Carol King

Big ideas aimed at the small business market were revealed Tuesday when NBC Internet Inc. and Bigvine Inc. formed a new service and commerce platform for small business operators. NBCi’s AllBusiness.com, a provider of small business services and content, and Bigvine Inc., an online barter marketplace for small businesses, have formed a standalone company operating […]

Handspring Inc. Monday added two products to its Visor family of handheld computers: one boasting color, the other touting speed. Visor Prism, the company’s first color-enabled product, has 16-bit color and can display more than 65,000 colors for viewing picture-quality graphics. Visor Platinum is 50 percent faster than Visor Deluxe, according to the company, and […]

WebMD Corp. reported Thursday that Jeffrey T. Arnold has resigned from his position as co-CEO and from its board of directors. Martin J. Wygod is now sole CEO. WebMD also announced the resignation of Jim Clark from its Board of Directors. The departures follow last month’s layoff of 1,100 employees. The staff cuts, which came […]

Honeywell on Wednesday has unveiled a wireless, portable tool for high-speed connection to the Internet. The WebPAD Internet Appliance allows users to surf the Web via any service provider, send and receive email and enter information implementing a touch-screen display. Honeywell believes it is the first of its kind, although other startups such as ePods […]

For the second time in as many days, Net2Phone has announced a partnership with a leading industry name. The VoIP provider Wednesday said it will bundle its YAP phones with the new Compaq Pressario computers. The YAP phone, designed to facilitate Internet calling, is a telephone handset that plugs into the USB port of the […]

ActiveBuddy Inc. Tuesday reported it has raised $10.6 million in two rounds of financing. Both rounds were led by Wit SoundView Ventures, a venture capital unit of Wit SoundView Group Inc., and Reuters, the global news service. “We are focused on funding early-stage companies that build innovative services and technologies,” said Andy Weissman, managing director […]

In efforts to expand its chip-making capacity, IBM Tuesday revealed its has made the largest capital investment in its history. Part of the plan calls for the building of state-of-the-art facility in East Fishkill, New York. The $2.5 billion plant is part of a total $5 billion capital investment plan to support IBM’s growing semiconductor […]

Net2Phone Inc., a provider of voice services to IP networks, Tuesday began offering its voice transit applications throughout the Yahoo! network of properties. The newly installed service, Yahoo! Phone, provides telephone and voice access to popular Yahoo! content, voicemail and e-mail. Yahoo! Mail offers free voicemail; and Yahoo! Messenger offers free PC-to-phone calling. “We believe […]

RestaurantRow.com, a provider of restaurant and menu information, has merged with menus.com, a source of menu and restaurant data. Financial details were not disclosed. The newly formed operation has three separate goals: to expand its restaurant information and reservations network, grow its data mining and business services for eateries and foodservice organizations; and enhance its […]

Lucent and SBC Communications Thursday inked a deal valued at $1 billion. Designated as SBC’s primary provider of data, voice and access infrastructure, Lucent is charged with bringing voice and data services to SBC’s customers nationwide. “We are looking to Lucent to provide the key networking infrastructure to build a next-generation, reliable and cost-effective network […]

Netscape.com opened its virtual doors Wednesday with a new look intended to maximize the online experience. The redesign of the site is an attempt to provide users with easy access to a complete package of Web applications, content and features, according to Jim Martin, senior vice president and general manager of Netscape. “The new layout […]

eServer, a computing model devoted to handling e-business, was launched today by IBM. The product features mainframe-class reliability and scalability, support of open standards for the development of new applications, and capacity on demand for managing the demands of e-business, according to Bill Zeitler, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Server Group. “For those […]