Carol King

Terra Networks’ recent $12.5 billion purchase of Lycos Inc. illustrated a continuing drive by portals to broaden their focus in an effort to stand out in a crowded pack. The latest statistics indicate one of the biggest future trends is likely to be a move to reach outside the U.S. to nations with their own […]

Construction procurement firm Cephren Inc. Tuesday debuted its online bidding service. Cephren MarketNet allows general contractors, subcontractors, distributors and manufacturers to solicit and submit bids for materials and services to online members of its network. The service has been in testing since January. A select group of charter customers have been using the bidding service, […]

AT&T’s $58 million buyout of cable-television company MediaOne Group has received conditional approval from the Department of Justice. To resolve antitrust concerns, the DOJ required the phone giant to sell its interest in broadband Internet access provider Road Runner for the union to come to fruition. AT&T had agreed to merge with MediaOne last year […]

Monster.com, the global online careers network, Friday launched a co-branded Monster.ca Career Center on AOL Canada’s Web center. The integration of the co-branded pages is part of a four-year relationship intended to bring Monster’s resources directly to consumers via several key AOL brands. As part of the relationship with AOL , Monster.com’s co-branded pages have […]

Priceline.com this week added long distance to its rapidly growing product line. The company late Wednesday unveiled Priceline Long Distance, a wholly-owned priceline.com subsidiary, that claims it can save callers up to 40 percent on standard base rates on domestic and international long-distance calls. Carriers participating in the program are Net2Phone, deltathree.com and ZeroPlus.com. Net2Phone […]

Broadcom Corp. Wednesday acquired Pivotal Technologies, in a deal valued at $242.5 million. As part of the transaction, Broadcom will issue in aggregate approximately 1.94 million shares of its Class B common stock, in exchange for all outstanding shares of Pivotal preferred and common stock and upon exercise of outstanding employee stock options and other […]

ActiveState, a provider of Internet programming software, and Netscape Communications Wednesday announced a collaboration on the Mozilla project, the open-source initiative founded by Netscape. ActiveState will use Mozilla as a cross-platform development framework for Komodo, its Perl- and Python-integrated development environment. Komodo is a full-featured cross-platform and open-sourced professional development environment with characteristics not traditionally […]

Tripod, an online community that is part of the Lycos Inc. network, Tuesday unveiled a next-generation Web site building tool. Tripod Site Builder, powered by Trellix, is designed to offer Tripod members the ability to quickly create and update Web sites through their browsers, employing a selection of pages, graphics and interactive content. HTML knowledge […]

B2B online marketplace Free Markets Inc. Monday released a suite of Internet-based products for professional buyers and suppliers. The Web-based products are designed to integrate and automate the activities and data necessary for buyers to conduct strategic purchasing and suppliers to bid on business opportunities in the company’s B2B e-Marketplace. The products allow buyers and […]

AT&T Corp. announced Monday it will invest $60 million for a minority stake in Tellme Networks Inc.. As part of the strategic relationship, AT&T will provide a family of advanced networking services for Tellme, an Internet startup that aims to combine the power of the Internet with the convenience of the telephone. The companies are […]

Lycos Inc. and Quack.com, a a developer of voice-based delivery of Web content, Monday announced plans to create a new voice-enabled destination that delivers the content and services of a major Internet portal. The new voice portal will provide telephone users with access to Internet content via a toll-free number. Through speech-recognition technology, users will […]

German investment bank Deutsche Bank Thursday upped its stake in National Discount Brokers Group Inc., purchasing another $136 million of the online broker’s shares. The alliance is part of the parties’ previously announced intention to create a global e-commerce and financial partnership. Deutsche Bank will purchase up to a 19.3 percent stake in NDB, or […]