Internet incubator hatches job cuts
News Idealab.com, the Internet incubator with offices in London and California, is the latest to suffer from job cutbacks. Among idealab's ill-fated investments was eToys, the online retailer which shut down its UK operation this month after a...
[January 15, 2001, 15:41]
Tiny Tuvalu cashes in on '.tv' domains
News Tuvalu, a tiny South Pacific nation measuring 26 square kilometers, has sold the use of its domain name -- .tv -- to Idealab! The current deal is with Idealab! in a deal that promises to garner Tuvalu more than three times its national budget.
[April 12, 2000, 7:09]
Free-PC.com sets off 'sales' frenzy
News Officials at the Idealab startup Free-PC.com say they're baffled by the overwhelming response to their advertising-supported free hardware offer and want to expand the program. Company executives, including Idealab founder Bill Gross, were...
[February 11, 1999, 10:31]
Overture founder set to unveil new search venture
News The founder and CEO of famed venture capitalist Idealab plans to unveil a new search venture on Tuesday at the Web 2.0 Conference being held in San Francisco. Wholly owned and funded by Idealab, Insider Pages has yet to make a public debut.
[October 5, 2004, 10:40]
Net laughs at itself on April Fool's
News FuckedCompany.com, an irreverent Web site that documents the demise of dot-coms, has been bought by Internet incubator Idealab. Phil Kaplan, who operates FuckedCompany, posted the phony news story about Idealab on his own site.
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
eMachines prices at $9 a share
News In January, eMachines acquired FreePC, a Bill Gross idealab! In regulatory filings, eMachines said it will leverage its idealab! eMachines priced its 20 million share initial public offering (IPO) at $9 (£5.58) a share on Thursday for trading on...
[March 24, 2000, 10:45]
The Day Ahead: Will investors buy eMachines' IPO?
News Couple eMachine's ambition with the idealab! In January, eMachines acquired FreePC, a Bill Gross idealab! eMachines, a pioneer of low-cost PCs, actually reported a fourth-quarter profit last year, and has strong brand recognition.
[March 20, 2000, 12:06]
10,000 free PCs...and the catch?
News Gross, founder of investment firm Idealab, said in a statement that the PCs will go to the first 10,000 people registering on the Free-PC.com site whose age, household income, hobbies, and other consumer data make them "of interest to our initial...
[February 9, 1999, 11:26]
Free PCs for UK
News According to reports, Free-PC owner Idealab will enter the UK later this year, but only after it has "completely cracked" the US market. In the US, Free-PC gave away 10,000 Compaq computers to users after an estimated one million people applied.
[February 19, 1999, 13:39]
New.net finds ally for domain effort
News The deal will allow some 7.5 million Tiscali customers to register and navigate the Web using technology created by Idealab-backed New.net. New.net on Thursday plans to announce a new partner in its long-shot challenge to the official domain system...
[December 20, 2001, 14:30]
MS to back Net instant messaging standard proposal
News PeopleLink partners include Infoseek and AltaVista and the company is part of the idealab! Microsoft and PeopleLink will later today announce RVP, a proposed standard for instant messaging over the Internet that is supported by about 40 other...
[November 25, 1997, 9:57]
Red Herring: Park the new venture market in Garage.com
News Idealab will file its plans to go public within the next few weeks, according to industry sources. Within the last two years, companies such as Internet Capital Group, Divine Interventures, Idealab and Garage.com have taken center stage to become...
[February 16, 2000, 13:37]
Net piracy presents paradox to entertainers
News A panel of executives from companies including Idealab Capital Partners, EMI Recorded Music, Columbia TriStar, IBM Corp.and Warner Bros.is scheduled to take on that topic, among many others facing what some now see as the "converged" field of...
[August 2, 1999, 11:42]
.Movie coming to a Web site near you
News New.net was started last year by investor Bill Gross and his Net incubator Idealab. New.net, an Internet start-up aiming to speed up the domain-name registration process, has released a new domain name suffix, ending in .movie.
[October 24, 2001, 11:28]
ISP offers free PCs to subscribers
News Free-PC.com, an idealab! That's the deal a New Hampshire ISP is offering. The company, Empire.Net, is giving subscribers a 300MHz white-box Intel system with 32MB of RAM, 2.1GB hard drive, 24x CD-ROM, 56K v.90 modem, and a 14-inch monitor.
[February 18, 1999, 9:21]
The Day Ahead: Divine InterVentures' IPO needs help from above
News Idealab! Idealab, which has filed to go public, has hatched eToys, TicketMaster Online-CitySearch, Goto.com and NetZero to name a few. Now, Wall Street is a bit more selective and Divine's timing couldn't be worse.
[June 28, 2000, 11:53]
The Day Ahead: Tech volatility clamps down on buzzword abuse
News Real incubators -- CMGI, Internet Capital Group and Safeguard Scientifics and the soon to be public idealab! Companies would typically gain on news of some new Linux, wireless, Chinese business-to-business e-commerce solution.
[May 5, 2000, 12:10]
Yahoo joins desktop search party
News X1, based in Pasadena, California, was founded by Idealab CEO Bill Gross, who also created Yahoo commercial-search subsidiary Overture Services. In a step to keep pace with chief rival Google, Yahoo plans to start testing a downloadable desktop...
[December 10, 2004, 8:10]
Google not going to enter browser market
News Many executives from the Internet's early days (or version 1.0 as the conference would have it) -- Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Broadcast.com's Mark Cuban, Idealab's Bill Gross -- were here to give their visions of the future and new technologies that...
[October 6, 2004, 9:15]
