NBCi Accesses And Maintains Complex Databases With Perl
White Papers Wrangling the enormous amount of information stored in NBCi's databases is easy with Perl. Perl was already an important component in the company's operations when the NBCi site was formed by merging Xoom.com, Snap.com, and the online division of NBC.
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
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. The broadcasting company is currently a minority shareholder in NBCi, with approximately 38.6 percent of...
[April 9, 2001, 14:16]
The Day Ahead: Go.com Is Going In The Right Direction
News But Go has about half of NBCI's $1.2bn (£0.77bn) market capitalisation, and can't even touch Lycos or Excite@Home, not to mention America Online or Yahoo! According to Media Metrix, Go.com is the sixth largest site on the Web and counts NBCI, Lycos...
[May 4, 2000, 12:58]
The Day Ahead: Big Is Beautiful For AOL, But Ad Picture Fuzzy
News In June, NBCI helped kick off worries about online advertising, when it issued a profit warning, revamped and partly blamed a dependence on cash-strapped dot-com advertisers for its problems. So NBCI was looking for excuses and the online ad world...
[July 21, 2000, 13:58]
Cursors Face Defining Moments On The Web
News Technology from companies including Comet, NBCi's QuickClick (formerly Flyswat), Tribal Voice, Nano, Octopus and Atomica seeks to make the information-gathering process online more fluid, timely and efficient.
[January 29, 2001, 17:14]
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]
The Day Ahead: Disney Says GO Brand A No-go, You DIG?
News NBCI is another company that has regrouped to rid itself of brands such as Snap.com and Xoom.com. Now NBCI is leveraging the power of the peacock with a uniform brand. Disney changed the name of its Go.com Internet unit and went a long way toward...
[August 3, 2000, 13:00]
NBC Signs Up Overture
News SLI, whose technology used to power search for former NBC properties NBCi and Snap.com, operates "Site Search," which tracks user behaviour to deliver more relevant results. Television network NBC on Monday is expected to announce a two-year...
[November 10, 2003, 11:25]
Adult Content Dispute Causes AltaVista To Close Features
News CNET Networks, publisher of News.com and ZDNet News, has a stake in NBCi. Web portal AltaVista has abandoned its community features after the Better Business Bureau found the site too loose in preventing children from visiting adult-only areas.
[February 15, 2001, 8:50]
The Day Ahead: Go2Net Poised To Benefit From The Dot-com Shakeout
News Go2Net surged 15 percent, but peers About.com, Ask Jeeves, Go.com, Goto.com, Looksmart and NBCI remained mired in a slump. And Go2Net execs intend to take full advantage of the dot-com malaise to grow the company's network.
[April 18, 2000, 12:13]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo! Dominates
News Yahoo's strong growth will turn up the heat on competitors such as America Online, Excite@Home, Lycos, Microsoft's MSN, NBCI and Disney's Go Network. As the portal easily topped every metric that Wall Street set for the company, other dot-coms such...
[April 6, 2000, 12:21]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo! Ducks Online Ad Issue
News NBCI partly blamed dot-com woes for its profit warning, and DoubleClick has dived on advertising concerns. Yahoo! executives did their best to allay fears that the dot-com shakeout won't hurt the Web giant's advertising prospects, but they raised...
[July 12, 2000, 13:00]
AOL, Time Warner Tout Broadband Future, Synergy
News Disney acquired Infoseek; NBCi was formed as NBC merged its Net properties with Xoom.com and Snap.com; USA Networks and Lycos were engaged but scrapped the deal. America Online found a cable strategy and Time Warner found its Internet strategy as...
[January 10, 2000, 14:17]
THE DAY AHEAD: Why Yahoo! Doesn't Need A Megamerger
News NBCi features NBC content. Yahoo! made its best case for staying independent with strong fourth quarter results. But that didn't stop officials from spending most of the company's conference call deflecting questions about AOL Time Warner and...
[January 12, 2000, 11:56]
