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Excite@Home buys Bluemountainarts.com for $780m
News Excite@Home said Monday it would acquire Bluemountainarts.com from Blue Mountain Arts Publishing for $780m (£468m) in cash and stock. Under the terms of the agreement, Excite@Home will issue 11 million shares, valued at approximately $430m, and...
[October 25, 1999, 15:44]
iWon completes Excite.com takeover
News IWon, the new owner of Excite.com, said it has migrated data and online traffic to its Web servers, completing a takeover of the portal assets acquired in the Excite@Home bankruptcy. InfoSpace and iWon split the assets of Excite.com in the Excite...
[December 28, 2001, 15:47]
Excite joins Denial of Service hit parade
News Excite said it was attacked Wednesday evening about 7 p.m. PT, in an assault that lasted about an hour. Traffic to the site was cut by about half. Other sites hit this week included Yahoo! E*Trade, CNN, eBay and ZDNet.
[February 11, 2000, 15:07]
Excite goes live
News Excite Live! follows the likes of Yahoo! s My Yahoo! and ZDNet's Personal View in offering daily news and information of interest to the user. Unlike some agents, it updates several times a day.
[September 10, 1996, 9:57]
Hacker helps Excite@Home toughen defences
News Not all hackers are bad -- just ask Excite@Home. Lamo contacted the company nearly two months ago after he discovered a server that could be used by would-be attackers to get into portions of the Excite@Home corporate network.
[May 30, 2001, 10:48]
News Burst: BT buys into Excite
News George Bell, CEO of Excite Inc, said: "Our joint venture with BT continues our international strategy of choosing the best local partner in each market where we want to establish our business. BT's $10m (£6.1m) investment in the subsidiary is...
[November 25, 1998, 12:30]
Does Yahoo! have eyes for Excite@Home?
News might incorporate Excite into its business and spin off @Home, which provides high-speed Web access over cable. AT&T Corp.the majority shareholder of Excite@Home, would then retain control of @Home. had considered buying Excite late last year...
[August 3, 1999, 9:10]
After Hotmail "glitch" UK Excite accounts cracked
News Excite.co.uk and Ireland.com have fallen victim to an email hack it emerged Thursday, with tens of accounts accessed in the last 24 hours. Following the Hotmail debacle at the start of the week, one non-techie hack has gained access to the accounts...
[September 2, 1999, 16:15]
At Home buys Excite in $6.7bn deal
News In early trading, shares of Excite gained 39 1/4 to 106 3/4, or 58 percent. The companies are hoping to accelerate broadband deployment by combining Excite's portal with At Home's Internet and cable distribution.
[January 19, 1999, 14:55]
US Report: Net newcomer Zapata in bizarre bid for Excite
News The second step, buying Excite, might not have panned out but it still could help in the future. The potential deal with Excite, however, made no sense to Regina Joseph, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications in New York.
[May 22, 1998, 10:13]
The Day Ahead: AT&T grabs Excite@Home, but questions still linger
News CEO George Bell said the deal with AT&T eliminates the need for a Excite@Home tracking stock covering media assets such as Matchlogic and Enliven. Once you sort through the details of Wednesday's announcement, the bottom line appears to be this: AT...
[March 30, 2000, 13:50]
Hacker helps Excite@Home toughen defences
Talkback IMHO, hackers' collaboration with the media is a rare thing because the media looks down on them so often. If the media could clear the name of hackers, and instead pinpoint the origin of the disease to "crackers", then I am sure more hackers will...
[July 29, 2004, 22:09]
Excite Assistant
Downloads Desktop Radio! Listen to Internet radio stations. Email Notification! Receive alerts when you get new mail messages. Easy TV Listings Selection! Now the Assistant can show you your TV channels just like they appear on your TV.
[September 11, 2000, 8:00]
Portal woes kick in
News After hyped mergers of Internet content and broadband access, the harsh lesson for Excite@Home and other companies is that running a Web portal is an incredibly expensive proposition if you're not number one.
[January 31, 2001, 12:27]
The Day Ahead: AT&T has to deliver broadband promises
News AT&T, which trading near 52-week lows, trimmed its profit forecasts yet again as it officially adopted Excite@Home's financial woes. The move, which is good news to cable Internet access provider Excite@Home, isn't going to instill much confidence...
[August 29, 2000, 12:20]
Creditors await court's cable verdict
News Excite@Home is expected to seek bankruptcy court approval Friday for a $355m (£257m) deal to provide high-speed Internet access to cable partners for the next three months, according to a new decision by the bankruptcy court judge.
[December 6, 2001, 15:59]
Dutch treat? Netherlander takes credit for 'Anna'
News A Dutch virus writer known as OnTheFly admitted Tuesday to writing the Anna Kournikova virus, as Excite@Home compiled evidence against a subscriber in the Netherlands who is believed to be the same person.
[February 14, 2001, 8:03]
Network company buys @Work assets
News New Edge Networks has bought the business customers and some of the broadband assets of @Work, the commercial division of Excite@Home, for $1.5m, the company said on Friday. Excite@Home is scheduled to shutter its operations at the end of this...
[February 15, 2002, 13:49]
US Report: McAfee Online - next-generation portal?
News Excite, Infoseek and Lycos started off as popular search engines, McAfee Online started off hawking PC-management software, including a popular anti-virus line. and Excite, Network Associates -- McAfee Online's parent company -- has millions of...
[December 9, 1998, 10:05]
US Report: Netscape beefs up Netcenter search
News The deals follow Netscape's deal with Excite which calls for the search engine company to pay about $70m (£42.70m) to be featured on Netscape's Netcenter. Both Excite's and Netscape's search engines will each receive 25 percent of the requests...
[May 22, 1998, 6:00]
