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The Day Ahead: Mulling Amazon's sales, VerticalNet questions
News Just a few weeks ago, Galli was talking up VerticalNet's transition to be a software company. I recently wrote a column about how VerticalNet was among the many companies redoing their business models to bolster their flagging share prices.
[January 9, 2001, 13:27]
VerticalNet, BT and ICG form £140m venture
News British Telecom (quote: BT.A)said Tuesday the joint venture with VerticalNet and Internet Capital Group will set up Internet business communities across Europe enabling companies to trade information and products.
[February 1, 2000, 14:34]
Amazon's Galli jumps ship for VerticalNet
News Amazon.com shares tumbled 4 1/8, or 11 percent, to 34 5/8 Tuesday after it confirmed that president and chief operating officer Joe Galli has resigned from the online retailer to join VerticalNet as its new chief executive officer
[July 26, 2000, 9:19]
The Day Ahead: Everybody wants to be B2B
News As Tuesday's barrage of business-to-business (B2B) news shows, companies will do anything to run with shares of VerticalNet and Commerce One -- even one of those Baby Bells is singing the B2B tune. Shares have done well, but haven't been behaving...
[February 23, 2000, 11:57]
The Day Ahead: B2B companies should deliver strong quarters
News Commerce One, FreeMarkets, PurchasePro.com, VerticalNet are all expected to post strong results. VerticalNet: First Call projects VerticalNet to report a second quarter loss of 29 cents a share. Expect lots of talk about VerticalNet's partnership...
[July 11, 2000, 12:00]
THE DAY AHEAD: About.com gets B2B religion
News The company, best known for its portal of human guides, is hoping to use its platform to aggregate industry content and rival VerticalNet. For all its $7.5 billion in market cap, VerticalNet remains primarily a trade publisher, even though it is...
[February 14, 2000, 13:24]
The Day Ahead: B2B execs upbeat
News NECX did wonders for VerticalNet's first quarter results. The primary example is VerticalNet's PaintandCoatings.com vertical. In March, VerticalNet created a new company and gave Eastman Chemical a majority stake.
[June 2, 2000, 11:05]
The Day Ahead: Dot-coms grow up, chief execs step out
News Walsh is good at the visionary thing, but VerticalNet now has to integrate its recent acquisitions and smooth out operations. Tops on our list is VerticalNet's move to give Joe Galli, former operating chief at Amazon.com, the chief executive position.
[July 31, 2000, 12:35]
Yahoo! charged with blocking rivals
News If you refuse to provide the buyer with access to [competitors'] information and tools, buyers will find out," noted Mark Walsh, president and chief executive of VerticalNet, a B2B exchange site comprising 56 communities in a wide variety of...
[March 1, 2000, 14:36]
The Day Ahead: Be wary of new dot-com profit paradigm shifts
News Business-to-business player VerticalNet expects to be profitable in the third quarter of 2001. Whether you believe the profit projections of eToys, About.com or VerticalNet is up to you, but at least there's some accountability.
[April 28, 2000, 13:01]
The Day Ahead: You'll have a cow over this B2B IPO
News Sounds good so far, especially given the performance of VerticalNet, CommerceOne, FreeMarkets and others. For perspective, VerticalNet, which reported fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, had revenue of $10.7m for the first nine months of 1999.
[February 2, 2000, 11:36]
Feeling dot-coms' pain... and loving it
News Galli left VerticalNet as the booming market for online trading exchanges has been bogged down by an overall market shakeout and growing scepticism over investing in Internet-related companies. On Monday, the Old Economy boomerang club got another...
[January 11, 2001, 12:01]
The Day Ahead: Prime time for PurchasePro.com
News PurchasePro.com has been toiling away in relative business-to-business obscurity while players such as Ariba, Commerce One and VerticalNet hog the spotlight. But that situation may change in the next few quarters as the company rolls out a high...
[September 5, 2000, 11:53]
Amazon slides on management shift
News Shares in the company took a big slide Tuesday on the news that president Joe Galli was leaving to become chief executive of business to business marketplace VerticalNet. Shares of Amazon.com continued their downward slide Wednesday morning in the...
[July 26, 2000, 17:00]
Nasdaq, Dow make huge gains for second straight day
News B2B stocks caught fire as well as PurchasePro rose 3 5/16 to 36 5/16 while VerticalNet and Commerce One closed up 9 3/8 and 12 a share, respectively. US technology stocks made enormous gains again Tuesday as investors continued to dive in after...
[April 19, 2000, 10:54]
The Day Ahead: WebMethods serves up hot B2B IPO with XML twist
News WebMethods also has a few key partnerships with Ariba and VerticalNet among others. The initial public offering of webMethods should sizzle Friday courtesy of the buzz surrounding XML, an emerging standard for sharing data over the Internet.
[February 11, 2000, 12:42]
Report: $1.5tr in e-biz by 2004
News Among companies mentioned in the report who may be poised to benefit from the growth of business to business e-commerce are well known traditional high-tech firms like Oracle, SAP and newcomers like VerticalNet, Ariba and Healtheon.
[September 17, 1999, 9:53]
The Day Ahead: Divine InterVentures' IPO needs help from above
News CMGI had Lycos, GeoCities and a host of others in its stable, and ICG had the VerticalNet's successful IPO. A few months ago, the offering of Divine, a business-to-business e-commerce and infrastructure incubator, would have been a no-brainer.
[June 28, 2000, 11:53]
The Day Ahead: Can things get even better for Cisco?
News There's a big difference between the departure of Amazon.com's Joe Galli to VerticalNet and Listwin's exit. Cisco Systems gave Wall Street everything it wanted and then some. Executives even shed a little bit of their "healthy paranoia" to hint...
[August 9, 2000, 13:28]
The Day Ahead: Dump those tech shares, make a trader's day
News However, companies like Commerce One, Ariba and VerticalNet have good prospects. Go ahead; sell your shares of those quality tech companies. You know the ones -- Cisco Systems, Microsoft, EMC, Sun Microsystems, Dell and America Online.
[April 17, 2000, 12:30]
