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New US bill takes a shot at stock options
News But stock option reform has taken on new urgency in wake of the Enron bankruptcy and demise. A Congressional bill introduced Wednesday could dampen the technology industry's widespread reliance on stock options.
[February 14, 2002, 16:03]
File-swappers get their own private club
News Scour, which allowed for the swapping of movies, is now in bankruptcy courts after it was sued by the Motion Picture Association of America. New York-based startup GlobeDrive plans to unveil a version of its peer-to-peer network that will let users...
[November 29, 2000, 8:02]
More UK dot-coms log off
News European companies such as boo.com, a streetwear e-tailer, have been forced to declare bankruptcy and call in receivers to sell off remaining assets. Adabra.com, which launched a group-buying service last autumn, has sold its business assets to...
[July 31, 2000, 12:48]
Cisco may gain from old inventory
News Given the accounting problems and subsequent bankruptcy of energy trader Enron, once the seventh-largest company in the United States, investors are increasingly skittish about any earnings statement that uses pro forma accounting.
[February 1, 2002, 13:16]
Lycos sports 'for sale' sign
News Excite.com, which was acquired by cable Internet service provider @Home for $6.7bn in over-valued stock in 1999, was sold in 2001 in bankruptcy court for $10m to online sweepstakes site iWon and Web directory InfoSpace.
[April 28, 2004, 9:00]
Alcatel-Lucent has potential, but dangers too
News But the CLECs' infrastructure costs were too high for their low neighbourhood penetrations, and many, such as NorthPoint Communications and Rhythms NetConnections, are in bankruptcy or on the verge. Lucent Technologies last week landed a DSL deal...
[May 29, 2001, 10:47]
Photos: Germany's Leibniz supercomputer
News There have been challenges, not least SGI's lurch into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection soon after the LRZ bought the supercomputer. Could this be every techie's dream job? To design a supercomputer from scratch, with no expense spared, no need for...
[January 22, 2007, 14:11]
The Day Ahead: Ready, set, rollup
News These are mergers are marriages of convenience -- you have to get hitched to avoid bankruptcy. Usually not, but it's worth a shot when the chips are down. Welcome to rollup season. Rollups are not a new idea.
[February 9, 2001, 12:08]
Survey: Tech execs retrenching
News IT, telecommunications and media companies are bracing for further industry fallout and doing intense soul-searching more than two years into the tech bust, according to a study Ernst & Young and fellow business consulting company Cap Gemini Ernst...
[December 5, 2002, 13:43]
The Day Ahead: Dot-coms latest survival tactic is relocation
News Bankruptcy. Move out of Silicon Valley. PlanetRX.com became the latest company to pack up the moving van and head to cheaper pastures. The move was so well received that the stock is almost nearing the $1 mark, up more than 30 percent in two days.
[August 31, 2000, 11:46]
