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Disney Portal Slowly Passsing GO
News Experts say that as users grow more sophisticated, they no longer have as much need for a portal-like site that collects all sorts of content and services into one place; instead they go to "vertical" sites that excel in one type of subject matter.
[July 22, 1999, 11:55]
Software Makers Go Portal Crazy
News For developers, that means working less with a server's underlying database, or operation system, and more with the portal itself as an application framework. Microsoft is taking portal platform steps, too.
[September 28, 1999, 11:06]
GO.com Recasts Portal Strategy
News Walt Disney plans to reposition its GO.com Web portal as an entertainment and leisure destination, in what seems an acknowledgment that the entertainment giant's Web venture is unable to challenge stalwarts like Yahoo!
[January 28, 2000, 9:30]
Are Web Surfers Fleeing Portal Sites?
News People don't automatically go to portal sites such as Yahoo! But the question remains: is the month's decline a blip -- or the start of a significant trend of Web visitors abandoning portal sites? Lycos and Go Network.
[May 21, 1999, 8:17]
Telecom '99: Oracle, IBM Roll Out Mobile E-commerce
News Oracle will announce at Telecom '99 in Geneva this week an early November shipment of Portal-to-Go, a server-based engine that translates HTML into formats understandable to mobile devices. Oracle's target market for Portal-to-Go is primarily...
[October 11, 1999, 12:37]
Portal Wars Are Over -- Guess Who Won?
News The portal wars are over, and you lost. I wouldn't declare the portal wars over," said B.J. But portal success isn't just about the number of people visiting the site these days -- it's also about a portal's ability to draw in profitable...
[December 20, 1999, 8:51]
Startup Spotlight: UK Plus
News Does this sort of move herald the end for the general-interest portal, and do you see UK Plus being forced to go down the same path? UK Plus inhabits a category of online service that has been around nearly as long as the Web -- the portal -- and...
[March 2, 2000, 14:55]
Portal Woes Kick In
News Also on Monday, Walt Disney made a surprising announcement that it will shut down operations for its Go.com portal and lay off about 400 employees. but will not go to a general interest portal that's down the food chain.
[January 31, 2001, 12:27]
Are Portal Sites Losing Their Magic?
News Traffic from U.S.homes to portal sites rose by 5 percent from March to May, the company said in published reports. Once users become savvy with the Web, they no longer need the convenience and helping hand that a portal can offer them," said...
[July 5, 1999, 8:44]
Yahoo And BT In Click! Pact
News Telecoms behemoth BT has spurned its own portal LineOne and signed a pact with Yahoo! It shows how foolish BT is -- in that it has no idea how to create a successful portal site. Europe in a deal that aims to woo Net newcomers with a no-contract...
[November 5, 1998, 16:35]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo! Dominates
News As for acquisitions, Koogle said Yahoo will go shopping, but only when it boosts the portal's market share or financial results. As the portal easily topped every metric that Wall Street set for the company, other dot-coms such as Salon.com and...
[April 6, 2000, 12:21]
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. When asked if the company intends to build an...
[September 30, 1999, 10:18]
Adult Content Dispute Causes AltaVista To Close Features
News In October, CARU issued a report reprimanding Walt Disney because children who register on Disney.com can easily visit the company's Go.com Web portal and access adult online chat rooms. Web portal AltaVista has abandoned its community features...
[February 15, 2001, 8:50]
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]
Memory Launches Its SoulMate MP3 Player
News Memory Corporation also announced Wednesday its commitment to becoming a content aggregator of music and video, through its portal site. The company said that although it had no intention of managing artists, it wanted to provide consumers with...
[November 4, 1999, 12:10]
Can AOL Overcome Its Corporate Credibility Gap?
News The Mozilla.org developer's group that's dedicated to browser source code development for Navigator will continue, while the control of the Netcentre portal will go to AOL. AOL's linking of Netscape's Netcentre portal to the AOL site merely adds...
[November 27, 1998, 9:06]
Cutbacks Push Dot-coms Toward Profits
News Those cuts came on top of 400 employees shorn last January from Disney's Go.com Web portal. There was a day when The New York Times Digital and Disney had wireless strategies, portal strategies, content strategies and (so on).
[January 9, 2002, 15:03]
Davis Steps Down As Lycos Chief Exec
News Just this week, Walt Disney announced it would shutter its Go.com Web portal and lay off 400 employees. The rise of Lycos was largely marked by Davis' growth-at-all-cost attitude that kept the company afloat despite the difficulty in competing in...
[February 1, 2001, 16:13]
Microsoft's Search Guru Talks Strategy
News People type in Yahoo.com, and they go to a portal, and MSN is one such portal, so it has search, and we'll keep innovating on how to highlight that. Microsoft is hoping that it can catch up to rivals in overall search and find a few key areas where...
[September 28, 2007, 16:33]
Breathe Offers Cheap Bundled WAP Surfing
News The introduction of fixed rate packages should go a long way in reassuring consumers and driving uptake of WAP services.breathe is hoping its novel approach will attract enough eyeballs to its wireless portal to give it a head start in the...
[April 6, 2000, 11:43]
