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InvestorGuide Daily Administrator |
posted 11-28-2000 05:59 PM
 
Federal antitrust officials reviewing AOL's purchase of Time Warner have delayed a vote scheduled for Thursday to block the deal, as settlement talks have made progress towards assuaging the government's fears. Central to the move is the internet access deal between the two companies and competitor Earthlink. (source: MarketWatch) http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/20001128/news/current/aol-txw.htx Half of the 22 publicly traded U.S. consumer e-commerce companies will need to raise cash before the 2001 holiday season, and those that fail to do so are likely to fall by the wayside, according to a report released by Goldman Sachs. (source: E-Commerce Times) http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/5540.html |
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posted 11-27-2000 05:35 PM
Mountain View, Calif.-based E-Stamp, the first company to sell stamps on the Internet, said Monday that it would cease selling postage online and cut 30 percent of its staff, as it shifts its focus to its Web-based shipping and logistics business. (source: TheStandard) http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20383,00.html |
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posted 11-27-2000 05:33 PM
Mountain View, Calif.-based E-Stamp, the first company to sell stamps on the Internet, said Monday that it would cease selling postage online and cut 30 percent of its staff, as it shifts its focus to its Web-based shipping and logistics business. (source: TheStandard) http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20383,00.html |
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posted 11-22-2000 04:34 PM
Cash-strapped Buy.com surged past Amazon.com to secure the title of top online electronics seller in the latest Forrester Research rankings, which gauge e-tailer performance across a host of different categories. Forrester said the Amazon's runner-up placement was due to its "dismal" customer service. (source: E-Commerce Times) http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/5458.html Spinway, the company that provides Internet access for Kmart's Bluelight.com, Costco, and Barnesandnoble.com, is in deep trouble, according to several partners. The company has already been blamed for dragging one company to its demise, and should it fail, more partners could suffer big losses. (source: The Standard) http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20356,00.html |
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posted 11-21-2000 05:41 PM
Yahoo shares dropped nearly 15% today after Henry Blodget said that "the worst is yet to come" in the online advertising market. The Merrill Lynch analyst said he expected a bottom in online advertising during the first quarter of 2001. (source: MarketWatch) http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/20001121/news/current/yhoo.htx Traditionally, the post Thanksgiving weekend begins the holiday shopping season. For Amazon and the rest of the etailers, it will be the busiest and most important season to date. Upside takes a look at how Amazon is preparing for the rush. (source: Upside) http://upside.com/Ebiz/3a19ac8f1b.html - Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch said on Tuesday it's buying its offline counterpart, Ticketmaster, for $653 million in stock. |
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posted 11-20-2000 05:37 PM
A French court on Monday ordered Yahoo to block French web users from its auction sites selling Nazi memorabilia after advocacy groups accused the California-based Net giant of banalizing the Holocaust. (source: MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.com/news/492563.asp Internet bellwether eBay rolled out a program Monday that will allow other firms to create their own applications based on the online auctioneer's technology. The program, known as the eBay Application Program Interface (API), will initially be available to a limited number of the company's licensed partners and developers. (source: E-Commerce Times) http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles2000/001120-3.shtml If you remember the business model affectionately known as the application service provider (ASP), start trying to forget it. Red Herring says the once-hyped business of hosting someone else's software for a fee is wearing out its welcome, and may be in for a rough 2001. (source: Red Herring) http://www.redherring.com/vc/2000/1120/vc-asp112000.html Last season, Internet retailers poured millions into building brands and traffic. In these lean times the goal has shifted to achieving efficiency and profits. (source: The Standard) http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20198,00.html In Brief: |
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InvestorGuide Weekly Administrator |
posted 11-20-2000 10:15 AM
Then again, it could be that more shopaholics are hitting the Web. Jupiter Research predicts the number of people buying gifts online will jump 75% this holiday season, but it estimates that the number of heavy online shoppers will increase almost fourfold. (source: theStreet) http://www.thestreet.com/tech/internet/1167433.html In its quest to be a universal marketplace, Amazon.com is running afoul of two of its core constituencies--the people who write as well as publish the books it sells. The two groups, which previously had tended to be devout Amazon fans, are upset that the online retailer is making it so easy for customers to buy and sell cheap secondhand copies of new books. (source: Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12279-2000Nov13.html |
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posted 11-20-2000 10:13 AM
The potential benefits of peer-to-peer (P2P) networking for global corporations lead many technology executives to call it "the next big thing." However, there are still many unresolved issues to be ironed out in the new technology -- security and intellectural property rights are foremost among them. (source: RedHerring) http://www.redherring.com/insider/2000/1116/tech-oddcouple111600.html |
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posted 11-17-2000 05:33 PM
After two days of hearings by ICANN, the Internet's governing body, .com, .net, and other existing top-level domains have some new competition. ICANN added seven new suffixes: .name for personal Web sites; .pro for professionals; .museum, .aero and .coop for specialty sites run by museums, airlines and businesses; and .info and .biz suffixes for any site. (source: ZDNet) http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2655163,00.html |
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posted 11-16-2000 04:58 PM
The troubled financial site TheStreet.com announced Thursday it is closing its U.K. operation, ending its joint newsroom agreement with the New York Times and laying off 20 percent of its staff. (source: TheStandard) http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20254,00.html |
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posted 11-14-2000 06:20 PM
Netscape 6, the first browser developed by the Netscape-America Online combination, went live today. Does it have a prayer against Internet Explorer? (source: The Standard) http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20168,00.html Red Herring's interview of Henry Blodget, the analyst who achieved widespread fame through his bold predictions about Amazon.com only to receive similarly-pervasive ridicule for his late downgrades of failed net stocks. (source: Red Herring) http://www.redherring.com/investor/2000/1114/inv-blodget111400.html In Brief: |
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alexrovner |
posted 11-14-2000 09:12 AM
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posted 11-13-2000 06:09 PM
Two years ago, the SEC first warned the corporate world that too many companies were cooking the books, especially in the dot com sector. Now the SEC has stepped up its vigilance and asked the Financial Accounting Standards Board to look into a list of 20 issues affecting Internet businesses, including when a sale is really a sale, and how barter transactions should be recorded. (source: RedHerring) http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue86/mag-lead-86.html A new Internet audience measurement survey suggests that on-line shoppers are AWOL so far this holiday season, causing doubts about whether the much hoped for year-end holiday blitz can save the struggling e-tail industry. (source: Upside) www.upside.com/News/3a1028c31.html Streamline.com has joined Pets.com in becoming the latest consumer e-commerce company to fail. Streamline.com announced Monday that it would discontinue its online grocery delivery and errand service later this month. (source: theStreet) http://www.thestreet.com/tech/internet/1170159.html |
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posted 11-10-2000 05:33 PM
Even in the brave new electronic book world, it's still writers vs. publishers. It's also publishers vs. publishers when it comes to which new business model will best serve. (source: ZDNet) http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2650836,00.html |
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posted 11-10-2000 05:27 PM
The outcome of the presidential election may still be in doubt, but you don't need to check the exit polls to learn the fate of publicly traded political Web sites. Just take a look at the stock charts and it's clear that investors have clearly voted against companies like Politics.com, which recently put its URL on the selling block. (source: RedHerring) http://www.redherring.com/investor/2000/1107/inv-politics110700.html |
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