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Sports.com faces knockout blow
News Sports.com is close to getting the red card after the Internet sports site was placed in administration by the UK courts on Friday. The company is hoping to sell the UK site as a going concern, but the feeling within the dot-com industry is that...
[June 5, 2002, 16:12]
Sports.com may be saved
News Several companies are thought to be interested in acquiring Sports.com, which went into administration last week. Industry observers initially felt that Sports.com was likely to close this summer, once the World Cup was over, but it now seems that...
[June 7, 2002, 11:37]
Sports Motivational Messages Screensaver by ScenicReflections.com
Downloads The Free Sports With Motivational Messages Screensaver by ScenicReflections.com displays 36 amazing and stunning sports related images each with a motivational quote. The following features and benefits are included in the free Sports With...
[September 8, 2003, 8:00]
George Soros re-invests in Sports.com
News Internet content site Sports.com has defied the woes of the technology sector by raising £9.3m from a number of existing shareholders, including US investor George Soros. As well as Soros Private Equity Partners, Sportsline.com and IMG also...
[July 18, 2001, 13:53]
Speed typists bring World Cup home
News Sitting at his desk with his hands on his computer keyboard and his eyes glued to the TV set, Sports.com commentator James Gill types frantically as a quick turn of events flashes across the screen. Such interest may be too late for Sports.com...
[June 6, 2002, 10:01]
The IOC gives the Web a sporting chance
News The online sports media is set to receive a boost this week when Sportal.com and Sports.com will use official International Olympic Committee (IOC) accreditation to cover the 2002 Winter games from Salt Lake City.
[February 4, 2002, 10:11]
Sky invests £250m on Internet and content to phones
News British Sky Broadcasting (quote: BSY) on Wednesday said it will invest £250m in its online division, Sky New Media, to bulk up its sky.com and skysports.com properties, with a focus on grabbing online-sports market share.
[February 9, 2000, 12:20]
No room for cybersquatters
News This alliance of sports organisations is using the ACPA to sue FlairMail.com, a Web site that offers free e-mail addresses from sports domains like goavalanche .net and mightyducks1.com. It was the eve of the new millennium, and while revellers and...
[March 27, 2000, 12:13]
UK sports sites 1 Other Web sites 0
News The most popular sports site in the UK was teamtalk.com. Football fever pushed visits to UK sports sites through the one million barrier in June, according to research published Tuesday from analyst firm MMXI Europe.
[August 2, 2000, 12:15]
A Year Ago: No room for cybersquatters
News This alliance of sports organisations is using the ACPA to sue FlairMail.com, a Web site that offers free e-mail addresses from sports domains like goavalanche .net and mightyducks1.com. It was the eve of the new millennium, and while revellers and...
[March 27, 2001, 6:03]
Sky shares skyrocket on online strategy
News We have today announced a major investment in Sky New Media Ventures to develop sky.com to enhance the presence of the Sky brand and content in the new media field, with the objective of skysports.com becoming the number one sports portal...
[February 10, 2000, 9:00]
Anti-cybersquatting law faces first test
News Quokka Sports has filed suit against two New Zealand-based companies, claiming it negotiated the exclusive right to the AmericasCup.com domain name with trademark holder America's Cup Properties last April.
[December 16, 1999, 11:43]
A faster, leaner Olympics online
News This year's Web coverage has been heavily influenced by NBC's experience during the Sydney Games, undertaken in partnership with Quokka Sports, which has long since joined the dot-com boneyard. and Sports.com, will field reporting teams.
[February 9, 2002, 6:01]
Sydney 2000: The day they banned the Net down under
News Steven Nuttall, head of sports at Sportal.com believes the relationship between TV and the Web is complimentary rather than competitive. The Internet could enable individual sports to create their own channel on the Web, allowing them to directly...
[September 12, 2000, 15:11]
Microsoft pulls out a new wallet
News Microsoft said it has signed up a number of retailers including Kmart, The Sports Authority, FogDog Sports, OfficeMax, RitzCamera.com, Blue Nile and Nordstrom. Amazon.com's "one-click" service, which stores billing and shipping information on...
[September 3, 2002, 9:04]
Yahoo! hopes to score with World Cup site
News But as competitors such as Microsoft, AOL Time Warner, CBS SportsLine.com and RealNetworks strike exclusive, multiyear deals with professional sports leagues, Yahoo! Beyond testing demand and pricing for online sports content, the agreement signals...
[June 1, 2002, 7:32]
Net falls short of Olympic gold
News Last month, San Francisco-based Quokka Sports filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and effectively shut down, having run out of cash. In a conference held in Lausanne, Switzerland, last December, the IOC brought together the sports community...
[May 29, 2001, 9:34]
Will streaming media leave PCs behind?
News and Fox Sports, which have signed on to RealOne in a search for new revenue to offset a tight ad market. Glaser said the company's decision to offer subscriptions that include a smorgasbord of content is an attempt to mirror the cable industry...
[March 6, 2002, 9:20]
AOL Time Warner's future interactive
News Larry Gerbrandt, senior analyst for media analysis firm Paul Kagan Associates said that, for a company with world-recognised brands like TIME, Money and Sports Illustrated, very little has been done to capitalise on their popularity.
[January 12, 2000, 9:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog By a fearsome combination of people off on their hols and others in their sickbeds, it falls to me to present the stuff about ZDNet UK edit and sales: I find myself for the first time stuck in front of a PowerPoint presentation talking about...
[July 23, 2004, 18:00]
