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GO.com recasts portal strategy
News Disney launched GO Network in January 1999 with the intention of competing head-to-head with Web hubs like Yahoo! And indeed, while individual Disney Web sites such as ESPN.com have been leaders in their categories, the GO Network portal has been...
[January 28, 2000, 9:30]
Infoseek exec nabbed in sex scandal
News Infoseek, which was acquired by Disney last year, operates the GO Network, consisting of the some of the Web's biggest sites, including ESPN.com, ABCNews.com and Disney Online. Patrick Naughton, 34, an executive vice president of Infoseek and...
[September 20, 1999, 9:16]
Disney and Infoseek GO together 100 percent
News Strategically, Disney said the new Go.com entity will enable it "to move the business more nimbly and effectively" and make it easier "to pursue initiatives such as electronic commerce, international expansion, broadband, third-party partnerships...
[July 12, 1999, 12:40]
Disney: Naughton not our employee
News However, Disney spokeswoman Rebecca Anderson stressed Monday that Naughton asserted no operational control over Disney Online, ESPN, ABCNews.com or ABC.com, despite the fact they are part of the Infoseek-operated GO Network.
[September 21, 1999, 10:14]
Cutbacks push dot-coms toward profits
News Last week, Walt Disney chairman Michael Eisner offered a prediction that seemed unthinkable a year ago: The company's beleaguered Internet operations will be in the black by September. Disney isn't alone.
[January 9, 2002, 15:03]
Disney portal slowly passsing GO
News But some believe Disney was mistaken to emphasize the "network" aspect of GO over the strengths of its individual sites. The Disney brand is also important in distinguishing GO Network from all the other look-alike portals out there, just as Excite...
[July 22, 1999, 11:55]
Terra Lycos teams with eBay on auctions
News Last year, eBay teamed with Walt Disney, first launching a co-branded site with Disney's Go.com portal, then hosting official auctions of Disney memorabilia. The auction giant said recently that it is seeking to renegotiate its deal with Disney...
[June 7, 2001, 9:57]
Naughton: The American dream turned sour, Part V
News In the Disney tradition," Eisner had said in a press release announcing the launch of Go.com, "Go Network will feature an unprecedented degree of content protection for children and families. Indeed, word was even spreading among Infoseek and...
[March 21, 2000, 13:59]
Startup Spotlight: UK Plus
News continue to exploit the genre successfully, the likes of Disney (with its GO Network) have been forced to search for other niches in which they can compete. Disney's GO Network has recently gone for a narrower more focused approach on entertainment.
[March 2, 2000, 14:55]
News Burst: Disney says Go
News The Walt Disney Co.and Infoseek Corp.formally launched their new Web portal, the GO network, at a press event in New York Tuesday. The portal has been in beta for the past several weeks, and is expected to combine content from Disney's ESPN and ABC...
[January 12, 1999, 17:12]
Portal wars are over -- guess who won?
News Lycos and Disney's GO Network aren't the only prominent losers, according to the Forrester report. Hey Lycos and the GO Network, put down your weapons and surrender. and, perhaps surprisingly, the Microsoft Network.
[December 20, 1999, 8:51]
Disney: The mouse that won't roar
News The decision was made voluntarily after the Council of Better Business Bureaus found 12-year-olds could access chat rooms on Disney's Go.com network, where sexually charged chats were frequently reported and children could post their home...
[October 11, 2000, 13:51]
Are Web surfers fleeing portal sites?
News Inc.and The Walt Disney Co.s Go Network also lost visitors. Lycos and Go Network. But the question remains: is the month's decline a blip -- or the start of a significant trend of Web visitors abandoning portal sites?
[May 21, 1999, 8:17]
News Corp. readies new-media push
News Richmond strongly refuted criticism that Fox and News Corp.have missed the race to the Internet by failing to establish a strong online portal presence like Disney/ABC's Go Network and NBC's Snap. Richmond said News Corp.is likely to leverage the...
[September 30, 1999, 10:18]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo! dominates
News Yahoo's strong growth will turn up the heat on competitors such as America Online, Excite@Home, Lycos, Microsoft's MSN, NBCI and Disney's Go Network. The company also enabled more than $1bn in transactions on its network.
[April 6, 2000, 12:21]
MS plans broadband control
News Go Network, for example, the Internet hub that combines Infoseek's directory service with Walt Disney's online content, isn't worried about being shut out of the loop in the future. The US telco, for its part, is poised to become the nation's...
[May 13, 1999, 9:49]
AOL makes interactive TV move - deal with TiVo
News CBS, Walt Disney, ComCast, and Cox Communications, among others, signed on to back the company last month. AOL has already announced plans to work with DirecTV, Hughes Network Systems, Philips Electronics and others on AOL TV in June, and has...
[August 18, 1999, 8:31]
Lycos-USA: No e-commerce home run
News The question is whether they'll be able to come up quickly enough to catch heavyweights like Disney and the telecommunications companies," said Jack Staff, chief economist at Zona Research, referring to the other big powers that have recently...
[February 10, 1999, 10:22]
AOL hatches interactive-video unit
News More recently, Collins was the focal point of controversy when Time Warner Cable blacked out Walt Disney's ABC network after a business dispute. More damaging, the move prompted federal regulators to examine the proposed AOL-Time Warner merger more...
[August 17, 2001, 8:30]
Naughton back in court Monday
News At the time of his arrest, last September, Naughton's duties included developing technology for children's content on Walt Disney's GO Network. At the time, Disney was then in the process of acquiring InfoSeek.
[June 5, 2000, 10:14]
