Clint Boulton

E-commerce is not the only sector to have a research firm rain on its promise of success. A few months after Forrester Research sounded the death knell for e-commerce firms, Extraprise Advisors Monday released a report which predicted the enterprise portal market could face a wave of consolidation over the next year. “The Great Enterprise […]

Advance.net and the founders of FEED magazine Monday created a new firm which will launch a network of sites targeting “hip” and affluent Web users. Lycos Inc. took a 25 percent stake in the new company, dubbed Automatic Media, and will fold its Suck.com into the new network. Also, about $4 million of initial funding […]

Cisco Systems Inc. Friday took another step to satiate its hunger for content switch companies with the purchase of privately-held Netiverse Inc. for $210 million in stock. Cisco currently holds a minority stake of 20 percent in Netiverse. The acquisition will be accounted for as a purchase and is expected to be completed in the […]

For the second week in a row, Ford Motor Co. has made strides to strengthen its enterprise network. The world’s second largest motor company Thursday contracted software firm SeraNova Inc. to develop a global intranet-based content management application for its human resource staff. The application — called HRlink — will act as a central communications […]

PRIMUS Telecommunications Group Inc. Thursday became the latest firm to bolster its streaming media delivery by licensing Inktomi Corp.’s products platform for its global IP network. As part of the deal, Inktomi agreed to invest in PRIMUS, though financial terms were not disclosed. With the deal, PRIMUS , an application service provider, hopes to deliver […]

Ditching its campy, cute moniker, the company formerly known as perksatwork.com changed its name to Abilizer this week to stake its claim to the corporate portal market. With the market for enterprise portals booming, the company made a few additions to its corporate portal services. For one, the firm upgraded its Abilizer Employee Portal. As […]

A federal California court this week ruled trademark and service mark protections did not apply to generic domain extensions. The decision clarifies the issues raised last October when domain name registrar Image Online Design Inc. filed suit claiming that it possessed service mark rights for domain name “.web,” and that the CORE Association (Internet Council […]

Ford Motor Co. Thursday expanded its deployment of AvantGo Inc.‘s enterprise software, allowing its workers to access intranet content via handheld devices. Financial terms were not disclosed, but AvantGo said it charges corporate customers a one-time fee and a per user charge. Ford said it went with AvantGo’s software because it provides time-to-market advantages is […]

Macromedia Inc. Thursday sealed a software marketing pact with Apple Computer Inc. Apple will offer customers Macromedia’s Web design studio at a reduced cost with the purchase of a Power Mac or PowerBook computer. The Macromedia Web Design Studio combines the Macintosh versions of Macromedia Flash 4, Dreamweaver 3, Fireworks 3 and FreeHand 9 to […]

Yahoo! Inc. Wednesday bought group e-mail provider eGroups Inc. for $428 million in stock. Yahoo! will issue more than 3.4 million shares of common stock in exchange for all outstanding shares, options and warrants of eGroups. The acquisition, which is subject to the approval of eGroups’ stockholders and regulatory approval, will be accounted for as […]

Nokia Inc. Monday made its wireless markup language studio available for Macromedia Inc.’s Web-authoring Dreamweaver software. The Nokia WML Studio will enable developers to use Dreamweaver software to author WML content for delivery to Nokia and other WAP wireless device customers. The studio for Macromedia Dreamweaver software enables the 650,000-user developer community to create WML […]

Yahoo! Inc. Monday unleashed a major corporate portal initiative which allows companies to offer their employees content and services from the portal giant on in-house networks. Co-developed with portal technology from TIBCO Software Inc. Yahoo! Corporate Yahoo! is an enterprise information portal based on the My Yahoo! interface. The two companies created Yahoo! Portal Builder […]