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Lexmark beats lowered 4Q estimates
News See ZDII for US tech investor news. After warning that fourth quarter earnings would be at the low end of expectations, computer printer maker Lexmark said Monday fourth-quarter profits beat estimates by a nickel thanks to its stock buy-back and...
[January 24, 2000, 15:17]
In-car Internet steers away from Palm
News Delphi also provided an initial investment to launch MobileAria, with the Mayfield Fund being the third investor. When it was founded last fall, start-up MobileAria planned to marry a Palm and a cell phone to deliver Internet access to cars.
[October 10, 2001, 10:06]
Adobe quashes Office-rival rumours
News Adobe is an investor in Virtual Ubiquity, a company that is writing a sophisticated online word processor built with Adobe's Flex development tools. Adobe has quashed rumours that it will create an office productivity suite to rival Microsoft Office.
[August 20, 2007, 15:17]
Danger wraps shades for Europe
News The venture arm of T-Mobile's German parent is an investor in Danger, as is European cellular carrier Orange. Danger, the developer of the Hiptop mobile device, is turning to colour to woo European mobile network operators.
[February 24, 2003, 5:53]
Liquid Audio starts Christian music download service
News Steel Partners II, a major investor, has criticised Liquid Audio's management and has tried to buy out the company -- a deal that was rejected. Liquid Audio and an EMI division plan to launch a service on Monday that lets subscribers burn tunes to...
[April 29, 2002, 8:38]
Real undercuts iTunes with 50p Rhapsody
News With MusicNet, "we were a technology vendor and partner and investor and retailer. RealNetworks on Wednesday will cease selling the music-subscription service MusicNet in favour of Listen.com's Rhapsody, and plans to charge a new low of 79 cents...
[May 28, 2003, 15:17]
Search engines accused over click fraud
News Last year, Google's chief financial officer George Reyes told an investor conference that click fraud is the biggest threat to the Internet economy, according to CNN.com. An e-commerce site has filed a lawsuit against several search engines...
[April 6, 2005, 13:35]
Google invests in e-commerce start-up Pixazza
News Individuals who have funded the company include angel investor Ron Conway, former eBay chief operating officer Maynard Webb, and Facebook chief financial officer Gideon Yu, the company said. Google is joining a $5.75m investment round in Pixazza, a...
[March 25, 2009, 8:55]
The high(er) cost of business online
News Litan said no company is willing to air its credit problems in public, fearing investor panic. Some banks are charging dot-coms up to $1 more per transaction than their brick-and-mortar cousins to process credit card purchases, a Gartner Group...
[July 20, 2000, 9:07]
Investment bank picks up on .Net
News The second application, BrokerPulse, is an online investor relations service, which tracks IPOs, and share ownership for UK clients. Despite having its official launch on Wednesday, Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net development environment already has...
[February 13, 2002, 9:47]
Skype's backers walk away with awards
News The Private Equity Firm of the Year award went to Advent International, while Atlas Ventures won Early Stage Investor of the Year and Osborne Clarke won Technology Law Firm of the Year. Index Ventures, the venture capital firm that backed VoIP...
[February 22, 2006, 11:05]
Yahoo claims 'strong' quarter despite dip in earnings
News The California-based company is in the midst of tremendous changes: a slowing economy; nearly half a year spent fending off Microsoft's acquitision attempt; a deal under which top rival Google will supply search ads and as much as $800m in new...
[July 23, 2008, 8:44]
HP in talks to acquire PwC consulting
News See ZDII for US tech investor news. Hewlett-Packard is in talks to acquire the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in a cash and stock deal worth $17bn to $18bn (£11.96bn to £12.67bn). HP said in a release Monday that it still has significant...
[September 11, 2000, 12:48]
Handspring's 4Q loss smaller than expected
News See ZDII for US tech investor news. Handspring posted a smaller-than-expected loss in its first quarter as a publicly traded company, losing $5.8m, or 13 cents a share, on sales of $51.8m. First Call consensus expected the handheld PC maker to lose...
[July 21, 2000, 15:17]
Ofcom may allow 3G over 2G
News And on Tuesday, Vodafone's chief executive Arun Sarin said in an investor webcast that his company was also lobbying in some markets for the ability to "refarm" some of its 900MHz spectrum. Nokia has made what it claims was the world's first...
[November 14, 2006, 12:30]
About.com beats Street in second quarter
News See ZDII for US tech investor news. About.com posted a smaller-than-expected loss in its second quarter Wednesday, losing $5.9m, or 33 cents a share, on sales of $20.1m. First Call consensus expected the Internet directory firm to lose 39 cents a...
[July 20, 2000, 10:06]
The Day Ahead: Why boring Big Blue is beautiful again
News Investor expectations. See ZDII for US tech investor news. Wall Street will take IBM's 6 percent revenue growth in the fourth quarter and gush like it was 600 percent. Amid profit warnings from tech bellwethers, IBM emerged from the information...
[January 18, 2001, 13:43]
Tech billionaires a little less wealthy
News The investor may have missed out on gains during the tech bubble, but his company, Berkshire Hathaway, is on the rise again now that the dot-com mania has subsided. Bill Gates is the world's richest man again in 2002, overshadowing other high-tech...
[March 1, 2002, 16:40]
IBM and Vignette link up
News See ZDII for US tech investor news. IBM has signed a marketing deal with Vignette to market each other's products. Specific financial details were not released but the deal is rumoured to be worth up to $1bn.
[August 3, 2000, 14:05]
Internet startups flock to AOL
News They have the best names or a majority of the best" in their investment portfolio, says Danny Rimer, a venture capitalist with Barksdale Group, the Menlo Park, California, firm founded by Internet investor Jim Barksdale, an AOL board member.
[April 3, 2000, 13:23]
