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THE DAY AHEAD: About.com gets B2B religion
News About.com will soon be making business-to-business its business. Derek Brown, an analyst with WR Hambrecht & Co, said in a research report that About.com could hit $150 (£93) a share in 12 months. While About.com's traffic and revenue growth has...
[February 14, 2000, 13:24]
About.com beats Street in second quarter
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. Ahead of the earnings report, About.com shares closed off 3 1/2 to 28 1/4.
[July 20, 2000, 10:06]
News Burst: Dot-com workers clueless about security
News E-commerce firms in the UK are in a particularly poor state of health, with IT professionals blaming workers for ignoring security risks, according to research released Wednesday by computer security firm Network Associates.
[November 22, 2000, 10:34]
Yahoo! charged with blocking rivals
News decided against including About.com sites in its search engine results, even though it provides "thousands" of links to Yahoo sites from its various properties. About.com is a "network of sites" led by 700 expert guides in 20 countries.
[March 1, 2000, 14:36]
ToastVideoRemote
Downloads See the Roxio forums (http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php? The solution: A small AppleScript Studio (XCode) app that uses Apple's GUI Scripting (Enable Access for Assistive Devices in the Universal Access preference pane in System...
[November 27, 2007, 7:00]
Study for IT certification while cruising the Caribbean
News When I first heard about GeekCruises.com a few weeks ago, I was sceptical. What's so bad about that? The idea initially struck me as an excessive expense, like those usually associated with failed 1999 dot-com firms.
[September 23, 2002, 11:58]
The Day Ahead: Big is beautiful for AOL, but ad picture fuzzy
News America Online checked in with its latest earnings and allayed some concerns about online advertising amid a dot-com cash crunch. In June, NBCI helped kick off worries about online advertising, when it issued a profit warning, revamped and partly...
[July 21, 2000, 13:58]
Yahoo! and Microsoft traffic 'hijacked'
News For about 12 hours, thousands of Internet users trying to visit those two popular Web sites and dozens of others were instead sent to a Web page owned by MyDomains.com. A computer glitch is being blamed for cutting off Web traffic headed for Yahoo...
[January 22, 2001, 13:20]
The Day Ahead: Dissecting the Primedia-About deal
News Commentary: The Primedia and About.com merger makes tons of strategic sense. Long-term About shareholders will realise that it isn't every day that a beaten-up content dot-com is actually bought out. About is also bringing enough money to the table...
[October 31, 2000, 13:21]
Buy.com cuts staff in half in restructuring bid
News Internet superstore Buy.com Wednesday announced a restructuring plan designed to reduce cash operating expenses by eliminating some 125 positions, or about 55 percent of its staff of 230. Roszak said he is confident about Buy.com's "ability to...
[February 28, 2001, 16:00]
Yahoo! makes offer for HotJobs
News said on Wednesday that it has made an unsolicited bid for job site HotJobs.com of about $436m (£301m) in cash and stock, countering an offer by advertising and marketing company TMP Worldwide. In June, TMP, the owner of No.job site Monster.com...
[December 13, 2001, 12:35]
Stock options for laid-off Amazon employees
News As Amazon.com laid off about 1,300 of its staff Tuesday, the company gave out an unusual golden handshake. The company did not disclose details about how it will dispense the proceeds, or in what portions.
[January 31, 2001, 10:50]
The ubiquitous sounds of MP3.com
News If MP3.com has anything to say about it, digital music will issue from bedroom alarm clocks, car stereos, and living room televisions. The lawsuit was settled when MP3.com agreed to pay about $60m in damages.
[January 5, 2001, 14:45]
MyMobiSafe.com Anticipating iPhone Arrival
Blog At MyMobiSafe.com, we are excited about the new handset and we are looking forward to making it a more secure mobile device. MyMobiSafe.com Anticipating iPhone Arrival By: Eric Everson, Founder of MyMobiSafe.com
[June 17, 2007, 0:10]
News Burst: Dot-com execs have 'unsavoury backgrounds'
News The findings will add to worries about the stability of dot-com companies at a time when the market is becoming increasingly cynical about the potential of technology companies. Executives at dot-com Internet firms are four times as likely to have...
[October 24, 2000, 8:51]
The Day Ahead: Dot-com woes dash Amazon's revenue hopes
News Just about six months ago, Amazon.com rattled off six equity and marketing deals that had analysts gushing. Since Amazon's margins are generally thin, the company planned to have e-tailers such as Drugstore.com pay lofty sums to gain access to...
[July 27, 2000, 11:58]
The Year Ahead: Will Linux survive the dot-com crash?
News The implosion of the dot-com economy has raised questions about the future of the GNU/Linux operating system and the open source movement that it typifies. With the dot-com people it was always about making a lot of money on stock options and then...
[January 2, 2002, 6:31]
IBM spearheads drive to eradicate world's slums
Talkback Register NOW at the Habitat JAM at www.habitatjam.com! The Habitat JAM is about adding your ideas into the global dialogue about the future of our cities. It’s about having your say on important issues that affect you.
[November 7, 2005, 21:22]
Trademark suit pits porn against profits
News That's when Dan Parisi acquired "edgaronline.com," along with about 200 other domain names, thinking they might end up being important. The edgaronline.com case underscores the growing importance of domain names, and demonstrates just how far...
[May 28, 1999, 9:03]
Risking it all on Salesforce.com?
News Despite a successful IPO and an 85 percent year-on-year increase in its customer base, industry watchers are still asking tough questions about the long-term viability of application service provider Salesforce.com.
[November 4, 2004, 12:18]
