Colin C. Haley

Adding to its content management software tools, Documentum , of Pleasanton, Calif., is buying Boxcar Software, of Boston. Financial terms were not disclosed. Boxcar provides standards-based, content aggregation (the automated gathering of Web sites, file systems and legacy applications) and distribution (pushing of data to targeted audiences) software. The privately held firm was founded in […]

One of the nation’s largest health insurers will pay IBM and Keane a total of $1.2 billion over the next 10 years to outsource information technology (IT) systems and software. The moves are expected to save PacifiCare Health Systems , of Santa Ana, Calif., between $380 million and $400 million over the life of the […]

Incubator turned software specialist divine has acquired content and search technology firm Northern Light. Financial terms of the all stock purchase were not disclosed. The combination will allow divine “to offer information-rich solutions for portals, intranets, Web sites and extranets, helping our customers gain a competitive edge,” said Andrew “Flip” Flipowski, divine’s CEO. The deal’s […]

Monster.com is giving former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani 30 seconds of Super Bowl air time to thank the country for its support since Sept. 11. The Maynard, Mass., online job board, is owned by TMPW of New York. The idea, which came together over the last two weeks, was the brainchild of TMP CEO […]

Internet service provider EarthLink has installed Akamai hardware and software throughout its network to improve content delivery to its 4.8 million subscribers. Financial terms were not disclosed. The agreement follows an extensive trial period where EarthLink conserved bandwidth while at the same time cutting download waits for Internet content, including dynamic HTML and streaming media. […]

Internet investor CMGI , which has been cutting jobs at its operating companies to offset flagging revenues, is slashing nearly half its corporate staff. In all, 95 employees will be pink-slipped, most from the company’s Andover, Mass., headquarters. The reductions represent 45 percent of the CMGI’s corporate staff and slightly less than 4 percent of […]

These days, it’s difficult to tell if you’re reading the sports page or the business page. Some recent examples: the sale of the Red Sox; CMGI’s stadium-naming deal; or the IBM’s new ad campaign featuring 1980s hoops stars. Sports is big business. Fans are passionate and happily shell out billions of dollars on tickets, jerseys, […]

For nearly two years, the semiconductor industry has been mired in a slump, buffeted by slowing orders for everything from PCs, servers to mobile phones and handhelds. In response, chip makers laid off employees, idled plants and delayed or canceled factory moderizations. While unpleasant, sector stalwarts, including New England’s Fairchild , Teradyne and Varian aren’t […]

Most Internet users have a favorite search engine, one that produces consistent, reliable and relevant results to their queries. For those who have Northern Light bookmarked, there’s bad news today. As of Jan. 16, the Cambridge, Mass., company will no longer offer free Web searches to the masses, focusing instead on large companies and government […]

Say this for Monster.com parent TMP Worldwide — it doesn’t dwell on failure. Last week, just hours after eschewing a bidding war with Yahoo for job board HotJobs , TMP trumpeted a new, big-budget ad campaign. The package, highlighting Maynard, Mass., career site Monster, includes a Super Bowl spot. And today, TMP, of New York, […]

amerivault, a Waltham, Mass., provider of online data backup services, has opened its second “mass storage vault” and inked a partnership pact with SunGard’s , a Wayne, Penn., IT outsourcer. The new operation is housed in SunGard’s Philadelphia data center. Under the agreement, SunGard will offer its customers, most of which are in the financial […]

Internet giant Terra Lycos is launching two new subscription services through Tripod and Angelfire, sites that help users build homepages. It’s a small, but significant move, part of the company’s efforts to wean itself off advertising revenues in favor of recurring fees. The premium offerings, Tripod Plus and Angelfire Plus, give members more options, including […]