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UK Search Provider Bought By US Counterpart
News FindWhat.com said on Wednesday that it will acquire Espotting, in a deal that will meld two regional providers of commercial search services into a global network. Under terms of the deal, London-based Espotting will receive about 8.1 million...
[June 19, 2003, 10:35]
Canonical Distributes Parallels Via Desktop Update
News The deal marks the first time Canonical has distributed commercial software through the repository, which has in the past only distributed free and open-source software. The deal also gives Parallels direct access to users of the most widely used...
[February 6, 2008, 16:17]
Europe Search Partners Fight US Threat
News Under terms of the deal, Espotting will sell FAST's Web search results alongside its commercial results, and FAST will showcase Espotting listings on its public Web site, AlltheWeb.com. The FAST-Espotting deal makes the companies more Google-like...
[January 16, 2003, 11:16]
HP: We're Taking On Commercial Printing
News To that end, HP signed a deal to acquire Indigo, which specialises in high-resolution commercial printers, for $882m last September. The deal closed on Monday. Now that it has closed its acquisition of high-end printer company Indigo, Hewlett...
[March 26, 2002, 14:57]
EDS Expects Huge Loss
News The commercial deal in question isn't the only troubled contract at EDS. Chief executive Mike Jordan said the deal will help EDS concentrate on its main businesses and improve its finances. On Monday, the information technology services giant...
[March 16, 2004, 8:20]
Google Takes On Paid-search Company
News The two companies would not disclose financial terms of the deal. The deal with Google lets EarthLink keep consumers on its own branded page. The contract with Overture was up on Jan.and the new deal terms were very different from two years ago...
[February 7, 2002, 6:31]
Psion Heads For Bluetooth Spotlight
News Under the NEC deal, Psion Connect, Psion's connectivity division, will supply products such as PC cards for laptops and USB hubs for PCs to NEC, which will market and distribute them to commercial and consumer customers.
[February 16, 2001, 6:16]
BT Trials Interactive Broadband Television
News While Yes head of marketing Steve Garvey stresses that the company is "not interested in trying to run a network," the jointly branded deal means that the company will "have to make some commercial decisions over the summer," as to whether it will...
[March 9, 2000, 9:09]
Yahoo Bids Farewell To Google Search
News In the early 2000s, Yahoo struck a deal to host commercial search links with Overture, thus beginning a profitable relationship that would eventually account for 20 percent of Yahoo's quarterly revenues.
[February 18, 2004, 7:10]
'Megadeals' May Be On The Way Out
News EDS said that in 2003, it suffered operating losses of $255m from a major commercial contract -- pegged by analysts as the deal with Dow. IBM's deal with JPMorgan originally called for the financial services company to outsource a significant...
[September 17, 2004, 10:20]
SendMail To Adopt Cloudmark's Anti-spam Tech
News This deal is important because there's so much Sendmail out there, that anything associated with it is bound to get some scrutiny from commercial Sendmail shops," said Matt Cain, research analyst at Meta Group.
[November 3, 2003, 11:10]
Microsoft Seeks Spots In 'cool' TV Shows
News For example, OMD and Disney signed a $1bn deal for commercial advertising that also includes product placements within Disney shows. In one extreme example, Revlon signed a multimillion-dollar deal for commercials with ABC's soap opera "All My...
[October 6, 2003, 14:10]
Iridium Sets Up Shop In Iraq
News Iridium already has a significant presence in Iraq as a result of a deal with the US Department of Defense initiated in 2000. Under that deal, renewed in December, the US military pays $36m (£23m) a year for unlimited access to Iridium's network...
[July 22, 2003, 9:17]
Telstra 'played Linux Card' To Lower Microsoft Bills
News Australian telecoms operator Telstra has signed a deal with Microsoft that appears to add further credibility to the theory that the best way to negotiate with the software giant is to explore moving to Linux.
[August 2, 2004, 15:35]
Google Expands Korean Search
News Financial terms and duration of the recently signed deal were not disclosed. In January, Overture signed a three-year exclusive deal with Daum to provide sponsored search results on its network, as part of its expansion to that region.
[March 20, 2003, 8:42]
"We Are Caving To Intel"
Blog Intel is in a particularly complex position: neither company is a major customer of the other, both also deal with the other's competition, yet it takes both to set the controls for the near-term future of a great deal of the IT market.
[February 29, 2008, 15:34]
Lycos Upset Over Yahoo Acquisition
News The ISP was free to replace Overture with Google once the deal closed on 7 October, and has since done so. The deal was mutually beneficial: when people clicked on Overture's sponsored listings, it would pay Lycos a percentage of the listing fee it...
[November 5, 2003, 11:35]
Yahoo's Overture May Force Microsoft's Hand
News One financial analyst expects, conservatively, that California-based Yahoo will record $1.725bn in revenue in 2003 after the Overture deal closes -- a number that factors in losing MSN as a customer, which would eliminate some $350m in projected...
[July 15, 2003, 8:22]
VeriSign's CEO Hits Back At Critics
News The deal will enable VeriSign to retain control over the database that directs people to .com and .net addresses. Sclavos spoke with CNET News.com before the deal. With security attacks becoming increasingly common, Sclavos also says it's time to...
[October 17, 2003, 12:35]
Torvalds: GPLv3 Is 'just Another Licence'
News Digital rights management and the General Public License cause a lot of "hot air" to be exchanged, but they are not a "big deal", according to the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds. But in practice, will it be a big deal?
[January 17, 2007, 8:17]
