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Web An Exhibition Sport At Olympics
News It won't be a gold medal event, instead more of an exhibition sport, but broadband will make its Olympic debut Saturday when, for the first time ever, NBC Webcasts highlights of Olympic events. Into this fray has stepped a small, Phoenix-based...
[September 15, 2000, 15:31]
US Report: Mixed Verdict On Netscape's Media Moves
News After all, in recent weeks, NBC bought a 19 percent hunk of Snap! In recent days, the company's shares soared after Mike Homer, Netscape's executive vice president, said the company was exploring partnerships with Disney, ABC, Fox, CBS and General...
[July 10, 1998, 10:28]
Net Falls Short Of Olympic Gold
News NBC worries that Internet viewing would cannibalise its TV audience and jeopardise its ad deals," Scheirer wrote. The failure has left NBC without an Internet partner to run its NBCOlympics.com Web site, at least for now.
[May 29, 2001, 9:34]
Yahoo! Beats Estimates But Cuts Staff
News NBC will lay off most of NBCi's over 300 employees, leaving the portal's future in doubt. Earlier this week, General Electric's NBC TV network decided to buy back the remaining public shares of its NBCi Web portal.
[April 12, 2001, 8:15]
US Report: Netscape's $30M Portal Push
News Excite, MSN.com and Lycos, as well as new challengers such as Go Network (from Walt Disney Co.and Infoseek) and Snap.com (from NBC and CNet. Netscape said it plans to spend over $30m (£18m) on the campaign, which will appeal to edgy, techno...
[December 17, 1998, 14:40]
NBC Signs Up Overture
News Television network NBC on Monday is expected to announce a two-year partnership with Overture Services for sponsored search, becoming the latest Web publisher to lace query results with ads. Seeking to capitalise on Web search, NBC said it has...
[November 10, 2003, 11:25]
Industry Bigwigs Near Interactive TV Deal
News The resulting set-top situation would be like needing a separate TV to watch the content broadcast on HBO and NBC, she added. "This technology is a great step forward," said a source close to the discussions.
[January 19, 1998, 10:40]
Industry Bigwigs Near Interactive TV Deal
News The resulting set-top situation would be like needing a separate TV to watch the content broadcast on HBO and NBC, she added. "This technology is a great step forward," said a source close to the discussions.
[January 19, 1998, 10:40]
New Tech Changes The Face Of War Reporting
News Networks have embraced compact broadcast systems like this -- NBC and parent company General Electric developed their own, for example -- as the next step after satellite telephones, Delin said. While media coverage of major parts of the last Gulf...
[March 21, 2003, 9:19]
NBC To Acquire NBCi
News Network giant NBC on Monday said it has entered into an agreement to acquire all of NBCi, an Internet portal and media company, for about $85m. NBC executives said the decision to acquire the company's former subsidiary is a response to market...
[April 9, 2001, 14:16]
Colorado Massacre: Poll Blames Guns And The Net
News The study, which was commissioned by NBC and The Wall Street Journal and released Friday, found that 82 percent of those polled blamed the Internet at least partly for causing the shootings, compared with 88 percent who blamed the accessibility of...
[April 28, 1999, 9:34]
A Faster, Leaner Olympics Online
News Primary online coverage will be provided by MSNBC, a joint venture between NBC and Microsoft, which is hosting the official Olympics.com Web site. In addition to friendlier time zones, NBC and MSNBC will for the first time have access to a top...
[February 9, 2002, 6:01]
Like Stealing Credit Cards From Babies
News In an email to NBC News on Tuesday, a writer claiming responsibility for the theft said he would "soon" open a new Web page and give away more numbers. How did it happen? How was a teen-aged computer thief able to glean thousands of credit cards...
[January 13, 2000, 9:39]
Expedia May Start Spin-off Phase For Microsoft
News This 50-50 joint venture with General Electric's NBC could definitely be spun out in some fashion. Of course NBC and Microsoft would have to split the proceeds and Bill Gates isn't known for sharing profits.
[November 11, 1999, 15:54]
Email Answer To Anthrax Risk
News Over the next two weeks, numerous letters containing spores of anthrax--an infectious, often fatal disease that can be transmitted from cattle and sheep to humans through inhalation or skin lesions--arrived at NBC Nightly News, ABC News, Microsoft...
[October 17, 2001, 8:53]
YouTube May Face Court Over Copyright Complaints
News In February, NBC requested the site remove a skit from the television show Saturday Night Live. YouTube, however, which quickly took the clip down after NBC protested, points to its handling of the incident and others like it as an example of how...
[July 24, 2006, 15:50]
Yahoo! To Buy Broadcast.com For $5.7bn
News Likewise, the Snap portal joint venture of CNET and NBC this month launch a tailored high-speed version of its navigation hub that is being distributed by partners such as SBC, Bell Atlantic and GTE. The relatively recent entry of competitors such...
[April 1, 1999, 10:09]
Gates: Win2000 'dramatically More Reliable'
News Windows 2000, which cost $1bn (£610m) to develop, is the most important product launched by Microsoft since Windows 95, Gates said in an interview with NBC's "Today" show. Gates told NBC he was spending a considerable amount of time trying to...
[February 17, 2000, 15:39]
Nasdaq Flies Past 3,000 Mark
News Xoom.com rose 1/4 to 64 after announcing it has scheduled a meeting November 24 for stockholders to vote on the proposed NBC Internet transactions that have been in the works since May. Technology investors finally kicked the door in Wednesday as...
[November 4, 1999, 9:49]
Microsoft Hacker: It's Like A Drug
News MSNBC is a joint-partnership between Microsoft and NBC News. The hacker who broke into Microsoft's computers and publicly bragged about it says it was personal problems -- not unrequited love -- that led him to attack the computer giant.
[October 28, 1999, 8:23]
