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Lycos Sports 'for Sale' Sign
News Now, with a resurgence of online advertising spending, Terra is seeking a buyer for the Lycos division as it focuses on its Spanish- and Portuguese-language businesses, according to the document, prepared by Lehman Brothers and circulated to...
[April 28, 2004, 9:00]
Search Engines Own Up To Paid-for Results
News Minor changes are already rippling through search destinations, including Terra Lycos, Ask Jeeves, LookSmart, America Online and Microsoft's MSN. Now, many sites, including Terra Lycos, LookSmart, Altavista and Ask Jeeves, are conforming by...
[August 19, 2002, 13:12]
Glitch Wipes Out Some Tripod Pages
News If Tripod, owned by Internet service Terra Lycos, receives a complaint by another member or finds material on someone's page deemed in violation, the service can pull the site. Tripod parent Terra Lycos is not the only company to police its service.
[March 20, 2001, 10:04]
The Day Ahead: Let Lycos Be Acquired In Peace
News As for Terra, it will battle T-Online, the top property in Germany, and try to catch up to entrenched rivals in Brazil. Terra Lycos will have operations in 37 countries and $3bn in cash. Of course, the portal gets no thanks for being acquired by...
[May 18, 2000, 12:21]
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]
Terra Lycos Lassos AltaVista's Raging Bull
News Terra Lycos said Tuesday it acquired AltaVista-owned financial information Web site Raging Bull for an undisclosed amount of cash. Terra Lycos executives touted the Raging Bull deal as a way to combine the Web site into its existing financial...
[January 30, 2001, 16:23]
The Day Ahead: Portal Earnings Preview
News Some analysts have said that Terra Lycos is practically giving ads away, to cope with the online ad slowdown. Terra Lycos -- Two words will sum up this fourth quarter earnings report -- pro forma. Terra Lycos is mixing Terra's calendar fiscal year...
[January 8, 2001, 14:03]
Lycos Looks To Lease Space
News Lycos, a division of Spanish Internet conglomerate Terra Lycos, is advertising available space at its Mountain View, California, headquarters, according to a for-lease sign. Among other things, German media giant Bertelsmann renegotiated a $675m in...
[February 9, 2004, 9:55]
Tech Shares End Summer Doldrums
News T-Online was up seven percent after reporting almost doubled first half sales of 353m euros, while Spain's Terra rose close to eight percent and France's Wanadoo surged nine percent. Analysts said the buoyant mood was underpinned by T-Online's...
[September 4, 2000, 8:57]
Lycos Lays Off Fifth Of Staff
News Lycos, a division of Spanish Internet conglomerate Terra Lycos, will streamline its business to focus on subscription services, such as its personals site Matchmaker. Among other things, German media giant Bertelsmann renegotiated $675m (£361m) in...
[February 12, 2004, 15:20]
Web's Oldest Magazines Shut Down
News Instead, it was sold, with Wired 's Web site, to Terra Lycos. About a year ago Suck left Terra Lycos, joined with Feed and Altculture and formed Automatic Media. Automatic, like hundreds of other less long-lived Web operations, was the victim of...
[June 11, 2001, 16:56]
Portal Woes Kick In
News Spanish Internet service provider Terra had originally guaranteed a $12.5bn floor for the all-stock deal but later renegotiated the terms, taking some $6bn off the final price. Terra Lycos, created when Terra Networks and Web portal Lycos merged in...
[January 31, 2001, 12:27]
Terra Lycos Rekindles HotBot Service
News Nevertheless, parent company Terra Lycos recently said that it wants to narrow its focus to more specific areas including Web searches, finance, personals and online publishing. Terra Lycos said on Monday it is relaunching HotBot, combining search...
[December 17, 2002, 10:12]
Terra Lycos, IBM Team On Messaging
News Terra Lycos said Thursday that it will introduce a new instant messaging service built on IBM Lotus Sametime technology by the end of the year. Terra Lycos "intends to have interoperability with other Sametime communities," said Bethann Cregg...
[November 1, 2002, 12:37]
Terra: Battle For The Outland
Downloads Terra is a Massive Multiplayer Online Tank Game (MMOG) persistent world universe in which warriors battle in heavy equipment on both personal and team levels to conquer the Earth. Terra is a war game unlike any other, modeled after none, similar to...
[July 29, 2008, 0:01]
US Portals To Storm Europe - Study
News Spanish Telefonica's Terra Networks, France Telecom's Wanadoo and Deutsche Telekom's T-Online. Only three European companies have reached a level at which they can continue to compete with top US portals such as America Online and Yahoo!
[November 1, 2000, 14:37]
Tiscali Buys Liberty Surf
News Tiscali is one of Europe's four big players, the others being Germany's T-Online, France's Wanadoo and Spain's Terra Lycos. Tiscali recently purchased Dutch ISP World Online, and is considered a potential buyer for LineOne, put up for sale by...
[January 8, 2001, 11:15]
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]
Davis Steps Down As Lycos Chief Exec
News Terra Lycos confirmed Thursday that chief executive Robert Davis was stepping down amid a top-level management shakeup. However, Villalonga was ousted in a boardroom coup shortly thereafter, and Davis had reportedly had differences with Joaquim...
[February 1, 2001, 16:13]
The Day Ahead: DoubleClick May Win Expectations Game
News In a report from analysts Lisa Hass and Jordan Rohan, WitSoundView lowered its rating on Terra Lycos from "hold" to "sell". Terra Lycos has plenty of cash -- even though its burning through a lot of it -- and is a top Web property.
[December 12, 2000, 12:43]
