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The Day Ahead: Value America Board Members Throw Cash Into The Pit
News Struggling e-tailer Value America would like you to believe that some of its board members gave the company a vote of confidence by forking over $30m (£19.9m) for convertible preferred shares. What does this financing mean for the investors who...
[May 11, 2000, 12:03]
The Day Ahead: Many More Value Americas To Come
News For the last year, Value America has been ahead of its time for all the wrong reasons. But don't waste your sympathy on company officers, investment bankers, venture capitalists and others who brought Value America public and then pushed shares.
[August 15, 2000, 11:57]
Supreme Court Hears File-swapping Case
News In a joint petition to the Supreme Court, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said that letting the lower court rulings stand would badly undermine the value of copyrighted work.
[October 11, 2004, 9:30]
US Justice Department Ready To Prosecute File-swappers
News Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), said his industry would "welcome" prosecutions that send a message to song-swappers. Swapping files in violation of the law has always been a civil offense, and the...
[August 21, 2002, 7:51]
NFC Tech Predicted To Reach Tipping Point By 2013
News Juniper Research forecast the gross transaction value of relatively low-value purchases — such as refreshments, tickets and food — made via NFC will exceed $75bn (£38bn) globally by 2013, with the lion's share of contactless business being done in...
[July 21, 2008, 8:12]
AOL Names New Chairman
News Since the historic merger of America Online and Time Warner two years ago, the company's stock has declined 70 percent, wiping out some $200bn, or about £128bn, in market value. Parsons faces an enormous task in righting a company that has listed...
[January 17, 2003, 8:19]
AOL-Microsoft Deal Bodes Ill For Netscape
News The company was still a contender in 1998, when the Netscape browser's market share ran neck-and-neck with that of Microsoft IE and when the then-America Online announced it would buy Netscape in a deal then valued at an astonishing $4.3bn (£2.7bn).
[May 30, 2003, 7:41]
Billion-dollar Outsourcing Deals More Common
News In related news, outsourcing giant EDS on Monday announced a $1.1bn managed network services deal with Bank of America. Under the eight-and-a-half-year agreement, EDS will combine the communications network of FleetBoston Financial with Bank of...
[July 21, 2004, 11:10]
Parsons Aims To Get AOL 'back On Track'
News Although it has seen strong performance in some of its traditional media divisions, its America Online arm -- once billed as the company's "growth engine" -- has sputtered. It appears that the course for AOL Time Warner is now being plotted by the...
[May 17, 2002, 7:31]
Intel Bets On Open Source Future
News But despite the momentum that companies such as Sun and Novell have tried to instil in the concept of Linux as a desktop OS, some experts claim that in mature PC markets, such as Western Europe and North America, it still isn't a serious proposition.
[August 8, 2005, 16:45]
HP Opens New Front In War On Refillers
News HP hopes that Cartridge World North America will assist its franchisees in quickly complying with the law. Representatives with Cartridge World North America in Emeryville, California, and its home office in Adelaide, South Australia, were not...
[October 21, 2005, 9:40]
Peer-to-peer Battle Gets Personal
News During his confirmation hearing in June 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft told Congress that, "Given the fact that much of America's strength in the world economy is a result of our being the developer and promoter of most of the valuable...
[August 13, 2002, 15:44]
The Day Ahead: 'Band-Aid Financing' Won't Work For Some Dot-coms
News Value America raised $90m (£60.42m) in additional financing. Bottom line: Competition is still stiff for Value America. The company will sell $60m in stock to the Acqua Wellington North America Equities Fund.
[May 17, 2000, 11:50]
Avnet Adds Responsiveness To The Demand Chain Through Automated Information Delivery
White Papers Based in Tempe, Arizona, Avnet Partner Solutions is North America's leading value-added distributor of enterprise computing solutions, storage, software and services. Avnet needed to deliver services and information to help its suppliers and...
[September 22, 2004, 3:00]
Database Products Help Real Estate Service Evaluate Millions Of Homes Daily, Cut Costs
White Papers Zillow.com is an online real estate service that helps people research the value of millions of homes in America. When the company began building the database in 2005, the challenge was to find a product that could easily handle its very large data...
[November 22, 2006, 0:00]
Big Blue Puts Stamp On RFID
White Papers Looking to extend the reach as well as increase the value of RFID systems deployed throughout the postal operations of national mail carriers in Europe, North America and parts of Asia, the International Post Corp.
[June 25, 2004, 0:00]
Customer Critical Reporting And Data Warehouse Functions Based On Sun Server And Storage Technology
White Papers When people in America and Canada think about television ratings, one name comes to mind - Nielsen Media Research. To maintain its value to its clients, Nielsen Media Research has to stay ahead of the curve in all of the growth areas.
[November 2, 2005, 23:00]
Jeopardy
Downloads This-is-Jeopardy Get ready to test your knowledge in the single-player online version of America's Favorite Quiz Show. Just like the television show, select a category and a money value to reveal the hidden answer.
[December 14, 2005, 13:31]
IT Outsourcer Uses Visionael NRM To Quickly Gain Control Of Automobile Manufacturer's Worldwide Network
White Papers But when assuming the IT operations for one of America's "Big Three" automobile manufacturers, it faced an exceptional challenge: assuming the auto company's full network and IT operations, from the network to the desktop.
[March 19, 2006, 23:00]
The What, Who And Why Of Contactless Payments
White Papers This paper describes the key changes associated with the use of contactless payments in North America, including the additional value such payments can provide to issuers, acquirers/processors, Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs), retailers...
[May 30, 2007, 8:31]
