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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 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]
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]
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]
Nokia-Qualcomm licence deal expires
News The licensing deal officially ran out on 9 April. A key licensing agreement between the world's number-one mobile handset maker Nokia and mobile giant Qualcomm, which has prompted a bitter court battle between the two, has expired this week.
[April 11, 2007, 10:54]
MSN goes free with BT deal
News Microsoft's beleagured online service MSN has struck a deal with British Telecom (BT) to offer Internet access services free of charge. Dubbed MSN FreeWeb, the service is powered by BTClick and frees MSN up to concentrate on its ultimate aim of...
[May 20, 1999, 8:00]
Musicbank one step closer to legal online music deal
News It is the fourth deal Musicbank has signed with a major label and negotiations with EMI are continuing. After teaming up with Sony Monday, Musicbank is one step closer to launching an on-demand music streaming service and taking on MP3.com.
[October 31, 2000, 9:25]
The Day Ahead: Dissecting the Primedia-About deal
News Valuation: Although analysts were supportive of the strategy behind the deal, they weren't hip to the valuation. The deal calls for About shareholders to receive 2.3409 Primedia share for each About share, for a total of 45.2 million Primedia shares.
[October 31, 2000, 13:21]
Satyam deal could cause headaches for BT
News BT could face disruption from a deal to sell troubled outsourcer Satyam to one of its key suppliers, analysts are warning. The deal is fraught with risks, of which some are still yet to be quantified," Miller told ZDNet UK's sister site, silicon.com.
[April 15, 2009, 17:26]
IBM wins UK Border Agency deal
News The strategic system-integration deal, procured through the strategic supplier group framework established for the National Identity Scheme, is set to last for three years with the option to extend for a further four.
[December 16, 2008, 8:34]
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]
Playboy does mobile deal with 3
News With the exclusive deal, 3 UK will have multi-year access to 13 million photos and 2,000 hours of video programming from Playboy, the report said. After extending its reach into print, broadcast and the Internet, adult content provider Playboy...
[May 22, 2003, 8:29]
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]
Napster deal comes with a price tag
News Chief executive Hank Barry said Tuesday that the 38 million Napster users will soon have to pay "monthly dues" of, perhaps, $4.95 (£3) to access each other's hard drives: it is the result of a deal Napster reached with one of five record companies...
[November 1, 2000, 7:45]
ISPs angered by BSkyB deal
News Oftel spokesman David Spofforth said BSkyB's deal was about free digital TV not free Web access. The telecoms watchdog, Oftel, has no plans to intervene unless ISPs direct their complaints at the watchdog.
[May 6, 1999, 17:22]
Sizing up Microsoft's Aquantive deal
News Aquantive's stock rose nearly 80 percent after the deal was announced. The proposed Microsoft-Aquantive deal would bring together under one roof a media agency that buys ad spaces on behalf of advertisers, an ad-serving technology provider and a...
[May 21, 2007, 9:43]
TI deal caused death of SPV suit
News UK mobile phone handset maker Sendo has confirmed that a deal reached last week with Texas Instruments was behind the decision call off its patent lawsuit against Orange, maker of the processor that powers Orange's SPV (Sound Pictures Video...
[July 23, 2003, 11:14]
Ofcom's BT deal wins cautious support
News An important aspect of the deal is that Ofcom could take BT to the High Court if it fails to deliver on its commitments. The agreement struck between Ofcom and BT this week on the future of telecommunications regulation in the UK has been given a...
[June 23, 2005, 17:45]
BitTorrent inks studio distribution deal
News BitTorrent, the creator of the file-sharing software that for some has become synonymous with piracy, has struck a landmark distribution deal with a Hollywood studio. The agreement is also believed to be the first Hollywood distribution deal for...
[May 9, 2006, 9:10]
USA won't renegotiate Lycos deal
News Investors over-reacted to the deal, upset because they were not getting the same extremely high premiums for the company that other Internet firms have received, the USA Networks chief added. They looked at this deal and saw that the premium was...
[March 3, 1999, 6:16]
