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Cash Crunch Threatens KPNQwest
News Liquidators for the bankrupt service provider KPNQwest have still not received money promised by customers last week. Unless they get the money required to keep the network running for the next two weeks, they will withdraw their support from the...
[June 18, 2002, 17:42]
3G Licensees Face New Cash Crunch
News In the same week that Japan's NTT DoCoMo announced it would delay its full rollout of 3G wireless services, a new report from MMXI Jupiter Communications is predicting that revenues from next generation services -- once they get off the ground...
[April 25, 2001, 13:36]
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]
Nokia Takes Stake In Redback Networks
News The financial part of the deal will help Redback out of its current cash crunch and improve the company's access to international customers, analysts said. We believe the company will need the cash to service its debt and burn rate," said Richard...
[May 22, 2002, 17:26]
Microsoft Bails Out Rival Corel
News Corel, which was best known for its WordPerfect and CorelDraw graphics software until last year's leap into the Linux market, has been grappling with a cash crunch and stalled sales for its older product lines.
[October 3, 2000, 8:15]
News Roundup: 3G, A Year On
News G licensees face new cash crunch It's twelve months now since frenzied bidding for the UK's third-generation mobile licences resulted in an unexpected cash injection of £22.5bn into the nation's coffers.
[May 1, 2001, 12:13]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo! Ducks Online Ad Issue
News You're likely to hear the same spiel from America Online, the other Internet giant that's immune from the dot-com cash crunch. That exhaustive review sounded like it was based on Barron's infamous list of dot-coms and their cash burn rates.
[July 12, 2000, 13:00]
The Day Ahead: Drkoop.com Goes Critical
News On its latest conference call, AOL execs shrugged off the dot-com cash crunch and said the company wouldn't be affected. Go.com also gets Drkoop.com warrants in lieu of cash. Now instead of cash, lucky AOL gets 3.5m shares, or 10 percent, of Drkoop...
[April 26, 2000, 12:07]
Tech Companies Becoming Big Bond Fans
News For Lucent, it's pretty clear why the company had to tap into the convertible bond market: it is mired in a well-publicised cash crunch and needs the $1.75bn it raised last week. Analysts say the race to the debt markets makes sense for companies...
[August 9, 2001, 15:51]
The Day Ahead: Lehman Bond Analyst Zaps Amazon Again
News Suria noted that Amazon's allegedly marketable securities have become a growing percentage of the company's cash line -- a big deal given his liquidity crunch thesis. Excluding the Webvan and Sotheby's holdings and a one-time cash gain of $75m...
[October 27, 2000, 13:22]
The Day Ahead: Will Rediff.com Be An IPO Hit?
News Aside from cash crunch concerns, the restrictions would also limit takeover potential, and prevent Rediff.com from doing deals that "would otherwise be beneficial". India constrains the issuance of equity and convertible debt securities, which...
[June 14, 2000, 12:17]
Activation Problems Hit Palm.net
News Last week, Palm chief financial officer Judy Bruner would not provide a direct answer as to how quickly the company could burn through its cash but acknowledged it faces a crunch. The company is also facing issues with the rate at which it is...
[May 22, 2001, 15:03]
Are Smart Phones Really That Clever?
News But in recent months, a financial crunch has forced some into bankruptcy, and many others are trying to make do by sharing the so-called third-generation, or 3G, networks they are building. But consumers who shell out the extra cash for these...
[September 11, 2001, 9:52]
The Day Ahead: Analysts Struggle For Material
News A lot has to go wrong -- inventory buildup, even higher losses and an illiquid portfolio -- for Amazon to see a credit crunch, he said. In a nutshell, Amazon's cash balance will bottom in the second and third quarter and working capital will go...
[February 13, 2001, 13:02]
The Day Ahead: Profits Are Amazon's Only Defence Against Critics
News The first thing Curry tries to do is minimise concerns about a cash crunch. Anyone who understands the cash flow dynamics of this business knows this. We are nowhere near running out of cash," Curry said.
[June 26, 2000, 11:55]
US Baby Bells Rattle ISPs
News Already reeling from a declining economy and a cash crunch, American Internet service providers are worried that the US Baby Bell local phone companies are winding up for a knockout punch. At stake is more than ISPs' fragile business models.
[May 16, 2001, 16:49]
Linux Maker Mandrake: We Need Cash
News Linux seller MandrakeSoft issued a plea for cash Friday, encouraging people to buy products, MandrakeClub memberships or company stock. A very difficult time has arrived for us: We have a very big short-term cash issue," co-founder Gael Duval said...
[December 23, 2002, 8:41]
Nanotech Start-ups Suffer From Telecoms Surplus
News Now the buildup of huge stockpiles, a sectorwide cash crunch and the carriers' interest in protecting their current networks are all creating a poisonous atmosphere for start-ups certain that new communications components created through...
[May 27, 2002, 12:33]
Publishers Pull Pop-ups
News As old as the commercial Web itself, the ad format only truly came into vogue when Web publishers got pressed for cash in the dot-com crunch. After years of witnessing the mainstream Internet become a veritable jack-in-the-box of commercials, Web...
[August 2, 2002, 12:20]
Intel Asks Workers To Take Unpaid Leave
News Intel resorted to temporary plant closures during a previous cash crunch in 1998 A slowdown in the once blazing flash memory business prompts the chip giant to ask some workers to take two weeks of unpaid time off over the US summer.
[May 24, 2001, 10:08]
