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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: CMGI, then and now
News Just ask Internet incubator CMGI. 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.
[December 20, 2000, 12:44]
The Day Ahead: Divine InterVentures' IPO needs help from above
News Divine's biggest challenge may be taking itself public in a market where Internet incubator valuations have fallen sharply. A few months ago, the offering of Divine, a business-to-business e-commerce and infrastructure incubator, would have been a...
[June 28, 2000, 11:53]
The Day Ahead: Sizing up the Internet incubators
News The Internet incubator tagline is a surefire way to boost your financial standing on Wall Street. It's no wonder why being an Internet incubator -- part mutual fund, part publicly traded venture capital firm -- is becoming so popular.
[February 7, 2000, 11:56]
The Day Ahead: Safeguard exits B2B investing, should you?
News Internet incubator Safeguard Scientifics, which helped create the business-to-business e-commerce stock craze, is taking its cash and going elsewhere. Safeguard, an Internet incubator, orphaned its B2B partner companies and said it will focus on...
[April 11, 2000, 12:41]
The Day Ahead: Tech volatility clamps down on buzzword abuse
News Everyone wanted to be an Internet incubator in the first two months of the year. Just for good measure these companies would mention they also had plans for an Internet incubator. Sina.com, a Chinese Internet portal, is trading above its IPO price...
[May 5, 2000, 12:10]
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]
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]
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. Company officials said sales for its Internet business segment increased 1,600 percent compared with the third quarter of last year.
[June 14, 2000, 10:00]
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]
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). To see the pitfalls of earnings estimates for Internet incubators, just look at the results from Safeguard Scientifics, ICG's parent company.
[February 25, 2000, 13:02]
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. For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's...
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
The Day Ahead: ICG's Rightworks hopes to take on Ariba
News RightWorks' chief executive announcement, expected on Monday, comes as Internet incubator ICG is looking to deliver a few IPO hits. Mary Coleman, the former president of Baan, will be named chief executive of RightWorks, a privately held B2B...
[September 18, 2000, 11:28]
The Day Ahead: Compaq's CMGI loss quite a distraction
News Including a $1.8bn charge for the write-off of investments, principally the massive decline of its investment in Internet incubator CMGI, Compaq reported a net loss of $672m, or 39 cents a share. As CMGI's largest outside shareholder and its...
[January 24, 2001, 13:05]
Domain name 'fire sale' could break WIPO rules
News Greg McLamore, who founded the dot-com incubator WebMagic, is to auction 333 domain names online over the next three months. The Internet entrepreneur who hoped to make a quick buck from a "fire sale" of more than 300 domain names is in danger of...
[July 27, 2001, 11:54]
.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]
The Day Ahead: ITeX may brighten dreary IPO week
News And while we're on the IPO topic, Divine Interventures, a barely incubated Internet incubator, reported a whopper of a second quarter loss. CMGI contends it's an operating company and Internet Capital Group isn't talking the visionary game.
[August 18, 2000, 11:52]
Tech giants form open-cloud-standards group
News The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), whose board includes representatives from companies such as VMware, IBM, Microsoft, Citrix and HP, announced the creation of the Open Cloud Standards Incubator (OCSI) group on Monday.
[April 28, 2009, 17:00]
Government fears digital divide is growing
News E-minister Patricia Hewitt announced a £5.5m incubator fund to be targeted at deprived areas of the country in order to encourage the development of new Internet businesses. The study also showed that 96 percent of businesses in London have...
[November 22, 2000, 15:58]
