Deal Rumour Batters RealNetworks
News If those talks result in a deal that carves out a bigger place for Microsoft's Windows Media Player on AOL, it won't in itself spell the end of RealNetworks. RealNetworks spokesman David Brotherton said that the company's overall deal is multi-year...
[May 30, 2001, 12:34]
Deal Will Drive Music, Internet To TV
News Monday's deal should put more fuel on the fire for those who want such interactive services. The deal comes just days after AOL unveiled its interactive TV effort, AOL TV. The deal means that AOL TV will almost certainly get picked up on Time...
[January 11, 2000, 8:18]
Deal Gets Google Into Intuit's QuickBooks
News An earlier attempt by Google to build bridges with this group came in March, when it cut a deal with Verizon SuperPages.com to have the classified ad provider help its tens of thousands of marketers get ads onto Google search result pages.
[September 14, 2006, 9:40]
AOL Makes Interactive TV Move - Deal With TiVo
News Internet Goliath America Online took what analysts are calling a necessary step Tuesday when it inked a deal with personal TV appliance maker TiVo. AOL has already announced plans to work with DirecTV, Hughes Network Systems, Philips Electronics...
[August 18, 1999, 8:31]
Google Expects Regulators To Permit Yahoo Ad Deal
News Google believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google's thinking said on Friday.
[April 28, 2008, 9:42]
NCI Scores Big Deal For Interactive TV In UK
News The deal gives NCI a shot in the arm and gives them credibility," said Abhi Chaki, an industry analyst with new media watcher Jupiter Communications. The deal chalks up a win for Larry Ellison, president and chairman of Oracle Corp.
[March 11, 1998, 10:08]
IBM-Lenovo Deal To Face Full Review
Talkback This deal is a bit different from ordinary acquisition. If IBM wishes to play the game as a puppet master of new Lenovo's PC company for next five years or so, it could clear the security issue, but under-estimation of the Chinese giant could...
[January 28, 2005, 21:08]
IBM-Lenovo Deal Faces Security Investigation
News The report said that IBM and Lenovo were negotiating with the committee, chaired by the Treasury Department, which would need to give its approval for the deal in order for it to avoid a formal investigation and the need for clearance by President...
[January 24, 2005, 15:30]
Regulators Seek Deeper Probe Of Oracle-Siebel Deal
News Antitrust regulators on Monday extended the deadline for reviewing the Oracle and Siebel merger, as Department of Justice requested additional information in connection with the deal. However, a US District Court ultimately ruled in Oracle's favour...
[October 25, 2005, 9:10]
BenQ Lands Mobile Deal With Google
News BenQ announced the deal at a press launch at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, where it also launched six new mobile phones. Financial terms of the deal were not available, but a company representative did demonstrate Google Local running on one of...
[March 8, 2006, 11:00]
HP Closes In On £381m Irish Deal
News Hewlett-Packard is in the final stages of negotiating with the Bank of Ireland on an outsourcing deal worth about $600m (about £381m). The seven-year deal, which would involve the bank transferring about 500 of its technology employees to HP, is...
[April 15, 2003, 10:32]
Friction Behind AOL-Netscape-Sun Deal
News Netscape Communications, America Online and Sun Microsystems planned to do a deal prior to last November -- as Microsoft attorneys seem intent on proving -- the less-than-rosy relations between Netscape and Sun hardly corroborate that claim
[May 10, 1999, 8:48]
AOL-Netscape Deal: The Death Of Open Standards?
News The director of a consumer advocacy group Tuesday slammed America Online Inc.s $4.2 billion deal to purchase Netscape Communications Corp.warning it could effectively mean the end of the open standards on which the Internet was founded.
[November 25, 1998, 9:41]
IBM Signs Massive Chinese Deal
News IBM cast the deal as a major victory as the two companies wrestle for market share in the UNIX server market. That deal represents HP's largest Yet one analyst said the deal is another "proof point" of IBM's resurgence in the UNIX server market in...
[November 17, 2005, 9:05]
Dell, Palm In Distribution Deal
News Dell said the new deal expands the sales force behind Palm's products and will "further drive momentum for the Palm OS platform in the enterprise market. Dell had previously sold a limited number of Palm products through its channels.
[April 12, 2000, 14:27]
Winners And Losers After AOL Time Warner Deal
News Whether the deal validates lofty Internet valuations remains to be seen, but you can bet there'll be some serious aftershocks. America Online -- AOL chief Steve Case can talk all he wants about Time Warner's brand and synergies, but this deal was...
[January 11, 2000, 12:15]
A Year Ago: AOL/Alcatel Deal Looks Likely
News Andy Greenman, a consultant for US industry analyst Yankee group believes an Alcatel/AOL deal is likely. AOL will definitely partner with someone like that as a logical extension to its Netscape/Sun deal," he says.
[April 17, 2000, 7:01]
California Offers Plea Deal To HP Defendants
News The US Department of Justice last week cut a plea deal with Wagner, who agreed to testify against some of the other defendants in exchange for a lighter sentence. California's attorney general is offering former HP chairman Patricia Dunn and four...
[January 19, 2007, 7:50]
Oracle Toots Its Own Horn In Auto-exchange Deal
News Oracle on Wednesday announced a software-licensing agreement with Covisint, just one day after the giant automobile-industry marketplace signed a deal with its other key technology provider, Commerce One.
[December 13, 2000, 14:05]
Skype Revisits Rabbit With Free Wi-Fi Deal
News The deal, announced on Monday, means that Skype subscribers will be able to access the service at any of Broadreach's ReadyToSurf hot spots without having to pay to log on to the Internet. Skype founder Niklas Zennström insisted that the Broadreach...
[March 4, 2005, 12:15]

