Brian Morrissey

In late 1999, Southern California incubator eCompanies plunked down $7.5 million for the Internet address business.com, a move destined to join the avalanche of Internet Super Bowl ads as prime examples of dot-com excess. But at the time, the company – billed by its founder as “the Yahoo of business” – drew considerable attention, not […]

After five months, one withdrawn bid, and three upped offers, Network Associates appears set to acquire the 22 percent of McAfee.com it does not already own. Today, a special committee of McAfee.com’s board of directors voted to recommend shareholders accept Network Associates’ latest re-jiggered offer. Two weeks ago, Santa Clara, Calif.-based Network Associates upped its […]

With Dell gearing up to enter the printer market as a potentially formidable challenger, incumbent HP pointed to new research figures showing its lead in the market growing wider. HP pointed to IDC’s U.S. Printer Tracker for the first quarter, which showed the printer maker maintaining its top spot in the industry and nearing a […]

Looking to tap into the growing Linux market in Asia, Japanese software company Software Research Associates (SRA) bought the Linux software business from open-source operating system maker Turbolinux. Under terms of the deal, the Turbolinux Linux software business will become a division of SRA, keeping the Tubolinux brand. San Francisco-based Turbolinux will keep its PowerCockpit […]

Following a fitful yearlong search of a buyer for two lines of its privacy products, Network Associates sold off its wireless and desktop lines of PGP encryption products to PGP Corp., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup. The deal calls for PGP Corp. to acquire PGPMail, PGPfile, PGPdisk, PGPWireless, PGPadmin, and PGPkeyserver, in addition to PGPsdk […]

With the telecom industry he once touted so highly battered by bankruptcies and accounting scandals, onetime star telecom analyst Jack Grubman resigned from Salomon Smith Barney late Thursday. Grubman, who came to epitomize for many Wall Street’s shady research practices, left of his own accord, but executives at Salomon were reportedly unhappy with the negative […]

After failing to live up to unrealistic expectations, Bluetooth appears ready to make its mark in the wireless networking world, according to a new study. Research by Allied Business Intelligence (ABI), an Oyster Bay, N.Y., consulting firm, reports the Bluetooth market is poised for solid growth this year, with more explosive expansion to come in […]

As it confronts a crowded wireless market nearing saturation, VoiceStream reported it added over a half million subscribers in the second quarter, bumping its customer base over 8 million. VoiceStream, which is being re-branded T-Mobile by its parent Deutsche Telekom , added 525,900 subscribers in the second quarter, bringing its total number of customers to […]

Underscoring its commitment to bring open source to the enterprise, IBM announced a deal with VA Software to provide sales and marketing of the open-source company’s Source Forge Enterprise Edition software. The agreement also calls for IBM to integrate SourceForge with a variety of its infrastructure and applications, including DB2 database software, WebSphere application server, […]

In a deal it hopes will ignite demand in the mid-market, Oracle signed an agreement Monday for Dell Computer to sell Oracle’s application server. The agreement calls for Dell to offer its enterprise customers the Oracle9i, which ranks a distant third in the cutthroat market for the servers that run Web site applications. “We see […]

With questions swirling about everything from its accounting practices to its relationship with Time Warner, AOL tapped an outsider to right the ship. AOL Time Warner announced Monday afternoon the appointment of Jonathan Miller as CEO of the Internet division, where he will replace recently resigned AOL chief Robert Pittman. The move could bring some […]

Web measurement firm NetRatings continued its acquisition spree, reaching an agreement to purchase NetValue, a French Internet-measurement company, for about $17.7 million in cash and stock. The deal will bring to NetRatings a Web measurement network in nine European and Asian countries, with a measurement panel of 200,000 and a client list of 130. This […]