Entertainment Execs: Learning To Live With Piracy
News Executives from Viant said today that 150,000 films per day were illegally downloaded last year, a figure they expect to climb to about 350,000 per day this year. That sentiment was echoed by Viant's Forest, who likened piracy to a hydra-headed...
[August 3, 2000, 13:49]
Merrill Lynch Gazes Inward For Venture Ideas
News Web consultancy Viant earlier this year launched a similar program in an effort to retain top consulting talent by funding its employees' start-up ideas. In return for a stake in the new company, Viant incubates and funds early-stage businesses...
[December 6, 2000, 15:18]
Exclusive: Microsoft, USWeb Set To Dance
News Also last month, Hewlett-Packard singled out Sapient and Viant as key integrators for its E-services vision and nascent E-speak cross-platform integration technology. Microsoft next week is slated to become the latest big-name vendor to forge a...
[September 22, 1999, 12:06]
Proxicom To Compaq: Pay Up
News Other consulting firms such as Razorfish, IXL Enterprises and Viant have struggled as well. Compaq is going to have to put its hand deep into its wallet if it wants to lure hard-to-get Proxicom Internet services company Proxicom has told potential...
[May 10, 2001, 14:49]
IPO Update: OnDisplay Soars, C-Bridge And EGreetings Also Debut
News The company is likely to do well based on the success of similar services companies that have made IPOs this year, but it is entering a crowded field; C-Bridge currently competes for client assignments and experienced personnel with companies such...
[December 20, 1999, 15:33]
The Day Ahead: Young Companies Learn Wall Street Game On Fly
News Shares of iXL,Viant and Scient have all been battered. AvantGo chief executive Richard Owen heard that question Tuesday following his company's first earnings report as a public company. Shares fell about ten percent following the company's...
[November 1, 2000, 12:52]
The Day Ahead: Dot Com Dominoes
News Organic, iXL Enterprises, Viant and Xpedior all said revenue would fall short of expectations because of frugal dot-coms. Net services firms are dishing out profit warnings this week as dot-com clients struggle to pay the bills, but these once...
[September 7, 2000, 11:21]
Oracle Woos E-Biz Builders
News Other participating e-biz builders include the likes of Sapient, C-bridge Internet Solutions, Bowne Internet, Viant and US Interactive. Determined to best position its software for the snowballing e-commerce market, Oracle is rolling out the red...
[November 23, 1999, 11:07]
Open Source Reshaping The Services Market
News The former CEO of professional services outfit Viant -- which flourished briefly, then crashed during the dot-com bust of the late 1990s -- last month launched a company called Optaros, which will provide IT consulting for open source software.
[January 10, 2005, 18:15]
Compaq Declines To Raise Bid For Proxicom
News Other consulting companies such as Razorfish, IXL Enterprises and Viant have struggled as well. Compaq Computer declined to raise its bid for Proxicom on Friday, allowing the Internet services company to proceed with plans to merge with its other...
[May 11, 2001, 16:13]
Scient, IXL Ink Deal To Become One
News In March, Scient's competitor Viant said it was slashing over 200 jobs. Scient said on Tuesday that it has agreed to merge with Atlanta-based iXL and that the two will form a new company to be based in New York operating under the Scient name.
[August 1, 2001, 8:30]
The Day Ahead: Modem Media Is A Net Services Bargain
News The spring and summer IPOs of Razorfish, Viant, iXL, AppNet and Scient set the stage for a glut of services companies. And maybe you should believe him. Plenty of Wall Street analysts do. In a recent interview with Inter@ctive Investor, O'Connell...
[March 2, 2000, 12:44]
