Carol King

Online health sites are in dire need of a booster shot, according to industry experts. In the last few weeks alone, the once-revered drkoop.com has sought venture capital funds while laying off hundreds of employees to keep its head above water. In the meantime, the losses at Healtheon/WebMD keep widening. Building a healthier business model […]

An Indianapolis jury has awarded commercial real estate giant Simon Property Group $26.8 million in damages in its trademark infringement case against mySimon.com. The verdict, which was rendered in federal district court, found that the mark of mySimon.com, the online comparison shopping site, infringes on the mark of the real estate investment trust. The decision […]

America Online Inc. Thursday acquired privately-held Quack.com, a speech-activated Internet portal that uses the same underlying voice-recognition technology that AOL is banking on. As a result of the transaction, one of Quack.com’s shareholders, Bid.com, disclosed it would receive CDN$24 million worth of AOL stock . However, because terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed, Bid.com would […]

Napster, the beleaguered online music provider, has reportedly taken another hit on the chin — this time by the academia community. Napster has been banned on campus servers at 34 percent of the nation’s colleges and universities, according to a report released by technology research firm, Gartner Group. The report, entitled “Colleges and Universities Prepare […]

The “Dawn” of a new day was announced Tuesday when Women.com Networks Inc. inked a $15 million marketing deal with Procter & Gamble, the household products and consumer brand giant. Women.com , which provides women with advice, community and shopping on the Web, will incorporate Procter & Gamble’s ParentTime.com property into its Web network. Parentime.com […]

Marketers who have yet to embrace the Web for business purposes — and continue to do so — are jeopardizing their future profitability, according to an industry study. The Next Wave of U.S.Online Users: Forecast and Analysis, 2000-2004 reports that in 2004, 103 million new users will go online, which will result in 210 million […]

Competition for online subscribers is heating up. Presently, five hard-hitting ISPs are doing battle to capture the Number Two slot for online subscribers and consumer mind share. Looking to come in behind market leader America Online are EarthLink, MSN, Juno, Prodigy and NetZero.com, according to a technology research firm. “There has been a great deal […]

Verizon Wireless filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering. The IPO, which had been expected, is the largest since AT&T Wireless raised $11.5 billion in April in the largest U.S. debut of all time, according to industry reports. The new company will be competition for […]

MP3Board.com, which is being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for alleged copyright infringement, is not going anywhere without a fight… and if it has its way, it won’t go down alone. According to court filings filed on Monday, lawyers for the music search engine argue that if their client is found […]

Allpizza.com launched on Monday with goals to take a bite out of the pizza market. The self-proclaimed “pizza portal,” which rolled out in Reno, Nev., offers pizza and soft drink delivery from four major chains: Round Table Pizza, Domino’s Pizza, Little Caesars and Pizza Hut. Users can take advantage of a single-screen ordering process in […]

Teen-oriented e-tailer dELiA*s Inc. Thursday inked an $86 million deal to merge with its subsidiary, iTurf Inc., an online community targeting the 13- to 24-year-old market. Following the closing, the combined company will be named dELiA*s iTurf Inc. and will focus on two core businesses within the lucrative teenage market: multi-channel retailing and online content […]

E-Stamp Corp. Wednesday moved beyond its flagship postage service, adding the ability to print airline tickets purchased online through a partnership with Atraxis, an IT solution provider to the travel industry. Through the Print a Ticket program, participants can print airline tickets directly from their home or office computer. The only airline participating in the […]