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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. The firm, which helped start m-commerce company Scan and community site PeopleLink in the UK, has cut 30 of 120 staff in Pasadena...
[January 15, 2001, 15:41]
The Day Ahead: Divine InterVentures' IPO Needs Help From Above
News A few months ago, the offering of Divine, a business-to-business e-commerce and infrastructure incubator, would have been a no-brainer. Divine's biggest challenge may be taking itself public in a market where Internet incubator valuations have...
[June 28, 2000, 11:53]
The Day Ahead: CMGI, Then And Now
News Lowell, circa 14 June, 2000: In a report titled Reach and revenue extending, validating the incubator model in our view, Lowell said the net asset value of CMGI's properties would prove conservative. Just ask Internet incubator CMGI.
[December 20, 2000, 12:44]
Beyond Bricks Offers Aid To Entrepreneurs
News The DTI on Thursday launched its e-business incubator, beyondbricks.com, together with a £75m incubator fund, to help high-tech startups in the UK. Separately, small business minister Nigal Griffiths said he will launch a £75m business incubator...
[September 27, 2001, 17:34]
The Day Ahead: Sizing Up The Internet Incubators
News Among established incubator players, there are no bargains to be had, but that's the price you pay for a good track record. The Internet incubator tagline is a surefire way to boost your financial standing on Wall Street.
[February 7, 2000, 11:56]
News Burst: Net Investment Firm Cuts Staff
News The latest effect: Internet incubator eSouk.com Thursday axed nearly three-quarters of its staff, according to reports. The move comes after NewMedia Spark, a major quoted incubator, bought rival Softtechnet for £30m to boost its investment funds.
[June 9, 2000, 11:50]
The Day Ahead: Safeguard Exits B2B Investing, Should You?
News After shares of Internet Capital Group, a B2B incubator and Safeguard offspring, fell Monday, Safeguard went on damage control. Internet incubator Safeguard Scientifics, which helped create the business-to-business e-commerce stock craze, is taking...
[April 11, 2000, 12:41]
Secure Open Source Desktop Gets Public Funding
News An equal sum has been provided by members of netproject's Incubator Club - a group of companies and government organisations who want to investigate open source options privately, without attracting the attention of major software vendors.
[May 31, 2005, 18:15]
Apache Project In Tune With Java Changes
News About two weeks ago, the board of the Apache Software Foundation approved a change in status from incubator to top-level project, Geir Magnusson, who is the chair of the Harmony Project Management Committee, said Tuesday.
[November 15, 2006, 9:04]
MS And IBM Create Enfrastructure Startup
News ThinkTank.com is an e-business incubator based in California. While Enfrastructure isn't expected to be an incubator, per se, it is expected to provide new e-businesses with some of the hardware, software and services they need to launch and...
[September 19, 2000, 11:14]
The Day Ahead: Tech Volatility Clamps Down On Buzzword Abuse
News Just for good measure these companies would mention they also had plans for an Internet incubator. Everyone wanted to be an Internet incubator in the first two months of the year. In the good old days -- three months ago -- companies could throw...
[May 5, 2000, 12:10]
Organic Robot Mixes Rat Brain With Silicon
News But one of the chips sits on top of a small metal cylinder, a patented sealed incubator system that contains the control circuits of the device: live rat brain cells. The incubator contains a few thousand living neurons cultured from rat cortex and...
[June 13, 2003, 16:19]
The Day Ahead: CMGI Grasping At Straws
News Now here sits CMGI, the first significant Internet incubator riding the wave of the dot-com propaganda that made guys like Jeff Bezos Time's Man of the Year, at $14.50 a share and deep into the preliminary stages of massive restructuring and...
[November 14, 2000, 11:58]
Startup Spotlight: ESouk.com
News You call yourselves a business "accelerator" rather than an incubator. An incubator provides a service for entrepreneurs, and that is not what we are about. There's a new word for the e-commerce dictionary -- "souk", derived from Arabic, now refers...
[March 15, 2000, 11:04]
Jane Wakefield: I Am The Network
News He has gone off to start up his own incubator. The best ideas are turned into startups (only one in every ten makes it) and Brightstar has now launched three companies, with a further eleven in the incubator stage.
[March 26, 2001, 15:30]
The Day Ahead: ICG's IPO Stable Mixed
News Analysts said ICG, an Internet incubator, is likely to hit the road shortly to talk about a new strategy that consolidates and organises its portfolio companies into hub categories. With business-to-business stocks and the IPO market expected to...
[September 11, 2000, 11:46]
Startup Shutdowns Force NewMedia Spark Into The Red
News It recently bought local incubator Cell IDC, only to see a sharp decline in the value of many of the B2B dot-coms it acquired through the deal. Internet investment company NewMedia Spark announced on Wednesday that it had made a loss in its last...
[June 14, 2001, 11:46]
Women Haven't Broken The Venture Capital Ceiling
News The organisation, which is dedicated to promoting women in technology and providing networking opportunities for them, unveiled plans to start a women's technology incubator in conjunction with Smith College in the US and to launch software that...
[June 22, 2000, 10:24]
CMGI Tops 3Q Estimates
News First Call consensus pegged the Internet incubator and investment company for a loss of $1.83 a share in the quarter. CMGI topped analysts' estimates in its third quarter Tuesday, posting a loss of $428m (£284.7m), or $1.53 a share, on sales of...
[June 14, 2000, 10:00]
The Day Ahead: Why You Shouldn't Fret Over ICG's Bottom Line
News Unless that company is an Internet incubator, such as Internet Capital Group (ICG). Usually when a company says it will report losses in upcoming quarters, it's bad news. ICG shares fell in after-hours trading on Thursday after the company said it...
[February 25, 2000, 13:02]
