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Gateway is suing Web America Networks, the Internet provider that supplied Internet access the computer maker marketed under its name, for providing inadequate service. The suit was announced late Tuesday. Gateway has already switched ISP partners and is now contracting with MCI/Worldcom’s UUNet. Gateway was the first major PC retailer to begin bundling Internet access […]

Cable Internet service Road Runner said Monday it ended 1998 with 180,000 customers and is currently adding more than 4,000 subscribers each week. Road Runner is a partnership of Time Warner, MediaOne Group, Microsoft Corp., Compaq Corp. and Advance/Newhouse. “The momentum just keeps building,” said Carl Rossetti, Road Runner’s interim chief executive officer. However, Rossetti […]

Michele Masterson InternetNews.com Associate Editor NBC/CNET portal Snap Tuesday released “Cyclone,” its next generation version for high-speed users which incorporates rich media including video, audio, gaming, animation and telephony services. Cyclone will officially debut later in the first quarter and will be carried by high-speed Internet providers including GTE InterNetworking, SBC Internet Services, Bell Atlantic […]

International auction house Sotheby’s Tuesday announced plans to launch a new Internet auction site focusing on art, antiques, jewelry and collectibles. Diana Brooks, Sotheby’s president and chief executive officer, said the site’s launch signals a new era for the company. She said the Internet unit will not only draw on property from its existing business […]

Millionaire.com, a specialty retailer targeting affluent shoppers, has acquired The Great Gatsby’s Auction Gallery, one of the largest collections of antiques, collectibles and architectural reproductions in the country. Terms of the deal were not announced. Great Gatsby’s facility includes 100,000 square feet of auction space, three art galleries, an antique car showroom and a three-acre […]

Cable Internet provider @Home Network is teaming with streaming media pioneer Real Networks Inc. to develop a new streaming media platform. Friday’s announcement comes less than a month after @Home announced plans to work with AT&T to develop a broadband backbone. The new platform will be based on Real’s G2 system and will include features […]

Federal antitrust regulators are reportedly seeking additional information from America Online Inc. and Netscape Communications Corp. about their pending merger. According to published reports, the U.S. Justice Department has requested information under the Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust act, although neither the government nor the companies would elaborate. That act requires all mergers to be submitted to the […]

A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists have launched a new company to market and manage what the group calls the world’s largest fault-tolerant network for distributing Web content. Akamai Technologies Inc. has developed a proprietary network using patent-pending technology developed over the last three years at MIT. The network is used to speed […]

@Home Network Thursday teamed with Internet auction specialists Egghead.com Inc. and Internet Shopping Network’s First Auction to offer real-time auctions to users of its high-speed Internet service. The companies will be anchor tenants on a new auction category that will be launched soon on @Home’s shopping channel. Officials said bidders will benefit from the constant […]

America Online Inc. subscribers in the Northeast will soon be able to access the service at much higher speeds, thanks to a partnership the online service announced Wednesday with Bell Atlantic Corp. AOL said it will begin offering Digital Subscriber Line access to Bell Atlantic’s DSL customers as the technology becomes available in the telco’s […]

Capping days of speculation, Lucent Technologies and Ascend Communications Wednesday announced they were merging in a $20 billion deal. The two companies hope that by combining, they will strengthen their capabilities in data networking, allowing them to challenge market leader Cisco Systems Inc. Each share of Ascend will be converted into .825 shares of Lucent. […]

Online broker E*Trade Group Inc. Tuesday announced plans to launch E*Offering, a new online investment bank that would give investors expanded service and allow them to get in on initial public offerings. E*Trade is partnering with Sandy Robertson, founder and former chief executive of investment bank Robertson Stephens & Co., in the venture. E*Offering promises […]