Tech companies: Let's not make a deal
News Typical of the giant transactions were America Online's $10bn acquisition of Netscape Communications, the $6bn merger of At Home with Excite, creating Excite At Home, Healtheon's $7.9bn purchase of WebMD and Yahoo's acquisition of GeoCities for...
[September 16, 1999, 16:39]
Yahoo to shut down GeoCities
News Yahoo is closing its GeoCities personal homepage service, and with it will go an era of self-expression on the web that has largely been replaced by social networks and blogs. GeoCities rose to power during an era when publishing on the internet...
[April 24, 2009, 16:14]
Fraudulent e-commerce site proves hard to close
News MPhone said it had been aware of the fake Web site for a month and a half, but despite reporting it to the Metropolitan Police -- who said that the FBI would be informed -- and Yahoo, the company hosting the site on its $8.95 a month Premium...
[December 1, 2003, 16:50]
IRC administrators may out-hack Fizzer virus
News Another discovery was that the Fizzer virus goes to a specific Web address on Geocities daily to update itself with any code found there. The virus activity caused headaches for the operators of several smaller IRC networks, which typically haven't...
[May 19, 2003, 7:59]
PopUpCop 2.5 review
Reviews PopUpCop's Xguard feature even stops the new InVue ads, such as those found on Yahoo or GeoCities sites, which sit atop Web pages. A stoplight on the right of the toolbar indicates Java or ActiveX advertising script activity on a Web page.
[October 18, 2004, 8:55]
