Colin C. Haley

As part of a new partnership, EMC will provide data storage for Oracle’s new customer service and sales force automation initiatives. Terms were not disclosed. A third tech titan, Cisco Systems will contribute networking equipment for the Support.Oracle.com and Sales.Oracle.com sites. “This infrastructure ensures that the service is online all the time,” said Don Swatik, […]

Akamai Technologies , the Cambridge, Mass., content delivery firm, and Internap Network Services , a Seattle routing services provider, have extended their partnership. The agreement was announced at Internet World in Los Angeles. Under terms of the deal, Internap will offer Akamai’s EdgeSuite service, which helps speeds complex Web content including audio and streaming video, […]

CMGI , the restructuring Internet investor and operator, posted widening second-quarter losses and is shopping three of its properties as it continues its uphill push for profitability. The Andover, Mass., firm has received inquiries about selling some or all of its majority stake in Web and application host NaviSite , also based in Andover. It […]

Salesnet, a Boston ASP delivering sales force automation software, has raised $6.1 million in financing to support its growth. The backing was led by Prism Venture Partners. Phoenix Investment Partners and Juniper Ventures also participated. Since its founding in 1997, the firm has raised more than $12 million. “We are very happy to have secured […]

Lotus Development, the Cambridge, Mass., software firm, is laying off 183 workers, in part, to eliminate overlap with parent IBM . The cuts, which represent a little more than 2 percent of Lotus’ workforce, were spread throughout U.S. offices. A more specific breakdown was not immediately available. Nearly 3,000 of Lotus’ workers are employed in […]

Boston Internet media planner HookMedia is closing its Atlanta office and laying off about 15 of its 100 employees, as the industry-wide slowdown drags on. “Atlanta wasn’t what we thought it would be,” said Veronica Leger, a HookMedia spokeswoman. The firm’s Atlanta office opened in June and employed four full-time staffers. The remainder of the […]

Internet consulting firm Breakaway Solutions has laid off 108 workers and moved its headquarters from Boston to Maynard, Mass. The moves are expected to save the company $45 million annually. The bad news was buried in a press release detailing $33 million in financing from SCP Private Equity Partners, Internet Capital Group and Invest. The […]

Web site and application host NaviSite will miss second-quarter financial targets largely because it was forced to dump dozens of deadbeat dot-com customers. For the three months ended Jan. 31, the Andover, Mass., company will lose between 52 cents and 55 cents per share on revenue of $27 million to $28 million. Analysts expected NaviSite […]

One of Bob Davis‘ lieutenants has quit Terra Lycos to run Ellacoya Networks, a Merrimack, N.H., telecom infrastructure play. Ron Sege, president of U.S. operations for the international Internet network resigned Friday, one day after Davis left to join a Boston venture capital firm. It’s not that Sege believes Terra Lycos, formed by the merger […]

Network services provider Genuity (NASDAQ:GENU) will spend between $7 billion and $9 billion over the next 18 months to deploy its Web hosting services in Europe. The Burlington, Mass., company will begin its European build-out with new Internet data centers in The Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom in 2001, followed by a facility in […]

Zefer, a Cambridge, Mass., Internet consulting firm, is cutting jobs in its London office on slowing business from the United Kingdom and Europe. The London office “was built at a time when demand was different than it was today,” said Zefer spokeswoman Sara Buda. “So like any smart business, we’ve scaled back.” Nine employees will […]

E-Dialog, a Lexington, Mass., e-mail marketing services company, has raised $10.5 million in additional financing to develop new products and services, as well as to boost sales and marketing efforts. Lead backer was OneLiberty Ventures, through its Advisor Fund 2000. Previous investors, Commonwealth Capital Ventures and The Interpublic Group of Companies also participated. E-Dialog provides […]