| - HP,
Accenture expand outsourcing alliance
- Commerce
Ready To Approve ICANN-VeriSign Deal
- Thinking
of Buying a High-Tech Start-up? Read This First
- Boeing
advances plans for Net-friendly skies
- AOL
Time Warner Strikes Deals with Cisco, CVS
- Wine.com
decanted into EVineyard
- Compaq,
Intel team to offer thin servers
- Alcatel
in talks to buy Lucent
- KB Toys
Grabs eToys' Name and Site
- Online
build-to-order carmaker looks for boost from merger
- Virgin
teaming with Sprint on new wireless carrier
- Transmeta
Inks Another Deal
- Microsoft
Aims For Integration With Identrus' Network
- IDG
Ventures, AOL Back Gay Web Company
- Exodus
snags Covisint deal
- Terra Lycos
mum on CNet/EarthLink buyout reports
- Compaq,
Microsoft, Others Team Up On Financial Services Venture
- Palm
Hits All Time Low, Cancels Merger
- Orange
and NTL Join Forces
- Sabre signs
$30 million PC deal with Compaq
- Microsoft
invests $127 million in New Zealand phone company
- Retailing
giant Fry's Electronics has taken a stake in Outpost.com
- InstallShield(R)
and Akamai Team Up to Enhance Delivery of Large Download Files
- Mergers,
acquisitions climb in first quarter
HP,
Accenture expand outsourcing alliance
Hewlett-Packard and Accenture announced
an outsourcing alliance focusing on moving clients from legacy applications to
newer technologies. Commerce
Ready To Approve ICANN-VeriSign Deal
The Commerce Department will approve
a deal that gives VeriSign near - permanent control over the global "dot-com"
Internet registry in exchange for VeriSign agreeing to relinquish the "dot-net"
registry earlier than it had planned. Thinking
of Buying a High-Tech Start-up? Read This First
Managers in large, established
firms look worriedly at the pace and variety of innovation in their industry and
wonder how - if at all - they can keep up relying on internal R&D alone
Boeing
advances plans for Net-friendly skies
The Boeing Co. lined up content
aggregator ScreamingMedia to provide Web content for the aircraft maker's in-flight
Internet access service, which is due to launch in the middle of next year.
AOL
Time Warner Strikes Deals with Cisco, CVS
AOL Time Warner Inc. said it
expanded its technology and marketing deal with networking giant Cisco Systems
Inc. and made CVS Corp.'s pharmacies a primary retail partners for its ``You've
Got Pictures'' service. Wine.com
decanted into EVineyard
Not all wine gets better with age. Six years and
some $200 million in venture-capital funding since the launch of Wine.com, has
been swallowed by a competitor launched with a grubstake of just $20 million.
Compaq,
Intel team to offer thin servers
Compaq Computer Corp. and Intel Corp.
said they are working together to build an "ultra-dense" server designed to do
more with less KB
Toys Grabs eToys' Name and Site
Brick-and-click toy store KB Toys announced
that it has purchased the Web site, name and logo of defunct toy e-tailer eToys
at a bankruptcy auction for approximately US$3.35 million. Online
build-to-order carmaker looks for boost from merger
Model E, a start-up
that hasn't sold any of the luxury build-to-order vehicles it made available via
the Web last fall, said it plans to merge with another company focused on mass
customization of automotive products. Virgin
teaming with Sprint on new wireless carrier
After almost three months
of negotiations, Virgin Mobile, the wireless joint venture between Virgin Group
and Deutsche Telekom in the U.K., is close to announcing a virtual network operator
service in the United States. Transmeta
Inks Another Deal
Transmeta gains more ground in the laptop market.
Microsoft
Aims For Integration With Identrus' Network
Under an agreement between
the two companies, Microsoft said it plans to make several of its core products
more interoperable with the secure global network created by Identrus.
IDG
Ventures, AOL Back Gay Web Company
Gay-oriented Internet media company
PlanetOut Partners Inc. on Thursday said it has received $8.2 million in funding,
including money from AOL Time Warner Inc. Exodus
snags Covisint deal
Riding aboard what could be just the ticket for its
struggling fortunes, Exodus Communications Inc. will announce that it has been
chosen to provide managed services and Web hosting for Covisint LLC, a global
automotive e-business exchange. Terra
Lycos mum on CNet/EarthLink buyout reports
Just two days after posting
a quarterly loss of $155 million and announcing plans to lay off nearly 100 staffers
at its U.S. base, Spanish Internet company Terra Lycos is reportedly in talks
to purchase either CNet Networks or Internet service provider Earthlink.
Compaq,
Microsoft, Others Team Up On Financial Services Venture
Consulting firm
Accenture said it's leading the formation of a new company that will offer to
manage the processing of stock trading transactions, with Microsoft and Compaq
Computer among the other investors. Alcatel
in talks to buy Lucent
Alcatel is in advanced talks to buy Lucent Technologies
for more than $40 billion, and a transaction may be announced by early June.
Palm
Hits All Time Low, Cancels Merger
It was a stormy afternoon for Palm,
as the largest PDA maker cut its financial outlook and cancelled its merger deal
with Extended Systems. Orange
and NTL Join Forces
The France Telecom stablemates are in talks to provide
the U.K.'s largest cable operator with its own mobile service. Sabre
signs $30 million PC deal with Compaq
Sabre Holdings Corp. signed a deal
yesterday with Compaq Computer Corp. with a potential value of $30 million to
offer a variety of desktop PCs, notebook computers and services to more than 15,000
Sabre travel agencies. Microsoft
invests $127 million in New Zealand phone company
Microsoft Corp. has
invested 300 million New Zealand dollars in, Telecom New Zealand, a deal aimed
at building up the local version of its MSN Web portal. Retailing
giant Fry's Electronics has taken a stake in Outpost.com
Fry's Electronics
has acquired 9.97 percent of the online electronics e-tailer, according to a regulatory
document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. InstallShield(R)
and Akamai Team Up to Enhance Delivery of Large Download Files
InstallShield
DigitalWizard(TM) Technology to Improve Delivery of Digital Goods from Last Mile
of the Internet to the Desktop via Akamai's Digital Parcel Service Mergers,
acquisitions climb in first quarter
Mergers and acquisitions among venture-backed
companies increased in the first quarter, but that bit of good news was offset
by a decline in investors putting money into new venture funds.
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