: HDTV Rebel - Twelve years after founding one of the first high-definition production houses, Barry Rebo emerges as a leader of the suddenly fast-growing field. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11153.html
- New PointCast IPO Rumors - The push-technology company might, it just might, actually file for an initial public offering by the end of May. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12166.html
- New Tech Rag to Open Bostonian Eyes - A monthly investment magazine focused on Massachusetts tech companies aims to unseat traditional views that the region's digital prowess is on the wane. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11428.html
- New Xing Effort: Too Much Anticipation? - The streaming technology firm announces a partnership with video programming startup SimplyTV to provide something the companies promise will look like broadcast television. But Xing concedes what analysts point out: It's a play that might be years ahead of its time. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11276.html
- Newt's Coming to a Tech Town Near You - First the Microsoft campus, then the Oracle offices will be paid a visit this week by the apparently techno-curious House Speaker. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9622.html
- Nielsen Keeps to TV-Centric Web Ratings - As TV viewers split their attention between Seinfeld and hyperlinked Web pages, Nielsen wants to monitor their forked paths. To critics who say the ratings giant should focus on pure Net measurement first, Nielsen says they'll "follow the money." [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11305.html
- Nine Retailers Under One Site - CDNow, Reel.com, and a handful of other online retailers band together to form a shopping supersite. Just don't call it a mall. By Chris Stamper. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16445.html
- No Surprise on Tape; Stocks Rise - Led by computer issues, stocks rally late in the day as Wall Street finds little new or unsettling in the Clinton testimony tape. The Wired Index rises 2.32 to 374.97. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15126.html
- No, the Check's Not in the Mail - Banks tread through 65 billion paper checks each year. Now, several firms are working on technology to pull the industry out of the flood. By Brian Alcorn. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17029.html
- Nortel Buys Bay Networks - Nortel makes the biggest acquisition yet in the networking industry to keep up in the integration race with Lucent and Cisco. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12992.html
- Not So Super Technology - In a switch in form, the game overshadowed the accoutrements provided by high-tech players. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9864.html
- Now or Never for @Home Merger - If the cable access company doesn't join its future with Road Runner/Media One, industry watchers say it may be too late. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10138.html
- Now You See It, Now You Don't - Three hours after the Dallas Morning News broke a story on its Web site alleging a Secret Service agent would testify to a Clinton-Lewinsky liaison, the story was pulled for inadequate sourcing. Is the increasing pressure to be first causing online news standards to slip? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9902.html
- NSI Welcomes Domain Policy - Network Solutions, the company with the government contract to dole out top-level domain names, thinks the White House's new Internet policy looks swell. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12793.html
- Nua: Free Service With Ulterior Motive - The Irish consulting firm gets its name out and about by posting survey figures - like its estimate of 112 million people online - in hopes of catching the eye of clients interested in its Web-design business. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10798.html
- NYSE Crash Spooks Markets - Most US stocks would have risen on Monday had it not been for a computer glitch on the New York Stock Exchange, which unsettled some traders. The Wired Index rises 17.10 to 390.89. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15842.html
- Offline Marketers AIM at Net - The Direct Marketing Association hopes to get with the Internet program in its acquisition of the Association for Interactive Marketing. The alliance has antispam activists concerned. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15559.html
- Oh, High-Speed Canada - Canadian ISPs are up in arms about the cheap ADSL service Bell Canada offers. They want the Canadian government to force Canada's Ma Bell to -- get this -- raise prices. By R. Scott Raynovich. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16886.html
- Olympic Games, But No Domains - Would-be online Olympians are finding themselves thwarted by the InterNIC, which is enforcing a little-known statute and forbidding registration of Olympic domain names. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10084.html
- Ominous Tolling of the Bells - He foresaw the breakup of AT&T years before it happened. Now, after predicting the merger between SBC and Ameritech, analyst Victor Schnee sees dark times ahead for the computer industry because of it. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12256.html
- One Modem, One Chip - Broadcom unveils a cable-modem chip that does the work of three. Its low price and small size could drive the growth of cable-based broadband services. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15128.html
- One on One with Yahoo - Jeff Mallett, Yahoo's chief operating officer, talks about the company's intention of staying independent, its bellwether status, and its plans for global domination. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13584.html
- One Ratings System Under God - RelevantKnowledge and Media Metrix, the Web's top two traffic-ratings firms, join forces to provide a unified standard for audience measurement online. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15564.html
- Online Booksellers Pay to Win - Both Barnes & Noble and Amazon paid out US$9 million more than they took in during the last fiscal year, but both booksellers - and several others - are likely to come out ahead, ultimately. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10932.html
- Online Gaming? Still Sucks - Online gaming has lost much of its luster, as evidenced by the long faces at last week's Computer Game Developers Conference. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12250.html
- Online Mall Learns Lesson - A number of small-business owners were surprised to discover their products for sale on a new site called HotFlyers. The entrepreneur behind the site wants to know: Why would they object to making money? By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12499.html
- Online Travel Flies, with Cabin Pressures - Slashed airline commissions and shoppers who look more than they buy are causing turbulence in the online travel industry. But so far the online agents haven't been bumped from the cockpit. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10899.html
- Oracle Beats Street - The database software company reports net income that easily trounced Wall Street estimates. Things weren't so rosy in the same quarter a year ago. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16770.html
- Oracle Nabs SAP Executive - Stepping up its efforts to overthrow the leader in the applications software business, Oracle has lured away a former executive from the German company. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13563.html
- Oracle Revs Up Apps Unit - Oracle says it will increase investment in its applications unit, doubling the sales staff and beefing up the pursuit of smaller customers. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13863.html
- Oracle to Offer Web Outsourcing - Oracle says it will lease its database software and computer space, and run the Web and ecommerce operations of small companies in an effort to boost revenues. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14649.html
- Outcry Over Electronic Trading - The venerable Chicago Board of Trade flips the switch Monday on an electronic trading system that threatens the livelihood of thousands of traders. By Ayla Jean Yackley. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15233.html
- Overseas Worries Jolt Market - Remember those dark clouds on the global economic horizon? They're baaack. This time tech stocks aren't the ones twisting in the wind. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16616.html
- Overvalued IPOs 'Bad Business' - Media mogul Barry Diller tells Spotlight participants that some Internet companies won't make it in the long run. He'll keep his own company out of the IPO game. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13893.html
- PalmPilot Duo Gets Funding - Venture capital has filled the coffers of Handspring, the new enterprise by PalmPilot's creators. The pair also unveiled a bit of their product plan: handheld computers for consumers. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16063.html
- Part II: Mating 'a Poodle With a Dead Hippo'? - Not so long ago, Softbank Interactive Marketing was considered a major player in the rapidly growing Internet advertising sector. While bottom-line numbers are hard to come by, some industry observers say the company is fading. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10610.html
- Patented Listening Pleasure - A music-site technology provider claims it holds the patent protecting music and video downloads. The music industry is warily keeping an eye on Sightsound.com. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15346.html
- Paul Allen, Cable Guy - The Microsoft co-founder says he will buy privately held Charter Communications for US$4.5 billion. Watch out, TCI. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14120.html
- Payroll Data Kick-Starts Rally - Some encouraging words from the Labor Department is all it took for Wall Street to recover its confidence. We'll just overlook all those workers receiving pink slips for Christmas. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16647.html
- PC Postage: 'It's the Future' - The first personal computer-generated postage was printed at a ceremony in Washington DC, perhaps heralding a change in the way Americans will send their mail. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11658.html
- Pentagon Reviews Web Security - The Pentagon orders the Department of Defense to stop revealing its secrets over the Web. And that's only the beginning. By Niall McKay. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15261.html
- People - Parenting founder takes post at CNET; Apple's job-hunting former chief technologist lashes out against the computer-maker's decision to kill cloning. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10274.html
- People: Silicon Valley Name-Dropping - Ralph Nader takes on Microsoft; ex-Netizen scribe cashes out with mega-dollar book deal; a venerable analyst and widely read columnist gets sexy new role: venture capitalist. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10077.html
- PeopleSoft Demoted - Two Wall Street firms drop their ratings on the software company as the result of a gloomy forecast. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15382.html
- PeopleSoft Goes Portal - The software developer unveils a service that distributes business information through its software. It's a bid to find new sources of revenue. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15986.html
- PeopleSoft Sales Disappoint - The business software vendor reports earnings in line with analyst's forecasts, but sales growth falls short of expectations. And the growth rate is expected to slow. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15739.html
- Pick Your Own Tunes - Customized CDs would seem to be a slam-dunk opportunity, but the music business continues to resist. However, one company thinks it's found a techno music beachhead. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12589.html
- Plane Talk - Iridium agrees to buy a small in-flight phone service to catch the attention of business travelers. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17023.html
- Playboy and K-tel Get Groovy - Playboy Online and K-tel plan to make beautiful music together in a co-branded online store. Honestly, honey, I don't look at the pictures. I'm just here for the tunes. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16005.html
- Playboy Makes Net Stocks Rise - The deal between K-Tel and Playboy boosts Internet stocks Tuesday, but the rest of the market ends lower. The Wired Index falls 3.28 to 412.99. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16017.html
- PointCast Nixes IPO - The pioneer of push media says legal restrictions connected to its IPO plans were keeping it from pursuing juicy partnerships. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13764.html
- Political Jitters Depress Stocks - As Wall Street nervously watches the doings in Washington, a number of firms are finding solace by climbing into bed with one another. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16820.html
- Political Jitters Pummel Stocks - As Wall Street nervously watches the doings in Washington, a number of firms are finding solace by climbing into bed with one another. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16823.html
- Political Worries Hurt Stocks - Monica Lewinsky and Kiichi Miyazawa don't have much in common, except that every move they make is felt on the world markets. The Wired Index slips 5.73 to 428.58. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14093.html
- Political Worries Rattle Markets - US stocks fall sharply as a Clinton impeachment hearing suddenly becomes a possibility. The Wired Index falls 15.37 to 365.58. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14945.html
- Portal Stocks Hold Firm - Amid otherwise slow pre-holiday trading, leading portal players attract interest as investors mull the prospects for further Internet dealmaking. Can you say consolidation? By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16504.html
- Portal Stocks Jump on AOL Bid - Speculation that AT T is willing to pay more than US$19 billion for AOL suddenly makes other portal sites look like bargains. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13054.html
- Portals May Not Get Giant Bids - It looked like Infoseek made out like a bandit when it announced Wednesday that Disney had acquired a stake in the Internet directory. A closer look reveals a different story. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13114.html
- PowerAgent Lives On - In Court - In a US$3.5 billion lawsuit, the Internet marketing startup, which all but folded in September, charges its former partner, EDS, with extortion. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10649.html
- Praise Java and Pass the Application - Java high priests Scott McNealy and John Doerr appear at a launch party for Extensity, a new suite of business cost-management tools. The real message is their presence is familiar: Java is wonderful, Windows is not. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9763.html
- Price of Real-Time Quotes Plummets ... to Nothing - Though it may be more gimmick than service, Fox News Online has become the first site to provide real-time stock prices free of charge. It certainly won't be the last. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9799.html
- Profit Warnings Hammer Stocks - Wall Street takes a spill as Boeing and Sears say their earnings are in trouble. And what's up with all those Net-industry insiders selling off their shares? By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16587.html
- Profit Warnings Hammer Stocks - As Wall Street takes a tumble, a pair of Net IPOs fails to score the usual triple-digit gains. It may be a case of old-media trumping the new. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16769.html
- Profits in Them Thar Euros - As Europe moves toward monetary union, a San Francisco company prospects for gold by helping other businesses deal with accounting and conversion issues. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12089.html
- PS: Netscape's Earnings - Thanks to a big jump in revenue from its Netcenter business, Netscape reports fourth-quarter profit that meets expectations. The big news, however, was the company's acquisition by AOL. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16465.html
- Pulldown Pay Dirt - Lycos, CNET, Infoseek, and AltaVista pay a total of US$60 million to be included on Microsoft Network. Some say that's a bit pricey. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15111.html
- Putting Kodak in the Picture - When your company name practically means "film," how do you adapt to a world of filmless cameras? [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12138.html
- Quicken Jumps Off the Mac Track - Intuit has canned the Apple version of its popular personal-finance software. While the move gives Cupertino a black eye, it may not sting consumers. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11799.html
- Quickturn's Hostile Mentor - Stakes rise in the battle for control of Quickturn Design Systems, as Mentor Graphics ups its hostile bid for the company to US$14 per share. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17045.html
- Quietly Opening the Borders - A year after Barnes & Noble and Amazon began feverishly slicing up the online bookselling turf, Borders is still sharpening its wits to join the skirmish. Observers are baffled. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12718.html
- Qwest Boosts Techs - Shares of the fiber-optic telecom services provider will be included in the Nasdaq 100, forcing fund managers to snap up shares. Qwest's rise helps the Wired Index climb 2.32 to 418.66. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14641.html
- Qwest Defends Partners - The Denver firm wants to intervene in lawsuits against US West and Ameritech related to Qwest's long-distance marketing agreements. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13096.html
- Qwest Network on Schedule - Qwest's chief executive officer tells investors the company will complete its fiber-optic network on time, and that he sees strong demand for the firm's enhanced telecom services. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15031.html
- Qwest's Loss Lower than Expected - Qwest reports a smaller-than-expected loss on solid revenue growth from its network construction and communications services businesses. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15721.html
- Race is on to Provide Net Calling - Just days after fiber-rich Qwest expanded its reach, announcing its acquisition of LCI Communications, ICG Communications takes its place on the track with a 5.9-cent long-distance calling rate. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10870.html
- Radio Shack's Challenged Future - High margins on techno tidbits that sell in 6,900 stores have primed the retailer's revenue pump in the past, but now it's looking to big deals with Sprint and Compaq to help it compete for new slices of business. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12781.html
- Rambus Rising - Rambus shares enjoyed a second day of 20 percent-plus gains on news that Intel and others are testing the firm's next-generation, chip-to-chip communication products. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13201.html
- Rate Cut Falls Flat - Surprising just about nobody, the Fed shaves another quarter-point off interest rates. But jaded investors already are looking ahead to future cuts. Stocks end mixed. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16319.html
- RCN: The Making of an Überprovider - Founded by one of the millionaires made by WorldCom's acquisition of MFS, RCN stepped into the limelight as the East Coast's biggest ISP last week. But the company's just warming up to take a bigger stage. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9893.html
- RealNetworks and Microsoft Hold Hands, Butt Heads - While the two companies collaborate on standards for streaming media, each strains to be the first in sales and market share. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9965.html
- RealNetworks Keeps Sliding - Shares of the software company slid for a third day after its CEO accused Microsoft, its biggest investor, of underhanded tactics. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14025.html
- Rebuilding an Empire - The Cable & Wireless purchase of MCI's backbone may finally position the company for a merger, adding another chapter to the company's storied history. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12593.html
- Reel.Rich - Hollywood Entertainment, feeling heat in the brick-and-mortar video store business, will pay US$100 million for online video peddler Reel.com. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14148.html
- Robertson Stephens On Auction Block - The high-tech investment bankers asked BankAmerica to set the firm free rather than force a merger with its cross-town rival, Montgomery Securities, a subsidiary of NationsBank. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11828.html
- RSA, Network Associates Settle - After a long and complex legal battle dating back to 1992, the two companies resolve their differences over use of RSA code in products now owned by the security giant. By James Glave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12639.html
- Russia Buries US Stocks - Worries that Russia might devalue its currency presses US stocks lower. The Wired Index drops 5.67 points to 408.29. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14413.html
- Russia Pummels Stocks Again - World stock markets, including those in the US, reel for a second day after Russia indefinitely halts ruble trading. Technology issues plummet again. The Wired Index falls 17.15 to 397.91. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14702.html
- Russia Punishes Tech Stocks - Russia's economic troubles send world markets, and most US stocks, reeling. Technology issues are particularly hard hit. The Wired Index falls 4.41 to 415.15. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14671.html
- Russian Roulette Rattles Market - Although US markets held firm, other bourses lurched at the news that President Boris Yeltsin had sacked his prime minister in the midst of Russia's economic turmoil. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14610.html
- Saffo: Leave That Middleman Alone - Pundits tell us that the Web will put travel agents and others out of business by placing customers in direct contact with companies through the much-hyped process of disintermediation. Not a good idea, said futurist Paul Saffo at the WWW7 conference. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11756.html
- SBC Challenges FCC's Data Rules - SBC Communications asks the federal courts to overturn the FCC's ruling that Baby Bells must share their advanced data networks with competitors. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14561.html
- SBC Takes Case to Supreme Court - The regional phone company wants to crack the long-distance market with its claim that portions of the Telecommunications Act are unconstitutional. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15758.html
- Scientific-Atlanta Claims Lead in Set-Top Race - After all the hype of NextLevel's deals to build next-generation set-top boxes to big cable providers, Scientific-Atlanta says it's going to beat those guys to the punch. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9850.html
- Scientific-Atlanta Profits Fall - The Asian crisis drags down another tech company, as Scientific-Atlanta says its first-quarter income will be significantly lower than analysts expected. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15379.html
- Search-Engine Stocks Rev Up - Together Yahoo, Excite, Infoseek, and Lycos watched their collective market capitalization gain more than US$800 million, or 15 percent, in one week. And financial analysts seem to think the run is based on more than hype. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11461.html
- SEC OKs Net-Based Stock Markets - The Securities and Exchange Commission approves the proliferation of online trading systems. Who loses? Fat cat investors on Wall Street. Who wins? Mom and pop investors trading online. R. Scott Raynovich reports from Washington. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16583.html
- Selling the AOL 'Secret Sauce' - AOL and Excite announced they are building more localized NetFind search engines for the international market. The news sheds some light on AOL's strategy to dominate the world. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12442.html
- Seven-Day Stock Rally Snapped - US stocks fall for the first time in eight days after several companies report poor earnings because of the economic turmoil. Techs, however, eke out gains. The Wired Index rises 0.31 to 388.06. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15801.html
- SGI to Close Cosmo Software - SGI will close its 3D-animation division following the collapse of talks with potential buyer Sony. The high-end computer manufacturer planned to sell the unit as part of a restructuring effort that also produced the recent MIPS spinoff. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13480.html
- SGI: Moving Beyond Dinosaur Era - Bringing Intel inside its powerful workstations should open Silicon Graphics' doors to the robust NT market. But what the company is hyping as a new strategic direction looks more like another step in a path determined long ago. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11679.html
- Shootout on the Phone Frontier - Delta Three, which claims the world's largest Internet telephony network, and ITXC Corp., a broker of services for IP phone firms, have a plan to unify the Net telephony industry. Looming in their path: The AT&Ts of the world. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11295.html
- Sidewalk Staffers Get Word: Hit the Pavement - Some 30 to 40 full-timers were laid off this morning at the Microsoft city guide's 10 offices across the country. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9764.html
- Silicon Alley Visits Valley and VCs - To New York's new-media companies looking to raise funds, the grass looks greener on the West Coast. But a group pilgrimage to the Golden State got off to a rather lonely start. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10960.html
- Slow Access at the Inn - Travelers looking for data services in their hotel rooms might sometimes be just as well off bedding down in a barn. But both innkeepers and service providers are working on access solutions. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10714.html
- Smarting Over Smartcards - Visa and MasterCard finish a 14-month experiment to see how people like using smartcards instead of cash. Conclusion: They don't. By Brian Alcorn. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16048.html
- Snap's Checkered Quest for Ubiquity - Four months after its launch, CNET is still busy announcing new partners for its online service, but it's not clear how the fee-free deals bring in any bucks. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9771.html
- So Far, So Good - Three days of a two-week test have gone by, and Wall Street still hasn't encountered any serious Year 2000-related glitches in its computers. By Yukari Iwatani. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13743.html
- Software.net: Another Amazon? - A high-flying first day for the online software reseller is chalked up to a hot market and some similarities with the successful bookseller. But questions loom about the company's long-term potential. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13060.html
- Sold on eBay - The online auction house attracts millions of bargain hunters and is reaping a profit in the process. Most impressive for an Internet company, but can it compete with hundreds of rivals? By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15105.html
- Sony, Nintendo Cut Prices - The videogame leaders both cut their system prices to US$129 to keep sales strong. Could it be they're also wary of Sega's soon-to-be-released Dreamcast? By Karsten Lemm. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14650.html
- Sounding the Sirens on Y2K - A Web survey reveals that few emergency agencies have responded to the alarming millennium bug. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16621.html
- Sowbellies, Soybeans, IT Staff - In Australia and New Zealand, infotech employers can lock in contract-programmer costs by bidding on staff "futures." By Stewart Taggart. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13295.html
- Space Cowboy - With a US$4 billion deal last winter, Alden Richards established himself as the preeminent broker of satellite insurance. Now come the white-knuckle liftoffs. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12197.html
- Space Cowboy - With a $4 billion deal last winter, Alden Richards established himself as the preeminent broker of satellite insurance. Now come the white-knuckle liftoffs. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12590.html
- Speed: The E-Commerce Mantra - The marketing hype about companies making technology that builds electronic retailers' sites is all about velocity. But customers don't seem to be racing to their doors. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11970.html
- SportsLine Contestants Exposed - If you've entered a contest at the CBS sports site, chances are your name, address, and phone number have been made available to the Web-surfing public. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16939.html
- SportsLine Teams with AOL - SportsLine renews its contract with AOL, but warns of a third-quarter revenue shortfall. Investors decide to punt, sending SportsLine shares down 50 percent. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15484.html
- Staking the First V-Chip Claim - With V-chip-enabled TVs on the horizon, several companies are jockeying to provide the chips and reap the rewards. But the FCC left a backdoor in the spec that may leave everyone in the dust. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12631.html
- Startups Flourish in Virtual Incubator - San Jose's Center for Software Development nurtures fledgling businesses trying to bring to fruition their Silicon Valley dreams. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10512.html
- States Drop Office from MS Case - States attorneys general narrowed their antitrust case against Microsoft, concentrating on the software company's strong-arm tactics in marketing operating systems and browsers. By Jennifer Sullivan and Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13818.html
- States Still Undecided on MS Suit - The group of attorneys general are ruling nothing out, including a possible push to delay Microsoft's release of Windows 98. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12210.html
- Steve Jobs 'Puts Butts in Seats' - When the Apple Computer co-founder speaks, people listen, hoping the master of suspense might say something big. That drawing power has made him a favorite on the keynote circuit. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11903.html
- Steve Jobs? He Wasn't Invited - Apple Computer's interim chief, in a telling comment on the company's fortunes, was not among those called to appear at today's Senate hearing. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10653.html
- Sticks and Stones on the Net - A medical company claims a former exec defamed it on Yahoo's message boards. The former employee says his online identity was stolen. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16059.html
- Stock Only Doubled? Big Deal - Shares of Computer Literacy more than double on the first day of trading -- another beneficiary of Net stock madness. One analyst warned: Buyer beware. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16397.html
- Stocks Eke Out Small Gains - A modest rally at the end of the day, led by some tech stocks, helps offset declines elsewhere in the stock market. The Wired Index rises 0.74 to 372.61. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15104.html
- Stocks Fall as Fed Disappoints - The Fed cuts interest rates by a quarter percentage point, disappointing investors who were hoping for a bigger cut to really spur the economy. The Wired Index falls 1.60 to 394.80. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15313.html
- Stocks Fall on Banking Concerns - Most US stocks retreat as investors await an interest-rate cut, and as a big hedge-fund bailout rattles the financial services industry. The Wired Index falls 10.08 to 392.03. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15218.html
- Stocks Fall on Brazil Concerns - The rumor is, Brazil may devalue its currency, knocking more wind out of US banks. The Wired Index falls 2.58 to 389.30, even with gains among techs. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15869.html
- Stocks Fall on Credit Crunch - Fed chairman Greenspan says it's getting tougher for US companies to get loans and capital, which means slower expansion all around. The Wired Index drops 6.44 to 333.76. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15479.html
- Stocks Fall on Earnings Concern - Bad earnings news from Eastman Kodak and concern about Intel drive US stocks lower. Monsanto also calls off a key merger, helping push the Wired Index down 10.48 to 344.82. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15590.html
- Stocks Gain on Voter Mandate - Voters say they want things just the way they are. Investors agree. So stocks rise for the fifth time in six days. The Wired Index gains 6 to 417.89. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16047.html
- Stocks Give Up Early Rally - Most US stocks post modest losses on Wednesday, but technology related shares gain. Investors are still skittish about earnings prospects. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14803.html
- Stocks Give Up Gains - A day after record-setting gains, US stocks decline amid concerns about Japan and Russia. Techs post mixed results. The Wired Index falls 8.76 to 380.96. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14916.html
- Stocks Hammered on Global Unease - Stocks fall as economic leaders fail to unveil measures to bolster weakening economies. Meanwhile, concerns rise about the earning prospects of some bellwethers. The Wired Index falls 14.80 to 345.12. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15431.html
- Stocks Mixed as Rate Cut Awaited - Stocks rose, then subsided as US investors begin looking beyond Tuesday's expected Fed rate cut. Will it be enough to save corporate earnings? The Wired Index falls 1.38 to 396.43. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15288.html
- Stocks Plummet, Led by Techs - Several US stock indexes register their worst declines ever amid growing worries about an international financial crisis. Tech stocks plummet. The Wired Index plunges 29.82 to 355.02. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14748.html
- Stocks Plunge Again - Technology stocks are particularly hard hit. Wall Street worries that a Chinese currency devaluation and a worsening Japanese economy would wipe away US profits. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14363.html
- Stocks Plunge as G7 Hopes Dashed - World stock markets, including those in the United States, plummet after Fed chairman Greenspan says there's no effort by the industrialized nations to coordinate interest-rate cuts. The Wired Index falls 11.88 to 371.84. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15081.html
- Stocks Plunge as Recession Looms - The IMF says a global recession could occur as early as next year. US stocks, led by technology shares, plunge. The Wired Index loses 19.48 to 357.95. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15367.html
- Stocks Rally Amid Political Lull - With a brief respite from the slugfest in Washington, investors seize the opportunity to go bargain hunting. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16850.html
- Stocks Recover, Led by Techs - The yen rises slightly, easing concerns about the effects of Japan's economic crises on US profits. The Wired Index rises 6.77 points to 414.21. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14386.html
- Stocks Rise Again on Rate Cuts - An unexpected interest-rate cut boosts US stocks for a second day, but techs lags amid concerns about the health of the economy. The Wired Index rises 2.61 to 371.22. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15667.html
- Stocks Rise as Clinton Stays Put - It looks increasingly unlikely that President Clinton will resign, calming concerns about major market upheaval. The Wired Index rises 6.41 to 381.19. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15005.html
- Stocks Rise as Rate Cut Seen - Stocks, led by technology issues, post solid gains amid optimism that the Fed will cut rates again soon. The Wired Index rises 14.67 to 341.05. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15537.html
- Stocks Rise as Rate Cuts Seen - Fed chairman Greenspan drops big hints that interest rates will be cut in coming months to boost the economy. The Wired Index rises 26.11 to 401.09. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15189.html
- Stocks Rise as Techs Rally - US stocks rise for the first time in four days, aided by a late afternoon rally in tech stocks. The Wired Index rises 1.99 to 360.10. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15395.html
- Stocks Rise on Profit Outlook - A Fed official says the financial markets are becoming less volatile and a credit crunch is easing, boosting confidence in the performance of US stocks. The Wired Index rises 7.13 to 401.98. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15922.html
- Stocks Slip on Uncertainty - Uncertainty about worldwide financial stability pushes most US stocks lower. Techs finish day mixed. The Wired Index falls 1.39 to 366.36. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14846.html
- Stocks Slip Some More on Russia - The ruble continues to plunge, increasing losses at US banks. Huge losses at Japanese companies don't bode well for US earnings, either. The Wired Index loses 4.62 to close at 367.98. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14826.html
- Stocks Stage Cautious Rally - With a brief respite from the political drama in Washington, investors seize the opportunity to go bargain hunting. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16845.html
- Stocks Surge Again - Wall Street again shrugs off the president's mea culpa and the Russian ruble crisis. Tech stocks lead the rally. The Wired Index rises 10.37 to 423.26. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14494.html
- Stocks Surge Again - US stocks rise following announcements of more mergers and acquisitions, which means plenty of optimism about business prospects. The Wired Index gains 7.11 to 414.66. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15980.html
- Stocks Surge on Profit Reports - War? Impeachment? Who cares? Wall Street is much more excited about the improving fortunes of leading companies. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16908.html
- Stocks Up As Brazil Worry Eases - The Brazilian government unveils an austerity package that lessens the likelihood of currency devaluation and a slowdown of Latin American economies. The Wired Index rises 5.30 to 394.83. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15897.html
- Stocks Up on Profit Performance - Third-quarter earnings aren't as bad as people thought they would be, and mergers and acquisitions continue: signs that the stock market may be stabilizing. The Wired Index rises 6.22 to 377.27. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15704.html
- Stocks Zigzag, Finish Higher - US stocks fall, then rise on Friday, buffeted by concern about losses at major banks, then boosted by hopes that the Fed will cut interest rates soon. The Wired Index rises 5.26 to 397.36. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15256.html
- Stocks, Led by Techs, Inch Up - Astounding earnings from IBM and Microsoft save the day. The computer giants pull US stocks up, as other companies disappoint. The Wired Index rises 2.10 to 377.86. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15754.html
- Stop the Presses - In the battle to keep its share of the online classifieds, Knight Ridder gangs up on its new rivals with the help of its traditional newspaper rivals. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12236.html
- Store's Almost Ready - How 'Bout Products? - Cupertino is set to unveil a new online store for the education market. What the Mac maker will offer cost-conscious students is still a mystery. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10652.html
- Streams of Consciousness - Leading streaming-media content companies don't want you to bookmark their streams. Why? Because you'll bypass their lifeblood, advertising. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15486.html
- Strong Profits Boost Stocks - War? Impeachment? Who cares? Wall Street is much more interested in the improving fortunes of leading companies. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16900.html
- Students Bring Dead Machines Back to Life - Computers considered obsolete in the corporate world are given a new life at Oakland Technical High School, where students refurbish and upgrade donated machines for themselves and the whole school district. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10546.html
- Study: Europe Fears Ecommerce - European executives know electronic commerce is the next big thing, but are hesitant to jump in, a consultant's study finds. By Karsten Lemm. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14854.html
- Sun Buys NetDynamics - The server computermaker takes over a software company that specializes in linking all kinds of computers into big corporate networks. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13411.html
- Sun Demands Java Justice - Sun announced today that it has filed new motions in its suit against Microsoft, seeking to block the release of Win98 and defend the integrity of its Java programming language. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12257.html
- Sun, Microsoft Take It to Court - James Gosling, a co-creator of the Java programming language, testified Wednesday that Redmond had demonstrated "bad intent" in its licensing of Java. By Heidi Kriz. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14941.html
- Sun, MS to Duel Next Week - The archrivals will face off in court for pretrial motions concerning Sun Microsystems' Java copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft. By Arik Hesseldahl. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14857.html
- Surprise Rate Cut Boosts Stocks - The Federal Reserve unexpectedly cuts interest rate by another quarter point, in a move to ensure that the US economy doesn't slow down too rapidly. The Wired Index surges 18.03 to 368.60. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15634.html
- Sybase Announces Top-Level Shakeup - CEO Mitchell Kertzman still has an office at the database company - but now he'll be sharing it with the new co-CEO, formerly known as president John Chen. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10579.html
- T-Bill Auctions Go Online - Appealing to individual investors, the US Treasury Department will begin taking bids via the Net for US$1,000 of any short-term Treasury bill -- but only from customers who open an account with the government. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14256.html
- Take It Easy on Day Traders - Those ninja investors with ETrade accounts are getting slammed for purportedly causing market volatility. Back off, says Nasdaq's chief. It might not be their fault. R. Scott Raynovich reports from New York. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16620.html
- Tapping the Valley's Hive Mind - Round Zero brings the rising stars of the Internet industry together in a monthly event that is equal parts schmoozefest, support group, and literary salon. Yes, you have to know someone. By James Glave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14892.html
- Tech Earnings Boost Stocks - Intel and Compaq report better-than-expected earnings, suggesting matters are not that dire for big companies. The Wired Index rise 5.68 to 350.59. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15613.html
- Tech Industry Courts Graying Geeks - Nonprofits and profitmongers alike see retirees as a large and lucrative crowd - not only for buying computers, but for putting computers to work once they've learned the right skills. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9441.html
- Tech Issues Buoy US Stocks - Talks between Clinton and Japan's Obuchi don't produce any immediate results, pulling some US stocks lower. But tech shares rise as interest in Internet grows. The Wired Index rises 5.07 to 380.05. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15147.html
- Tech Stock Slump Continues - The global selloff hits US tech stocks particularly hard. More turmoil abroad raises concerns about international sales for US tech firms. The Wired Index slips 13.09 to 384.42. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14722.html
- Tech Stocks Defy Gravity - More and more shoppers will give online retailers a try this Christmas, boosting the prospects of any retailer with a ".com" in its name. So Net stocks surge. The Wired Index slips 0.57 to 427.94. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16138.html
- Tech Stocks Edge Up on Telco - Cable & Wireless foundered, but other telecommunications stocks rose, pulling the Wired Index up 4.06 points. Also, the market holds its breath for Microsoft. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13782.html
- Tech Stocks Fuel Rally - Amid armed conflict and impeachment debate, investors focus instead on computer-related shares and a persistently sunny outlook for digital commerce. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16926.html
- Tech Stocks Hold Firm - Continued profit warnings send a shiver through blue chips. And Schwab gives a cold shoulder to its online traders. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16790.html
- Tech Stocks Lead Market Higher - Sunny prospects for PC makers help propel Wall Street higher. And Microsoft gets an early Christmas gift from South Carolina. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16685.html
- Tech Stocks Lose Luster - Wall Street is mixed in slow end-of-the-year trading. Even white-hot Internet shares shed some sizzle as traders frown on those fat valuations. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17066.html
- Tech Stocks Lose Power - Wall Street gives up ground from recent gains as a rally among tech shares peters out. Not that blacked-out investors in San Francisco would know. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16712.html
- Tech Stocks Post Gains - Remember all those sunny-bright forecasts for online shopping? Looks like they were right on the money. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16787.html
- Tech Stocks Routed Again - There's plenty of evidence that the US economy is heading for deep trouble. The Wired Index, dragged particularly by technology issues, drops 7.66 to 326.09. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15510.html
- Tech Stocks Take a Breather - Following days of big gains, only Amazon.com is still running at a full clip following word of another stock split. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16407.html
- Technician Dream Job: Wiring Guatemala - Help wire up Guatemala as a technician for the Global Development Center. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11379.html
- Techs Pull US Markets Up - Crummy earnings from industrial companies almost manage to break a six-day winning streak for US stocks. But strong performances by tech stalwarts save the day. The Wired Index rises 3.74 to 385.88. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15774.html
- Techs Rebound on PC Outlook - Technology stocks advance as the outlook for PC sales improves and acquisition speculation swirls around Sun. Wired Index rises 5.99 to 416.43. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14271.html
- Techs Recover Some More - Technology shares gain more ground on Friday, led by Internet stocks and anticipation of big IPOs next week. The Wired Index rises 1.72 to 418.73. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14296.html
- Techs Rescue US Markets - On a day when most of the world's stock markets plummet, strong earnings reports from technology bellwethers boost US stocks. The Wired Index rises 8.54 to 374.48. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
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- Techs Slump Near Day's End - US stocks post mixed results, as strong bank and technology earnings are offset by concerns about Microsoft, Cisco, and other bellwethers. The Wired Index drops 1.56 to 375.56. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
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- Techs Still Leading Way to Top - Wall Street pauses for breath after climbing to record highs a day earlier. So how come Microsoft is so energetic in the wake of the AOL-Netscape marriage? By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
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- Techs Stocks Falter Again - Another day of declines for technology stocks offset gains by other industries. The Wired Index drops 4.08 to 340.18. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15446.html
- Teens a Threat, Pentagon Says - In the wake of the Analyzer cracker caper, a US undersecretary of defense warns that teenage intruders really are a national security threat. By Wayne Madsen. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12687.html
- Telco Celebration or Sellout? - Forget better service and network improvements, say protesters of Brazil's mammoth telco privatization. They want Telebras to remain in state hands to protect national security. By Jack Epstein. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14109.html
- Telco Mergers Drag Stocks - Bell Atlantic's proposed megamerger with GTE raises concerns about the health of the industry. Telco stocks pull the Wired Index down 6.07 points to 436.53. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
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- Telcos Mixed; PC Issues Rise - It's tough to tell what the spate of telecom mergers will mean for the industry, so telco issues were mixed Monday. But Dell and other PC issues raise the Wired Index 0.66 points to 440.84. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
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- Teligent Takes to the Air - The upstart says its wireless network can offer telephone and Internet services that match the quality of fiber-optic landline networks, but are much cheaper. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15873.html
- The 15 Percent Solution - To continually create unheard-of products requires a big investment, as much in free-range experimentation as hard-core resources, and 3M does this by handing out free time to employees who want to work on their own projects. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9858.html
- The Affiliate Network Lowdown - Ever buy a book from Amazon through a friend's site? Here's the skinny on affiliate programs. Courtesy of Webmonkey.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16480.html
- The Art of the Secret Handshake - Technology entrepreneurs have found a way to generate IPO fever and whet the appetites of the media. How do they do it? Wouldn't you like to know? By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16503.html
- The Book-a-Minute Club - On-demand printing technology from IBM and Xerox helps keep less popular books in print. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13003.html
- The Comdex Rumor Mill Cranks Up - Everything at Comdex feels rigged. You either go with it, or, as was the case with Bill Gates' opening keynote, you gripe about it. Polly Sprenger reports from Las Vegas. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16264.html
- The Flat-Rate Pricing Blues - IBM.net, Big Blue's Net access service, says it can no longer afford to offer US$19.95-a-month connections and will up the ante for heavy users. While other ISPs aren't following suit yet, it seems they may be losing money. [Wired News]
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- The Herd on TheStreet.com - TheStreet.com is out to prove that financial news can be as breezy to read as the sports pages. But can the brash business news site last long enough to prove its point? By Grace Lichtenstein. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13483.html
- The Lure of TriStrata - A tiny software company snagged Paul Wahl away from his job at mighty SAP, promising riches from sales of unbreakable security software. By Karsten Lemm. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14917.html
- The Mouse That Indexed - Disney Online launches Disney's Internet Guide, a squeaky-clean portal that handpicks sites for kids and families. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13248.html
- The Naked Interview - Learn how to brave the online job hunt, and you'll never have to leave your computer again. From Webmonkey. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15518.html
- The New Economy: Microlending in Bangladesh - From the US$26 he used to start a microloan program in Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus has grown a multimillion-dollar bank and a telecom business that is improving the lives of his nation's needy. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10395.html
- The New Papyrus, from Xerox - Xerox PARC, the inventor of much of the technology on your desk, has another in the works: electric paper. But can PARC bring it to market before an upstart? By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16028.html
- The New Renaissance - Finding a job at a Web site can be like securing the patronage of a 15th-century benefactor. From Webmonkey.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16484.html
- The Next Nasdaq? - Net broker Datek hopes to turn its online trading system into the stock exchange for the next 100 years. Bad news for the middlemen. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14564.html
- The Online Job Hunt - Looking for a job in the Web industry? Here's how to get hired without ever leaving your computer. From Webmonkey.com. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16057.html
- The Perfect Hosts? - Microsoft and Qwest agree to develop a Web-hosting service for big companies. The venture will be used as a showcase for Windows NT and Qwest's bandwidth. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16819.html
- The Quiet Period Conspiracy - Information wants to be free, but investment banks and corporate lawyers make a lot of money when it isn't. That's why the so-called quiet period thwarts companies and investors, even in the Internet Age. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16149.html
- The Three-Day Wonder Divorce - The Web offers would-be shysters a new way to prey on people looking for a quick way out of a bad marriage. Some people are finding out the hard way that divorces that look too good to be true usually are. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12778.html
- The Trouble with Tiny Domains - Many of the more obscure country code domains make interesting Net addresses, like me.to and mcdonalds.tm, but making them work may be more trouble than it's worth. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12226.html
- The TV That Watches Back - A new set-top box turns your television into a window for advertisers. That makes privacy advocates nervous. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16925.html
- The Web's Number-One Car Dealer - When defiantly un-pushy car salesman Pete Ellis filed bankruptcy and lost his 16 dealerships, he set out to create a new auto empire online. Today, Auto-By-Tel does more business than its closest competitors, Microsoft's CarPoint and CUC's AutoVantage, combined. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9747.html
- The Web-Portal Shuffle - Netscape and Yahoo part ways; AltaVista, Infoseek, Looksmart, and Lycos join Excite on Netscape's Net Search site; Yahoo chooses Inktomi to replace AltaVista.... Cha, cha, cha. By Randolph Court. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12496.html
- TheGlobe.com Cuts IPO Price - The homepage-hosting community site slashes its IPO price range, suggesting that investors may be cooling to the business of community. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15725.html
- Theglobe.com Nixes IPO - The homepage-hoster says the volatile market is no place for a tender young Net company. That's probably right, say analysts. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15777.html
- Theglobe.com's Galactic IPO - Theglobe.com has the most successful IPO ever as its stock supernovas on the first day of trading. But analysts say this is a bad sign for the market. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16237.html
- Theglobe.com: One More Try - Take 'em public while you can. Sensing a short-term surge in demand for Internet stocks, theglobe.com will try for a second time to go IPO on Friday. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16222.html
- TI Sees its Future in DSP - A Texas Instruments executive tells investors there's life after the death of DRAM. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14091.html
- Ticketmaster IPO Takes Off - Another Internet IPO, another windfall. This time, it's Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch -- a Barry Diller operation whose fortunes have improved substantially since the summer. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16615.html
- Time Pares Down Road Runner - The media empire trims its cable-modem system, cutting 11 staffers free and sparking rumors that its recently failed deal with Bell Canada was the catalyst. By Steve Silberman. [Wired News]
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- Timeline: In and Out of Court Again - Microsoft has spent much of the 1990s under the federal government's legal lens. [Wired News]
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- Timeline: Zulu-Tek and Friend - The paths taken by Australian financier Pattinson Hayton and the Rhode Island company to this week's big stock run-up. [Wired News]
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- Tomorrow Today - Here's a look at headlines from the digital future. [Wired News]
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- Tomorrow Today - Here's a look at headlines from the digital future. [Wired News]
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- Tomorrow Today - Here's a look at headlines from the digital future. [Wired News]
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- Tomorrow Today - Here's a glimpse at headlines from the digital future. [Wired News]
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- Tomorrow Today - Headlines from the digital future. [Wired News]
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- Tomorrow Today - Here's a glimpse at headlines from the digital future. [Wired News]
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- Too Experienced to Get a Job? - The information technology industry has gotten a lot of ink for claims that there aren't enough workers to fill available jobs. That comes as news to some well-traveled geeks who might be unemployable because their resumes are just too long. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10531.html
- Tossing Shares in At Home - Top managers at the cable-based Internet services company plan to sell about US$9 million in company stock. But why now? By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15894.html
- Tower Online Expands to Europe - Tower Records will launch a European Web site and distribution network to ramp up its international online efforts. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14522.html
- Toys Take Manhattan - Kids are rare sights at the International Toy Fair where, despite the proximity of "Power Rangers in Space" and Lego's new robots, fun and games are considered serious business. [Wired News]
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- Tracking Bogus Brands Online - Manufacturers say online auction sites are perfect for selling counterfeit goods. Microsoft, Pfizer, and others are cracking down. By Polly Sprenger. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16854.html
- Trade Group Challenges MSoft Practices - The Software Publishers Association will issue its new standards of industry competition on Tuesday, including one that looks down on Microsoft's practice of leveraging its leading OS market share to sell other products. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10014.html
- Trade With a Blade - Bored with high-tech stocks and options? Try online foreign currency trading, if you've got fighter-pilot cool and money to blow. By David Collett. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15573.html
- Tricky IPO for GeoCities - The pre-eminent community site might be popular with users, but not with advertisers. Investors looking for another Yahoo should beware, analysts say. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14266.html
- TRUSTe Brings Privacy Home - The Internet industry is trying to prove to the US government that it can look after consumers. But how can it do that if nobody has heard of TRUSTe? By James Glave. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15462.html
- Trusting Entrust - Entrust's software ensures that people are who they say they are on the Internet. That's just the thing electronic commerce needs to take off. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14448.html
- TV Ads Tailored to You - Cable companies are harnessing new technology that will pipe different ads to different boob tubes in the same 'hood, or even the same house, during a single commercial break. [Wired News]
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- Uninstall It, Symantec Told - A federal judge grants CyberMedia's request and orders Symantec to stop shipping Norton Uninstall Deluxe while CyberMedia continues to pursue its copyright infringement lawsuit. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14841.html
- Up Close and Personal with VCs - A new software package designed to help entrepreneurs meet the right venture capitalists not only offers a database of the VCs' firms, but a little dirt on their private lives as well. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9745.html
- Updata: Reback's Epilog - Microsoft's nemesis once asked if it would take the downfall of Netscape to convince Janet Reno to acknowledge Microsoft's anticompetitive practices. Reback's faith has been restored. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10204.html
- UPS: In E-Commerce We Trust - With the unveiling of its new secure online document delivery service, United Parcel Service promises to usher in a new era of integrity - and guarantees - to electronic transactions. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10753.html
- US Stocks Hammered - Stocks finally succumb to a flurry of uncertainty about Russia, Clinton, Japan, and terrorism. Investors lose the stomach for high-flyers and flee to bonds. Wired Index falls 6.84 to 415.98. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
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- US Stocks Rebound - Most stocks, even the hammered techs, rise on Tuesday as bargain hunters pick up the more stable issues. The Wired Index climbs 15.62 to 370.44. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14772.html
- US Stocks Surge - Even though Japanese stocks collapse and President Clinton lands in hot water, bargain-hunting traders rally US stocks on Monday. Wired Index rises 6.16 to 411.26. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14464.html
- US Twitchy on EU Data Privacy - Later this month, Europe is expected to enact far-reaching regulations that aim to give consumers more control over their personal data. That might spell a trade war. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15671.html
- US West Drops Long-Distance Bid - The Baby Bell drops its long-distance application in New Mexico, saying that competitors withheld information the firm needed to prove its case. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15232.html
- US West to Charge Net Calls - The Baby Bell becomes the second to impose access charges on Internet telephony. No more free rides, the phone companies say. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14989.html
- US West's VDSL Promise - Boldly marching where other telcos have tried -- and failed -- before, the Baby Bell launched a digital TV and broadband Internet access service that uses copper telephone wires and a "very high speed" variety of digital subscriber line service. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11795.html
- Using Bots to Buy Books - The emergence of shopbots, which help you look for the cheapest price among participating sites, spell trouble for brand-name online retailers. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12280.html
- USWeb Lands Oracle Man as CEO - USWeb, the biggest Web consulting firm, hires former Oracle executive vice president Robert Shaw to guide the company. Co-founder and resident visionary Joe Firmage becomes chief strategist. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16071.html
- USWeb to Buy CKS for $324M - Web-site developer USWeb will acquire CKS Group, a Web marketing firm, to form a formidable new company: Reinvent Communications. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14786.html
- Utility Software Merger - Network Associates, an aggressive security software developer on a three-year shopping spree, buys rival CyberMedia for US$130 million. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14047.html
- Viagra and Sex Sites Don't Mix - The operators of a porno site say Pfizer is pressuring them to give up their viagrafalls.com domain name. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
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- Viagrafalls Falls to Pfizer - The maker of Viagra wins a court order preventing a porno site from using the viagrafalls.com domain. It's a rare win for a domain-name latecomer. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16793.html
- Victoria's Secret: E-Tail - The lingerie company is planning to launch an online store that combines the Net's two killer apps: e-commerce and sex. That ought to get a rise out of Wall Street. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16612.html
- Wal-Mart Sues Web Upstarts - The retail king says online vendor Amazon.com and nascent Drugstore.com are hiring its executives to steal information-technology expertise. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15672.html
- Wal-Mart v. Amazon Delayed - The judge overseeing the suit against the online bookseller recuses himself after revealing his ownership of Wal-Mart stock. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16973.html
- Wall Street Goes Shopping - Stocks rise as the holiday spending spree kicks into high gear. Internet retailers lead the way amid hopes for a watershed in e-commerce. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16511.html
- Wall Street Holds Its Breath - Profits, impeachment, Iraq -- too much uncertainty. But see that blazing light overhead? It's Amazon.com's record-high share price. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16881.html
- Wall Street Throttles Back - Following a day of record highs, many tech stocks return to more sensible levels as wary investors sell off shares. Except, that is, red-hot online brokerages. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16993.html
- Wall Street Unfazed by Turmoil - Amid armed conflict and impeachment debate, investors focus instead on red-hot tech stocks and a persistently sunny outlook for digital commerce. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16931.html
- Wall Street Y2K Report: A- - Wall Street's computers passed a two-week test for year 2000 bugs. But the sponsors say a much bigger test is needed, just to be sure. By Yukari Iwatani. [Wired News]
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- Wall Street Y2K Tests Done - Brokerages and exchanges have finished a two-week test to see how well their computers would hold up at the end of the millennium. They passed with flying colors. By Yukari Iwatani. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13964.html
- WaveRider Cuts the Wires - A small Canadian startup will introduce a wireless modem and Internet access service that it says will lower costs for ISPs. By Claudia Graziano. [Wired News]
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- Wealth Is Overrated - And other heresies, as pronounced by Peter Drucker. [Wired News]
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- Web Portals Play Leapfrog - Each time a Big Four Web portal site leaps to the forefront by adding another new service -- as Excite did this week -- the others are compelled to play copycat. Where will it end? [Wired News]
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- Web Publishing's Future - An Intel VP tells the Seybold Conference that bandwidth is holding up Web publishing. Meanwhile, a Xerox PARC scientist unveils the newsprint of tomorrow. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14749.html
- Web Ratings Companies Ready to Rumble - As a pair of new measurement firms prepare to enter the fray - including Nielsen of TV rating fame - incumbents Media Metrix and RelevantKnowledge warm up with a little PR sparring. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10453.html
- Welcome to the Dorm; Here's Your Office - In its most expansive educational licensing agreement to date, Microsoft will give Indiana University students "free" software galore. Even so, some Hoosiers aren't cheering. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11336.html
- Wells Fargo Drops Mac Quicken - Wells Fargo will discontinue online banking through Quicken for Macintosh, saying there aren't enough users to justify the expense. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13522.html
- Wells Fargo Keeps Mac Quicken - In response to customer protest, Wells Fargo will continue to offer online banking through Quicken for Macintosh, reversing a decision last week to drop the service. By Sean Donahue. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13566.html
- What is Apple Up to With Claris Shake-up? - Analysts are baffled by Cupertino's decision to rename its software subsidiary FileMaker Inc., lay off 300 of its employees, and pare back its product line to a pair of offerings. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9912.html
- When The Future is Now - Corporate planners strive to see the unforeseeable, and the farther ahead it is, the more willing they are to use their imagination. [Wired News]
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- When You're Hot, You're Hot - Although the IPO market has slowed since 1996, the action's still steamy at Venture Market West, where start-ups and investors meet to dance the dance. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12119.html
- Where Justice is Going with MS Inquiry - The Department of Justice is collecting information from some of the partners in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 Active Desktop push publishing effort. The move provides important clues about what steps the government might take next in its antitrust probe. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9828.html
- Where Paul Allen's Money Goes - Connecting the world to interactive entertainment is the loose link between some three dozen companies that together have received some US$1.6 billion from the Microsoft cofounder/billionaire. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11559.html
- Who Will Rule the Set-Top Box? - A semi-comprehensive survey of the companies that are investing money and technology in the race for the lucrative set-top real estate. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10364.html
- Whose E-Media Is It? - Two computer-trade publishers are set to launch a new magazine about digital media. Not so fast, says a small Bay Area consulting company. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14469.html
- Wieden & Kennedy Studio Artist Dream Job - The company that made Nike's swoosh logo ubiquitous is bringing a little taste of Portland to the advertising biz in the Big Apple and needs more artists to help pull it off. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11527.html
- Win98 Coming to a Theater Near You - Microsoft Extreme, a live, two-hour product demo presentation, will be beamed into theaters across the country in April, for tech fans who want their new OS with popcorn. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10521.html
- Win98: Atlas Shrugs - Although sales of Windows 98 are not expected to come anywhere near those of Windows 95, Microsoft doesn't seem to care. The company's eyes are clearly elsewhere. By Joe Nickell. [Wired News]
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- Windows/Java: At Home on the Set-Top? - What does "OS" mean on the set-top box? Java? With big announcements for Sun and Microsoft with TCI, the set-top and its OS are looking awfully PC-ish. But the analogy has its limits. [Wired News]
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- Winner of Set-Top Battle? No One. Yet - Sun Microsystems and Microsoft counted coup on each other with announcements their software would be featured on a huge order of set-top boxes for TCI. Noise aside, it's not that big a deal. [Wired News]
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- Winstar's Plan: Data on a Dish - The New York company that sells high-speed wireless data in 24 cities will get a US$2 billion booster shot from Lucent to expand its reach. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
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- Wiring Docs, Selling Stocks - Healtheon, slated to go public next week, has a big ambition: wire the whole backend of the health care industry. The trouble is health care is in no rush to get wired. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15674.html
- Xerox Sues HP... Again - The war escalates. This time, Xerox claims Hewlett-Packard is using its patented technology to make text characters look less blocky. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15249.html
- Xoom Booms in IPO - Xoom's initial public offering displayed all the fireworks of other recent Internet stocks. But analysts remain wary of the homepage host. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
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- Xoom Set to Go Boom - Its initial public offering on Wednesday will likely have the fireworks of other recent Internet stocks. But analysts are wary of the homepage host. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16722.html
- Xoom Zooms, but Markets Mixed - Xoom.com debuts on the market and surprises no one by more than doubling in value. Too bad the rest of Wall Street wasn't as hot. By David Lazarus. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16737.html
- Y2K Won't Short-Circuit FedWire - Government officials say the brain of the US banking industry will keep functioning into the new millennium. A good thing for the economy. By Brian Alcorn. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16167.html
- Yahoo Buys Portal-Puzzle Piece - The megasite pays US$49 million for Viaweb, a Massachusetts firm that helps businesses set up online shops. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/12828.html
- Yahoo Loses ISP Partner - Yahoo says it will look for a new partner to provide Internet access service now that MCI has sold off its Internet operations. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15006.html
- Yahoo Reports Blow-out Profit - The leading search engine and Internet stock bellwether reported second-quarter earnings far above what Wall Street had expected. That's good news for all tech stocks. By Jennifer Sullivan and Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13552.html
- Yen Concerns Hurt Techs - The yen drops further, leaving Japan less able to afford American gadgets and products. Wired Index falls 13.3 points to 418.17. By Kourosh Karimkhany. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14194.html
- Yet Another K-Tel Stock Surge - Shares of the "greatest hits" peddler doubled on news that its online store would appear on Microsoft's MSN Network. But analysts remain skeptical about the stock's long term future. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/16159.html
- You've Got Bills! - CyberCash and America Online will test an online bill-payment system on AOL Digital Cities. By Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/13027.html
- Zap Throws 'Em Back - Since May, fish-oil processor Zapata corporation has been netting small Web sites in bid to become a portal powerhouse. Thursday, it decided to throw 'em back. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/15626.html
- Zapata Goes to College - Zap, the Internet unit of the fish-meal and sausage-casing company, agrees to buy GoCollege, a university counseling site. By Kaitlin Quistgaard. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14024.html
- Zapata Zips Backs Into Action - Zapata, a fish-oil processor, dusts off its Web-domination plans and announces its intent to once again go on a Web-site shopping spree. But potential partners might not bite after being spurned once before. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/17020.html
- ZD Hopes to Bask in Tech Stock Glory - Despite some less than lustrous numbers, tech trade publisher Ziff-Davis hopes to shine on Wall Street in its upcoming IPO. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11682.html
- Zulu-tek Blitzes into Crowded Ad Sales Arena - Clutching tightly to Softbank Interactive Marketing, the company formerly known as Netmaster Group wants to score against the likes of DoubleClick and 24/7. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/9499.html
- Zulu-Tek Changes Story on Acquisition - Four months after announcing it had purchased a small e-commerce technology company for US$3 million, the Internet advertising firm says it didn't actually buy Universal Commerce, but has entered into a "strategic relationship." [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10775.html
- Zulu-Tek Names New Chief; Merger Next? - The Internet ad firm named a new president and COO today, while a new CEO apparently waits in the wings following the departure of two veteran Softbank Interactive Marketing executives on Friday. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/10970.html
- Zulu-Tek Resurrected? - The troubled Net ad firm agrees to an unusual transaction with a laptop repair shop in order to survive. Company executives say they're better off, but there's still a lot to fix. By Craig Bicknell. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/14754.html
- Zulu-Tek Sued By Former Executive - A co-founder of Softbank Interactive Marketing filed suit against its new parent, alleging that the firm's officers defrauded him of US$200,000. [Wired News]
www.wired.com/news/news/story/11185.html
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