Terra Hits WAP Scene With Iobox Buyout
News The move fuels the wireless Internet ambitions of telco Telefonica and Internet service provider Terra Networks. Terra Mobile was founded earlier this month by Telefonica Mobiles and Terra Networks, which recently acquired US-based Internet portal...
[July 25, 2000, 16:41]
Earnings Help Lycos Interrupt Post-merger Slide
News On Wednesday, the Internet portal's stock tumbled more than 20 percent as analysts had decidedly negative comments regarding its proposed $12.5bn (£8.44bn) merger with Terra Networks. Many investors appeared to believe the proposed merger with...
[May 18, 2000, 17:03]
Davis Steps Down As Lycos Chief Exec
News Just when it seemed Lycos would also fall into the turmoil that struck second tier portals, Davis sold the company to ISP Terra Networks, a subsidiary of Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica. Terra Lycos confirmed Thursday that chief...
[February 1, 2001, 16:13]
The Day Ahead: AOL Latin America Has Nice Name, Little Else
News Universo Online, or UOL, one of Brazil's largest Internet service providers, and Terra Networks each offer free Internet access services as well as billable plans in Brazil. AOL Latin America is behind competitors such as Terra Networks and...
[August 1, 2000, 13:23]
News Burst: Terra Buys WAP Portal
News Terra Mobile is a joint venture owned 51 percent by Telefonica Moviles and 49 percent by Terra Networks, which recently acquired US-based Internet portal Lycos. Spain's Terra Mobile is placing its bets on WAP's successful future with the...
[July 25, 2000, 11:45]
Terra Lycos Lassos AltaVista's Raging Bull
News Spanish ISP Terra Networks in October completed its $6.5bn acquisition of Web portal Lycos to form Terra Lycos. Terra Lycos said Tuesday it acquired AltaVista-owned financial information Web site Raging Bull for an undisclosed amount of cash.
[January 30, 2001, 16:23]
Terra Lycos Rekindles HotBot Service
News Terra Lycos said on Monday it is relaunching HotBot, combining search results from four engines on a single site. HotBot's relaunch is an effort to recapture past glory and bolster Terra Lycos' position in paid listings, a market dominated by the...
[December 17, 2002, 10:12]
Terra Lycos Teams With EBay On Auctions
News Terra Lycos is scuttling a portion of its auction site and is linking to eBay as part of a marketing agreement announced Wednesday. The companies' co-branded site launched on Wednesday, replacing an earlier person-to-person auction site on Terra...
[June 7, 2001, 9:57]
The Day Ahead: Let Lycos Be Acquired In Peace
News Of course, the portal gets no thanks for being acquired by Terra Networks for $12.5bn (£8.44bn). Lycos shares crumbled 20 percent after Wall Street's gurus summarily downgraded the portal on concerns about its merger with Terra Networks.
[May 18, 2000, 12:21]
Lycos Sports 'for Sale' Sign
News A sale of the unit would unwind the $12.5bn merger of Lycos and Terra Networks, struck in 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble. Spanish Internet company Terra Lycos has retained investment bank Lehman Brothers to explore a possible sale of its...
[April 28, 2004, 9:00]
Portal Woes Kick In
News Terra Lycos, created when Terra Networks and Web portal Lycos merged in October, faced a similar valuation issue as Internet stock prices went into free-fall shortly after the deal was announced in May.
[January 31, 2001, 12:27]
US Portals To Storm Europe - Study
News Spanish Telefonica's Terra Networks, France Telecom's Wanadoo and Deutsche Telekom's T-Online. All but the largest European portals are likely to be defeated by larger, more aggressive American rivals, according to a report by Forrester Research...
[November 1, 2000, 14:37]
Does Wanadoo Want Freeserve?
News Other players interested in Freeserve include Terra Networks of Spain and Tiscali of Italy, according to Sunday Business. Freeserve (quote: FRE), the Internet service provider 80 percent owned by Dixons, could be taken over by French rival Wanadoo...
[October 2, 2000, 10:34]
Lastminute.com Shares Continue To Slide
News World Online's flotation initially valued the pan-European Internet service provider at over E12bn (£7.4bn) -- ranking it among the top three European Internet groups by market value to date, after Spain's Terra Networks and Italy's Tiscali.
[March 21, 2000, 10:02]
The Day Ahead: CMGI Lessens Dependence On IPO Market
News And CMGI will make a nice profit if Terra Networks and Lycos complete their planned merger. Internet incubator CMGI made its name by developing startups and cashing in when they go public. Now CMGI is distancing itself from that image and the...
[June 15, 2000, 11:52]
Analysis: BT Under Pressure To Do The Right Thing...
News Similarly, Spain's Telefonica has Terra Networks, the dominant ISP, and France Telecom has the leading French portal. Now is a critical time for BT. The tectonic plates of the international telecommunications world are shifting and the shape and...
[April 3, 2000, 12:34]
IBM Expands Self-healing Server Plan
News Customers include Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Terra Lycos. IBM is working with software companies such as BMC Software and Candle as well as hardware companies including Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks to offer the Eliza service, Wladawsky...
[October 31, 2001, 10:41]
The Day Ahead: Will Rediff.com Be An IPO Hit?
News Terra Networks was so well received it wound up buying Lycos. Up until recently, Latin American and Chinese portals have occupied IPO investors, but that should change as Rediff.com India Limited starts trading.
[June 14, 2000, 12:17]
Microsoft Smartphone Deals Out A Pack Of Games
News Versaly will provide "The Untouchables Pin Ball", Mobile Scope will provide several games, Terra Mobile-iobox will offer Midway's "Defender", Ideaworks3D will publish "Rebound! The company's experience with European networks is mainly responsible...
[April 18, 2002, 15:14]
