Cyrus Afzali

Verio Inc. Thursday reached a deal with America Online Inc. to become the online service’s exclusive business Web hosting partner. Verio will host business Web sites on AOL, CompuServe, AOL.com and AOL’s Digital City guides. AOL will receive guaranteed payments of at least $42.5 million and will also receive an unspecified portion of future revenues. […]

Infoseek Corp. Wednesday released a version of Ultraseek Server 3.0 for the Linux operating system. Ultraseek Server allows companies to index and search content stored on the Internet and corporate intranets. The product first shipped in November. Infoseek made the announcement Wednesday at the LinuxWorld conference, which runs through Thursday at the San Jose (Calif.) […]

Computer retailer Dell Computer Corp. Wednesday launched Gigabuys.com, a new online superstore that will offer software and other computer-related products. Michael Dell, Dell Computer’s chairman and chief executive officer, said the new site was a natural extension of the company’s business. Dell hopes to quickly grow the site into one of the Web’s premier computer […]

Internet provider PSINet Tuesday continued its European expansion with the purchase of two privately-held Internet providers. PSINet purchased Satelnet and Planete.net. Terms of the deals were not disclosed. William Schrader, PSINet’s chairman and chief executive officer, said the deal will fit well with its aggressive expansion plans in the region. “PSINet’s global network, combined with […]

Internet incubator CMG Information Services Inc. Monday acquired Internet Profiles Corp., or I/PRO, which specializes in Web traffic verification, analysis and research. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. I/PRO will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the CMGI Internet Group and will be merged with Engage Technologies Inc., a provider of online marketing solutions. […]

GeoCities Monday teamed up with RealNetworks Inc. to offer streaming media capabilities to users of the online community. GeoCities will install RealSystem G2 RealServers and will give all its users a free trial period, allowing them to stream multimedia content from their Web sites. GeoCities will also provide RealProducer G2 for free. GeoCities said the […]

Network Solutions, which will soon lose its government-granted monopoly on .com domains, is criticizing the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers’ draft guidelines for domain registrars. NSI is accusing ICANN of proposing a “heavy-handed, global regulatory administration and corresponding bureaucracy never envisioned in any of the multi-year public policy debate that has preceded the […]

Online auctioneer eBay has suffered from outages this week that have left the service offline for between 15 and 30 minutes on several occasions. The problems started at 9 p.m. Eastern Monday when eBay’s database server became overloaded which degraded the response time of the company’s system. After a reboot, eBay was back online at […]

Media Metrix, which specializes in Internet audience tracking, plans to go public with an initial public offering valued at $48.3 million. The company, which filed its registration statement late Wednesday, did not specify the number of shares to be offered. It plans to use the proceeds to expand internationally, fund additional product development and generate […]

The Abilene Project, the code name for the $500 million Internet 2 backbone connecting universities that will create advanced networking applications, went live Wednesday connecting 37 universities around the United States. When the five-year effort is over, the goal is for Internet 2 to connect 140 universities around the country. Early participants agreed to kick […]

Online auctioneer eBay is partnering with an Australian Internet media company to take its person-to-person auctions to Australia and New Zealand. The joint venture with PBL Online, announced late Tuesday, calls for customized versions of the eBay home page to be created for Australia and New Zealand residents later this year. No other terms of […]

Hoping to become a global leader in Internet services, GTE Internetworking Tuesday announced plans to expand its offerings to Europe, South America and the Pacific Rim. The company plans to link its existing high-speed fiber network with other high-speed international networks to create an expanded distribution channel. Over the past year, GTE has acquired fiber […]